Brand New - SUNY Cortland
I finally got to see one of my favorite bands last week, and that band is Brand New. They played @ SUNY Cortland, down in Cortland, New York (which is about a 2 hour drive from me). I have heard they are good in concert, but I have seen many a good shows in my 26 years on earth, so I was skeptical. Well the rumors are true, and I may have to just rank this concert right up there in the top 5 concerts I have attended!
The set list was pretty good, although I would have like heard more off of Deja Entendu or Your Favorite Weapon. They also did not play “Limousine” which is a favorite of mine off of their latest album The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me. All in all though, I thought it was a good mixture between the 3 albums. One thing I did notice was how little anyone in the band spoke (which is fine with me). The only time Jesse did anything but sing was right before he strapped on the acoustic for “The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot”.
The highlights of the night for me, was Jesse playing “Play Crack the Sky” (from Deja), and also the guys playing “Jesus Christ” (also off the new album). They ended the night with “Welcome to Bangkok” off of TDAGARIM, which climaxed with the whole band and tech’s banging on the 2 drum sets they had set up. Jesse and Vinnie both dropped their guitars and left them on stage, resulting in some of the sweetest feedback I have ever heard! I highly recommend checking these guys out, although most of their shows have been selling out! For some reason this show was not advertised on their website, so I guess I was lucky I found out about it. Now if I could only get to a New Amsterdams show :-/
September 18th, 2007 at 8:24 am
i would have to say that brand new is my favorite band of all time. and i saw themat the walcovia arena in wilkes-barre pennsylvania on october 29, 2006 and they were amazing i wish they were the main band rather than dashboard personally i think dashboard is horrible, but lets get back to brand new. they totally kicked a$$ and i loved every moment of it. theyre concert was the first date i had with my girlfriend and brand new totally made my night iwish they would come back to wilkes barre, maybe someday they will well thats all thanks for your time