Enemy of the People, from left: John James, Bryan Parmelee, Diane Sullivan and Jeff Baron
The outgoing president has called the press the "enemy of the people." So naturally that became the name of the
Seven Days house band — an occasional ensemble composed of musical employees plucked from the paper's production department.
Pre-COVID-19, our designers worked together in a pod, surrounded by dogs and great music. They're already a creative bunch, tested by deadline pressure and the frustration of bringing up the end of an assembly process dependent on writers, editors and account executives. At some point, they started transforming our workplace shenanigans into songs that capture some of the craziness of creating a weekly newspaper.