[ATTENDED: June 21, 2024] Ted Leo + Pharmacists / Ekko Astral
I saw Ted Leo + Pharmacists back in 2019 and really enjoyed the show. At the time IW rote
Even though I like Ted Leo I really don’t know a lot of his songs–I’ve been more of a casual fan. So I was delighted by the variety of sounds and styles he played from throughout his career.
Over the last five years I’ve wanted to see him again but for one reason or another I didn’t. So when he announced a show at Union Transfer I grabbed a ticket. I didn’t really give much thought to the fact that he was playing Shake the Sheets because I don’t really know any of his albums per se. So I didn’t really care about that (It turns out when I saw him last time he played a bunch of songs from that album).
When the Isiliel show was announced for the same night I was quite torn. I thought that the Ted Leo show would be more fun, but I didn’t know if Isiliel would ever come back, so I opted for that one. It ended at 10:30 and I had seen that most of the Ted Leo shows were ending around 11:30. Since Union Transfer is about four block from PhilMOCA I decided to pop in and catch the end of Ted Leo and I’m really glad that I did.
So I missed the entire set from openers Ekko Astral (whom Ted praised very very highly and made me wish I had seen them–if I could have seen them in stead of Isenmor, that would have been amazing). I’s like to make sure I see them again someday.
Luckily for me (but I would have hated this is I was there), Ted and the band didn’t go on until 9:40. I just found out though that there were actually TWO opening bands, which explains the delay for Ted.
The middle opening act was (more…)
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