Last night MT and I went to see The Killers perform at the E Center. I love this band and I've been really excited about seeing them since I bought the tickets months ago. I wasn't disappointed.
The first song they did was my favorite from their latest CD, a track called "Joyride". It's catchy and bouncy and just plain good. They rocked through that tune and were starting on the next song when suddenly the lead singer, Brandon, announced that the band had to leave the stage for a few minutes.
I've been to many, many concerts and I have never seen anything like this happen before. The band left, and some official people came onto the stage, then a guy announced that there were "technical difficulties" and it would take a few minutes to make the repairs. Then a guy climbed up a rope ladder to the light thingee above the stage. He was up there for a little while, then he came back down and everyone cheered and the officials gave a thumbs up, then the band came back and played their next number, "Human," and everything was just fine.
From there, the band just flat out rocked. The show was loud and fun, the crowd was into it, singing along and jumping around. Brandon didn't do much talking, he just sang his skinny legs off. He was great! They played every song that I love and with feeling and gusto. MT knew about five songs, but he had a good time, too. He downloaded all their CDs onto his iPod this morning, so I think he liked it. I even bought a t-shirt! I'm wearing it now, in fact! I don't remember the last time I bought a t-shirt at a concert...maybe U2 a few years ago.
Now here's the dumb part: this morning I read a concert review in the Salt Lake Tribune and the writer talked about how bad the sound was and how you didn't get the depth and the I-don't know-what-else of the music because the sound was so poor. I wondered if I'd been to the same show. I thought the sound was exceptionally loud, but I thought the band sounded great. I was pleasantly surprised that they could rock so hard. I mean basically, The Killers' style, especially on their CD "Hot Fuss", is very synth-pop. The new CD is like that, too, so I was happy they rocked it out. I was bummed out by the review, and MT told me that it was just one dumb guy's opinion and he'd never read a review where the sound was called good. So there.
Anyway, I loved The Killers' show and I'd be happy to see them again :p
Did you have a good weekend?
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Yes I had a good weekend being on the Föreningsmässa on Saturday (you can read in my blog about it) and on Sunday doing my CV which I have to bring when I meet my personal workcoach this week. Beautiful weather with sunshine and around 18C. Today we're having our first heavy frost!! -1C this morning and after a heavy rain last night it was very slippery.
Have a good week. Love you :-)
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