Radiohead & Grizzly Bear @ The Tweeter Center

Monday, April 14, 2008

Thanks to David's quick thinking the other day (we were driving in the middle of nowhere when he suddenly remembered that tickets had just gone on sale, so we detoured to my parents house where we used to mothers laptop to get tickets), he, Renee and I somehow secured tickets to see Radiohead & Grizzly Bear on August 12th at the Tweeter Center in Mansfield!

This will be the second time I'll have seen Radiohead live (the first was at Suffolk Downs in 2001) and my first time seeing Grizzly Bear, whom I absolutely love and have been wanting to see for a while now. It's going to be tough to beat the show at Suffolk Downs, though, since it was without a doubt one of the best live show I've ever seen (despite it's size). THE BETA BAND and Kid Koala opened, which was amazing enough, but then after their regular set was finished Radiohead came back for two long encores, playing for almost THREE HOURS. I got to witness Johnny Greenwood experimenting with his beautiful machines for almost 15 minutes at the end of "The Tourist." They played almost every song I wanted to hear. The weather was perfect. The outdoor crowd was so well controlled that I, in spite of my amazing lack of height, got a pretty good view from my spot closer to the front without being constantly squashed into the barriers by rowdy teenagers and excitable drunks in the back.

I'll keep you all updated on how it goes! No doubt that it will be a welcome break for me, seeing as the baby will be about 2 months old by then (it's happening so fast)! In the meantime, here are some more Radiohead/Grizzly Bear tour dates:

08/03 - Verizon Wireless Music Center @ Indianapolis, IN
08/04 - Blossom Music Center @ Cleveland, OH
08/06 - Parc Jean Drapeau @ Montreal, QC
08/08 - All Points West Music & Arts Festival/Liberty State Park @ Jersey City, NJ
08/09 - All Points West Music & Arts Festival/Liberty State Park @ Jersey City, NJ
08/12 - Susquehanna Bank Center @ Camden, NJ
08/13 - Tweeter Center For the Performing Arts @ Mansfield, MA
08/15 - Molson Amphitheatre @ Toronto, ON

I have to admit I'm particularly excited to see Grizzly Bear. I can usually find a way to see every band that enters into my life in some significant emotional way right at the start of when they begin to touch me (Why? and Parenthetical Girls are good examples of this) but Grizzly Bear has eluded me in one way or another for over a year now. Seeing them at the Tweeter Center opening for Radiohead won't be as wonderful as seeing them at Pearl Street in Northampton this past September would have been, but I'm thankful just the same.

This song in particular was everything to me for a while:

"On A Neck, On a Spit" live