Freezepop Setlist
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Synthpop Freezepop just ended their mini-Midwest tour at the Nether Bar (at Mill City Nights) in Minneapolis last night, July 18th.
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Boston's Freezepop (Liz, Sean, Robert, and Marie) was a lot of fun. You can just tell right away when they were doing their soundchecks, playfully keying in the first few notes of Prince's "1999" (as you do when you are in his hometown), Van Halen's "Jump" and The Smurfs Theme Song.
Also, if there was one thing you can take away from their show last night, it was that they never forgot to thank their fans. Can you believe it's been fifteen years since their debut album Freezepop Forever originally came out?
I suspect when they were putting together their setlist, that they had so many requests for songs from their debut album, that they decided to put them all together in a block. It became a running joke, with Sean Drinkwater kept introducing those songs as "Let's go back in time from our first album Freezepop Forever..." or "This is all the way back from our first album Freezepop Forever..." or "We're going to do something from our first album..." This is good to hear, as some bands are sometime embarrassed and tend to not play any old songs (Metric, Camera Obscura to name a few bands that came to mind).
There was one early request from a Brian who asked them to play "Natural Causes", followed by a new song called "Phantoms", which required audience participation of singing back the word "phantoms".
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The rest of the show went on without any problems, even though their set changed from night to night and sometime had to play songs they haven't rehearsed in a while.
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I thought that was the end of the show, especially when Robert "Bananas" started taking a photo of the audience, fans were shouting requests like "Super Sprode" .... which lead them to do an impromptu version of the song (well.... only after Brian found the correct beats/backing tracks on his laptop of course). During the chorus, fans threw on underwear on stage!
That wasn't the end of it, they ended their entire show with the "Jem Theme" song, encouraging fans to sing along.
I got the feeling that the band have a close relationship to their fans, knowing their names and more than happy to play requests... and it's that kind of personal interaction that creates a strong and loyal fanbase.
Freezepop at the Nether Bar, Minneapolis (18 July 2015) |
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