CAUSE WHAT'S SIMPLE IN THE MOONLIGHT, BY THE MORNING NEVER IS



Bright Eyes w Gruff Rhys
Massey Hall
June 14, 2006

It's taken me over a week and a half to get to this post. What can be said. Front-row seats for Bright Eyes was....a little bit scary and a whole lotta goodness. Scary, because Connor was ultra-intoxicated, and kept staring at the people in the front row. It made me nervous, because he wasn't smiling, but just drunken-staring. Also, he spit a lot when he sang, which means he was giving it his all...as were the rest of his band. The tour was in support of nothing in particular, just a precursor to his appearance at Bonnaroo. The setlist consisted of many songs from I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning, and a few old songs thrown into the mix. Connor vox were great as usual, and the only song that seemed a bit sloppy was Lover I Don't Have To Love. I would have liked to have seen more material from Fever And Mirrors, and would have killed to see a cover of Feist's Mushaboom. Overall, a good Bright Eyes show, not the best I've seen them play, but as far as shows go, it was good.


Ps. Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals opened the show. Nothing spectacular, if it wasn't for his interesting because of his Welsh accent stage banter, it would have been pretty boring.