Anyways, they played a long set, fourteen songs in all, and played all the songs off The Back Room. The lead singer, Tom Smith, has this really sexy voice which is kinda funny since he's a bit on the nerdy looking side (yeah, I'm mean, you'll see in a minute). I mean, he isn't bad looking, just you wouldn't expect this very sexy voice to come from a sort of average looking person. He made all these mental arm and hand gestures while singing though, I'm not sure what that was all about...
The lead guitarist, Chris Urbanowicz, was amazing. The entire show he had this sort of blank look on his face but the stuff he was playing blew me away. It's like he was putting so much focus and energy on playing that there wasn't anything left for facial expression:) He looked a little like Brandon Reilly from Nightmare of You though... Finally about halfway through "Munich" which was the first song of their encore, he cracked a smile which amused me.
I'll give them this, there are definitely some songs off The Back Room that are way better live than they are on the cd. Not that they're bad on the album, but they are just so much more interesting and alive in person (duh, I'm not explaining this well at all). Um, I guess a few sound a bit flat on the album, that's the only way I can describe it.
Big City Rock with Need to Breathe, October Fall and Drive By tonight at The Shelter. The Raconteurs tomorrow at the Michigan Theater (woot!). I will have no hearing by the end of the weekend. Oh well:)
Listening to: Big City Rock Big City Rock
I know it's blurry, but I kinda like it in an arty way. I'll post more pics but blogger is being a bitch right now and won't let me post more pics.
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