Tour Dates

03/07 Pabst Theater – Milwaukee, Wisconsin
03/09 LC Pavilion – Columbus, Ohio
03/10 Pageant – St. Louis, Missouri
03/11 Cain’s Ballroom – Tulsa, Oklahoma
03/15 Warehouse Live – Houston, TX
04/12 Coachella – Indio, CA
04/14 Rialto Theatre – Tucson, Arizona
04/19 Coachella – Indio, CA
04/25 Sydney Opera House – Sydney, Aus
04/27 Groovin’ The Moo – Glen Oak, Aus
04/28 Groovin’ The Moo – Canberra, Aus
04/30 Tivoli Theatre – Brisbane, Aus
05/02 Palais Theatre – Melbourne, Aus
05/04 Groovin’ The Moo – Bendigo, Aus
05/05 Groovin’ The Moo – Townsville, Aus
05/07 Thebarton Theatre – Adelaide SA, Aus
05/09 Metro City – Perth, Aus
05/11 Groovin’ The Moo – Banbury, Aus
07/06 Donwview Park – Toronto, ON
07/09 Jacobs Pavilion – Cleveland, OH
07/13 CMAC – Rochester, NY
07/16 Meadow Brook – Detroit, MI
07/18 Stage AE – Pittsburgh, PA
07/19 The Mann Center – Philadelphia, PA
07/20 Merriweather Post – Columbia, MD
07/22 Hudson River Park – New York, NY
08/22 Red Rocks Amph – Denver, CO
08/23 Salt Air Outside – Salt Lake City, UT
08/27 L.Tahoe Harvey’s – Lake Tahoe, NV
08/28 Idaho Botanical Garden – Boise, ID
08/29 Edgefield – Portland, OR
09/06 Greek Theatre – Berkeley, CA
09/10 Comerica Theatre – Phoenix, AZ
09/12 Gexa Energy Pavilion – Dallas, TX
09/16 Tuscaloosa Amph – Tuscaloosa, AL
09/18 Mizner Park Amph – Boca Raton, FL
09/19 UCF Arena – Orlando, FL
09/22 Woods at Fontanel – Whites Creek, TN
09/24 Family Circle Cup – Charleston, SC
09/25 Red Hat Amphitheater – Raleigh, NC
09/26 nTelos Wireless – Charlottesville, VA

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Tegan and Sara

Tegan and Sara was one of those bands that I had heard of for many years but never listened to until I saw them open up for Death Cab for Cutie at the Hollywood Bowl a few years ago.…

Tegan and Sara played to a sold out First Avenue show in Minneapolis last night, March 6th.

DIANA

Their opening band was Diana, an un-googleable name, as singer Carmen Elle confessed on stage. Their emotional songs reminded me of Tender Forever (but minus that cheesy 80s saxophone!)

Along with some equipment malfunctions, the trembling loud bass did no favors for Diana’s sound. Still, the band seemed really positive as they play “Born Again” with no guitars.

Like most bands playing First Avenue for the first time, they were very excited to be playing at the “Purple Rain club” as they put it and jokingly said they put Prince on the guestlist (which surprisingly a lot of out-of-town bands tend to do!)

Tegan & Sara’s intro music was Tommy James & the Shondells’ “I Think We’re Alone Now” (which was made famous by Tiffany years later).

As you can see from their set list, the band did every song from their new album, Heartthrobs, but they mixing it up between “old hits” and fan-favorites. Of course, they got “Walking with a Ghost” out of the way as soon as possible before playing a three-block new songs of “I Was A Fool”, “I’m Not Your Hero”, and “I Couldn’t Be Your Friend.” I can tell that the sisters were really excited about their new songs. And the new stuff is actually pretty good, especially with the epic set closer called “Closer”.

On a funnier note, Tegan told us why she is depressed when she thinks of Minneapolis. Apparently the first time they played here, the airline broke her guitar. To make matter worst, her girlfriend at the time changed her telephone number/broke up with Tegan. So now whenever she’s in Minneapolis, that’s all she thinks about.
As for Sara, she openly just flat-out flirted with the Minneapolis crowd, calling them extremely attractive.

Both of them were extremely grateful for their fans (many of them have been following the band throughout North America) and how all of their shows having been selling out across the country.

As for the encore, there was a great medley of old favorites. The reason for this, as they told us on stage, was that spanning over seven albums; they have a lot of music and can’t possibly do every request.

The second song on the encore was “Feel It in My Bones”, which you may remember was their collaboration with Tiësto.

Tegan & Sara are currently on tour in support of Heartthrobs.