Brand New / The Front Bottoms / Modern Baseball Tour • Page 24

Cool video of the programming that went into the visual component of their show.

 

Modern Baseball ending with Just Another Face was good. Right as the song ended Brenden threw his guitar on the ground and stormed off stage. Ian kind of shot him a weird look. They all got off stage and then got back on to help tear down except for Brenden.

 

Is credit card accepted at the merch tables or is it cash only? Just curious if I will need to get cash out before the show tonight.

 

Usually accept cards with Square (or something similar).

 

Thank you much!

 

Never hurts to have cash though. Just in case something goes wrong with their set up.

 

Yeah all bands had squares last night.

I didn't notice Brenden throwing his guitar last night, hope everything is okay

 

3 more hours of work then driving to twin cities for tomorrows show!

 

Yeah I noticed that too. The band seemed tense last night in general.

 

Brenden tweeted about having an anxiety attack the other day minutes before they went on stage, so hopefully everything's okay with him

 

Grand Rapids show was a lot of fun! Modern Baseball was good, though I'd much rather see them headline at this point. Your Apartment replaced Tears Over Beers, but that was the only major set change I noticed. Also saw Brenden throw his guitar down too - I really hope he's alright.

The Front Bottoms were pretty good, though I had really, really high expectations for their set (their Common Ground set is still one of the 5 best I've ever seen). As someone that was pretty indifferent to Back on Top though, I didn't really love those parts of the set. "Backflip" and "Twin" were both great, and the reaction was great during the old stuff.

Brand New was phenomenal, and are 3/3 with their sets being either great or perfect. They sounded great, the lighting was great and the set was perfectly balanced. D&G worked surprisingly well as an album to play straight-through - I thought stuff like "Bangkok" and "Luca" wouldn't flow well, but it was really great. Incredibly heartfelt and passionate.

The venue honestly wasn't that bad, though getting out looked like a nightmare. We were in line for about 15 minutes until a venue worker showed us a vacant exit that literally no one was using, haha. Everything else was fine though, and I would go back there for the right show. The 1975's coming there in a couple of weeks and if I can scrape some money together I'd consider going.

 

It was insane to me the reaction that the Back On Top songs got. Way more than the old stuff which was super weird.

Brendan was throwing his guitar down before too, pretty sure he's fine.

 

Last night was so much fun. Modern Baseball and The Front Bottoms were incredible as always. This was only my 2nd time seeing MoBo since Holy Ghost came out so I'm still loving seeing all the new songs. Can't wait until they headline next though so there will be a better blend + Hiding. It always blows me away how loud the crowd is for TFB, even when they're openers. Everyone's always screaming along to every song and I love it. They asked for requests on Twitter and I wanted Joanie and plastic flowers. I haven't seen that they played Plastic Flowers yet on this tour, so I like to think I had something to do with that.

Brand New was amazing. The first set did really fly by, but they chose some good songs. I would have liked at least one Daisy song thrown in but hey I won't be picky. Devil and God was beautiful to witness. The album is pretty much flawless all the way, but the stretch from Sowing Season to You Wont Know is just breathtaking. Seeing that live was almost religious. Went more towards the back after that cus I was feeling exhausted. Such a great tour. Favorite time seeing Brand New so far.

 

Man, all these posts are getting me super pumped to see the last two nights of this tour. Always checking @BrandNewArchive hoping someone recorded a show.

 

Man they were so good. So the graphic at the end said 2000-2018, so that means one more tour after this right? This was my first time seeing them, I have to again...

I was disappointed they didn't have TDAG on vinyl.

 

Just got back from the Saint Paul show. I've been to a lot of anniversary album shows, and this was by far the best. Brand New managed to take one of my favorite albums and make it even better with the lights, interludes, etc. The intro set was good, though we only got the normal 5 songs. It definitely worked better playing the other set before TDAG.

I turned 32 today, so the clips during the last song made me feel extra nostalgic (loved Jesse with the bullhorn). It's crazy to think that the band I saw tonight was the same band I saw touring off YFW forever ago (Thrice, Recover, Brand New, and Coheed...ridiculous bill).

Awesome awesome show. Definitely go if you can.

 

yeah, this show has some of the best production i've seen in a long time. even if the venue felt like a giant old gym.

 

if i remember correctly the email announcing this tour implied that there will be other dates in more A Market type cities. I think it said these will be the last times in these cities.

 

I have a feeling there will be 2 more tours - one supporting the new record and then a final "farewell" type of tour.

 

I know Urban Outfitters sells it

 

I would love them to do another Manchester Orchestra/Kevin Devine tour as their farewell.

 

The letter they wrote said it'll be the last time in some of these cities, not all of them. I think they'll do 3 or so more tours but that's just pure speculation.

 

my tickets shipped

 

not really, band blew up big big big time with the new record. i would probably say a majority of fans at this point got into them since this record cycle started

 

got my tickets today yee yee