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Thanks to an El Niño weather season, there hasn’t yet been much Snow, but the musicals acts playing made for more than enough Show, at the first night of the inaugural Go 96.3 Snow Show, held at Northrop Auditorium.
The holiday show attempts to become a year-end tradition, in the same spirit as other eclectic-act year-end concerts in other major markets, and the local alternative rock FM station is well on its way to having the Snow Show do just that, having already introduced the GO Fest this summer at Target Field, and a series of exclusive Go Shows, held at smaller venues.
Here’s a rundown of the acts that played the first night of the two-night show:
MELANIE MARTINEZ
The relative newcomer that most know from NBC’s The Voice, opened the evening with a 25 min. five-song set culled from her debut, Cry Baby (Atlantic Records).
Wearing socks, a frilly pink Casper the Friendly Ghost sweater, and sporting dual colored hair, Martinez charmed the crowd (some of whom were still finding their seats) with seemingly spry and child-like but really sadder, undertoned songs like the title track and ‘Mrs. Potato Head’ which shines the light on beauty pressures with little girls that “pucker up their lips until they suffocate”. ‘Soap’ can be heard on the radio currently and she is everywhere next year, including a March return locally to Myth in Maplewood.
THE WOMBATS
We’re unabashed fans of the Liverpudlian trio (Matthew Murphy, Dan Haggis, and Tord Øverland Knudsen) having discovered them with early single ‘Lost in the Post’ and covering them just about every time they’ve come to town. Latest album Glitterbug (Bright Antenna Records) came out in the Spring and features their trademark poppy songs while gaining them further momentum and mass appeal.
Their abbreviated 40 min. set was still fun, having to convert a seated crowd that mostly hadn’t heard of them (fitting then to start with ‘Give Me a Try’) and singer Murph did so with kind words, as bassist Knudsen (wearing a local Electric Fetus t-shirt) used the large stage to catapult manically from end to end.
Murph successfully got the crowd all standing for ‘Techno Fan' and the new album’s ‘Greek Tragedy’ was more than familiar to regular listeners of the sponsoring station. The bouncing ‘Let's Dance to Joy Division’ ended their short set, getting even the oldest and jaded in the crowd, moving.
METRIC
The Canadian four-piece (Emily Haines, James Shaw, Josh Winstead, and Joules Scott-Key) is out in promotion of their sixth full-length Pagans in Vegas (Metric Music Intl) and started their 55 min.with a dimly lit stage, odd spoken word introduction, and new song, ‘Lie Lie Lie’.
Singer Haines made an immediate impression, dressed mostly in black, wearing shorts, a floppy hat, and a showgirl jeweled peacock feather set of wings that made her also appear Christmas Tree-like. Longtime fans may have been disappointed that songs were mostly from the last three albums, but given the nature of the show, they wisely played to the strength of the more recent material.
Their set was well put together and paced, with Haines dancing at one point with a flowing yellow scarf held aloft by twin floor fans, as she moved between vocals, keys, and even guitar. A spacey and affirming spoken word intro led into ‘Synthetica’ and new album lead single, ’The Shade’ sounded more urgent played live.
Highlight was undoubtedly the closing and extended ‘Breathing Underwater’ lasting some eight minutes that started as an anthem and ended stripped to its essence, acoustic with the crowd clapping and singing back the chorus.
SILVERSUN PICKUPS
The Los Angeles foursome (Brian Aubert, Nikki Monninger, Christopher Guanlao and Joe Lester) has been around since 2002, but is just starting this chapter of the band with their fourth full-length, September’s Better Nature (New Machine Recordings). The new material is slightly more synth based with less guitar, though the mix of new and old songs seemed to please the crowd, most of whom were there for the headliner.
The stage had been cleared out, leaving a sparse area for the band to take their places (as they seem to prefer) opening their 65 min. set with (sort-of) title track, ‘Cradle (Better Nature)’. Roughly half the set was new album material, though they did dial it back several times, including two songs from their 2006 debut.
New album single, ‘Nightlight’ added more punch live than on record, with singer Aubert avoiding so-called “rock talk” but admitted his enthusiasm in “making records just to play places like this” and promising to keep the secret of how great the area is, to live in. ‘Circadian Rhythm (Last Dance)’ featured bassist Monninger (in a sparkly dress), who we missed at the band’s Rock the Garden appearance a few years ago, when she was off having twin girls
Drummer Guanlao got jibed about his NBA allegiance to the Lakers, though peace was made when it was reminded that the team was originally the Minneapolis Lakers. ‘Panic Switch’ got rave applause, while ‘Ragamuffin’ started with an Edge-like infinite guitar intro in front of a brooding bassline.
Aubert echoed his whisperings of “spoilers” earlier in the set by leaking a key Game of Thrones fact for anyone that hadn’t seen it, before launching into the set and show-closing ‘Lazy Eye’, looking rambunctious and unapologetic with the band waving and leaving the stage to a standing ovation.
Operationally, the venue’s sound was impeccable, the result of a recent total building refurb and the radio staff came out between acts, to introduce bands and rave up the crowd.
Initial set times slowly fell by the wayside, with the Pickups taking the stage at 10:23 instead of their 9:40 posted start, but no one seemed to mind (unless you had to be at work extra early the day).
So, with little Snow outside, but plenty Show inside, consider the inaugural Go96.3 Snow Show a success with the hope that this becomes a bigger and better holiday tradition, for years ahead.
All photos below are by Jayme Halbritter.
The holiday show attempts to become a year-end tradition, in the same spirit as other eclectic-act year-end concerts in other major markets, and the local alternative rock FM station is well on its way to having the Snow Show do just that, having already introduced the GO Fest this summer at Target Field, and a series of exclusive Go Shows, held at smaller venues.
Here’s a rundown of the acts that played the first night of the two-night show:
MELANIE MARTINEZ
The relative newcomer that most know from NBC’s The Voice, opened the evening with a 25 min. five-song set culled from her debut, Cry Baby (Atlantic Records).
Wearing socks, a frilly pink Casper the Friendly Ghost sweater, and sporting dual colored hair, Martinez charmed the crowd (some of whom were still finding their seats) with seemingly spry and child-like but really sadder, undertoned songs like the title track and ‘Mrs. Potato Head’ which shines the light on beauty pressures with little girls that “pucker up their lips until they suffocate”. ‘Soap’ can be heard on the radio currently and she is everywhere next year, including a March return locally to Myth in Maplewood.
THE WOMBATS
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Their abbreviated 40 min. set was still fun, having to convert a seated crowd that mostly hadn’t heard of them (fitting then to start with ‘Give Me a Try’) and singer Murph did so with kind words, as bassist Knudsen (wearing a local Electric Fetus t-shirt) used the large stage to catapult manically from end to end.
Murph successfully got the crowd all standing for ‘Techno Fan' and the new album’s ‘Greek Tragedy’ was more than familiar to regular listeners of the sponsoring station. The bouncing ‘Let's Dance to Joy Division’ ended their short set, getting even the oldest and jaded in the crowd, moving.
METRIC
The Canadian four-piece (Emily Haines, James Shaw, Josh Winstead, and Joules Scott-Key) is out in promotion of their sixth full-length Pagans in Vegas (Metric Music Intl) and started their 55 min.with a dimly lit stage, odd spoken word introduction, and new song, ‘Lie Lie Lie’.
Singer Haines made an immediate impression, dressed mostly in black, wearing shorts, a floppy hat, and a showgirl jeweled peacock feather set of wings that made her also appear Christmas Tree-like. Longtime fans may have been disappointed that songs were mostly from the last three albums, but given the nature of the show, they wisely played to the strength of the more recent material.
Their set was well put together and paced, with Haines dancing at one point with a flowing yellow scarf held aloft by twin floor fans, as she moved between vocals, keys, and even guitar. A spacey and affirming spoken word intro led into ‘Synthetica’ and new album lead single, ’The Shade’ sounded more urgent played live.
Highlight was undoubtedly the closing and extended ‘Breathing Underwater’ lasting some eight minutes that started as an anthem and ended stripped to its essence, acoustic with the crowd clapping and singing back the chorus.
SILVERSUN PICKUPS
The Los Angeles foursome (Brian Aubert, Nikki Monninger, Christopher Guanlao and Joe Lester) has been around since 2002, but is just starting this chapter of the band with their fourth full-length, September’s Better Nature (New Machine Recordings). The new material is slightly more synth based with less guitar, though the mix of new and old songs seemed to please the crowd, most of whom were there for the headliner.
The stage had been cleared out, leaving a sparse area for the band to take their places (as they seem to prefer) opening their 65 min. set with (sort-of) title track, ‘Cradle (Better Nature)’. Roughly half the set was new album material, though they did dial it back several times, including two songs from their 2006 debut.
New album single, ‘Nightlight’ added more punch live than on record, with singer Aubert avoiding so-called “rock talk” but admitted his enthusiasm in “making records just to play places like this” and promising to keep the secret of how great the area is, to live in. ‘Circadian Rhythm (Last Dance)’ featured bassist Monninger (in a sparkly dress), who we missed at the band’s Rock the Garden appearance a few years ago, when she was off having twin girls
Drummer Guanlao got jibed about his NBA allegiance to the Lakers, though peace was made when it was reminded that the team was originally the Minneapolis Lakers. ‘Panic Switch’ got rave applause, while ‘Ragamuffin’ started with an Edge-like infinite guitar intro in front of a brooding bassline.
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Operationally, the venue’s sound was impeccable, the result of a recent total building refurb and the radio staff came out between acts, to introduce bands and rave up the crowd.
Initial set times slowly fell by the wayside, with the Pickups taking the stage at 10:23 instead of their 9:40 posted start, but no one seemed to mind (unless you had to be at work extra early the day).
So, with little Snow outside, but plenty Show inside, consider the inaugural Go96.3 Snow Show a success with the hope that this becomes a bigger and better holiday tradition, for years ahead.
All photos below are by Jayme Halbritter.
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Silversun Pickups at Northrop Auditorium, Minneapolis (3 Nov 2015) photo courtesy of Jayme Halbritter, jaymehalbritter.com
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