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Griswolds Setlist
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 Read More
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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.
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.
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.
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’.
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.
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.
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Urban Cone
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‘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.
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The Griswolds: Christopher Whitehall-Ray
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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.
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The Crowd
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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’.
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Setlist
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“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.
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The Griswolds at 7th St Entry, Minneapolis (26 June 2015) |
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