Young the Giant Setlist
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Surly Brewing opened their Festival Field Concert series with Young the Giant and it was a perfect summer night to be in an open field dancing to their music.
Talk aka Nicholas Durocher started off the evening. He has had quite the meteoritic ascent considering at the time of the pandemic he was an unemployed bassist living in his parents’ basement in Ottawa Canada.
Isolated and depressed he wrote a song about his circumstance after watching the movie Interstellar. He posted “Run Away to Mars” on YouTube and ten million views and two years later he is performing in front of thousands on this tour.
There was no stage fright for this rookie. Instead, Durocher was joking throughout the set with the crowd and kicking his sandals into the crowd only to ask for them back. Even during his songs he kept on chatting with the crowd, which may explain his stage name, as he told the CBC in a January 23 interview: “So I never shut up… I’ve always had something to say.”
Milky Chance next took the stage. From Berlin, Germany, they are a duo of Clemens Rehbein on vocals and guitar and Philipp Dausch on bass and vocals. They were joined on stage by Antonio Greger on guitar, keyboards and a little harmonica, and Sebastian Schmidt on drums.
Rehbein and Daush were part of a jazz quintet in school and decided to stick together after the Flown Tones folded. Like Durocher they also posted their music on YouTube and have gathered quite a following over the past decade since the debut of Sadnecessary in 2013.
Milky Chance just released Living in a Haze in June and played a few songs from the new album like “Synchronize” “Colorado” and “Living in a Haze.”
Before playing a groovy cover of “Tainted Love” Rehbein bragged about Berlin being the place to party: “Way more than any place in the United States,” which is true for the discotheques in Berlin never close and the bartenders in Minneapolis shoo you out the door at 11:30 so the staff can go home.
Clemens told Vice Magazine in October of 2014 that the duo doesn’t much write songs in German because it’s a “… very rough-sounding language.” But he and Rehbein seemed to slip in and out of their native tongue throughout the evening, keeping the dance beat moving to the delight of the crowd.
Young the Giant kept up with the dance mood, opening the evening with the stirring “American Bollywood” from their latest album with the same name.
Formed in 2004 in Irvine, CA, the band is comprised of Sameer Gadhia on lead vocals, Jacob Tilley on guitar, Eric Cannata on guitar, Payam Doostzadeh on bass and Francois Comtois on drums. They are a well-honed group and they put on a dazzling show with their songs, light show and Gadhia’s Technicolor dream coat.
Gadhia mentioned that it had been four years since they had last played Minneapolis. We caught the concert at the Palace in February of 2019 and John observed that Young the Giant “… has become an increasingly seasoned live band and lyrically, is one of those rare acts that can look both inward and outward with compelling effectiveness.”
It is definitely a band to see live in a sea of eager fans, playing songs from their new album like “Dollar Store” and “Cult of Personality,” as well as songs that first got them on the musical map like “Cough Syrup.”
And by the time they finished their five-song encore with “My Body”, Surly Brewing Festival Field began to resemble waves of flowing electric grain as the crowd jumped up and down to the beat.
Remaining tour dates:06/30 - Oklahoma City, OK - Zoo Amphitheatre
07/01 - Kansas City, MO - Starlight
07/13 - Atlanta, GA - Cadence Bank Amphitheatre
07/14 - Nashville, TN - Ascend Amphitheater
07/15 - Charlotte, NC - Charlotte Metro
07/16 - Raleigh, NC - Red Hat Amphitheatre
07/18 - Richmond, VA - Brown's Island
07/20 - St. Augustine, FL - St. Augustine
07/21 - Tampa, FL - Yuengling Center
07/22 - Miami, FL - FPL Solar Amphitheatre
07/25 - Birmingham, AL - Avondale Brewing
07/27 - Houston, TX - 713 Music Hall
07/28 - Austin, TX - Germania Insurance
07/29 - Dallas, TX – The Pavilion
08/01 - Albuquerque, NM - Revel
08/03 - Salt Lake City, UT – The Great SaltAir
08/04 - Flagstaff, AZ - Pepsi Amphitheater
08/05 - Phoenix, AZ - Arizona Financial Theatre
08/08 - Spokane, WA - Northern Quest
08/10 - Vancouver, BC - Doug Mitchell
08/11 - Seattle, WA – Marymoor Live
08/12 - Portland, OR - McMenamins Edgefield
08/14 - Boise, ID - Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater
08/15 - Bend, OR - Hayden Homes Amphitheater
08/17 - San Francisco, CA - The Greek Theatre at Berkeley
08/18 - Santa Barbara, CA - Santa Barbara Bowl
08/19 - Irvine, CA - FivePoint Amphitheatre
08/20 - San Diego, CA - Cal Coast Credit Union
08/30 - Denver, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre
08/31 - Dillon, CO - Dillon Amphitheater
09/02 – Las Vegas, NV – Downtown Rocks on Freemont Street
01/30/2024 - 02/04/2024 Miami, FL - The Rock Boat XXIII
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Young the Giant at Surly Brewing Festival Field (27 June 2023) |
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