So many favourite moments.. but there was one night where me and a friend ate some special mushroom toasties while watching Stevie Wonder then wandered off for a tour of the site, spending a lot of time crying with laughter at amazing walkabouts in the T&C field and that brilliant jukebox that was actually a tiny caravan with a 4 piece band in it and probably a stop at the minuscule of sound. I may have mixed some years up together but my favourite memories are wandering the site looking for silliness and mini dance opportunities before we bimble on.
Closely followed by watching Phoebe Bridgers do “I know the end” in 2022 and whacking a monstrously large bull piñata in campo pequeno (early incarnation of the temple) one year.. they used to do some hilarious stuff in there.
See there was little variation on the latest batch of Vegas shows in terms of setlist. I know it is a bit of a poor moan when they actually played a fair few deeper cuts for the first time in a good while on the Rebel Diamonds run - still bitter I swapped my Manchester show and missed all the favourites I've never caught - but I do hope whenever they tour in earnest the next time around, there's a bit more play in the setlist.
Say you're doing a twenty-song show behind a new record. Give five over to the latest LP, then have a fixed eight "standards" - Mr. Brightside, All These Things That I've Done, Somebody Told Me, When You Were Young, Read My Mind, Human, Runaways and Caution - and then just go mad on the other seven. (Preferably career-spanning in the process.)
It won't happen. But to say Brandon is an avowed Springsteen fan, would be lovely to see an old-school Boss approach to the shape and structure of their shows.
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