Getting Centered

Moving Units. At UCSB’s Hub, Friday, February 2.

Reviewed by Drew Mackie

Not to knock Moving Units, but the
success of their concert at UCSB’s student hangout spot, the Hub,
could mostly be attributed to the event’s planners and not the
musicians themselves. The Hub, for the uninitiated, occupies the
bottom story of UCSB’s University Center. Associated Students
Program Board, however, realized the Hub’s potential as an event
space and launched AfterHours@theHub, a concert series that
utilizes the area in a way it should have been years ago.

Last Friday night about 400 people — mostly UCSB students with
scattered non-collegiate music fans in tow — flooded the Hub, and
for many of them it would be the most time they had ever spent
there. Program Board smartly installed a beer garden in the space,
as well as a decent stage and sound system, transforming the
formerly sterile environment into one where students could feel
comfortable and have fun.