Mpls: Bright Eyes at First Avenue (Oct 3, 2026)
October 3
Bright Eyes at First Avenue (Oct 3, 2026)
October 3, 2026 Saturday
Bright Eyes
with Lullaby For The Working Class
at First Avenue
first-avenue.com
Bright Eyes
with Lullaby For The Working Class
at First Avenue
first-avenue.com
The lover I don’t want to love, Bright Eyes, is headlining First Avenue, in Minneapolis, on October 3, 2026.
The ticket limit is strict. Any attempt to exceed the posted ticket limit per customer or household, or to game the system in any way, will result in cancellation of orders without notice. There is a transfer delay for all tickets prior to the show.
Bright Eyes has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 per ticket goes to supporting the Poison Oak Project, and their work advancing equity for LGBTQ+ people, with a particular focus on supporting the trans community.
We saw Bright Eyes in Mar 2025 and said, “As lights went down again, the audience may have first thought it was at a related Desaparecidos show, from the pre-taped female Spanish-speaking intro voice, but all was reassured as Conor Oberst and Bright Eyes took to the stage for their hundred-minute set to the tune of Dick Van Dyke’s “Bye Bye Birdie”-era, “Put on a Happy Face” (before it screeched to a mid-verse halt).The new album is “Five Dice, All Threes” (released last September via Dead Oceans) and the voice-related issues Oberst had happen last fall, seem well in the rearview mirror, with the Omaha native now sounding his usual and vintage best vocally. Like the openers, the initial focus was on the newer material, with the band opening with “Bells and Whistles” from the recent record and working in “Bas Jan Ader,” about a Dutch performing artist and photographer who died in 1975 at age 33, by disappearing into the ocean.”
Lullaby For The Working Class to open.
If your band is coming to the Minneapolis/St Paul area, please email details to vu@weheartmusic.com with a good lead time. Thank you.