[DID NOT ATTEND: January 29, 2024] Lucius
I’ve had a ton of opportunities to see Lucius in the last two years. My count is 5 (plus two at festivals I wasn’t going to). For one reason or another (sometimes inertia) I just didn’t go.
Then they announced this ten year anniversary of their debut album and I thought that that would be really fun to see. I really liked about half of the album a lot. The rest was good. And I figured in a live setting all of the songs would be great.
The strange thing is I had no idea that Lucius has released only three albums (and various other remixes and stuff). So when they played in NJ last year, had I gone, I would have seen half of this album anyway! In fact, had I gone to that show, I would have heard them play one of their newer songs that I love, “Next to Normal.” Serves me right.
But there was something neat about going to this little mini-tour and being one of the select cities that got to see it.
It took them a while t o come out. In fact, they turned the lights out at 8:45 and we sat in the dark until like 9:10, which is just weird. But whatever. The guys came out first and then Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig came out in matching outfits–berets and bold colored jackets00primary colors splitting the coats in half with brighter colors on the pockets. They looked great.
There was a (tall) family in front of me and they were pretty good when they started singing “Wildewoman.” There was a woman behind me who was singing very loudly. She had a good voice, but honestly we are here to hear these two women with incredible voices. Fortunately she was mostly in tune and easy to ignore. (more…)
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