[ATTENDED: September 29, 2026] Weezer
This is my fourth time seeing Weezer. I’m not a huge Weezer fan and I know they’ve released some real stinker songs, but when they hit it right, they absolutely nail it. And their shows are a lot of fun.
This is the first time I’ve seen them headline in a pretty long time. I remembered their 2018 show was a great spectacle showing the band progress through the years. But they went all out for this show and it was a blast!
The show began with a video of a kid drawing pictures like those in the poster to the right. Some bullies mocked Nicholas for drawing his weird Ws and Nicholas said that Weezer were playing at his house tonight. The kids don’t believe him. Nicholas wishes really hard and the weird symbols he’s drawing start to glow and Rivers received the message about a show that night. He grabs the band and they head to Nicholas’ house.
The stage had been setup to look like a back yard. There was a house (!) as well as telephone poles (with sneakers on the wires) artificial turf and a picket fence. On the screen, the guys approach a fence and then walked through the fence on stage. A simple detail, but really fun. The screen converted to a backyard scene with a swimming pool and trees and everything. It looked really convincing (despite being obviously fake).
The story was played out though the whole night (even if the guys in the band are TERRIBLE actors–so bad! Rivers’ “let keep this party going” and things were pretty sus but who cares).
They started playing a brand new song (I don’t now the album all that well, but everyone on the floor sure did). In addition to showing the band on the stage, the cameramen in the front row went back an forth to the folks in the front row, and most of them were singing along.
And then came what was mostly a greatest hits selection of songs, but with quite a few deep cuts as well. (more…)
