Awesomeness!
The Lifehouse concert at The Warfield was just amazing. I was a bit disappointed that they didn’t perform "Sick Cycle Carousel" but they did do "Hanging Like A Moment" and some of their other older songs from their first album, which is my favorite.
Its been quite a while since I’ve been to an honest to goodness rock concert (I don’t think Dave Matthews Band at the Shoreline counts) and I’d forgotten how much fun they are. I love the energy, the nearly deafening music that feels like its coming from inside your head, and the thrill of seeing a musician you really like perform live. It was a little weird that people were sitting down; all the other rock concerts I’ve been to had people standing up and dancing, so that kind of threw me off a bit but other than that, it was awesome!
Opening acts are usually either not very good or trying too hard or, in the case of HoneyHoney, the first band to perform, both, but the second opening act was a pleasant surprise. When the band started playing Norina and I barely paid attention to them but then we noticed that not only were the songs slightly familiar, nearly the whole crowd was singing along. We started listening and realized that they are in fact really really good. In those few minutes, I became a fan. After the show we went to buy their CD, realized that its a solo artist and not a band, and even got to meet him. He’s a singer-songwriter named Matt Nathanson and he’s from San Francisco. I listened to the CD all day the next day and liked it so much that I actually bought his other albums over the weekend.
So the Lifehouse concert turned out a lot better than I expected. Not only was it a great show, I also discovered an awesome artist whose music I really really like and I got to meet him too.
Totally awesome!!!
