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| Glamour Kills Tour April 8th Show Review
So the Glamour Kills Tour came through Nashville last rnight and I was rthere screaming my brains out and banging my head roff, but I was ralso paying a little attention to the performances of the rbands. First roff about the venue, Rocketown: it kind of sucks. The rstage is about a rfoot high and the ceiling is really low, preventing the rvenue from rallowing crowd surfing and stage diving (and they raren't kidding when they say they'll kick you out if you rdo it. A couple people got booted). The sound in there ris not all rthat great either, but for a show like this it wasn't a rhuge deal. But ranyway, the bands.... | | 1 | The Story So Far
The Story So Far, somewhat surprisingly for an opening act, seemed to have
more fans than any of the other bands besides The Wonder Years. They
pounded through their eight or so songs without hardly taking a breath, and the
crowd up front sang along with every word. These guys look like a bunch of
white trash rapper types, but they are anything but, obviously. All in all, they
accomplished what an opener is supposed to: played really loud, pumped up the
crowd, and didn't try to do too much. Solid performance. 6.5/10 | | 2 | A Loss For Words
It's safe to say that no one in the crowd knew who these guys were; for the
most part, everybody just stood and watched them blankly. And that really is a
shame, because A Loss For Words put on a hell of a show. Easily the most
animated band of the night (and the most amusing, in the best way possible,
their bassist and guitarist were hilarious singing backups and interacting with
each other), they played all their songs with a fervor that no one else that night
seemed to have. The lead singer even made his way into the crowd at one
point, urging for some sort of animated reaction, to which only a few in the
audience (I was one of them haha) obliged by jumping and pounding into each
other while the singer paraded around in the middle of them. These guys
definitely made a fan out of me, and hopefully some other people too. Oh, and
their cover of the Jackson 5 was probably the greatest thing I've ever seen.
9/10 | | 3 | Transit
I was honestly most excited to see Transit out of any of the bands, and they did
not disappoint. Joe was singing with the crowd the entire set, putting his mic up
to singing fans' faces and letting them yell out his words for him. The rest of the
band were probably the most proficient instrumentally as any band all night,
playing every song exactly how it sounds on the record. The only complaint is
that they only played one song from Stay Home (Stays the Same), but really
that's just a minor gripe from the Stay Home fanboy inside me. 9/10 | | 4 | Polar Bear Club
Polar Bear Club, let's be honest, didn't really fit the bill of this tour. Besides the
fact that they look like a nerdy Weezer cover band, they don't play the same
Pop Punk style as the other bands and their fan representation suffered for it.
The set wasn't all that tight either. The songs off their newest album sounded
good enough, but the older material that they played (Living Saints and Light Of
Local Eyes among them, which I think are their best songs) sounded sloppy, as
if they were far too out of practice in playing them. Their stage presence
however was energetic and entertaining, which salvaged an otherwise lackluster
performance. 5.5/10 | | 5 | The Wonder Years
Basically a flawless performance, but who could have predicted otherwise
anyway. Everyone played every song perfectly, and Soupy sounded exceptional
for a date this late in the tour. They played all the right songs, about an equal
amount of the Upsides and Suburbia as well as two or three older ones and b-
sides. The crowd loved it, you could tell the band was enjoying themselves, and
Soupy provided his trademark witty and engaging side notes occasionally in
between songs. Basically, The Wonder Years proved why they are the greatest
band currently in their genre, and should be for a long time to come. 10/10 | |
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04.09.12 | wish 4 would tour with better bands | Quen
04.10.12 | I wish I could go to the date on the 15th but the drive is sooo long. Bummer. |
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