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death caaaaab!
aditi was very fun to go with, and we got great seats for our price category- practically a front row view but two or three stories up cos we were all the way in front at the side. SO we got a great view without any pressure to look cool which is good cos we're live concert n00bs haha, and besides we're not cool people.
the view from where we were, without zooming in or whatever. before the concert started, when aditi and I were marvelling at our view haha.
it was very fun to sing along and have my voice drowned out by the music anyway because that meant I didn't need to blight anyone with my crappy singing and could still join in and enjoy the songs anyway. I didn't know about a third of the set list (mostly their older songs) which was quite saddening, but I did thoroughly enjoy the songs that I did know. and I remember more lyrics than I thought I did :D
they didn't play my bestest favourite song (marching bands!) but they did play a couple of my favourites haha. I would have died if they had played marching bands because I bet it would be freaking cool live, and really is my favouritest song ever, but I wasn't hoping for it cos I didn't see it on the set lists of all their other concerts fans have posted up haha. other songs I would've liked to see played are brothers on a hotel bed, we looked like giants, and I think someday you will be loved would've been great live, but no complaints, really.
one of the great parts of the view that we got was that we could see exactly what each band member was doing- and I found out stuff like Chris Walla does backup vocals for some of the songs! and there ARE vocals (er something like...la la la la la la la) in the instrumental build-up of I Will Possess Your Heart, because we saw Nick Harmer sing into a microphone haha. I was really pleased with that (and to see him sing it), because I really really liked that touch- it's so happy and headboppy it gets me everytime and I just want to get up and dance lol. and I was afraid it was just my imagination haha. also we could see if they were going to do more songs, because their crew would lurk around backstage and emerge from the shadows to hand them guitars for the next song, and so if we saw a crew member prepping a guitar it meant there was another song. (because believe me, we really didn't want it to end.) and we could see them coming out for the encore :D
I thought tiny vessels and transatlanticism were a kickass way to end off! transatlanticism was imho, the best song of the night. I think the mark of a good death cab concert (not that I have been for more than one) the ability to both get me hyped up AND sad, because their songs are really emo and for it to come across in a live concert there must be a certain amount of gravitas as well. when transatlanticism started (the part where it's mostly just Ben Gibbard crooning and the piano) I was like yayyyy nice song! ... :(. although in my case it's not really the atlantic ocean but the giant land mass of europe/asia/africa/the indian ocean that separates me from home that I will be angsting over haha.
strike one off my bucket list! call me a n00b but this was really the first live music concert I've been for. but what a band to go for :D
aditi was very fun to go with, and we got great seats for our price category- practically a front row view but two or three stories up cos we were all the way in front at the side. SO we got a great view without any pressure to look cool which is good cos we're live concert n00bs haha, and besides we're not cool people.
the view from where we were, without zooming in or whatever. before the concert started, when aditi and I were marvelling at our view haha.
it was very fun to sing along and have my voice drowned out by the music anyway because that meant I didn't need to blight anyone with my crappy singing and could still join in and enjoy the songs anyway. I didn't know about a third of the set list (mostly their older songs) which was quite saddening, but I did thoroughly enjoy the songs that I did know. and I remember more lyrics than I thought I did :D
they didn't play my bestest favourite song (marching bands!) but they did play a couple of my favourites haha. I would have died if they had played marching bands because I bet it would be freaking cool live, and really is my favouritest song ever, but I wasn't hoping for it cos I didn't see it on the set lists of all their other concerts fans have posted up haha. other songs I would've liked to see played are brothers on a hotel bed, we looked like giants, and I think someday you will be loved would've been great live, but no complaints, really.
one of the great parts of the view that we got was that we could see exactly what each band member was doing- and I found out stuff like Chris Walla does backup vocals for some of the songs! and there ARE vocals (er something like...la la la la la la la) in the instrumental build-up of I Will Possess Your Heart, because we saw Nick Harmer sing into a microphone haha. I was really pleased with that (and to see him sing it), because I really really liked that touch- it's so happy and headboppy it gets me everytime and I just want to get up and dance lol. and I was afraid it was just my imagination haha. also we could see if they were going to do more songs, because their crew would lurk around backstage and emerge from the shadows to hand them guitars for the next song, and so if we saw a crew member prepping a guitar it meant there was another song. (because believe me, we really didn't want it to end.) and we could see them coming out for the encore :D
I thought tiny vessels and transatlanticism were a kickass way to end off! transatlanticism was imho, the best song of the night. I think the mark of a good death cab concert (not that I have been for more than one) the ability to both get me hyped up AND sad, because their songs are really emo and for it to come across in a live concert there must be a certain amount of gravitas as well. when transatlanticism started (the part where it's mostly just Ben Gibbard crooning and the piano) I was like yayyyy nice song! ... :(. although in my case it's not really the atlantic ocean but the giant land mass of europe/asia/africa/the indian ocean that separates me from home that I will be angsting over haha.
strike one off my bucket list! call me a n00b but this was really the first live music concert I've been for. but what a band to go for :D