Deftones at First Avenue, Minneapolis (04/28/11)
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Tour Dates
04/30/11 Chicago IL – Riviera Theatre
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FUNERAL PARTY |
Opening up for them was Funeral Party, a band that I saw late last year. As you recall, I said that it was a good audience for Funeral Party, since the place was packed at 7th Street. This time around, they’re playing to six times the audience at First Avenue.
To give you an understanding to the two venues, and especially if you’re not from Minneapolis, First Ave and 7th are basically one venue, separated by a door. First Avenue would be the family room, and 7th Street is its closet.
They band looks well, seemingly quite happy with their smirks. There was a partial antler tied to a string, hanging off the microphone stand that made me think that it has something to do with their title track, “Golden Age of Knowhere”, which contains the line, “make our marking out through all the woods as we fling our bodies in the sun“. I could be reading too much on it, they probably just thought it was cool.
Funeral Party started off their very brief set with “Chalice”, but did not end with “Finale”. That song was second to last. You would think that judging from the cowbell-action that the last song was
“New York City Moves To The Sound Of L.A.”, but it was “Giant Song”.
Funeral Party is currently on tour to promote their album, Golden Age of Knowhere, which was released in the US last month.
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DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN |
The Dillinger Escape Plan and Deftones on the same bill made a whole lot of sense, because both bands’ sound is hardcore/borderline metal.
Dillinger was incredibly hard to shoot because of they were mostly in darkness with the strobe lights. They also move around a lot, very high energy, and doing dangerous things like climbing and standing on the thin barriers. I spoke to someone close to the band, and he tells me that “they have very good health insurance”.
Dillinger’s set started off with “Farewell, Mona Lisa”, then quietly started cursing at how early it was (it was 6:45). They kept the set pretty short, and before you knew it, the last song, “Sunshine the Werewolf” was played. The guitarist has climbed the amps and walking and playing on the 2nd floor, while the other band members are deep in the mosh pit.
Before Deftones came on stage, I noticed that the tour crew have set up a vanity small mini-stage for singer Chino Moreno. Although that’s cool (especially for the people in the back), he doesn’t spend too much time standing in the center. He’s often moving around from the left stand to the right stand, both setup especially for Dillinger and Deftones. The only time that he stands in the middle are for the ballad-ish songs.
The highlight of the whole set was the encore, which included “7 Words” – but the band mixed in a cover of Katy Perry’s “Firework”.
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DEFTONES |
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