[ATTENDED: April 21, 2025] L.S. Dunes
My son and I saw L.S. Dunes open for Pierce the Veil back in 2023. We knew a little about them and then the merch guy told us that we would really like them. But, as seems to happen at the Santander Arena, the opening bands are just lost in the acoustics of the place.
So when this show was announced I grabbed tickets assuming that we’d like them a lot more if we could actually hear them.
Perhaps the coolest thing of all was that I won a contest on Instagram which gave me two signed posters from the band (strangely enough, one of this posters is not signed by one of the members, but that’s okay). It was definitely a cool souvenir.
We missed the opening band Night Sins entirely. And the place was PACKED. I felt lucky that I could squeeze into the ADA seating area because if I couldn’t we’d have been crowded even further back. It was not the ideal location–I really assumed we’d be really close to the stage. And I was a little bummed to be relatively far from the stage–although I think it would have been way too crowded up front.
However, the crowd was 100% into it and it was kind of fun to be behind the crowd and see all of the fun.
We knew Frank Iero the best in the band (being MCR fans). I feel like I should have known Anthony Green and Circa Survive, but I didn’t know them at all. We had seen drummer Tucker Rule and bassist Tim Payne from Thursday, but I didn’t really know at all. We were closest to guitarist Travis Stever who plays in Coheed and Cambria–someone I’ve wanted to see but haven’t. His soloing was great.
I had listened to the new album once or twice but didn’t really know their music all that well. But I knew it would be great. I loved the way Like Magick started slowly with Anthony Green singing over strummed chords and then boom, the song took off. Fatal Deluxe showed the dichotomy of Green’s vocals–screamed intensity and then quieter very high-pitched vocals. (more…)
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