Catching Up on Summer Shows
Man! This summer has gotten away from me, for sure. All the shows, no time to write. I guess it's a good thing that life gets busy being lived. July was chalk-full of shows, so I should do some catching up. Mid-July, I went to shows pretty back-to-back-to-back on two separate occasions. I was finally able to see Arcade Fire, at an outdoor venue in the water district of Boston, at the Blue Hills Pavilion. Not my favorite venue, but I was close enough to make it count. Holy cow! That band puts on one hell of a show! The showmanship of everyone in the band (and that's 8 people!) never missing a beat, even when Win Butler's wife, Regine's headset microphone wasn't working. They played for almost 2.5 hours and played pretty much everything and then some that I could've wanted, having been a fan of theirs since the first album. Opening with "Wake Up" (which is probably their biggest hit) was a bold move, since I pictured it more as their last encore song. I