You'd have to be a pretty stuck-up music snob to have not recognized the charm in Friday's sold-out fun. show at Myth, where many of the fans reacted like it was their first concert (probably true in a lot of cases). The band, in turn, acted like it was the biggest show on their tour (which it was, but sort of by default).
Unlike some other recent Top 40-centric pop/rock bands of late – yes, I'm talking to you, Maroon 5 -- singer Nate Ruess and his bandmates did not act like they're too cooler for their school-age fans, and they did not stray very far from their accessible and undeniably catchy brand of sleek, piano-plunked pop. They were pretty funny (fun.ny?), too. When Ruess pledged his love for Timberwolves star Ricky Rubio, guitarist Jack Antonoff asked, "Who's Rick Rubio?" Ruess corrected him by pronouncing the name with the Spanish-inflected R-rolls. And when Ruess and Antonoff tried to point out their fathers in the crowd but couldn't find them, Ruess joked (?) that they probably stepped out to smoke a joint. "How weird is it that my dad smokes weed and I don't?" the singer cracked.
Not weird at all in this case. Click here to read the full concert review. Here's the set list:
One Foot / Walking the Dog / Why Am I the One? / All Alone / All the Pretty Girls / Barlights / Carry On / The Gambler / At Least I'm Not as Sad as I Used to Be / We Are Young / You Can't Always Get What You Want (Rolling Stones cover) ENCORE 1: Some Nights / Take Your Time (Coming Home) ENCORE 2: All Right
