[ATTENDED: February 20, 2020] Sloan
This is my fourth time seeing Sloan (and S’s second time). This is the second time I’ve seen them tour an album in its entirety. (If only I’d gone to see the Twice Removed tour!). These album tours are just fantastic.
The shows never feel like a nostalgia show. The band was rocking and totally into it. Plus, you get to hear songs that they never play live (“Chester the Molester”?). What makes it even better is that set two (the non-album set) often has some deep cuts (because they’re not playing the songs from the album they just played).
So in total I heard 16 songs that I haven’t heard them play live before. Sweet.
We arrived on time, but since it was sold out and there was no opening act, it meant we were pretty far back. Fortunately, we managed to move past the mountain man in front of us. The band came in and Chris Murphy literally had to squeeze past me to get to the stage (I love Boot & Saddle). Less cool were the fans who followed the band to the stage and pushed their way in front of us,
Recent shows at B&S have had poor lighting, but I believe the band brings their own lighting crew (and a giant 4 like on the 4 Nights at the Palais Royale album), so the lighting was excellent all night. As was the sound! (more…)
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