Presented by No. 9 Productions, Pulparts and The Hippodrome Theatre

Louder Than You Think, directed by Jed I. Rosenberg and Adrian Rose Leonard. (90 minutes)

This is an underdog story several times over. Not only were indie rock slacker gods Pavement a dark horse in the music industry, but their forty-year-old alcoholic hippie drummer, Gary Young, was the last person who should’ve shared a stage with two bashful twenty year-olds experimenting with noise and inside jokes. Overnight Gary went from being an amateur drummer selling pot between shifts at a waterbed company to drunkenly balancing handstands mid-song in front of thousands of fans. As Pavement were pioneering a new type of indie rock, it was their berserk drummer’s sonic influence and wacky showmanship that helped steer the Pavement ship into magazines and fanzines across the world. None of it made sense. And it all worked until it didn’t. It was never supposed to happen for Gary. But it did. On the surface, Gary’s story can look like a tragic one, but it’s not. It’s the story of an unlikely somebody who flew too close to the sun.