Hello everybody, welcome back to another episode of Broken Record. My name is Ellie. I'm your host. And today we are going to be talking about the 1975 concert.
But before we do that, last week I had the opportunity to interview Greg Fox, who is a keyboardist for the Las Vegas based band Renaissance Rocker Orchestra. And it was a super fun interview. It was very interesting to be able to talk to him and I recommend listening to the interview. If you can, you can search up KMIH Broken Record on any podcast streaming platform and you'll be able to find that episode in all previous episodes.
And you can give him a listen anyway back into the 1975 concert. So the 1975 are an English pop rock band that are from England. I believe they're from Manchester. They have a bunch of people in their band.
The main lead singer is Mattie Healy. He also plays guitar and he's like the most famous out of the band. And then there's also Adam Hlan who plays guitar and George Daniel who's on drums and Ross McDonald who does bass. And it was such a good concert.
They came on December 2nd and they played at Wamoo Theatre. And it was so fun. They're tours called the 1975 at their very best. And I really feel like they were at their very best.
Like they were so good. They had an opener called Black Star Kids. And they were so good. Like I feel like if I heard Black Star Kids music like on the line beforehand I wouldn't have been as into them as I am after hearing their music for the first time live.
Like it was so fun. They had such an amazing stage presence. It was really, it felt like they were the headers of the concert. Which is always amazing.
Like you have two great performers within a concert. But it was so fun. And I love their music. They were like, they kind of reminded me of Mac Miller and Childish Gambino combined if that makes sense.
Like I'll play a clip of their music and I'll let you decide. They're very fun. Like it was so fun watching them perform. The girl that was on stage that's in the band.
She had her hair and pigtails. And she was whipping her hair around and it was so fun. You could tell she was like totally into their music and like just was having so much fun. And I think it's really cool when people are performing and you can just tell they're having a good time.
Like it just makes you, it makes me so much happier at least. But yeah, it was so good. They had a great set. I will not lie.
Black Star Kids put on a great performance. But the 1975 also were outstanding. Their concert was about like two and a half hours. It was really good.
It was insane. Um, I want to talk about their set because the set for their concert was so insane. It was one of the most like intricate and intense. But like realistic set designs I've seen.
It was crazy. It was set up like a house. There was multiple levels. There was a roof.
There was working light switches and like lamps and stuff. There was a fan that was working. They had windows, their couches, their TVs. Like it was so insane to me.
Like how real it was. And like I have the concert. I just kept thinking like they have to like take this down and set this up. Like every night.
Like that's crazy to me. Like the crew must be doing so much work. It's insane. But if you can't look up the 1975 at their very best tour set because it's insane.
It's so cool. So they opened their set slash concert with the 1975 from being funny in a foreign language. It's about time. You think you know the aesthetic guy?
I love that song. It's so good and it was such a perfect opener. So okay. Back to the set because this coincides with opening song.
When Black Star Kids was playing there was a curtain behind them. And they only had like a front portion of the stage that they could use. And then when the 1975 came on the curtain was raised and there was someone in the house. And I mean not like a robber.
But like there was someone in the house and they went over to the couch that was on stage and shook a person awake and it was Maddie Healy who is the lead singer. And Maddie was like just compobulated whatever. And then the guy leaves. He's like goodnight whatever.
And then Maddie goes and sits on sits at a piano bench in front of a piano. And then he starts playing the song. The 1975 that he I just played a clip of. He starts playing that song.
It's just him and the piano. And then he starts singing. And then however many seconds into the song someone else comes in and they're like, Hey, what's up? And well they don't say that.
But they're like wave to Maddie and then they go into the house and they start turning on the lights. And then once they turn on a couple of lights they go sit in front of a guitar. And then they plug it in and start playing. And then someone else comes in and they turn on a couple more lights and then they go sit in front of the drums and then they start playing the drums and like slowly there's this pre-aggression of like it originally starts out with Maddie playing the piano by himself.
And then these people come in and these instruments are added in and then by the end of the song it's like everyone's in it. And it was so cool. It was such a cool build up and it was so smart how they did it because their set was kind of broken into two parts. And at the end of the first part the same thing happened where it was everyone playing and then someone left and then someone else left and then someone else left and then eventually it was just Maddie and the piano which I thought was such a cool full circle moment.
And it was so, like it was just so cool to watch. Like I don't know it was weird it was cool to see the progression. But anyway before the end of the first set happens Maddie sang a song called O'Caroline which is such a good song. They actually just released a music video for it so if you want to watch the music video you can.
But yeah here's a clip of O'Caroline by the 1975. Okay that was like a really short clip but I promise you the song is really good and it's it was incredible. It was really fun to listen to. They also played a song called Two Time, Two Time, Two Time.
And it was really fun. It was like it's not. I feel like it wasn't the usual 1975 pop rock song like it was a little more poppy but it was fun. It was like it kind of reminded me of the 80s that also might have just been because Maddie was dressed up like he was from the 80s.
Like he had a big bomber jacket his hair was kind of styled in a mullet like he was wearing jeans. I don't know. I don't know maybe maybe this song does sound like the 80s or maybe I'm just convincing myself it does. But here's Two Time, Two Time, Two Time by the 1975.
I love that song. It's really fun. It's like head bop-y dance a little bit. So I'm like it was fun.
They also sing about you which is one of my favorite songs, the 1975 sings and it was really good. And like during the part of the song where like the girl sings the whole crowd sing and it was so cool. If you listen to the show and all you know that I love it when the crowd sings during concerts like when the artist doesn't sing but the crowd does I think it's so cool. It's just really special.
So here's a little bit of about you by the 1975. I love that song. I love that song so much. It's so good.
It's insane to me how good it is. It's also like totally cinematic in my mind. Like it's I 100% could see it flying like on the last scene of a movie or something. Like 100% you can't convince me otherwise that movie could be.
That song could be in a movie. Fun fact the girl who sings in that song is actually Carly Holt and she is the wife of the 1975's lead guitarist Adam Hunt. He is Mary to Carly and she sings on the song and I thought that's super cool. Something that I also want to talk about is I don't know if you heard it in the last clip but they were these two guys who were standing behind me and they were singing their hearts out the entire concert.
It made me so happy because I've never seen any like guys like add a concert which like openly singing their heart out and like enjoying themselves having a good time just like being in the moment and like fully singing. Like totally committing to it and like they don't care if they're heard. Like it was just so cool because I've never seen that before. Like even if I've been to a concert where it's a male dominated audience like usually no one really sings back to the like person performing or whatever.
It was crazy. It was so cool. It made me so happy because they were having such a good time and they were totally enjoying themselves and it was so cool. It was so fun.
Yeah they made me happy. The last song I want to talk about is called Robbers. It is such a good song. It's a really good song and I love it so much and it's so good and it's just amazing and I like I'm just gonna run out of words.
So I'm just gonna play a clip of Robbers by the 1975. That song is so good. Like it's so good. It was so fun to hear and it was so it was so cool.
This concert in general was just amazing and it was so good and I'm just very happy that I got to go because I wasn't planning on going into like a day before and I reached out to a friend and saw if she wanted to go and she did. And so we went together and it was super fun and the concert was amazing. The 1975 puts on a good show. It was I recommend it.
But yeah thank you so much for listening. My name is Ellie. I'm the host of Broken Record the show you're currently listening to. This is on every Tuesday at 6pm on 889 The Bridge and if you can't make it then that's okay.
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