it's quickly becoming a fixture in our version of portland. it's great. noël comes in to browse at times, but he's also on a personal mission to get claude to carry his merch and eventually he may perform there since cosy venues like that appeal to his need for acoustic sets now and then. and yes! he's played all sorts of venues from open mic nights to being a more formal act, dive bars to slightly more swanky venues over the years. a gig is a gig, after all. and he usually sticks around after his set, closing down the bar with his bandmates because that's how they roll. they can be familiar faces at the very least.