Saw them last night and came away impressed. They were pretty fun and their drummer is a BEAST live. I spent most of the show pretty much just watching him.
If anyone needs a ticket to the Portland show, I have one available that I’d give away for free. I bought an extra balcony ticket for leg room since my bro and I are bigger people. You can totally be downstairs and enjoy the show. Tickets are going for crazy prices on stubhub for this tour lol
Pretty fucking excited for tonight. First time seeing everyone except Hot Mulligan and my first time seeing them headline. Arms Length released my favorite album of the year and been really getting into Anxious/Drug Church the past few months. The new HM is album is good stuff and I’m excited to hear these songs live. I think I’ll be able to appreciate the songs more live even though the record isn’t my favorite by them.
This show absolutely rocked. Anxious was a good choice to open the show. A ton of energy and honestly won a lot of people over. Arms Length was probably my favorite set of the night. Band absolutely slays live and I hope they are going to do a headliner for the new album that actually goes to the west coast. Drug Church is so much fun and incredibly tight. Set started a little slow but people were going crazy by the end. Hot Mulligan was a riot. New songs are fantastic live and the crowd went apeshit the entire time. Production on this tour was really cool and I cannot believe how amazing Tades sounds on the new songs. Dude has maybe the best live vocals in the scene right now.
One thing I will say that caught my attention is there were a ton of people there just for HM who seemed to not know how to handle being in a rowdy crowd. Lots of people dropping crowd surfers intentionally especially during Drug Church. Also a ton of talking while the openers were playing. If you’re just going to a show for the headlining band show up late or shut the fuck up please. Treating concerts like it’s some bar hangout is one of my pet peeves lol
the conversation I was subjected to while I was trying to enjoy drug church…some bro telling his fellow bros about how rich his new “girlfriend that goes to Harvard” that definitely really exists is….ugggghhhhh
Yep. Like I’m used to talking if it’s an acoustic set or a quieter act, but why in the fuck would you try to be talking during a Drug Church set? Pat also made a point to say that security is doing a great job but at some point the crowd has to take care of each other. Tons of young people there for HM that wanted to be front and center but dropped so many crowd surfers. I get not liking crowd surfing but don’t stand front/center if you don’t want to deal with that shit.
caught the tour tonight. haven’t been that deep in a crowd for a show in a long ass time and it was amazing. arms length got such a good reception here and were visibly and vocally surprised by it which made me happy. the pit went crazy for drug church. my neck is going to be hella sore from trying to lift all the crowd surfers. hot mulligan absolutely ripped and gave me a whole new appreciation for this record. random aside, is wearing ear buds at a show a thing now? i was wearing ear plugs but multiple people kept having to hold the crowd up while they searched for their airpods and such that slipped out of their ears. first time experiencing that.