Library Pictures
Brianstorm
This House Is A Circus
Still Take You Home
Don’t Sit Down ‘Cause I’ve Moved Your Chair
Pretty Visitors
Teddy Picker
Crying Lightning
Brick by Brick
Cornerstone
I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
Potion Approaching
All My Own Stunts
If You Were There, Beware
Do Me A Favour
When The Sun Goes Down

Encore:
The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala
The View From The Afternoon
Fluorescent Adolescent

Tour Dates

05/30/11 Ogden Theatre – Denver, CO
05/31/11 In The Venue – Salt Lake City, UT
06/02/11 Fox Theatre – Pomona, CA
06/03/11 Hollywood Palladium – Los Angeles, CA
06/10/11 Don Valley Bowl – Sheffield
06/11/11 Don Valley Bowl – Sheffield
06/17/11 Southside Festival – Tuttlingen, Germany
06/19/11 Hurricane Festival – Bremen, Germany
06/20/11 Admiralspalst – Berlin, Germany
06/22/11 E-Werk – Cologne, Germany
06/23/11 Paradiso – Amsterdam
06/26/11 Rock A Field Festival 2011 – Luxembourg
06/29/11 Le Zenith Nantes Metropole – Nantes, France
07/01/11 Rock Werchter 2011 – Werchter, Belgium
07/03/11 Eurockéennes Festival – Belfort, France
07/08/11 T In The Park – Kinross, Scotland
07/09/11 Oxegen – Punchestown Racecourse, Ireland
07/11/11 Les Nuits De Fourvi?re – Lyon, France
07/14/11 Super Bock Super Rock Festival – Portugal
07/16/11 Benicassim Festival – Benicassim, Spain
07/17/11 Gurten Festival – Bern, Switzerland
07/29/11 Fuji Rock Festival – Naeba Ski Resort, Japan
07/30/11 Jisan Valley Rock Festival – Seoul, South Korea
08/01/11 The Palladium Ballroom – Dallas, TX
08/02/11 Stubbs – Austin, TX
08/03/11 House of Blues – Houston, TX
08/10/11 The Showbox – Seattle, WA
08/11/11 Crystal Ballroom – Portland, OR
08/19/11 Lowlands Festival – Biddinghuizen, Netherlands
08/20/11 V Festival – Hylands Park – Chelmsford, UK
08/21/11 V Festival – Weston Park – UK
08/27/11 Rock En Seine – Domaine National, France
09/03/11 I-Day Festival – Bologna, Italy

Quite an early, but sold-out, gig for Arctic Monkeys and The Vaccines at First Avenue, in Minneapolis, last night, May 28^th.

First of all, this is an excellent billing, unlike previous years of teaming up Arctic Monkeys with the all-girls pop group The Like, in 2009, and punk-ish Be Your Own Pet in 2007, Vaccines seems more garagey rock and in tune with what Arctic Monkeys are all about.

Just to give you a little background on The Vaccines, they’re a fairly new band, having only formed last year. They signed to Columbia Records and released What Did You Expect from the Vaccines? in the UK in March (I was told by a fan at the show that their album isn’t out in the US yet and they were going to pick up the album at the merch table). I did get a chance to listen to the album, which comes out May 31^st, and I really like how they sound like they’re a band from the 60s, particularly how catchy “Wreckin’ Bar (Ra Ra Ra)” and “A Lack Of Understanding” sounded on the album and live (so much I had to tweeted it).

They ended their set with their most energic song, “Nørgaard”, something about “going steady“, but since she’s only seventeen, “she’s probably not ready“. It’s a pretty fun, but short, song, but it definitely keeps the audience wanting more.

So, this was my third time seeing Arctic Monkeys, so it was nice to see the band grow from naive clean-cut youth, to shaggy-haired dude, to dome bowl hair. Performancewise, I noticed that Alex Turner is doing more on stage now – whether it’s jumping on the drum stands, or talking a little more between songs.

He knows his audience, after the slowest song on their set, “Cornerstone”, Turner said, “I know what you want to hear, you want to hear more like this–“. He then started playing the intro to “I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor”.

As you can see from the setlist, they did some new songs from their forthcoming album, Suck It and See, which isn’t out until June 7^th. Highlight from the set is their first-ever live performance of “All My Own Stunts”. According to Turner, they’ve never played the song live before last night.

If you can see both bands on the bill, it’s worth it, otherwise, the following are dates The Vaccines are scheduled to appear in the US.

5/29 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre
5/31 Salt Lake City, UT In The Venue
6/2 Pomona, CA Fox Theatre
6/3 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Palladium ** SOLD OUT
6/4 San Francisco, CA Mezzanine
6/5 San Francisco, CA The Clift
8/5 Chicago, IL Lollapalooza
8/6 Long Island, NY Escape to NY
8/10 Seattle, WA Showbox at the market
8/11 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom
8/13 San Francisco, CA Outside lands
9/16 -9/18 Austin City Limits