I just picked up a pair of tickets for the Arcade Fire/LCD Soundsystem show in the Roy Wilkins Auditorium on September 30th. Anybody seen a show at this venue? Is it super big? How does the joint sound?
I grabbed general admission tickets this time around since the last time we saw Arcade Fire we were too far off to really feel the show. It doesn't help that when you see music from the cheap seats at the Hollywood Bowl there's a quarter mile of wine-drinking, cheese eating, loud-chatting NPR-listening yuppies between you and the band you love. I am fortunate enough to have seen Arcade Fire in the Troubador (the same place they held the Rock Band party at E3) but Alexis hasn't really experienced the band properly. That's why we'll be down on the floor elbowing our way towards the stage come September.
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Karri and I saw Jewel there. It is NOT intimate but it isn't a stadium concert either. It sounded fine; pretty good actually. Roy Wilkins is just an old hockey arena cut in half. Kinda neat in that recycling kinda way.
I saw Nine Inch Nails there. Takeaway: Not as bad as the worst venue in the world, which would be the Target Center, but it has basically no redeeming qualities. Hopefully the show will be good, because the environment will not be.
The venue looks kinda cool on the outside at least.
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