PAPER to light its final match?

Boston party dwindles in the summer heat

By Heather Waxman

TWOLIP Staff

A conventional Thursday evening at Harper’s Ferry is

chock full of sweatily-clad bodies spastically swaying

back-and-forth to heterogeneous electro-dance beats.

The Boston area dance party, PAPER, scintillates the

indie scene and provides the young people of the Bay

area with an outlet to release their freshest and

funkiest moves.

June 12th, however, told a different story.

PAPER often jump-starts the evening with a few opening

bands. This week, two local bands, The Venetia Fair

and The Urgency, were accompanied by Pennsylvania-native

headliners, Innerpartysystem.

The crowd was sparse upon the evening’s inauguration,

drawing a weak number racking in close to fifty. By

the time Innerpartysystem took the stage, however, the

amount had gradually expanded to a more-impressive lot

rounding two-hundred. The band got the crowd moving

into its routine array of flailing arms and shimmying

shoulders as the well-acquainted scent of perspiration

began to fill the air.

Following their set came an imaginary gust of air that

seemed to drag out with it well over half the crowd.

People seemed to be more interested in inching their

way out of the venue instead of sticking around for

the once-beloved dance party put on by regular guest

DJ’s Savant and E-MARCÉ.

Looks like we can stand with feet firmly planted on

the dock we call Harper’s Ferry and wave goodbye to

its departing ship, formerly known as PAPER.