Chelsea Wolfe at The Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis (09/22/13)
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Tour Dates
09/25/13 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge
09/26/13 Caldwell, ID The Venue 09/27/13 Seattle, WA Barboza 09/28/13 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge 09/30/13 San Francisco, CA Great American 10/12/13 Prague, Czech Republic Matrix 10/13/13 Linz, Austria Posthof 10/14/13 Bologna, Italy Locomotiv Club 10/15/13 Zurich, Switzerland Rote Fabrik 10/16/13 Fribourg, Switzerland Fri-Son 10/18/13 Barcelona, Spain La [2] de Apolo 10/19/13 Madrid, Spain Shoko 10/21/13 Bilbao, Spain Kafe Antzokia 10/23/13 Paris, France Le Divan du Monde 10/24/13 Brighton, UK The Haunt 10/25/13 Manchester, UK Gorilla 10/26/13 Glasgow, UK SWG3 10/27/13 Dublin, Ireland Button Factory 10/29/13 London, UK Electric Ballroom 10/30/13 Ghent, Belgium Vooruit 10/31/13 Karlsruhe, Germany Jubez 11/01/13 Utrecht, Netherlands Tivoli De Helling 11/02/13 Cologne, Germany Bürgerhaus Stollwerck 11/03/13 Hamburg, Germany Logo 11/06/13 Helsinki, Finland Tavastia – Klubi 11/07/13 Oslo, Norway BLA 11/08/13 Goteborg, Sweden Truckstop Alaska 11/09/13 Copenhagen, Denmark KB 18 11/10/13 Berlin, Germany Columbiaclub 11/16/13 Los Angeles, CA Royce Hall Auditorium
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Chelsea Wolfe, in all her glory and doom, performed at The Cedar Cultural Center on Monday September 22. She is touring in support of her very recently released album Pain is Beauty, her fourth official release. This was my third time seeing her live and it was definitely her best show yet, between the well-crafted stage setup and lighting, carefully thought out setlist (and consequent execution of) and Wolfe’s stage presence.
In keeping with suspense and all things intense, her show started out with a fog machine piping smoke onto an empty stage, all while orchestral music played awaiting her arrival. Her backing band took the sparsely set-up stage and added little bits of musical flair on top of the orchestral music. Chelsea Wolfe eventually emerged, clad in a white flowing cape, and began with the first track off Pain is Beauty, titled “Feral Love”. With its creepy and foreboding tone, it was the perfect beginning to a magnificent evening. Drums built up slowly to eventually start the next song, also consequently the second track off Pain is Beauty, “We Hit a Wall”. Chelsea picked up her guitar for the first time of the night and began straight away with the repetitive but alluring guitar lick accompanying the melancholy song throughout. The song maintained its intensity and started off the track “Mer” right, with Wolfe gracefully playing guitar while singing. The keyboardist certainly added quite a bit of depth to the song with his parts, as well.
Some of my other favorites from the night included “Tracks/Tall Bodies” (from 2011’s Apokalypsis), “House of Metal”, “Demons” and “Sick”. Wolfe maintained the audience’s attention for the duration of the night and even carried a zen-like stage presence, despite the melancholy every one of her songs seem to ooze. Other than a “thank you” here or there in between songs, Wolfe didn’t bother with talking too much, as she knew what the show goers were there for. She did thank everyone for supporting her new album Pain is Beauty and played a set mostly comprised of songs from the album.
She played two from Apokalypsis, “Demons” and “Pale on Pale”, before her backing band left the stage after a raucous ending to the latter, and left Wolfe on stage along to perform an acoustic track. The ending track to Pain is Beauty, “Lone” was performed to complete silence from the crowd. Everyone was seemingly spellbound by the beauty of the song and her angelic voice; a perfect contrast to the heavier sounds of the evening. At the song’s end, she left the stage and ended her set. However, with prodding from the crowd for just a little bit more, the entire band came back on stage and ended with a cover song, British punk band Rudimentary Peni’s “Echo”. Sounding nothing like the original, yet marking it with her familiar doom-y brand of style, it was a great ending to the evening.
Catch Chelsea Wolfe on the rest of her tour on the west coast of the United States and then Europe this fall.
In keeping with suspense and all things intense, her show started out with a fog machine piping smoke onto an empty stage, all while orchestral music played awaiting her arrival. Her backing band took the sparsely set-up stage and added little bits of musical flair on top of the orchestral music. Chelsea Wolfe eventually emerged, clad in a white flowing cape, and began with the first track off Pain is Beauty, titled “Feral Love”. With its creepy and foreboding tone, it was the perfect beginning to a magnificent evening. Drums built up slowly to eventually start the next song, also consequently the second track off Pain is Beauty, “We Hit a Wall”. Chelsea picked up her guitar for the first time of the night and began straight away with the repetitive but alluring guitar lick accompanying the melancholy song throughout. The song maintained its intensity and started off the track “Mer” right, with Wolfe gracefully playing guitar while singing. The keyboardist certainly added quite a bit of depth to the song with his parts, as well.
Some of my other favorites from the night included “Tracks/Tall Bodies” (from 2011’s Apokalypsis), “House of Metal”, “Demons” and “Sick”. Wolfe maintained the audience’s attention for the duration of the night and even carried a zen-like stage presence, despite the melancholy every one of her songs seem to ooze. Other than a “thank you” here or there in between songs, Wolfe didn’t bother with talking too much, as she knew what the show goers were there for. She did thank everyone for supporting her new album Pain is Beauty and played a set mostly comprised of songs from the album.
She played two from Apokalypsis, “Demons” and “Pale on Pale”, before her backing band left the stage after a raucous ending to the latter, and left Wolfe on stage along to perform an acoustic track. The ending track to Pain is Beauty, “Lone” was performed to complete silence from the crowd. Everyone was seemingly spellbound by the beauty of the song and her angelic voice; a perfect contrast to the heavier sounds of the evening. At the song’s end, she left the stage and ended her set. However, with prodding from the crowd for just a little bit more, the entire band came back on stage and ended with a cover song, British punk band Rudimentary Peni’s “Echo”. Sounding nothing like the original, yet marking it with her familiar doom-y brand of style, it was a great ending to the evening.
Catch Chelsea Wolfe on the rest of her tour on the west coast of the United States and then Europe this fall.
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Chelsea Wolfe at the Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis (09/22/13) |