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Clean Bandit w/ Meg Mac at First Ave, Minneapolis (05 April 2015)

poster Clean Bandit Setlist Real Love Stronger Cologne Dust Clears Up Again A+E Come Over Extraordinary Heart On Fire Mozart's House Nightingale -- Encore -- Show Me Love (Robin S. cover) Rather Be Meg Mac Setlist Turning Before Trouble Known Better Grandma's Hands (Bill Withers cover) Bridges (Broods cover) Every Lie Roll Up Your Sleeves Tour Dates 04/07/15 Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre 04/09/15 Tempe, AZ @ The Marquee Theatre 04/10/15 Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl Read More Clean Bandit British electronic group Clean Bandit's song "Rather Be" won the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording. On the strength of the single and their debut album New Eyes, the group is currently .... Meg Mac Australia's most buzzworthy breakout artist of 2014, having won Triple J's Unearthed Artist of 2014, the 24 year-old singer-songwriter Meg Mac, will be opening the First Avenue show. This will mark her first US tour …

British electronic group Clean Bandit is currently in the US promoting their new album New Eyes, stopping by Minneapolis' First Avenue on Sunday, April 5th. The Live Nation event was broadcast live via Yahoo Music.

Meg Mac

On her last stop on the US tour with Clean Bandit was Melbourne's Meg Mac, complete with a full touring band. She's only met the session band since SXSW 2015 (about three weeks ago), but they were seasoned professional and had no trouble learning to play her songs for the US tour. As we have previously suspected, this was the young singer's first American tour, and her first time in Minneapolis.

Meg Mac's band

Mac's soulful pop and sometime bluesy songs went over well with the Clean Bandit's audience, and you can see why she won Triple J's Unearth Artist of 2014 and earned Rolling Stone Australia's "Best New Talent" award.

Many of her original songs seemed really personal to her. Like perhaps relationship issues with (Should've) "Known Better" and "Every Lie". Breaking up her set were two cover songs, Bill Withers' "Grandma's Hands" (which also appeared on her EP) and a Broods cover "Bridges" (we recently caught the New Zealand band earlier last month).

The rest of her brief 30-min set were songs from her self-titled EP, available now via 300 Entertainment/Littlebigman Records.

Grace Chatto

It's been a great month for Cambridge's Clean Bandit, who recently won the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording for their single "Rather Be". While we do not get Jess Glynne on live guest vocals, however the electronic group brought singer Elisabeth Troy for the US tour to sing most of their songs, leaving singer Grace Chatto room to step back behind the keyboard or cello, however she will occasional take over lead vocals when the song called for it.

Also in addition to Jack Patterson on bass & key, Luke Patterson on drums, and Neil Amin-Smith on violin, they also had two backup singers (not introduced).

Clearly the band was excited to be in Minneapolis, with singer Elisabeth Troy exclaiming, "I'm over the f**** moon! I'm a massive Prince fan!!!" Later on in their set, Troy questioned, "Why doesn't someone call Prince?"

As you can see from the setlist, or if you watched the live stream, the band sang all their hit songs, including 2010's "Mozart's House" and saving their chart-topper hit Grammy song "Rather Be" as the very last song.

Since it was Easter Sunday, Elisabeth Troy played out their two-song encore with pink bunny ears.

Clean Bandit's New Eyes album is out now on Warner / Atlantic.

Please note that this event was broadcasted live via Yahoo Music. It is still available to stream as of this writing.

Clean Bandit at First Avenue, Minneapolis (05 April 2015)

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Minneapolis: April 5 - April 7, 2015

Here are some shows taking place in Minneapolis/St Paul from April 5 to April 7, 2015.

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Read More Meg Mac I’m so glad I downloaded her free song of the week. I think I’ve found a new artist. She is so spunky and her voice is amazing. 5 stars! …

CLEAN BANDIT w/ Meg Mac
at First Avenue
Sunday 04/05/15, 7:30pm ($20)
first-avenue.com

British electronic group Clean Bandit's song "Rather Be" won the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording. On the strength of the single and their debut album New Eyes, the group is currently touring the US, stopping by Minneapolis' First Avenue this April 5th.

Australia's most buzzworthy breakout artist of 2014, having won Triple J's Unearthed Artist of 2014, the 24 year-old singer-songwriter Meg Mac, will be opening the First Avenue show. This will mark her first US tour, and possibly her first time in Minneapolis... so give her a warm welcome.

Meg Mac is currently supporting her latest self-titled EP, which came out this week, March 24, 2015, via Littlebigman Records/300 Entertainment.

Tour dates:

03/26/15 St. Petersburg, FL @ State Theatre*
03/27/15 Orlando, FL @ The Beacham*
03/30/15 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade*
03/31/15 Nashville, TN @ Cannery Ballroom*
04/01/15 Chicago, IL @ Metro*
04/03/15 St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant*
04/04/15 Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre*
04/05/15 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue*
04/07/15 Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre*
04/09/15 Tempe, AZ @ The Marquee Theatre*
04/10/15 Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl *

* with Meg Mac

Read More Happyness Count me as one of the many people unhappy with the misspelling of Happyness, who probably stole their name from the 2006 film The Pursuit Of Happyness. ....

HAPPYNESS
at Turf Club
Monday 04/06/15, 7:30pm ($10)
turfclub.net

I've said it before, I just don't like the name Happyness. The typo just drives me nuts, and I really don't know why it bothers me.

The trio just recently played NINE shows at SXSW, which is possibly the most shows I've seen a band can squeeze in at SXSW.

Happyness will be joined by Danger Ron & The Spins and Nancy's Raygun for the Turf Club show.

Tour dates:

03/26 - Boise, ID - Treefort Music Festival
03/28 – Los Angeles, CA – The Echo ^
03/29 - Santa Ana, CA - Burgerama 2015
03/30 - San Francisco, CA- Bottom of the Hill #
04/01 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
04/03 - Seattle, WA - The Sunset Tavern
04/04 - Missoula, MT - Stage 112
04/06 - St, Paul, MN - Turf Club
04/07 - Iowa City, IA - Gabe's Oasis
04/08 - Chicago, IL – Subterranean
04/09 - Cleveland, OH - Happy Dog East
04/10 - Middletown, CT -Wesleyan College
04/11 - Brooklyn, NY - Baby's All Right
04/12- Manhattan, NY - Cake Shop

# w/ White Fence, Twerps
*w/ Ezra Furman
^w/ Jacco Gardner, Twerps

Read More Wand Not to be confused with Canadian band Wand or Denmark's The Wands or Japanese rock band Wands or Wooden Wand (aka Wand), this the Los Angeles-based band Wand. ....

WAND w/ Heaters
at 7th Street Entry
Tuesday 04/07/15, 8pm ($10)
first-avenue.com

Los Angeles-based Wand are currently on tour in support of their latest album Golem, out last week, March 17th via In The Red. The album was recorded by Chris Woodhouse at The Dock in Sacramento, California.

Joining Wand will be Heaters, a trio (Andrew Tamlyn, Nolan Krebs, and Joshua Korf) from Michigan.

US tour dates:

03/26 - Durham, NC @ The Pinhook >
03/27 - Philadelphia, PA @ Milkboy >
03/28 - Brooklyn, NY @ Baby's All Right >
03/29 - New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
04/01 - Cambridge, MA @ Middle East >
04/02 - Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz P.D.B.
04/03 - Toronto, ON @ Silver Dollar ~
04/04 - Cleveland, OH @ Happy Dog ~
04/05 - Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle ~
04/07 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry ~
04/09 - Missoula, MY @ Stage 112
04/11 - Vancouver, BC @ The Cobalt
04/12 - Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
04/14 - Santa Rosa, CA @ Arlene Francis Center
04/15 - San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill
04/16 - Costa Mesa, CA @ The Wayfarer

> with BABES
~ with Heaters

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