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[review] The show was so crazy amazing. Mike Runion opened, then Blake
and crew rocked some elected. Runion yelled at me for peeking at the RK
setlists when he put them out. I think he may have hated me. He yelled
at me twice.
Rilo Kiley played the above posted set list, and were just amazing. they
were so blatantly into playing this show in the middle of all the shows
as a supporting act and there was just a great vibe all around. They
played very well, very energetic, and were also very appreciative of the
crowd and had a bit of banter with everyone, such as Blake asking the
sound guy to turn up the vocals for the people in front, and Jenny
bringing up some girl who drove a long way up on stage for the Frug.
Blake gave me the set list afterwards so I don't think he hates me,
which is good, because I am a jerk.
I met some RKNetters and waited around for forever after meeting
everyone else since I needed Jenny to sign my damn setlist! She finally
came out around midnight and told us no pictures. she was still so
sweet. Pierre was the most sociable and very very charming. Jason was
handsome and very funny and the ever enigmatic Blake was obsessing over
how great a very sheepish Mike Bloom was.
I could write way more as it was one of the best shows i have seen and
one of the best nights of my life, but I am very tired!
-amy
[another review]
It was a great show. Mike Runion opened then The Elected Came out and
played:
Response to Greed
new song
Greetings in Braille
new song
Rilo's set was great. The highlight was hearing The Frug, which I have
waited 4 years to hear. it was also cool to hear Patiently live (if only
they would play A Town Called Luckey now). They closed with an acoustic
Better Son/Daughter. When their set ended and they were walking off
stage Blake walked up to me and handed me his pick. Afterwards my friend
and i waited out back Duke was already out there and asked me for a hug,
jason came out next the blake. I left before Jenny came out. I met a lot
of the boardies finally. Amycutthroat, Pennielane, Madison. i also met
danegooding and basement noise. good times. so Baltimore next weekend.
-nick
[another review]
We had a lot of trouble finding the place from Harrisburg, but we got
there at about 7:53 and parked a few dozen feet away from the tour bus.
How exciting. We raced inside and actually had plenty of time to spare.
There were only maybe 200 people there, give or take. We got almost
right up front by Jenny's keyboard.
As people have said, Mike Runion opened with four songs, then announced
a "special guest". Blake and Mike Bloom came out and played A Response
To Greed, and then they added some drum and bass for Greetings in
Braille and too new songs. (He also confirmed that their album was
coming out in January.)
Rilo Kiley's set was so great. It was also so great to be so close.
Towards the end when she said "We're going to play this one, and it's a
verrry old song, so please don't laugh at me", I knew they were going to
play some Initial Friend song, and it couldn't have been better than the
Frug. She danced all of the moves and everything.
- dain gooding |
There's video of this show. The DVD starts with some footage from the
openers. 2 songs from Runion, 1 from The Elected.. Not complete songs..
about half each.
It's shot from nice and close up, but like "second row", so the back of
Nick's head makes frequent appearances. It's a bit shakey, but not too
bad. The sound is ok, but some popping noises at times (I'm not sure if
this was just the fault of my DVD player.) It's one long track, so not
easy to skip to a certain song. But great performance and fun to watch. |
