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Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Fan review...The Grove of Anaheim, 01.08.06
Gig: 01.08.06 - Anaheim, CA - The Grove of Anaheim
Photo and review: Nathan Hawelu
The show itself started slowly with Mew making their 45-minute set seem to last forever. I felt bad for them considering a lot of people were shouting “Bloc Party!”. Mew finished and their roadies disbanded their gear. After the guitar techs finished up, Bloc Party promptly made their way to the stage.
It seems they have started all this tour with 'Waiting For The 7:18' and so they started. Kele bumped the mic with his lip, thus making him bleed while he sang 'Positive Tension'. The band played every song so perfectly and in such harmony I wondered if this was real. Kele’s antics on stage are becoming more and more hilarious. He jumped around and did a prance-type walk that reminded me of the late David Lee Roth. Russell did not look up much from his cropped hairline. Matt took off his shirt after a couple of songs and Gordon sipped his beer from a plastic cup. Though I can’t remember what song it was, Gordon played Matt’s cymbals, then dragged his bass across the stage floor. Countless fans shouted "Skeleton" and Kele said, "What...what's this 'Skeleton' you're speaking of?" They continued their set with the crowd singing every song word for word. There were some crowd surfers that made themselves a nuisance, but did not make the show anything less than spectacular.
The band finished their set and left. The crowd was quite confused, for we did not know if they would play an encore. The lighting did not come back on so no-one moved out of the venue. Slowly the band started to come back out. Just as that happened I threw onto the stage a letter that I wrote personally to Kele. I went in a group of about 14 people and we were all near each other up against the rail blocking the stage, shouting to him to look on the stage monitor. He looked very puzzled and bent over to check the space between the stage and the rail, came back up and shrugged his shoulders. He got somewhat frustrated, came over to the edge of the stage to put the mic into one of my companion's hands and she told him where it was. Kele found the letter, said he loved presents and put the letter to his heart then into his back pocket. He asked my name and some stupid jock kid near me tried to take credit for throwing it up there. Luckily I was with so many people who knew what my mission was that they all shouted “NATHAN” and Kele said “Thank you, Nathan”. He played the whole encore with my letter in his back pocket and held the hands of a couple of crowd surfers during the final chorus of 'The Pioneers'...ending the show beautifully.
Setlist: Waiting For The 7:18 / Positive Tension / Banquet / Blue Light / She's Hearing Voices / Hunting for Witches / This Modern Love / Like Eating Glass / So Here We Are / Helicopter [encore] Price of Gasoline / Little Thoughts / England / The Pioneers
Gig: 01.08.06 - Anaheim, CA - The Grove of Anaheim
Photo and review: Nathan Hawelu
The show itself started slowly with Mew making their 45-minute set seem to last forever. I felt bad for them considering a lot of people were shouting “Bloc Party!”. Mew finished and their roadies disbanded their gear. After the guitar techs finished up, Bloc Party promptly made their way to the stage.
It seems they have started all this tour with 'Waiting For The 7:18' and so they started. Kele bumped the mic with his lip, thus making him bleed while he sang 'Positive Tension'. The band played every song so perfectly and in such harmony I wondered if this was real. Kele’s antics on stage are becoming more and more hilarious. He jumped around and did a prance-type walk that reminded me of the late David Lee Roth. Russell did not look up much from his cropped hairline. Matt took off his shirt after a couple of songs and Gordon sipped his beer from a plastic cup. Though I can’t remember what song it was, Gordon played Matt’s cymbals, then dragged his bass across the stage floor. Countless fans shouted "Skeleton" and Kele said, "What...what's this 'Skeleton' you're speaking of?" They continued their set with the crowd singing every song word for word. There were some crowd surfers that made themselves a nuisance, but did not make the show anything less than spectacular.
The band finished their set and left. The crowd was quite confused, for we did not know if they would play an encore. The lighting did not come back on so no-one moved out of the venue. Slowly the band started to come back out. Just as that happened I threw onto the stage a letter that I wrote personally to Kele. I went in a group of about 14 people and we were all near each other up against the rail blocking the stage, shouting to him to look on the stage monitor. He looked very puzzled and bent over to check the space between the stage and the rail, came back up and shrugged his shoulders. He got somewhat frustrated, came over to the edge of the stage to put the mic into one of my companion's hands and she told him where it was. Kele found the letter, said he loved presents and put the letter to his heart then into his back pocket. He asked my name and some stupid jock kid near me tried to take credit for throwing it up there. Luckily I was with so many people who knew what my mission was that they all shouted “NATHAN” and Kele said “Thank you, Nathan”. He played the whole encore with my letter in his back pocket and held the hands of a couple of crowd surfers during the final chorus of 'The Pioneers'...ending the show beautifully.Setlist: Waiting For The 7:18 / Positive Tension / Banquet / Blue Light / She's Hearing Voices / Hunting for Witches / This Modern Love / Like Eating Glass / So Here We Are / Helicopter [encore] Price of Gasoline / Little Thoughts / England / The Pioneers
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1) i think david lee roth is still alive
2) people were chanting skeleton at the gig in berkely too
3) great post!
2) people were chanting skeleton at the gig in berkely too
3) great post!
haha, i was there! great show. i could have sworn the name was something else, but i was over near russell and right under the p.a. system.
i was going to write a review but i didn't remember the setlist after "so here we are".
props on an excellent post.
check my pics of BP on my myspace.
i was going to write a review but i didn't remember the setlist after "so here we are".
props on an excellent post.
check my pics of BP on my myspace.
right at the start of this modern love video is the reference to skeleton
funny how i didnt know what he was saying in my video until i read this post
this modern love
funny how i didnt know what he was saying in my video until i read this post
this modern love
Just to note "England" was still called "Blue Moon" at this time. Another fan allow me to see the list.
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