Kaleo Setlist

Bloodline
Break My Baby
Broken Bones
I Can’t Go On Without You
All the Pretty Girls
Automobile
Hey Gringo
Hot Blood
Lonely Cowboy
Run No More
USA Today
Skinny
Way Down We Go
No Good

— Encore —
Back Door
Rock ‘n’ Roller

Stephen Day Setlist

Moonshine
Hey Lady
Kinda Cowgirl
On Top of the World
All This Space
Gold Mine
Sweet Ice Tea
Dancing in the Street

On the last stop of their American tour, Icelandic rockers KALEO were in Minneapolis at The Fillmore on an exceedingly warm autumn day.

Starting things off was Júníus Meyvant. Meyvant (real name: Unnar Gísli Sigurmundsson), is a singer & songwriter out of Iceland. His most recent album is 2022’s Guru. This was a country/blues rock style with Meyvant, appearing on stage with a guitarist that, from the crowd reaction and later confirmed by Meyvant, was the headliner’s guitarist Rubin Pollack. Sporting two versions of country attire, with Meyvant in full western style suit and cowboy hat, and Pollack in trucker gear with coveralls, they made a visually striking pair. The two guitars played well off each other and was overlaid Meyvant’s lower tenor singing and occasional whistling.

A wry sense of humor helped, with his first words being “I have a few songs to play…350 of them. It will take two days and it will be torture”. Mostly though, this was a very pleasant set with Meyvant’s singing quietly entrancing (sort of a country rock version of singer Jack Johnson?) and the guitars always supporting and building around that sound. Finishing up a very brief twenty minute set by teaching the crowd to sing back some lyrics, Júníus Meyvant had charmed the audience and after a slight guitar flourish headed off stage.

Up next was Stephen Day, a Nashville-based singer & songwriter. He has a brand new EP, Gold Mine, that came out earlier this September. The quartet (vocals/guitar, keyboards, bass, and drums) continued the evening, but was a more upbeat R&B rock and roll. With Day in a salmon colored suit and the rest of the band in workman’s jumpsuit, the resulting classic rock sound of Hey Lady was a cool breeze of a sound. The funkier keys on Kinda Cowgirl was pretty hilarious given the lyrics, and Day had the audience singing “making my dreams come true”.

A nice patter from Day showed his comfort and helped keep the audience bouncing along to some very radio friendly sounding numbers. There was a smooth ease to Day’s vocals, even as he did some relatively complicated runs, and I appreciated the artistry in making it seem simple. All This Space got the sing along (of the title words) and Day and the band had the loudest and fastest tempo song of the set, with another funky keys riding underneath. The flashing lights may have been a bit much, but there was a certain pastiche to a certain type of 70’s rock song. Playing the title track to their recent album had Day laughing in delight on the opening guitar intro. Stephen Day ended on Dancing in the Street, with the heaviest guitar song and letting him close strong.

Last up was KALEO. The blues-style indie band has four studio albums, and while they may be best know for the platinum selling A/B from 2016, they just released their newest Mixed Emotions earlier in May 2025. Blues rock was a very apt descriptor, and Kaleo came out with Bloodline off the new album. The quintet (vocals/guitar, guitar, bass/keyboards, steel guitar/harmonica/mandolin/whatever was needed, and drums) had that dark blues tinge to the guitar work. Broken Bones let singer Jökull Júlíusson go deep in the well of the blues vocal style, with a gravelly edge. I Can’t Go On Without You was nearly explosive, and the steel guitar gave an extra layer in the loud instrumental near the quieter end, finishing on a haunting whistle.

Side note: Was I amused to hear an Icelandic band sing about “going all the way down to Mexico”? Dear reader, you know it.

It was all cheers for the intro of the more country style All the Pretty Girls, with Júlíusson in full falsetto, with the lyric “life is anything but fair” ringing loud. Hot Blood had a thrashing guitar entrance from Pollack and heavy drums, with some excellent bass as well. With extended solos and a more epic feel and a long jam as Júlíusson left the stage, it was a great example of KALEO’s style and their musicianship had the crowd going strong. KALEO had a bit of a slower moment, but started to build back up across the song Run No More. The band’s mammoth hit Way Down We Go had Júlíusson getting the crowd to sing along and marked that the end was getting close. No Good had some gargantuan guitars and finished the main set, but it was clear that an encore was on tap. Back on stage, the band played a couple more, ending on an early career number, the appropriately named Rock ‘n’ Roller. With that, KALEO wrapped up their American tour in grand style, leaving the Fillmore audience cheering.