Who's going to the Boston show at the Orpheum Nov 19 ?!!!
Who's going to the Boston show at the Orpheum Nov 19 ?!!!
I wanted to go SOOOOOO bad after seeing them in Vermont in august, UNFORTUNETLY my boss wont give me a Saturday night off :( DAMMIT hopefully they come around again during the winter.. HAVE FUN!!!
My Wife and I will be there. This will be our first TATE show. Can't wait!
I'll be there. My friend was supposed to go with me but she has to work. Now I have an extra ticket. Anyways! This will be my first show! Has anyone got their tickets yet? I don't even know where I am sitting. :-\
My friend and I will be attending, though we're stuck about 7 seats apart. :(
I don't recall the seats on our tickets (because ticketmaster is being a pain!) but we'll surely be there!
Why have some people gotten their tickets and others haven't??
I bought through ticketmaster, and I chose the ticket printing option. :O
Also, Orchestra L127! Anyone nearby?
I never had the option of choosing seats. Weird....
heading to boston...this will be tate concert number four! I think it'll be a great venue.
If the tickets were bought through the band's store during the fan presale, the tickets will be will call. If they were purchased through Ticketmaster, you have the option of printing them or having them sent via mail.
TATE Show #4 for me, and #2 for my g/f. Never been to the Orpheum and so looking forward to it. I am wondering where my fan presale tix are going ending being. I wish I didn't have a NH conference to attend or I'd make an effort to be at the Black Rose. Have fun guys!
I was in the Orchestra tonight in the 4th row from the stage. OMG what an amazing show!!!!! I was so close to Mikel after the show but couldn't get a pic with him. Oh well. I'm so hyper right now.
I was far from the stage, but afterwards I got pictures and fun times with 4/5ths of the band.
Anyone want to help me fill/correct in the setlist? I just can't remember the entire thing!
All At Once
Half Of Something Else
A Letter to Georgia
The Book of Love
All I Ever Wanted
Innocence
Happiness is Overrated
Missy
Sometime after Midnight and Wishing Well were played as well.
How were you able to get pics with the band??
All At Once
Half Of Something Else
A Letter to Georgia
The Book of Love
Wishing Well
Welcome To Your Wedding, The Graveyard near the house, Papillon, Gasoline, Changing, Does This Mean You’re Moving On? Something New, Numb (Cannot for the live of me remember the order!)
All I Ever Wanted
Innocence
Happiness is Overrated
Missy
Well, I waited outside for about a half hour, and Mikel showed up, and slowly but surely the other members filtered out, and hung around for a bit.
Grrrr. Why didn't I wait? I really wanted to meet Mikel and Anna. At the end of the show he was right in front of me and I just couldn't get his attention. Oh well. :(
Here's a review I found of the show:
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/11/23/airborne-toxic-concert-review/
“This is really fucking cool,” announced Mikel Jollett, lead singer of The Airborne Toxic Event (T.A.T.E.), four songs into his band’s set last Saturday at the Boston Orpheum. I admit I had to agree.
Before the band had even taken the stage, they were already eliciting cheers. Lead singer of opening act The Drowning Men, Nato Bardeen, told the crowd that a drunk driver had run into the group’s van the night before. “Our van was totaled and The Airborne Toxic Event picked us up at 5 a.m. God bless them and their beautiful hearts.” As the song started, T.A.T.E. stormed the stage with their other opening act, Mona, and plenty of alcohol. As The Drowning Men finished their last song, T.A.T.E. members Jollett and violist Anna Bulbrook set the raucous tone of their show by pouring bottles of liquor into the guitarist and vocalist’s mouths.
After the rest of the group had joined the two members on stage, they opened their show with the rousing “All at Once,” which featured Bulbrook rocking out on viola. Suffice it to say the audience response was deafening. After, Steven Chen’s keyboard solo led the group into the eerie duet “Half of Something Else,” on which Jollett shared lead vocals with Bulbrook. By way of explaining his group’s enthusiasm, Jollett said, “The first time we played here was for Franz Ferdinand. You know, Anna’s from Boston, so this is a big deal.” In keeping with the somber mood they played the lyrically beautiful “A Letter to Georgia” and a cover of Magnetic Field’s “Book of Love,” which benefitted from Jollett’s emotionally charged delivery.
The set picked up with the energetic “Wishing Well,” which perfectly exemplified the group’s effective use of classically inflected string parts in addition to standard rock orchestration. The chaotic moments become more chaotic and the somber moments become more somber thanks to Bulbrook’s stately melody lines.
Jollett’s showmanship was the driving force behind the group’s general enthusiasm. After a performance of “Numb,” he fearlessly climbed onto the balcony section to serenade Bulbrook’s parents, and during “Does This Mean You’re Moving On?” he made his way into the audience by high fiving and hugging multiple fans. With his performance of those songs and “Gasoline,” Jollett showed that sometimes a lack of vocal precision can be salvaged through unbridled enthusiasm and charisma. “Welcome to Your Wedding Day,” however, fell flat—instead, Jollett’s screaming was swallowed up by the intensity of the band.
The ethereal, now four-year-old, “Sometime Around Midnight,” which was the group’s first hit, clearly remains a fan favorite—and for good reason. It hinges on an impeccable execution of T.A.T.E.’s signature sound: a melding of moody U2-like soundscapes and the fiery passion of indie rockers. Upon hearing Bulbrooks’s opening notes, the crowd erupted and sang every lyric.
T.A.T.E. left the stage amid thunderous applause, which did not end until Jollett and Bulbrook came out for an encore. “There’s no story more true than this,” Jollett said as he and Bulbrook began to sing the acoustic “The Graveyard Near the House.” Bulbrook’s viola once again made the already somber song even more haunting. The rest of the band joined them for a performance of “Innocence,” which also drew its initial melancholy from a glorious pairing of Harmon’s upright bass and Bulbrook’s viola before easily transitioning into a high-energy rock piece.
T.A.T.E. left the stage again, but just like before they came out after about five minutes of screaming and applause. During their second encore, they performed “Missy,” a song off their first album. Jollett waxed nostalgic, reminiscing, “I wanted more than five people to like this song who weren’t my family. I didn’t know any musicians and then I met all of these fucking great people. This song is about you as much as it is about us.”
Near the end of the concert Jollett stared into the crowd reflectively and said, “I’m not going to pretend this isn’t a big deal.” It would be foolish to do so.
And here's another decent one, even though she got the wrong song matched up to the lyrics they quote at the end...
http://tech.mit.edu/V131/N56/tate.html
CONCERT REVIEW Sad songs about girls and life
The Airborne Toxic Event woos and charms the Boston crowd
By Maggie Liu
STAFF WRITER
December 2, 2011
The Airborne Toxic Event
The Orpheum Theater
November 19, 2011
The Airborne Toxic Event (TATE) has seen the spotlight this past year. They performed on the The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, were selected for the soundtrack of summer romantic comedy hit Crazy Stupid Love, and even made a cameo appearance on the season finale of Gossip Girl — and a cameo on Gossip Girl can mark the beginning of an indie band’s journey to mainstream fame.
Despite increased exposure, TATE remains largely unknown to the masses. While blasting TATE’s “Something New” in my suite kitchen, a freshman burst into my suite. Gesturing excitedly to the music behind him he spluttered, “You like The Airborne Toxic Event too?! Wait, are they getting big now?” Assuring him that their fan base remained a modest size, I mused to myself that there was a kindred bond between TATE fans. In fact, this bond exists for followers of many American indie rock bands. While you want their music to be recognized and appreciated, you are also torn by the desire to protect them from the claws of mainstream media for fear of their style being altered to cater to mainstream tastes.
TATE has recently signed with major record label Island Records, a subsidiary of Universal Music Group, and boasting billboard tops Justin Bieber and The Killers. But the band’s live performance proved them to be less diva and more grounded, merely a group of a friends who loved their music and loved to play it.
At the Orpheum Theater earlier this month, Mikel Jollett, the frontman, was both charismatic and exuberant. With a infectious boyish charm, Jollett made the concert a personal experience, introducing the band members with nicknames and epithets. There was no sense of pretension or formalism. Don’t get me wrong — despite his roots as a freelance writer, Jollett is still very much the showman. A third of the way into the TATE concert, Jollett climbed from the stage to the box seats of the Orpheum and then proceeded to nimbly climb the railings. Half-giggling at his own antics and half-crooning out the lyrics, Jollett made sure the audience was enraptured with him as he tiptoed and swung from railing to railing.
In addition to Jollett, who showed himself to be a very colorful character, all of his bandmates were just as involved in the music as he was. Much clucking and cat-whistling ensued whenever the violinist and lone female member — Anna Bulbrook, who hails from Boston — soloed. Steven Chen, their guitarist and sometimes-keyboardist, was the foil to Jollett’s animated bubbliness. While Jollett would tease the audience and his band members, Chen would fend off Jollett’s jovial jabs with the endearing seriousness of his guitar. The bassist Noah Harmon was almost as playful as Jollett, and their drummer Daren Taylor was head-bopping in the backdrop. The band was so lively and lovely, with much skipping and climbing onto equipment, that their live performance lent a whimsical air to their music. Almost all of them were constantly in motion. Many instrument swaps occurred, and the performance set really showed the breadth of instruments that went into TATE songs.
The performance hall did wonders for the more acoustic-heavy songs. “Innocence” was never a personal favorite, but the Orpheum Theater acoustics really highlighted the full-bodied notes of the upright bass, coupled with the echoes of the violin. Songs that featured just Jollett’s breathy sighs and croons also reached a new dimension in the live performance; the broken whispers were especially haunting when amplified to an audience. Many of the songs played in the concert were old-time favorites from their first album — “Something New,” “Sometime Around Midnight,” and the crowd favorite “Wishing Well.”
What really struck me about the TATE concert was the diversity of the audience. While I can wager that a portion of them were probably relatives and close friends of Anna Bullock, the Bostonian violinist, it was still astounding the spectrum of age groups. There was a strong contingency of suburban soccer moms and North Face-decked yuppies. Surprisingly the presence of beanie-capped, flannel-wearing hipsters was minimal, which I had assumed would be the majority of a hip LA band’s fanbase.
Part of the reason that TATE’s music can cater to a broad audience is the universality of their lyrics. They read like poetry, tapping into emotions and situations that many listeners can relate to. Take these lines from their song “Changing”:
And you tell me that you’re scared that you’re turning into your mother I feel myself turning into my father As we lie to each other like they do, and say we’re so happy It’s easy when you’re young and you still want it so badly ….
While the song itself describes the downward spiral of a young relationship and the struggles to salvage it, “Changing” also alludes to other pressures of youth. Although their trademark songs are (in their words) “sad songs about girls,” their new album has more self-reflection and also touches upon political topics. Most of the crowd-pleasers at the concert were the “sad songs about girls” from their eponymous first album. With not one, but two (or was it three?) encores, TATE showed as much affection for their audience as their audience did for them. Grinning, dancing, and skipping to their music, TATE’s live performance provided a dimension to their music beyond the recordings.
Another review up at http://www.mamemagazine.com/airbornetoxicevent
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