Mew!
I just came home from a Mew concert, my hears are ringing.
That was my first concert in 12 frikkin years, believe it or not, and it was AWESOME. They have written some of the saddest songs I have ever heard (that is, to me) but still they make me incredibly happy when I hear them. I am shy and very much not an extrovert, but I thought I was going to lose it when the final moments of 156 rolled over me.
Also they played nearly all of my favorite songs, I thought they wouldn't because most of them are from an old album but they did, that's what I call fan-service. They started the show with Apocalypso / Am I Wry? No / 156 back to back, that was beautiful. Right from their intro I knew I would love it. Because let's face it, I was looking for all sorts of reason not to go, as I always do, and one of them was that I would probably find it booooring. But then I was all in, and I didn't want the show to end. Silly me.
They also played Special with everybody jumping and laughing. The place was pretty small, everybody was close to the stage and we were about 500 I'd say. Great crowd :)
Best of all, their encore was Comforting Sounds. Nine minutes of pure joy...
Oh, oh, and just when I walked into the room, Jonas, the lead singer, walked right past me saying to the guy who was checking tickets "Sorry, I... I'm, er, playing tonight, it's a... I'm in the band, you know?" That guy is a shy fella. At the end of each song, you can see him looking anxiously at the crowd, looking for appreciation.
I like how on their wiki page it says "they sometimes humorously refer to it themselves as "pretentious art rock".
Haha, I'm all over the place.
Thank you Nat for sending me a CD years ago with a few of their tracks, I owe you :)
That was my first concert in 12 frikkin years, believe it or not, and it was AWESOME. They have written some of the saddest songs I have ever heard (that is, to me) but still they make me incredibly happy when I hear them. I am shy and very much not an extrovert, but I thought I was going to lose it when the final moments of 156 rolled over me.
Also they played nearly all of my favorite songs, I thought they wouldn't because most of them are from an old album but they did, that's what I call fan-service. They started the show with Apocalypso / Am I Wry? No / 156 back to back, that was beautiful. Right from their intro I knew I would love it. Because let's face it, I was looking for all sorts of reason not to go, as I always do, and one of them was that I would probably find it booooring. But then I was all in, and I didn't want the show to end. Silly me.
They also played Special with everybody jumping and laughing. The place was pretty small, everybody was close to the stage and we were about 500 I'd say. Great crowd :)
Best of all, their encore was Comforting Sounds. Nine minutes of pure joy...
Oh, oh, and just when I walked into the room, Jonas, the lead singer, walked right past me saying to the guy who was checking tickets "Sorry, I... I'm, er, playing tonight, it's a... I'm in the band, you know?" That guy is a shy fella. At the end of each song, you can see him looking anxiously at the crowd, looking for appreciation.
I like how on their wiki page it says "they sometimes humorously refer to it themselves as "pretentious art rock".
Haha, I'm all over the place.
Thank you Nat for sending me a CD years ago with a few of their tracks, I owe you :)