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The Airborne Toxic Event with special guests Calder Quartet - The Somerville Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts – September 8th, 2010
The Airborne Toxic Event (TATE) is quite possibly better live than recorded. I really liked them before I ever saw them perform - then I saw them open for Franz Ferdinand and fell head over heels in love. And every time I've seen them since, they continue to amaze me.
For this particular concert, the venue was an actual movie theater. I hope people weren't seriously trying to watch movies in there during the show, because the band blew the roof off that place. The theater atmosphere was nice though; it felt classy in a strange way and you could eat popcorn during the performance. There was no opening band to sit through, so the show just got right to the point. But the fanciest aspect of the night was the Calder Quartet, which joined the band onstage to complement TATE's Anna Bulbrook and her viola (her brother is actually a member of the quartet). The added instrumentation sounded gorgeous, making the music sound fuller.
The band played two ‘sets’ with an intermission between (yeah, that's right. An intermission. I told you this joint was classy). The first set consisted of calmer songs like ‘Wishing Well,’ and the standard cover of ‘The Book of Love’ originally by the Magnetic Fields. After the fifteen minute break, TATE came back out ready to rock though, and quickly had the crowd up on their feet dancing to gems like ‘Happiness is Overrated,’ ‘Gasoline’ and ‘Papillon.’
Personally, my favorite thing about TATE’s shows is just watching the band members, because they genuinely seem to love performing. Lead singer Mikel Jollett is one of the most personable front-men I've ever seen; as soon as he walks on stage, he starts cracking jokes and chats with the audience between each song. At one point during this show, he commented that all the songs he writes are so angry and/or sad but then the band performs onstage and it all just feels like a celebration. So true.
My only complaint about the show is that it went by way too fast. They played for about 80 minutes (ish) but it felt like 40 instead (I blame the intermission). But otherwise, it was an amazing performance by an extremely talented group of musicians.
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