Photos and review by Jennie Book
@jenniebookphotography

A few months ago Jane Remover tickets went on sale for her May 20^th Turn Up Or Die Tour show at The Independent in San Francisco and immediately sold out, with prices on reseller sites jumping to hundreds of dollars above face value. So to say the devoted crowd was into it would be an understatement.

Lucy Bedroque and Dazegxd opened the show, and then after a pumping Dazegxd DJ set (with some SpongeBob “Krusty Krab” beats making their way into a mix) he stayed on deck to back Jane for an hour+ and 14 song set and kept the energy up the whole time, energy which included a swirly-dancey center-of-the-venue mosh pit at different points of the night.

This tour is in support of Jane’s most recent album Revengeseekerz, but the varied setlist held a lot of great tracks from her many periods of music creation, which started around 2017 and saw initial Soundcloud releases in 2019. She’s performed under eight different stage names, including dltzk, Leroy, and Venturing, with each showing a different side of her musical persona, with genres like digicore, hyperpop, harsh shoegaze, and EDM all represented.

The show kicked off with “TWICE REMOVED” and moved into “psychoboost,” and the crowd lost its mind. Other standouts included “movies for guys,” “JRJRJR,” and “TURN UP OR DIE,” and never settled down until the last bars of “homeswitcher” stopped ringing.

In the end even fans who paid $500 for a ticket got their money’s worth, and everybody left The Independent sweaty and exhausted and glad they made the trip.

For all the latest info, check out Jane Remover’s Soundcloud here, and IG at @jane_remover.