Bright Eyes - Five Dice, All Threes (September 20, 2024) • Page 10

Seeing them tonight!!!

 

Really interesting. I’m liking where the album is going.

 

What time did they go on last night?

 

9:20 and they played until 11.

There is a somewhat lengthy introduction in Spanish/introduction of the band members before they come on stage/start performing though

 

I like the ongoing Spanish introduction thing theyve been doing on the albums/videos/etc…I’m assuming it’s Connor’s ex-current-Idunno partner that is still doing it ?

 

Putting in spoilers again in case anyone does not want any spoilers before the show.

I don’t recall who it was and I only understand a little bit of Spanish but at the show it was like when you go to the theater to see a play or musical and there’s the announcer telling you the rules, like to silence your phones and no flash photography and stuff like that. It wasn’t meant to be taken seriously at this show, I think it was just said to continue the theme of saying something in Spanish.

 

Had no idea a new album was coming.

 

It was tongue in cheek but it also asked for no audio recordings and such.

 

And that is Connor doing the DJ voice

 

Conor’s voice was ROUGH tonight. They cut tonight’s set by 3 songs and Conor had to rely on three of the other musicians to sing portions, or even the majority, of a lot of the songs.

That said, all the new songs sounded fantastic. Bought the vinyl on my way out.

 

oh shit this is ahemmm out there, since it's being sold at these dates

 

Whoever posted the Cleveland setlist on setlist.fm seemed to have copied and pasted the set from the night before. They did not play Real Free 105 or Old Soul Song last night.

 

I noted he was drinking tea on Saturday, not surprised if he's sick or something.

 

A couple songs in the middle bored me but overall I really liked my first listen of this. I really need to circle back to Down in the Weeds though, it's been a while.

At one point I had to turn it down and thought, "whoa this sounds like The National" and then realized it's because it was literally Matt B. singing, lol.

 

my preorder shows up tomorrow so I may hold off on the leak

 

He mentioned many times that his throat was hurting and also apologized several times. He said they practiced for 6 days straight before shows and he thinks he blew his voice. He was 100% having a very rough go at it. Most of the night, he still sounded great, but there were a few songs where he sounded super hoarse - resulting in many of the other musicians filling in for him.

 

So...there are quite a few reviews on Reddit regarding last night's Conor performance. I won't say much or add any fuel to the fire (as the same discussion was very loud during Bright Eyes last tour -which I also saw live...) but man, I am not looking forward to another few months of this kind of speculation.

 

INTERVIEW: Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst & Nate Walcott Talk New Album 'Five Dice, All Threes'

 

This turned out super cool!

 

Hope my vinyl gets here before Friday too!

 

I legit forgot what variant I ordered, glad to see it’s that one haha

 

you should throw it on the turntable and then record a quick little 51 minute clip showing us how it looks in action!

 

All I am going to say regarding the matter is that Conor expressed wanting to kill himself on stage last night (and I believe at the Chicago show too) and in multiple new interviews and I hope everything is okay and he has enough people around him to support him.

 

fuck man

 

I can confirm he said that - right before the final song of the night. For context, and certainly not defending him - he was talking about how bad his throat was hurting him and he said something along the lines of "after this, I'm gonna go take care of my throat...but I probably won't. I might just kill myself" and I can definitely tell it shook a lot of people in the audience. Especially the way he delivered it, because per usual, Conor seemed pretty sloshed and was dry and talking slow, monotoned, quiet, slurred, all night.

Mike went up to him and whispered something into his ear and Conor quickly said something along the lines, 'I'm told I can't joke about that, I'm not going to kill myself."

This was all after the encore, to be honest with you, a lot of people left before the encore. Probably the most people I've seen leave during an encore intermission and I could tell a lot of people were just fed up with the performance (again - tons of reviews online already)

It's just a bummer man, because these are just the first two nights of a very, very long tour and the conversation is immediately already back to everyone worrying about him (rightfully so). I was hoping the last year or so off touring would have done him some good, but it appears we're in for a loooong tour.