Griswolds Setlist

Right On Track
16 Years
The Courtship of Summer Preasley
If You Wanna Stay
Aurora Borealis
Be Impressive
Riptide (Vance Joy cover)
Live This Nightmare
Mississippi
Red Tuxedo
America
Beware the Dog
— Encore —
Down and Out
Heart of a Lion

Tour Dates

08/21/15 Melbourne, Australia Forum Melbourne

08/23/15 Newtown, Australia Enmore Theatre

08/25/15 Brisbane, Australia The Tivoli

10/14/15 Vancouver, BC The Vogue Theatre

10/17/15 Los Angeles, CA Club Nokia

10/18/15 Ventura, CA Majestic Ventura Theater

10/20/15 San Diego, CA House Of Blues

10/21/15 Tucson, AZ Rialto Theatre

10/23/15 Salt Lake City, UT The Complex

10/26/15 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue

11/03/15 Houston, TX House Of Blues

11/04/15 New Orleans, LA House Of Blues

11/06/15 Jacksonville, FL Freebird Live

11/07/15 Lake Buena Vista, FL House Of Blues

11/08/15 Raleigh, NC The Ritz

11/09/15 Charlotte, NC Fillmore Charlotte

11/11/15 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall

11/12/15 Nashville, TN Cannery Ballroom

11/13/15 Cincinnati, OH Bogart’s

11/14/15 Cleveland, OH House Of Blues

11/15/15 Toronto, ON The Danforth Music Hall

11/17/15 Washington, DC Echostage

11/18/15 New York, NY Terminal 5

11/19/15 Providence, RI Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel

11/21/15 Clifton Park, NY Upstate Concert Hall

11/22/15 Portland, ME State Theatre

11/24/15 Sayreville, NJ Starland Ballroom

11/25/15 Huntington, NY The Paramount

11/27/15 Buffalo, NY Town Ballroom

11/28/15 Philadelphia, PA Fillmore

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Be Impressive–

A simple motto that is not only a cheerleader chant, and the name of Aussie band The Griswolds’ latest album (on Wind-Up Records), but likely also a credo to their live performance and impressing fans across the globe, many of which are just discovering them.

Urban Cone

Another import band, Stockholm’s Urban Cone opened up the evening with a bouncy and infectious blend of electro-pop that immediately had the sold-out crowd on their side. The Swedish quintet recently put out their second full-length, Polaroid Memories (Astralwerks Records) that features fellow Swede Tove Lo on one of the singles.

‘Sadness Disease’, a single in Europe, was a perfect example of their sound- high energy, memorable choruses, jangly guitars, an ‘80s nod with the keyboard sounds, and thumping percussion. ‘Rocketman’, ‘We are Skeleltons’, ‘Treasure’, ‘Weekends’, and ‘Robot Love’ all had people singing and clapping along, before they finished with the aforementioned Tove Lo collaboration, ‘Come Back to Me’- Urban Cone is a fun band (with a strange name) to definitely keep on your music radar.

The Griswolds: Christopher Whitehall-Ray

With a hard act to follow, Sydney’s The Griswolds had no choice but to be impressive, and came out storming to the intro music of fellow Aussies AC/DC’s ‘Thunderstruck’ and established themselves quickly with the sweeping, ‘Right on Track’.

The quartet (Tim John; Daniel Duque-Perez; Lachlan West; Christopher Whitehall-Ray) were clearly having fun during their hour-long set, with singer Whitehall often standing high on the speaker stacks, briefly crowdsurfing, and prodding the crowd to join in on the fun, which the mostly under-21 and female audience, was more than willing to do. Whitehall looking like a blend of a Hemsworth brother and Michael Hutchence probably didn’t hurt either.

The Crowd

More than pleased to have sold out their first area headlining show, girls shrieked as the band started playing its latest single, ‘If You Wanna Stay’, whose chorus was chanted back, along with the new album’s title track which followed.

An inside band joke was claiming that it was drummer West’s birthday (something they call out almost every night), which still got the crowd to sing birthday greetings to him. “When we heard this song, we fell in love with it”, Whitehall mentioned, going into a sped-up and more percussive version of Vance Joy’s ’Riptide’.

Setlist

Both bands noted the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage that was handed down earlier in the day, with The Griswolds being especially happy about it and dedicating ‘America’ as a result. ‘Beware the Dog’ with its “Crazy, crazy crazy” chorus served to get everyone wound up to bring the band back for a two-song encore- the new ‘Down and Out’ and ‘Heart of the Lion’, from their 2013 EP.

“This has been one of our favourite experiences of the whole tour”, Whitehall mentioned near the end of the show as they achieved their goal- to be impressive.