Colin Meloy Concert
April 11, 2008 on 8:09 am | In entertainment, music | 2 CommentsWe had a great time at the Colin Meloy concert last night. For those of you unfamiliar with him, he’s the lead singer of the Decemberists. For those of you unfamiliar with the Decemberists, get your act together. They rock the hizzle. Laura Gibson opened for him, and though she has interesting choice in clothing, she has a beautiful voice. One of her songs was featured in a Humane Society commercial that you can hear here.
We actually were able to get pretty close to the stage, which is nice considering that when we saw the Decemberists at Chastain Park last July, we were oh, say, 150 feet from the stage. But not this time. No, this time we were close enough to see how recently Colin Meloy might have shaved. For the record? His chin looked smooth as a baby’s behind.
How did we get to be so up close to the front? We stood up for over three hours. That’s right. And near the end, we were saying things like “we’re getting too old for this” which is awful because we’re too young to be saying that we’re too old for anything except maybe High School Musical or Chuck E. Cheese’s.
Apparently Meloy started a group, Musicians Against the Calling Out of Freebird (an audience member made him the t-shirt). This group is quite necessary, as I recall some drunk guy at every smaller concert that I’ve been to yelling out, “Play sum free bird!” No Freebird last night. I can’t remember all of the songs he played, but I do recall the Sporting Life, Crane Wife #3, Apology Song, Kingdom of Spain, A Cautionary Song, Tristan and Iseult, Cupid (cover of a Sam Cooke song he sang with Laura Gibson), and of course, Mariner’s Revenge.