Broad Art Museum employee Ian Walker is a long-time Cheap Girls fan who describes the band’s genre as “power-pop rock.”

“They are making a living as a touring rock band, and they are probably the only rock band from Lansing doing that right now, which is really outstanding,” Walker said.

However, the number of students that attended the show did not meet the original expectations of the band because of the inconvenience of the shift in location.

Materials science and engineering senior Keith Leonard said the bars located off campus are not within reasonable walking distance, so many students miss out on these performances.

While planning the concert with Cheap Girls, marketing and promotions coordinator for City Pulse Richard Tupica said they had to be creative and do something unconventional because of the absence of a traditional music venue that specifically provides live concerts to the public.

“It just kind of proves the point that a music venue would make sense in East Lansing,” Tupica said.

“People will clearly go to support local bands at their shows, but students are not going because there just isn’t a place for it.”

Biosystems engineering senior Evan Austin said he would like to see a venue centralized in East Lansing that students could get to without having to drive.

“There needs to be a bar in downtown East Lansing where they continually play live music instead of the bands they bring into Harper’s once in a blue moon,” Austin said.