Just back from a night of music excesss that involved watching U2 perform and then blazing over to Neumos to see Tegan and Sara.
I was a bit blase about U2 on this go round, mostly because I was still harboring some bitterness at the cluster that was the U2 fan club ticket presale. Not willing to fork over $160 for a ticket I bought a pair that were in the second to the last row of the arena. Whatever. The band was great. Not as astoundingly perfect as the Las Vegas stop on the Elevation Tour, but better than pretty much any other band on the planet. And they had these LED curtains that we soooo want hanging in the next place we live.
I still have yet to see an entire Tegan and Sara show, but it was wonderful to see the last half of their set. This duo just charms the hell out of me. And they can rawk.
It was fun to teleport from a show by the biggest band on earth, a band that's figured out how to create a sense of intimacy before an audience of thousands, to a young pair of sisters that don't have to figure out how to engineer that intimacy 'cause they still have it. Yay!
so cool. i'm pea green with envy.
Posted by: George | Monday, April 25, 2005 at 03:30
I saw T & S for the first time on Saturday night in Vancouver when they opened for the Killers. They're awesome! I can't figure out why the only song that's getting any big radio play is that Walking with the Ghost song, which is nowhere near their best.
Posted by: doug | Monday, April 25, 2005 at 12:21
I've got to say... I missed U2's Vegas show (which I was supposed to attend)... so in all honesty, I must rank last night's Seattle performance for a tie of Best Concert I've Ever Seen. (The other one was The Rolling Stones - 40 Licks Tour in Twickingham UK.) It's refreshing that a band of such international fame can still care so much about political and human causes. I'm proudly wearing my 'One' bracelet today to support the One Campaign to fight global AIDS and poverty. www.one.org
Posted by: Lisa Amore | Monday, April 25, 2005 at 14:32