Part of me wants to go through a play by play of the concert. Another part of me wants to express my new found love for yet another band. I'm sure there are a plethora of other parts of me that want to go over all the different things that occurred to be whilst I listened to the Arctic Monkeys play live last night. The part that wins is the one that just wants to throw a bunch of pictures around with little narration. Here we go.
The opening band played with enough funk and passion to make me want to look them up afterwards. Mini Mansions. Right after they turned on the sign showing their name the person I was with turned to me and asked, "who are they again?" I told them but still feel as though I should have ribbed them a bit.
The Arctic Monkeys took the stage to what I felt was quite a bit of smoke. It was later explained with a visual display. I will not question them again.
Helders made me very happy to be in attendance. Although I do wonder if he realizes that when he gears up for the next song he hits a beat that puts me in the mindset to hear the Black Keys. That, of course, is a bonus as I love the Black Keys.
We cheered so much. I think they started with Do I Wanna Know? I just can't remember. The very first song was from AM because I remember being surprised that they started out that way.
I considered that the smoke would mean a light show like you wouldn't believe. I was right. Brainstorm had some seriously psychedelic flashing lights. That song being fast to begin with pairing it with the lights really took me to another level of being at this concert.
I appreciated the incorporation of the album cover with the initials of the band.
Since I didn't want to be one of the hundreds of people who were experiencing the show through their camera lense, I kept my camera off for a solid 80% of the show. However green lights were something I had to capture.
At this point I think I'd tuned into how much of a ham Alex Turner is when performing. He knew exactly what to say to get the squealers in the audience to lose their minds. His hip swivel that that emphasized what he was saying helped too.
Still wondering about the smoke levels.
I'll give it to them, the stage looked cool. My camera wasn't up to capturing what my eyes could see, but I loved trying all the same.
Afraid that it would translate well in pictures I took a video of the explanation of the smoke. Basically, it ended up being a light show like you wouldn't believe. So cool. The guys did that thing that bands do where they walked off stage for three minutes just to come back and play more songs. I don't understand this but I'm glad I knew they were coming back. I didn't realized until they closed the show with it that they hadn't played R U Mine?. That song live has been an object of my desire for months. They rocked it and I left in a state of euphoria.
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