McEwan lives in LA, making it a sort-of hometown show. When I caught up with Lyle and McEwan - the former at a fun, divey bar in Brooklyn and the latter over a couple phone calls - both men were preparing for their first-ever show in Los Angeles as The Midnight on Nov.
That was a real wakeup call.” The Midnight perform live on July 14 at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco, California. I guess if people are buying your music and buying a ticket to your show, they have to drag their body there and show up. “I thought, What the fuck? That’s when it really hit me. “Then I saw some Midnight t-shirts,” he continued. I didn’t put it together that the line leading up to the door of the venue was for our show.” “I wondered what was going on - they were probably here for some show. I looked to my left and saw a massively long line stretching around the corner,” McEwan told Vehlinggo during a recent phone interview. It wasn’t until they were all grabbing a slice at the DNA Lounge’s adjacent pizza place, and getting some air before the show, that something clicked. They’ve earned thousands of fans all over the world. Together, the two acts have redefined the lighter, more pop side of synthwave as a professional, unassailably written and transcendentally performed medium. It was July 14 and they had just finished soundcheck at the DNA Lounge, deep in San Francisco’s Soma neighborhood, preparing for their first-ever show: a double-bill with FM-84 and his collaborator Ollie Wride. The Midnight’s Tim McEwan and Tyler Lyle needed to grab a bite to eat after a strenuous afternoon. Their vitality would rise to spiritual levels, infusing concertgoers with a deep sense of interconnectedness and warmth. This mid-July night was certainly crisp, but 850 people would soon be basking in the heat of some extraordinary energy generated by the performances of two popular musical groups. It was a beautiful summer night in San Francisco, a town that gets surprisingly cold when most of America is sweating their souls out. Are The Midnight an embodiment of this or are they the cure? “Mono no aware” is a Japanese term relating to the wistful recognition of impermanence - a melancholic awareness that things are ephemeral and we can never relive the past.
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