When the music starts, I immediately thought, Oh Caleb, did you quit smoking? His old voice, if it was a smell, would be burnt hair.

I could see a kick drum with “KoL” on it, black skinny jeans and tiny heads. And when I pair that feeling with the idea of my ribcage being pressed cruelly into the guard rails, a mild surge of social anxiety, and a feeble body from a long workday on my feet, I trot up the stairs and squirrel myself away in the nose-bleediest section you can manage at the Fillmore… so I can sit. has become, after a few years: Arrive skeptical. Modest Mouse, after going through the motions, left their fans without a word and without an encore. Interpol, while sounding great, seemed like someone had wound a key in their backs and arranged them onstage. It felt weird to be back it’s where I’ve seen some of the most lackluster shows of my life. Kings of Leon either share my lust for macabre introductions or they have a sense of humor about the state of their music that’s why they opened their Thursday show at the Fillmore Auditorium with Mozart’s “Requiem in D Minor.”Īhh, the Fillmore. “It was a dark and stormy night” is neither appropriate nor fresh, so let’s try: “It was a predictably dark night, and somewhere in Denver, a band that had cut off most of their hair was about to play.” “Mommy, my fame hurts!” Kings of Leon laid it on thick at the Fillmore on Thursday. Friday, April 28th 2023 Home Page Close Menu

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