On Friday Jill and I went to see Mates of State at the Greek Theater. They were openning for Spoon and Death Cab For Cutie. Mates went on right at 7:00 sharp before the majority of the people had even come in. Basically, the stadium was empty. We sat in the stands and watched happily as the yuppie set bought $16.95 cocktails, the hippie set wandered aimlessly, and a lot of parents escorted their teens and preteens. Kinda weird.
It felt like they only played for fifteen minutes. Most of their set lacked energy, as I think they feed a lot off of the crowd and the crowd wasn't giving them anything compared to the recent packed out bouncing, singing along, dancing crowd at the Great American Music Hall. It was an OK set and one highlight was how they smartly slipped that Gnarles Barkley song into the bridge of "Like You Crazy". They announced that they had two songs left, but only played one and were quickly swept off the stage.
Spoon played forgetful songs. Not sure how to describe their sound or style or genre. It's like when you put your drink cup under the Coke dispenser at a fast food stop and only the carbonated water comes out. No flavor. Sorry Spoon. Enjoy your Jaguars.
We stuck around to see what Death Cab was gonna do. They definately played the good stuff first (stuff from the Photo Album and the rare song "Photobooth"), but then they quicly fell into the pattern of sort of making fake endings to every song- slow it down, get very quiet. Then build it back slowly to sort of a climax and that got sort of old, when done in every song, so we took off.
MATES OF STATE "Fraud in the 80s" video
MATES OF STATE some footage that includes recording of "Ha Ha"
DEATH CAB Actual footage from the other night playing "Photobooth"
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