Beck, Cage the Elephant and Spoon delivered a psychedelic and pyrotechnic marathon of rock music at Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre on Tuesday night’s stop of the bands’ Night Running Tour.
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Red Rocks is the pinnacle of live music for both musician and fan, and the effects it has on the concert experience are undeniable. Cage the Elephant reacted to that catalyst effect and blew out the highest energy rock show they could deliver. Front man, Matthew Shultz, made the stage his personal romper room, bouncing all over it and the first rows of the audience alike. The audience was comprised of a very young majority who ate up the visual bonanza, and fed the energy back to the artist. Portugal. The Man and The Mowglis opened the show and got the audience primed for the spectacle headline act to come.
The Bluebird Theater hosted budding singer-songwriter Vance Joy this past Saturday night. The show had been sold-out for several months and it was apparent once Vance Joy started to strum his first note that the sell-out was justified. Even though the venue was packed, it was easy to catch a glimpse of the rising star who belted out his hand-written love songs to a swooning crowd before he hits the road with Taylor Swift in the coming year.
By the time Cage The Elephant took the stage the Ogden was on fire; you could feel the crowd’s collective will was ready to rock. The band wasted no time, and lead singer Matt Schultz had the crowd eating out of his hand by the end of the first song. The stage presence and sheer emotion that poured from the stage had every hand in the air trying to grab their rightful share.
British rock band Muse brought their hardcore fans and a gigantic LED pyramid to Denver last Tuesday when they played a loud, high-energy set at The Pepsi Center. The trio played a 19 song set that included the bombastic opener “Supremacy” that started the night off with a bang. Judging from the fact that there were both men and women crying when the band came on stage there’s not much argument to be made that Muse has a very faithful following, and is one of the better live acts touring today.
Dave Grohl and his band mates exploded onto the Pepsi Center stage to a deafening roar just a few minutes past nine and launched right into “Bridge Burning,” the opening track of their most recent album, Wasting Light and they didn’t slow down for more than 2 and half hours. Was it the best show ever, no, clearly not, but it was entertaining. It was a true arena rock show that took advantage of the space and the considerable resources that were available.
The Foo Fighters bring their massive arena tour to Denver this coming Sunday and they are sure to put on a rock show of epic proportions. Dave Grohl and his seasoned band of veterans are writing the book on big budget concerts and this tour spares no expense in it’s effort to dazzle concert goers. With a massive ramp that extends the length of the arena and a GA floor, fans can get close enough to the rock legend to smell the sweat!