Late Bright Eyes Review

My friend who was going with me piked at the last minute leaving me with an extra ticket to give away and it was actually a hard task to find someone. My friends either belonged to the group of people who don't appreciate bright eyes, or had plans (ie-a hot date). Thankfully I remembered with only a couple of hours to spare that Claire had just got back from the UK-someone who would actually appreciate the show.

The show was amazing.

I think the Faster Louder review summarises it quite well with the below paragraph:

"It’s hard to talk about an experience I’m still coming to terms with. It feels like I saw a really great movie, Conor Oberst drew us away from reality for two hours. Two hours that may have just changed my life. It’s not very often a band has such an effect on me. Normally I walk away from a gig I’ve loved saying "Wow!", gush for a little while, and then inevitably forget most of the gig in the following weeks. This won’t happen with Bright Eyes."

There was little audience interaction-including no 'its so great to be in ......... (Insert city name)' line that musicians are so fond of-thankfully. He did however tease us by saying he is going to combine a few of the most popular requests we kept screaming for (eg haligh haligh) into a new song-only to play a new completely separate song-bastard!

I went expecting songs from his new album 'Digital Ash in a Digital Urn' only to learn that it was a promotion tour of 'I'm Wide Awake, It's morning' (the folkier one) so he played almost all songs from that album and none from 'Digital Ash in a Digital Urn' which he released at the same time.

I wasn't sure what it would be like sharing a ballad like 'One foot in front of the other' with everyone in the audience-but when he started playing it on his knees I almost forgot everyone around me, he drew me in completely!

He also played a few extra songs including 'when the president talks to god' with unforgettable lyrics and another called 'true blue' with possibly the worst lyrics-which only he could pull off as a great song.

With his greasy hair, eyeshadow and the occasionally spitting (unintentionally) -you would think Connor would be quite unattractive but thats not quite the case. There is something about him, his stage presence/ charisma that I can't even begin to describe!

I walked away from it wanting to quit my masters and concentrate on a music career (playing the drums-which I’m yet to learn how to play).