My Night in the Arcade

Got an awesome surprise yesterday: things fell through for Ashley and so Dan had an extra ticket to the Arcade Fire show last night. Spoon was the opener. It was awesome.

I took a short little movie clip just to give you a sense of how they were, but it definitely doesn't do them justice.



We got there a little late and only caught the last 45 minutes or so of Spoon, but it was great to see such a large crowd there supporting and getting into it since it was pretty early in the evening for live music just outside DC (Merriweather Post Pavilion is a sweet spot, but a pain in the arse to get to). Several drinks in me and once the sun went down, it was time to rock it. And Arcade Fire definitely brought the stuff.

If you aren't familiar, Arcade Fire is a band with eight members in it. No shit, eight. And they all play different instruments throughout the show. There's usually two drummers going at once and two violinists and all sorts of shit. They just rotate around and different people do different stuff, so very entertaining and active. I also gotta give it up for them bringing in a solid show considering less than 24 hours earlier they had played a live show in Madison Square Garden that was streamed on YouTube, so you know they had to bring their A game for the corporate sponsors.

Thankfully, they had tons of energy and the crowd there was vocal and bouncing around and just generally being a great outdoor rock concert audience. I would still love to see Arcade Fire in a small setting jamming out to maybe 500-600 people just to see how they adjust but I'll take it. Just another great show in a great summer of live concerts for me.

For a fuller video, try this.