Beverly Thrills played The Rainbow Bar & Grill on 28 October, and it felt like stumbling across a secret you almost don’t want to share, the kind of band you want to keep tucked close before the rest of the world catches on. The Rainbow is practically hallowed ground, with decades of rock ’n’ roll residue baked into the walls, yet here were Beverly Thrills, a band only formed earlier this year, stepping into that history like they’d always belonged there.
There’s very little online about them yet, which almost made the whole experience feel like being let in on a whisper. A handful of posts, one or two clips floating around, and then suddenly this fully alive, fully present band right in front of us. Frontman Zane Czar said it had been his dream since he was young to play The Rainbow. It wasn’t just a gig, it was someone stepping into the moment they’ve imagined a thousand times over.
They played their newest release My Medicine alongside some unreleased tracks that already sounded like future fan favourites, the sort of songs you hear once and already know where the chorus lands. And when they broke into covers like Blink-182’s Feeling This and Green Day’s Letterbomb, they didn’t just replicate; they re-ignited. It was familiar but not derivative, like they were tipping their hat to their influences before confidently planting their own flag.
What really hit was the energy. Not chaotic, not messy, but charged. Polished enough to tell they’ve been rehearsing like their lives depend on it, but raw enough that the edges still bite in the best way. The kind of performance where the band is so present, so all-in, that the crowd can’t help but match them. You could feel the excitement pooling, rising, spreading. The room shifted, people who thought they were just there for a drink were suddenly locked in.
There’s something very special about seeing a band at the very beginning, right before the smoke machines and tour buses and press runs. Before the story is written. Beverly Thrills are in that spark-phase, the part most people only get to hear about afterwards. But some of us were lucky enough to see it ignite in real time, at a bar on Sunset, surrounded by the ghosts of rock legends.
And it felt like the start of something.
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