Promise Keepers

Still, Gnewikow tries to keep his perspective. "You get sort of jaded, I guess," he concedes. "It's impossible to recapture that innocence. You can only be untainted once. Not to say that we're some hugely successful band, by any stretch; it's not like I'm under the assumption that we're the greatest band in the world. It's really just impulsive and selfish. We're just doing this thing that we really like doing."

Gnewikow has learned the hard way that simply "doing what you really like doing" is sometimes all a band truly has. "Everyone's time comes. You have your moment in the sun, and it doesn't last forever," he offers sagely. He also harbors no illusions about the turbulent and arbitrary currents of popular opinion upon which the Promise Ring has cast itself.

A different kind of fellowship: The Promise Ring.

Details

With the Weakerthans and the Woodbine Station
8 p.m., Monday, April 29
$13, 303-831-9448.

Ogden Theatre, 935 East Colfax Avenue

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