[ATTENDED: January 23, 2024] Meet Me @ the Altar
I had tickets to see Meet Me @ the Altar last year but went to The Beths instead (good choice). MM@TA were headlining The Foundry. And now a year later they are headlining TLA.
My daughter and I saw them at the All Things Go Festival and I loved them. I knew I wanted to see them again–especially as a headliner.
I thought that Meet Me @ the Altar were really really young (teenagers), but this summer, singer Edith Victoria announced that it was her birthday and that she was now 23. I’m not sure how old guitarist/bassist Téa Campbell or drummer Ada Juarez are.
They play feminist pop punk. Téa Campbell absolutely rips on guitar and Ada Juarez pummels back there. I’m not sure how they play the backing sounds–basses and extra percussion. I assume Juarez triggers a sampler and they play to the sounds as opposed to them being triggered on the fly. I loved the sound of the guitars. I loved Edith’s voice (and Téa’s backing vocals) and I loved their attitude.
From the start, they brought the pop punk. In addition to playing a lot of new songs, they dig into their back catalog (which they have).
After a couple of songs they got a pit going and when they played “Hit Like a Girl,” Edith told the crowd that this pity was just for the women, which I thought was pretty cool.
When I saw them this summer, they played some excerpts from songs they’d wished they’d written. I assumed that was just a fun way to endear yourself to a festival crowd. But they’ve been doing this on each show of the tour (although mixing things up a bit). I really enjoyed their cover of “Complicated” this summer. They didn’t play that this time, instead playing “Since U Been Gone” and putting a great punk attitude on it.
The end of the set was a collection of killer tracks that the crowd was fully into. We all sang along to “Kool” and they ended with the name of the tour: Say It to My Face absolutely shredded the room.
The show was only an hour, but they packed everything in and the crowd was really psyched by it. On the way out I heard someone say how much better they were than at The Foundry last year. So I think i picked the right show after all!
| 2024 (TLA) | 2023 (All Things Go) |
| Same Language ⇔ | Same Language ⇔ |
| Brighter Days (Are Before Us) Δ | T.M.I ⇔ |
| Now or Never Δ | Try ⇔ |
| Beyond My Control ♦ | Since U Been Gone (Kelly Clarkson) (excerpt) |
| Try ⇔ | Complicated (Avril Lavigne) (excerpt) |
| May the Odds Be in Your Favor Ø | Take Me Away (Christina Vidal) (excerpt) |
| Hit Like A Girl § | Hit Like A Girl § |
| It’s Over For Me ⇔ | Say It (To My Face) ⇔ |
| Since U Been Gone (Kelly Clarkson) (excerpt) | Garden Ø |
| Take Me Away (Christina Vidal) (excerpt) | Kool ⇔ |
| Burnin’ Up (Jonas Brothers) (excerpt) | |
| T.M.I ⇔ | |
| Garden Ø | |
| Feel a Thing Δ | |
| Kool ⇔ | |
| Say It (To My Face) ⇔ |
⇔ Past//Present//Future (2023)
Δ Model Citizen EP (2021)
§ single 2021
Ø single 2020
♦ Bigger Than ME EP (2019)
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