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Glass Animals Setlist
binki Setlist
Glass Animals Tour Dates
09/24/21 Columbus, OH EXPRESS LIVE!
09/25/21 Dover, DE Firefly Music Festival 09/27/21 Richmond, VA Virginia Credit Union LIVE! 09/28/21 Philadelphia, PA Skyline Stage 09/29/21 Boston, MA Leader Bank Pavilion 10/01/21 Cleveland, OH Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica 10/02/21 Detroit, MI Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre 10/27/21 Santa Barbara, CA Santa Barbara Bowl 10/28/21 Santa Barbara, CA Santa Barbara Bowl 10/29/21 San Francisco, CA Outside Lands Festival 03/04/22 Phoenix, AZ Arizona Federal Theatre 03/08/22 Portland, OR Keller Auditorium 03/09/22 Portland, OR Keller Auditorium 03/10/22 Vancouver, BC Doug Mitchell Thunderbird 03/11/22 Seattle, WA WaMu Theater 03/13/22 Salt Lake City, UT The Union 03/14/22 Denver, CO The Mission Ballroom 03/16/22 Madison, WI The Sylvee 03/17/22 Minneapolis, MN The Armory 03/18/22 Chicago, IL University of Illinois 03/20/22 Milwaukee, WI Miller High Life Theater 03/21/22 Indianapolis, IN Old National Centre 03/22/22 Louisville, KY The Louisville Palace Theater 03/23/22 Saint Louis, MO The Factory 03/28/22 Asheville, NC Thomas Wolfe Auditorium 03/29/22 Washington, DC The Anthem 04/01/22 Toronto, ON History 04/02/22 Toronto, ON History 04/03/22 Montreal, QC MTELUS 04/04/22 Montreal, QC MTELUS 06/14/22 Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheater 06/15/22 Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheater binki Tour Dates
09/24/21 Express Live! Columbus, OH
10/13/21 Paradise Rock Club Boston, MA
10/23/21 Saint Andrews Hall Detroit, MI
11/09/21 Constellation Room Santa Ana, CA
11/11/21 Great American Music Hall San Francisco, CA
03/04/22 Arizona Federal Theatre Phoenix, AZ
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"I think this is the best show we've ever had"-- Glass Animals singer Dave Bayley.
Often, the best nights to see a show at an outdoor amphitheater are later in the season – the air is cool and crisp, less of a rain chance, and none of the oppressive summer heat and humidity. On such a night with a chill in the air, Glass Animals decided to host a pool party for some 18,000 of their area friends.
With a set looking like a hotel pool deck, complete with pastel colors, neon lights, a diving board, palm trees, and basketball goal, with a backdrop that was fashioned after a late ‘80s computer terminal screen (with accompanying 8-bit graphics), the band played to its largest area crowd to date on their Dreamland Tour (which continues for almost another year).
Kansas City loves the band, and the feeling is very mutual as this was one of the first U.S. metro markets to embrace their music. W♥M thinks quite fondly of them as well, beginning by getting a direct recommendation from none other than legendary UK DJ Steve Lamacqat SXSW in early 2014, we then caught them later that fall, at a much bigger venue in 2016, at another sold-out show in 2017, and most recently, at a blink-and-it’s-sold-out small club show in early 2020 in advance of the new record,shortly before the global pandemic lockdown.
To start the evening at Azura Amphitheater in the KC suburb of Bonner Springs, binki (real name Baraka Ongeri) warmed up the audience with a half-hour genre-merging set of hip-hop, bedroom indie-rock, and dancehall, in support of his just released first EP, Motor Function (on the FADER label).
His own background began first on the theater stage, with the Pennsylvania-born musician thinking initially of an acting career, until choice beats, grooves, and verse combined during his college days at the University of North Carolina,to have him consider something different. The result is a musical stew, in the vein of Brockhampton or the UK’s King Kruleand whose live opening song, “Revolve” had purposely glitchy vocals and followed by “Clay Pigeon” that he has said was inspired both by Confucius and David Bowie.
On stage (this night dressed in a Dr. Seuss t-shirt and dollar store black cape), binki was refreshingly not afraid to have fun, or take himself too seriously, like while starting to introduce his band (that wasn’t there- he played to all backing tracks) and during closing single, “Heybb!”, he did the magic trick of having an “endless rainbow scarf” come out of his mouth, pretending to stumble about as he sang the song’s chorus, “I’m stressed, you got me feelin’ nauseous”.
During the between-acts break, the video backdrop screen graphics showed a dial-up connection trying to (slowly) download a folder, as a novel means of keeping time for the crowd, until the main show would start. The lights went down as a pixelated“Dreamland Tour” logo appeared on-screen and Glass Animals started playing the album’s title track, with the audience collectively yelping and shrieking in delight.
The near ninety-minute set managed to work in seventeen songs, most culled from latest album Dreamland (on Wolf Tone/Polydor/Republic), released over a year ago, but still very fresh thanks to all the radio airplay the band has continued to receive. The Oxford UK quartet remains the same four since the band’s inception, childhood friends Dave Bayley– vocals/guitar; Drew MacFarlane– guitar/keys; Ed Irwin-Singer– bass/keys; and Joe Seaward– drums.
“Oh my god, Wow! It’s good to be home, guys!” the constantly-in-motion Bayley remarked as the set started, visibly impressed with the size of the sold-out crowd. “Life Itself” throbbed with ground-shaking bass from the many subwoofers up front in the pit area, and the crowd sang the chorus back at the band with glee.
“We have missed you guys!” Bayley said, prefacing “Tangerine” and the crowd was happy to oblige, their pent-up excitement no longer held back from a year-and-a-half of pandemic restrictions and the fact that most missed the band’s March 2020 club appearance, but this was a venue with forty-five times more people than that last intimate appearance in the area. “So many heads out there” Bayley said, continuing to be thrilled by the turnout, “this is crazy!”
As Bayley sang “say the reason why I can calm you” from 2014’s “Hazey”, the throng was anything but calm as they jumped and sang along, retro game graphics would dot the screen during “Space Ghost Coast to Coast”, and it was heartwarming to see band members’ old family home movies as “Your Love (Déjà Vu)” was played.
The savvy and loyal audience was even aware of the band’s brand-new single, “I Don't Wanna Talk (I Just Wanna Dance)” added as a bonus track to Dreamland and grounded by a smooth Irwin-Singer bass line,singing along and heeding Bayley’s plea to just let go and release, to fully take in the moment.
The “peanut butter vibes” of 2014’s “Gooey” segued into 2016’s “Youth”, culminating in the set-ending “Pork Soda” and one lucky fan up front getting the highly sought-after whole pineapple that rested on stage right for most of the show, as the crowd chanted“pineapples are in my head” and Bayley remarking, “I love you guys, this city is special, man!”
The two-song encore began with the song they opened with in March 2020, “Tokyo Drifting”, the first of five singles released prior to the newest album itself and their best was saved for last as “Heat Waves” would close out the evening. It’s the band’s biggest single to date (topped the Billboard Alternative chart) and is an irresistible pop earworm that remains in heavy local airplay, over a year after its release.
With the crowd still roaring, Bayley blushed, “These shows have been amazing, this is like the icing on this cake” as the rest of the band met him up front to take a final bow, then all waved goodbye as the computer screen background “shut down” to signal the show’strue end.
The Dreamland Tour continues for Glass Animals, but by playing to sold-out crowds of even bigger audiences than ever and hosting their own kind of live nightly“pool party”, it’s clear they’re living out their own best dreams.
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Glass Animals at Azura Amphitheater, Bonner Springs, KS (2021-09-22) |
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