sean.bonner Wrote:Let me know what you think of Wolf Parade. They have become one of my favourite bands, and I will never miss a chance to see them.
Yeah, so Wolf Parade kicked my ass. Loud and tight and sweaty and interesting to watch, which is basically what I require out of rock & roll. I sort of figured they'd deliver, and now I am anxious to see them somewhere other than the House of Blues. It has pretty bad sound, and I am constantly surprised by the lack of a barricade in there, because jerks always think it is a great idea to jump on stage and play air guitar until security wades through the crowd to get up there and get them. Spencer seemed hugely unimpressed, and got steadily more wasted as the evening wore on. By the encore, he was drinking Jameson's straight out of the bottle, saying "you guys are so nice!" over and over, and missing the mic every time he tried to grab for it. His singing and playing, however, remained totally fantastic! Musicians, I love it.
Wintersleep did pretty well, I thought. It maybe wasn't the best set I've seen them play, but I feel like they definitely made some new fans. I was surprised that more of the people around me hadn't heard of them. I expected that when they opened for the Hold Steady, but I'd've thought Wolf Parade & Wintersleep would have more overlap. Anyway,
here is my cat with the setlist. I think this is the first time I've seen them that they didn't open with Drunk on Aluminum.
The opener opener was a Japanese band called Ogre You Asshole, and they were also pretty good. I was expecting terribleness, but they had a sort of a trippy psych-rock j-pop thing going on. I'm not sure how much I'd like an album of theirs, but I thought the live set was pretty decent.
Next week: Superchunk.
