Mew, like an old school band, is getting better with age. They spoiled the audience with some superb intros that kept them on their toes. When the intros led into the songs, the results were cathartic.
But like any old school band, or the Beatles in particular, the climatic screams of the overjoyed fans were followed by a consistent sing along. For the less intense fans of the Danish trio (they lost their Bassist to marriage…), the fanatics really ruined the essence of the show.
The first song from the Good-Concert-Bad-Karaoke series was “156”. After the teenage fans’ own 30 seconds screaming intro, they screeched along with the Jasper.
Despite the endless shrieks, the rest of us were able to appreciate the better renditions of the band’s extensive discography. The legendary “Zookeeper’s Boy”, the intoxicating guitar intro of “Snow Brigade”, and the heavily commercialized “Special” got the crowd’s loudest cheers. These songs really were the most sonically reworked of the concert and it came through.
Call me a sucker for dark, fatalistic chords, but last night the ones that really got to me were “Apocalypso” and “Comforting Sounds”. With Mew, the more intense the song, the more energy you are going to get from the stage. These two last hits got what the rest of the concert was most lacking: stage energy that filled the room.
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