Remember when Franz Ferdinand played Target Center? Unless you were one of the scant 1,000 or so people who showed up, you probably forgot about that one, and maybe so did the arena reps who agreed to book Foster the People there for next summer. The show is set for June 22, and tickets already go on sale this Friday through Ticketmaster for $35.
The similarities between FTP and FF are pretty obvious: a dancey rock band that came up through hipster outlets and crossed over to mainstream radio. The Target Center gig will be just over a year from the time the Los Angeles pop-rockers sold out the Fine Line right as their irrepressible hit "Pumped Up Kicks" was taking off. FTP's second single, "Helena Beat," hasn't been anywhere near as successful. Their buzz was also stifled a bit by the Grammy nominations two weeks ago, where Mark Foster & Co. only earned two nominations in lesser categories and were surprisingly overlooked for best new artist.
Foster the People already played Target Center once before, squeezing in a three-song set as the second act in the breezy KDWB Jingle Ball lineup on Dec. 4, just a couple hours before the band played a sold-out headlining set at First Ave. The June 22 show will be in the arena's "theater" configuration (halved-off with curtains).
