|
poster
Setlist
04/04/15 Pageant St. Louis, MO
Read More04/06/15 Newport Music Hall Columbus, OH 04/07/15 Phoenix Concert Theatre Toronto, ON 04/09/15 House of Blues Boston, MA 04/10/15 State Theatre of Ithaca Ithaca, NY 04/11/15 Terminal 5 New York, NY 04/12/15 Rams Head Live Baltimore, MD 04/14/15 Buckhead Theatre Atlanta, GA 04/15/15 Beacham Theatre Orlando, FL 04/17/15 Warehouse Live Houston, TX 04/18/15 Granada Theater Dallas, TX 04/20/15 Aztec Threatre San Antonio, TX 04/21/15 Diamond Ballroom Oklahoma City, OK 04/22/15 Middle of the Map Kansas City, MO 04/24/15 Ogden Theatre Denver, CO 04/25/15 The Complex Salt Lake City, UT 04/26/15 Knitting Factory Boise, ID 04/28/15 Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas, NV 04/30/15 Rialto Theatre Tucson, AZ 05/01/15 House of Blues San Diego, CA 05/02/15 The Wiltern Los Angeles, CA
|
What a fun show! I've never seen so much confetti in my life! It is exactly what Chicago's OK Go promised us: "Fun, entertaining, electric and full of confetti."
Show opener White Arrow cancelled all their remaining tour dates last week, which was a little unexpected because I was really looking forward to seeing the band again. This caused OK Go to start their show earlier than normal.
The OK Go show on Thursday, April 2nd, was part of the 45th Anniversary of First Avenue, so there was definitely a testimonial moment from singer Damian Kulash who confessed that his first album that changed his life was Prince's Purple Rain and how proud and happy he was to be on the same stage that the film was shot on. He also noted that the first 7" that "ruined my life" was Herbie Hancock's "Rockit", which you can clearly hear its influence, note per note, on their "Fake It" video montage that was shown as part of their encore. I understand that music videos made the band famous, but I also wasn't exactly thrilled to watch about four videos (even if they were playing the music life behind the screen). I felt like I was there to see a live performance, not watching music videos... although the fans in the audience didn't mind it.
Some people might think the constant confetti was a distraction from the music, but I didn't mind it. It was a lot of fun for me, and OK Go knew exactly what they were doing with the confetti, timing it with high moments in their songs.
The OK Go "variety show" also featured three Question and Answer sessions, with the audience asking the band questions... sometime to really personal effect, like "Are you bisexual?" (answer: "Not that I know of.") or "When did you lose your virginity?" (answer: "When I had sex.") The Q&A served as a nice break in the regular "party", and adds a unique moment on the rest of their other shows.
One question about the craziest dream had guitarist Tim Nordwind tell the longest, craziest dream about how he was an artist living in Japan and got invited to a Sumo wrestling show... only to be a scheme about genetically enhanced ferret racing. But that's not even 35% of the story! There's lots more, but for the sake of brevity, I'm just going to move on.
For the "nerdiest part of the show", Damian asked the audience to make various sounds, so he can record them on his iPhone to play back and mix it into the next song. Four sounds were needed: foot stomp, clap, hi hat, and open hi hat. With that setup, they were able to mix those sound effects as a weird improv version of "There's a Fire".
The encore was the best part of the show, after the music video "Fake It" was shown, the band came on stage to lip-sync to "A Million Ways". This had the whole band doing a choreograph dance sequence. Lots of fun, and plenty of phones going up to snap some photos.
The song finale was their first viral hit, "Here It Goes Again", which they invited fans in the front to come on stage to dance... for a very satisfying ending.
OK Go's latest album is called Hungry Ghosts and it is out now on Paracadute via BMG.
Show opener White Arrow cancelled all their remaining tour dates last week, which was a little unexpected because I was really looking forward to seeing the band again. This caused OK Go to start their show earlier than normal.
The OK Go show on Thursday, April 2nd, was part of the 45th Anniversary of First Avenue, so there was definitely a testimonial moment from singer Damian Kulash who confessed that his first album that changed his life was Prince's Purple Rain and how proud and happy he was to be on the same stage that the film was shot on. He also noted that the first 7" that "ruined my life" was Herbie Hancock's "Rockit", which you can clearly hear its influence, note per note, on their "Fake It" video montage that was shown as part of their encore. I understand that music videos made the band famous, but I also wasn't exactly thrilled to watch about four videos (even if they were playing the music life behind the screen). I felt like I was there to see a live performance, not watching music videos... although the fans in the audience didn't mind it.
|
Confetti-rama
|
The OK Go "variety show" also featured three Question and Answer sessions, with the audience asking the band questions... sometime to really personal effect, like "Are you bisexual?" (answer: "Not that I know of.") or "When did you lose your virginity?" (answer: "When I had sex.") The Q&A served as a nice break in the regular "party", and adds a unique moment on the rest of their other shows.
One question about the craziest dream had guitarist Tim Nordwind tell the longest, craziest dream about how he was an artist living in Japan and got invited to a Sumo wrestling show... only to be a scheme about genetically enhanced ferret racing. But that's not even 35% of the story! There's lots more, but for the sake of brevity, I'm just going to move on.
|
OK Go's lengthy setlist
|
The encore was the best part of the show, after the music video "Fake It" was shown, the band came on stage to lip-sync to "A Million Ways". This had the whole band doing a choreograph dance sequence. Lots of fun, and plenty of phones going up to snap some photos.
The song finale was their first viral hit, "Here It Goes Again", which they invited fans in the front to come on stage to dance... for a very satisfying ending.
OK Go's latest album is called Hungry Ghosts and it is out now on Paracadute via BMG.
|
OK Go at First Avenue, Minneapolis (02 April 2015) |
