Foals Setlist

Prelude
Total Life Forever
Olympic Airways
Bad Habit
My Number
Milk & Black Spiders
Spanish Sahara
Red Socks Pugie
Late Night
Providence
Electric Bloom
— Encore —
Moon
Inhaler
Two Steps, Twice

Tour Dates

05/29 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom
05/30 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore
05/31 – Seattle, WA – Neptune
06/03 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot
06/04 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
06/05 – Lawrence, KS – Granada
06/07 – St. Louis, MO – Pageant
06/09 – Pittsburgh, PA – Mr. Smalls
06/11 – Baltimore, MD – Ram’s Head
06/12 – Asheville, NC – Orange Peel

all dates with Surfer Blood and Blondfire

“Are you ready? Because you don’t sound f****ing ready!,” yelled Foals’ singer Yannis Philippakis as he worked the crowd. Foals rocked hard at First Avenue in Minneapolis last night to a group of young British rock music fans.

Kicking off the show was Blondfire, a band that seemed a little out of place in this dance/rock crowd. As you know, we were also lucky enough to catch them at the sparsely-attended Nether Bar in October.

The band just released their Warner Bros. Records’ Where The Kids Are late last year, so they played a few songs off the EP, including “Waves” (which had singer Erica Driscoll put on a guitar to play the song) and the title track “Where The Kids Are” (which they closed out their brief set).

The most interesting song on their set was a cover of Fleetwood Mac’s most well-known song, “Dreams”. The song seemed lost on the mostly younger audience.

Next up was Surfer Blood, who started their set with a vengeful song, “Floating Vibes”. I was surprised to learn that the band has been to Minneapolis five times and that they were surprisingly very good.

Since I’ve never seen the Floridian band before, I can only guess that they’re taking a page from Foals and doing their best ‘rock’ thing: singer John Paul Pitts does that audience invasion-thing while guitarist Thomas Fekete is playing guitars with his mouth!

They ended their set with “Weird Shapes”, which is the lead single from their forthcoming Pythons album.

As for Foals, please refer to the setlist for the songs played. The band kept their high energy throughout the set with singer Yannis Philippakis going into the crowd (several times!) and standing on top of speakers.

Encores included “Moon”, “Inhaler”, and “Two Steps, Twice”. Two of which were taken from their new album Holy Fire , while ending with a fan-favorite “Two Steps, Twice” from their debut album Antidotes