YOUBET (Brooklyn) w/ POP EMPIRE

Name: YOUBET (Brooklyn) w/ POP EMPIRE
Start: 2025-05-24T21:30:00-04:00
Location: 1345 Main St, Cincinnati, OH, United States, Ohio 45202

Schedule

Sat, 24 May, 2025 at 09:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1345 Main St, Cincinnati, OH, United States, Ohio 45202 | Cincinnati, OH

FREE 21+
Nick Llobet (they/them) was ready to throw in the towel. Llobet, who grew up in South Florida, learned to play guitar at a very young age, dabbling in everything from classical, blues, classic rock, and flamenco. They’d spent much of their early 20s searching for their voice as an artist and as an individual, as well as for a musical community. Llobet would eventually move to Brooklyn, but after three years of looking for a hopeful artistic breakthrough, they spent much of their time in seclusion, consumed by social anxiety and imposter syndrome—and they were considering abandoning songwriting completely.
One day, while commuting through Penn Station and en route to their partner’s family home in Virginia (that would also lead to the crucial purchase of a secondhand Tascam cassette recorder), they noticed Patti Smith sitting alone, waiting for a train. The typically shy Llobet decided to approach the icon, who was, in turn, delighted to see that Llobet was carrying a guitar. At the end of their interaction, Smith offered some parting wisdom: “She wished me luck and said, ‘Practice hard, Nick.’”