ZZ Ward and her band brought their Love and War Tour to the Neptune Theatre on October 9th. The bluesy R&B singer played the sold-out show in support of her recent EP, Love and War, as well as her upcoming This Means War LP. ZZ mentioned they almost cancelled the show because she was sick, but you’d never know it – her soulful voice sounded as strong as ever during the high energy set. Opening were San Diego-based The Young Wild followed by Marc Scibilia and his band.
Colleen Green, and her band, came up from Los Angeles to play the Lo-Fi this September. With a self-described genre of “Whatever U Want,” Green released I Want to Grow Up on Seattle’s Hardly Art label in 2015. Fans and future fans in Seattle, be on alert: Green returns for a show at El Corazon on December 21st.
In the mood for some Japanese metal? Then you’ll need to catch DIR EN GREY at the Showbox tomorrow, Monday, November 2nd! The band will bring the first date of their Never Free From the Awakening tour to Seattle, and it means it’s an evening with DIR EN GREY. No openers, no waiting, just what you want: DIR EN GREY!
DIR EN GREY
With a huge and beautiful sound mixing speed and melody, DIR EN GREY is also known for their cool live shows. While singing predominantly in Japanese, they also have songs in English. Either way the songs are accessible in their intensity and mood. All these things explain why DIR EN GREY has now been around for sixteen years, and perhaps why they’ve maintained their original lineup (this is very, very difficult for bands to do)! To celebrate their 15th anniversary, the band released Arche, DIR EN GREY album nine, which reached number 4 on Billboard Top World Albums’ charts. Excellent!
And this witch ended up taking a couple days off around Halloween, so apologies there was no show alert for this show earlier.
The last day of Bumbershoot found English superstar Ellie Goulding headlining in the most wonderful shirt. In just a shirt. With Daffy Duck on it. Excellent! Also appearing were Ireland’s Hozier, whose song “Take Me to Church” seemed to take over the world for at least one year, and Seattle’s Kris Orlowski, who did a sweet cover of Beyoncé’s “Halo” (that track was featured on a Grey’s Anatomy episode). Oh, and Orlowski shared fake mustaches with the audience. Special attention as well to Seattle bands Bread & Butter and Hey Marseilles!
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s own Hall & Oates and Seattle’s Paramount Theatre made a winning combination on September 3rd. Also known as Daryl Hall and John Oates, the soul/pop duo has six Gold albums and six Platinum albums (wow!), and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014. Well done!
