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sashagee to see The Midnight
The most Outrun of the pictures I took.
I've been listening to the Midnight for years, and I even had a brief interaction where they liked a tweet I made about them back when Twitter was actually marginally worth being on:
The Midnight last came through our fair city in 2024, but their concert was the evening that Yom Kippur ended and there was no way I would be able to go to see them. So when I askedsashagee a question form of that quote and she responded with "saxophones" I said "There's this band we have to go see" and on Saturday night we went to the Salt Shed to attend the concert. I paid extra for seats, so we had assigned seats on the rafters up above the hoi polloi, and therefore we bought drinks and stood in the merch line beforehand since we had a place to put our things (we bought LPs of Days of Thunder and Syndicate--they sadly did not have Nocturnal at all).
The concert was fantastic! We missed part of New Constellations (the opener)'s set because I guess starting exactly on time is the new standard, butsashagee had heard some of their music before and was happy to hear them live--the singer had a fantastic husky voice that sounded right out of an 80s music video. sashagee had never heard of The Midnight, though, and partway through told me she loved the music and I said "Oh yeah, I have tons of stuff like this on my computer" and she was like, "That's news to me! You're always playing beep boop music and fucking bardcore." So now I have to keep an eye out for when TimeCop1983 or Gunship or Occam's Laser or Perturbator or Lazerhawk or Carpenter Brut, or even Kavinsky (does he even perform outside of France?) are coming through and take her to see those too.
She really liked it when the guy over on keyboard picked up the saxophone and took center stage. So did I, of course--there's a reason I made that tweet, and a reason I mentioned the Midnight stands out from other synthwave bands. Thought apparently Gunship got Tim Cappello to play saxophone for them?? I had no idea.
sashagee's favorite live song was "Good in Red" off of Horror Show, and mine was "River of Darkness" off of Nocturnal, though "Days of Thunder" was great live and "Heart Worth Breaking" sounded a lot better live than the studio recording--I think the singer put a lot more emotion in his voice. That was true of most of the songs we heard, actually. This is why you go to see live shows. I can still hear the whole audience singing along to "Gloria."
Afterwards we went on bar crawl with![[facebook.com profile]](https://www.facebook.com/favicon.ico)
gmarchan and confuciusdragon, who were getting out of their own show, and snagengast and her husband who met up with us, so we didn't get home until almost 3 a.m. It's a good thing that Laila was at Poppa and Nana's and didn't get back until dinner time.
sashagee to see The MidnightThe most Outrun of the pictures I took.
I've been listening to the Midnight for years, and I even had a brief interaction where they liked a tweet I made about them back when Twitter was actually marginally worth being on:
This is why @TheMidnightLA is one of my favorite synthwave bands because they remember the true characteristic of 80s pop: saxophone solos https://t.co/IdmB0HyAlK
— Ilyesen Valenroix (@Valenroix) October 25, 2022
The Midnight last came through our fair city in 2024, but their concert was the evening that Yom Kippur ended and there was no way I would be able to go to see them. So when I asked
sashagee a question form of that quote and she responded with "saxophones" I said "There's this band we have to go see" and on Saturday night we went to the Salt Shed to attend the concert. I paid extra for seats, so we had assigned seats on the rafters up above the hoi polloi, and therefore we bought drinks and stood in the merch line beforehand since we had a place to put our things (we bought LPs of Days of Thunder and Syndicate--they sadly did not have Nocturnal at all).The concert was fantastic! We missed part of New Constellations (the opener)'s set because I guess starting exactly on time is the new standard, but
sashagee had heard some of their music before and was happy to hear them live--the singer had a fantastic husky voice that sounded right out of an 80s music video. sashagee had never heard of The Midnight, though, and partway through told me she loved the music and I said "Oh yeah, I have tons of stuff like this on my computer" and she was like, "That's news to me! You're always playing beep boop music and fucking bardcore." So now I have to keep an eye out for when TimeCop1983 or Gunship or Occam's Laser or Perturbator or Lazerhawk or Carpenter Brut, or even Kavinsky (does he even perform outside of France?) are coming through and take her to see those too. She really liked it when the guy over on keyboard picked up the saxophone and took center stage. So did I, of course--there's a reason I made that tweet, and a reason I mentioned the Midnight stands out from other synthwave bands. Thought apparently Gunship got Tim Cappello to play saxophone for them?? I had no idea.
sashagee's favorite live song was "Good in Red" off of Horror Show, and mine was "River of Darkness" off of Nocturnal, though "Days of Thunder" was great live and "Heart Worth Breaking" sounded a lot better live than the studio recording--I think the singer put a lot more emotion in his voice. That was true of most of the songs we heard, actually. This is why you go to see live shows. I can still hear the whole audience singing along to "Gloria."Afterwards we went on bar crawl with
confuciusdragon, who were getting out of their own show, and snagengast and her husband who met up with us, so we didn't get home until almost 3 a.m. It's a good thing that Laila was at Poppa and Nana's and didn't get back until dinner time.
