Panic! at the Disco://:fun.://:Funeral Party://: concert review

This past Friday I had the pleasure to photograph Panic! at the disco , fun. and Funeral Party at the Marquee Theater. It was about 106 degrees outside and you'd think it'd be cooler inside the venue, but forget that. All three bands turned up the heat and melted my make-up off my face, at what ended up being a sold out show. I think I saw about 8 people faint or had to be carried out of the massive crowd because of heat exhaustion that night.

Funeral Party was the first band to kick off the night. Though I've heard of the bands name before, I've never actually heard their music. After their 30 minute performance I'd have to say I enjoyed their sound and energy on the stage. Definitely a band that should be checked out. Go to their site here.

Up next was fun., and of course the crowd welcomed Nate Ruess, the lead singer, back home. They started their set off with some of the crowd favorites off their debut album "Aim and Ignite" as well as playing a new song that they have been working on for their upcoming album. This being the second time I've seen fun., I got to say that they had just as much energy and "fun" as they did when they headlined in their last tour. They are true artist and performers.

Near the end of their set they claimed that, that crowd was the best so far on tour. Usually when bands say that I laugh because I feel like they most bands must say that at every show to make their fans feel good. But I genuinely believed them this time around. The crowd was actually jumping, singing along and dancing around to them. The crowd was almost as entertaining as the band was. Which is very rare for me to say because most Arizona crowds I've been around have been sooooo dull.

Last but not least. Panic! at the Disco, the headlining band came on stage and played their set about over an hour. Playing a variety of songs off all three of their albums, including their most recent album "Vices & Virtues", which dropped this past March.



One of the highlights of P!ATD set that night was playing their song "C'mon" with Nate Ruess and Andrew Dost of fun. According to Panic!'s humble front man Brendon Urie, the boys of fun. were the ones who really did all the work on the song. If that's true, then they did an excellent job at creating the song because it complements the two bands very different styles so much.

One of my favorite things about P!ATD's performance was how the stage was set up. It was so theatrical and seemed very them. It had a very steam-punk-gothic feel to the stage, complete with industrial-size stage lights, over-sized hanging light bulbs, parachute-like marquee curtains and organ pipes. Along with all the band mates all dress up as fine gentlemen. With a stage this theatrical you'd automatically assume that the band is compensating for lack of talent or energy, but not in this case.P!ATD had so much energy on stage that if you bottled it up, it would explode from its container. Between the screams that Brendon Urie whipped out at the end of his verses through out the set and a random guitar off, Panic! shines out as true performers.

To conclude this review I'm want you all to check out Panic! at the disco , fun. and Funeral Party music, you won't regret it.

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I know, lots of photos this time around.Hope ya'll liked them!

Love, Angelica.

The Dodos://No Color

Another over due blog, Sorry!

So, about two weeks ago I got to see the amazingly talented band The Dodos. They played at Phoenix's The Duce (A music venue/restaurant/bar/clothing store) and preformed songs from their new album No Color along with an encore of songs from their Visiter album.

I gotta say, this band is one of those rare ones where they sound just as good live as they do on their CD. Pure vocals, rhythmically complex and clear-cut drums and guitar, I would recommend this duo from San Francisco to anyone.

Hope you enjoy this set of photos as much as I did taking them :)







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Love,
Angelica

Anberlin| Dark Is The Way, Light Is A Place|Concert Review

So I'm a little late on posting this, but between crazy storms and terrible Internet connection it's been hard to post this. I super excited to present these photos to you guys because I was finally able to use my new Canon 7D at a concert, and I'm super happy on the way they turned out. This gonna be a quick review so here it is...

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This past Saturday Anberlin played a killer show in Tempe at Marquee Theater. It's not everyday you come across a band that really knows how to put on an entertaining show and play music that truly rocks and has meaning.

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Kicking off their set with the first song off their newest album, Dark is the Way, Light is a Place, "We owe this to ourselves" made the sea of fans go crazy and instantly started the rock fists.

This being the second time I've seen Anberlin preform, the first being the summer of 2009 when they were opening up for Taking Back Sunday. This time around they had just as much fun on stage and got the crowd to move just as much. The only difference being more lights and lead singer Stephan Christian not keeping his mouth enough towards the microphone. Though Anberlin is definitely not the kinda of band that need flashy lights and smoke to make them better, it did help set the mood. Each band member bring so much energy to the stage that you could have no colorful lights and still enjoy them as performers and musicians.

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Anberlin isn't like most bands that come out and just try to show people a good time. They come out and give people good time. Their music is genuine and they preform with a heart of fiery passion and emotion in what they do and sing about.They already have 6 albums, including a "Lost Songs" album that includes demo, acoustic and covers of glorious melodic sounds. If you are a fan of well made music, with meaningful lyrics and melodic vocals, this is a band you must check out.

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Before I forget, the opening band Crash Kings and Civil Twilight are just another set of bands you must check out. If you like Kings of Leon, you're going to like Crash Kings and if Muse and Anberlin had a baby you'd have Civil Twilight. I would give more of a review of these bands but maybe in another blog? We'll see. But here are some awesome photos I took of those guys as well.


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So in short,the line up was great and all the bands really knew how to put on a great show. If you wanna see more photos go Here.

Thanks for sticking this out to the end!

Lots of Love
Angelica