Show Review & Photos: Two Door Cinema Club @ Showbox Market

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Showbox Market was a perfect venue for Two Door Cinema Club’s show on Tuesday night. The theater has great visibility from pretty much every spot, and you need that visibility with Two Cinema Club’s shows. The band moves so quickly and it’s great fun to watch them gamboling to their music. Plus the Showbox’s floor moves up and down when hundreds of bouncing fans apply pressure, as happened on Tuesday.

The Northern Irish band, made up of Sam Halliday, Alex Trimble and Kevin Baird (Benjamin Thompson joins on drums live), spread pure inspiration throughout the entire show. They’re all ace musicians, and every single song the band has is fantastic. Picking out highlights is kind of impossible. But here’s an attempt: “Do You Want It All?,” “Undercover Martyn,” “This Is the Life,” “Come Back Home,” “Costume Party” . . . these all wreaked some serious agitation. New songs “Handshake” and “This Is Moon” went over extremely well, with none of those panicked here’s some new material moments that occasionally come up when bands perform new songs.

Their show ended with one encore including “I Can Talk”. The audience’s enthusiasm, combined with the band’s brave songs made for an incredibly exciting show. It’s when seeing shows like this that I feel so lucky to see bands from all over the world.


Two Door Cinema Club @ Showbox Market

Review & photos by Dagmar

Gallery of Two Door Cinema Club @ Showbox Market

Set list:

Cigarettes In the Theatre
Undercover Martyn
Hands Off My Cash, Monty
Do You Want It All?
Something Good Can Work
Handshake
This Is the Life
Kids
Costume Party
This Is Moon
You’re Not Stubborn
Eat That Up, It’s Good For You
What You Know

Encore:
Come Back Home
I Can Talk

Show Review & Photos: Lewis Black @ the Paramount & Mount Baker Theatre

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Lewis Black is a comedian so great we wanted to cover him twice. On April 9th Black performed at the Paramount in Seattle, and then the following day at Mount Baker Theatre in Bellingham. Enjoy some excellent shots by photographers Matthew Lamb and Paul Israel, plus a review of the Seattle date by Lamb:

Live Nation and Seattle’s STG Paramount welcomed Grammy-winning comedian Lewis Black’s “In God We Rust” tour on Saturday. Known for his role on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” years of live touring, and cable TV specials, Black’s often thoughtful, angry, mind-opening, political and often sarcastic comedy brought the crowd to its feet.

Black started with a warning to the audience: his comedy was different – and if you walked out on him you would be in certain trouble.

The night’s topics included, to name a few, politics, aging, cell phones, and FarmVille. Black’s view of politics seemed to blame both parties for the issues America faces, although he managed to throw a few jabs directly at Sarah Palin and the Republican Party.

Calling out celebrities that claim “I have never felt better,” Black launched into his comedic tirade of how untrue this must be. Railing into the TSA for taking nine years to get a list of terrorists out to all the airports, Black seems frustrated. Later in the show, Black said he would support Sarah Palin for President – President of Farmville, an application on Facebook.

Not wanting to give much of the night away, Lewis Black is a comedian you should see live. He breaks down the thought process and exposes some issues for what they are – idiotic.

Follow www.LewisBlack.com for upcoming tour dates and information on Lewis Black’s Comedy Cruise in November, which is sure to be a hit.


Lewis Black in Bellingham – photo by Paul Israel


Lewis Black in Seattle – photo by Matthew Lamb


Lewis Black in Bellingham – photos by Paul Israel


Lewis Black in Seattle – photos by Matthew Lamb


Lewis Black in Bellingham – photos by Paul Israel


Lewis Black in Seattle – photo by Matthew Lamb

Show Review & Photos: My Chemical Romance @ Showbox SoDo

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I think a lot of people aren’t open-minded enough for My Chemical Romance. They want to brand them as just another emo band and then move along. The group stands out though as hefty, violent romantics. They sing about life and death in ways that sensitive people understand immediately. My Chemical Romance’s connection with their fans really came through at last week’s show in Seattle, especially during the perfect “DESTROYA” (You don’t believe in God, I don’t believe in luck) and Cancer (Cause the hardest part of this is leaving you). The new song “Planetary (GO!),” from Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys should wake up any of the band’s naysayers. The set list incorporated songs from 2002’s I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love (“Vampires Will Never Hurt You” – sadly no “Honey, This Mirror Isn’t Big Enough for the Two of Us”), as well as “Helena” and “I’m Not Okay (I Promise)” from 2004’s Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge. To me, “I’m Not Okay (I Promise)” just still might be the band’s signature song. Welcome to the Black Parade got some serious play with “Teenagers,” “Mama,” “House of Wolves” and the phenomenal “Famous Last Words”. Their latest, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys also introduced another great one, “Sing”. “House of Wolves” (Tell me I’m an angel/Take this to my grave/Tell me I’m a bad man/Kick me like a stray) from Welcome to the Black Parade showcased My Chemical Romance at their best – a band that changes itself just enough to keep things interesting, while maintaining their vigorous purpose.


My Chemical Romance – photos & review by Dagmar

Gallery of My Chemical Romance @ Showbox SoDo