Here is my amateur review on last night’s Phoenix concert at In the Venue here in SLC.
In a word, fabulous. High energy, great crowd connection and they are one of those bands that sound just like, if not better than their album. They started out with a crowd pleasing Lisztomania, continued with about an hour long set and concluded with an extended version of 1901 as their final encore song. Right away front man Thomas Mars jumps into the crowd and sings for a few minutes while a bunch of hipsters touch his face and hair…pretty funny actually.
After a few songs they break into their instrumental North, and Mars decides to take a snooze. He literally lays down, props his head on a speaker and looks like he’s gonna pass out. At this point I am fairly convinced that the man is on something. The later microphone swing right into his face confirms this. But still, even on autopilot the guy is magnificent.
The band’s Wikipedia page only lists four member (who were in the front of the stage the whole time), but a drummer they had last night was off the hook. The amount of brain cells lost as a result of his exaggerated body movements must have been massive. But the crowd loved it. His name is Thomas Hedlund and he is insane.
Not to be considered out for the count, Mars resurfaces and climbs up on top of a speaker and sings a few versus…I thought he was going to fall off the entire time. And before we know it, the show is over.
The encore started out with two slower songs performed by just Mars and guitarist Christian Mazzalai (Everything is Everything and Playground Love). Then they brought out the rest of the band for the Jamiroquai sounding If I Ever Feel Better and conclude with a crowd surfing, extended version of 1901. Fabulous.
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