ARTS & CULTURE
Tuesday, November 23, 2015 13
A Concert Review: Kurt Vile & the Violators
Live at the Phoenix Concert Theatre, 25 October 2015
justin philpott › staff writer
W
ho is Kurt Vile? I’ve been a fan of his
music for a several years now, but his
persona preserves some kind of mystical ambiguity in my head. The videos I’ve
watched on YouTube and interviews I’ve read paint
an incomplete picture of the singer/songwriter. Here
is this reserved, lurchy, and awkward fella with outrageously long, curly hair—you instinctively want to
write him off because there is no way he can offer you
anything of value. However, his music is insightful,
honest and hard-hitting. And he can play one hell of a
guitar. I was extremely excited to see Kurt Vile live in
concert. I believed it would put my mind at ease. What
better window int