The Solids play the music of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, + SPECIAL GUESTS!
About This Event
The Solids, the Connecticut-born pop/rock band led by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas and known for television themes including How I Met Your Mother, plays the Bowery Ballroom. The group favors guitar-forward songwriting, tight hooks and band-first arrangements, and will frame a set around the show's music, joined by a lineup of special guests.
About How I Met Your Mother
Francis Orante
“How I Met Your Mother” is best known as a long-running American sitcom set largely in Manhattan, built around Ted Mosby recounting to his children how a decade of friendships and near-misses led to meeting their mother. In New York, the show’s bars-and-apartments geography became a shorthand for a certain mid-2000s city mythology, even when filmed elsewhere. At the Bowery Ballroom, The Solids—led by creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas—reframe that world as rock/pop: guitar-led songs, tight hooks, and band-first playing. It’s a reminder that TV storytelling can leak into the city’s live-music ecosystem.
About the Artists
Solids
Solids is the performing identity of a pop/rock musician closely tied to The Solids, the Connecticut-bred band active since the mid-1990s. Their songwriting is best known in the wider culture through television, including the “How I Met Your Mother” theme connection via band members Carter Bays and Craig Thomas.
The Solids
The Solids are a Connecticut-born pop/rock band led by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, joined by Patrick Butler, Doug Derryberry, and Josh Suniewick. Active since the mid-1990s, they balance guitar-forward songwriting with bright keyboard textures and tight rhythm work.