Uh Oh.
Does the Cold War Kids backlash start here?
After listening to their free bootleg of the set I missed at Terminal 5 Friday all I can say is the minute a band tells you they’re fun but not rowdy run for your life. I guess they were breaking up a mosh pit but… cmon guys shut up. Oh, and if the lead singer has to ask the audience to singalong the singalong DOESN’T COUNT. We call this the Mayday Parade theory -who certainly don’t need to tell anyone to sing and prolly has to beg em to keep quiet.
So any way, the set starts off pretty good with my fave “Audience” coming in at around the third number, then it’s intricate alt rock which kinda lives up to the Radiohead influence though Radiohead can certainly get rowdy and would be smart enough not to tell the audience to quiet down…
Around the midway point, somewhere in the middle of “Everything Will Be Explained”, they’ve lost me. And offering their masterpiece “Coffee Spoon” to mellow out the audience is so california dreaming I wanna puke.
Later on they say we should play for the people of Haiti. Thanks for the heads up.
Still there are times when the band hits its stride and really, I’m listening to a bootleg and I am sure if it wasn’t against the law the audience would be burning incense and letting the vibes fly..
“We’re a weird group, a family” they say near the end. True. And on songs like “Santa Ana Winds” and “Lord Have Mercy On Me” I am completely won over.
Still I thought I was getting an East Coast band and I got a West Coast one instead. D’oh.