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Mission Ballroom (with Dustin)

• Teri Gender Bender
• The Mars Volta

Mars Volta’s setlist:

1. Vicarious Atonement
2. Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of)
3. Eriatarka
4. Graveyard Love
5. L’Via L’Viaquez
6. Empty Vessels Make the Loudest Sound
7. Cygnus…Vismund Cygnus
8. Blacklight Shine
9. Drunkship of Lanterns
10. The Widow
11. Cicatriz ESP
12. Televators
13. Son et lumière
14. Inertiatic ESP

Broomfield Event Center (1STBANK Center)

• Local Natives opened up the concert, but Ally and I were at a party at her mom’s house a little late and missed them. We weren’t too heartbroken.
• Arcade Fire

Ally’s former babysitter (Rebecca) from nearly 20 years ago posted on Facebook that she had two free suite tickets up for grabs to the concert. Ally tried to get them, but somebody beat her to it. Then she got a message from Rebecca saying that the person that got the tickets couldn’t find a babysitter, and couldn’t accept the tickets. So Ally was next in line. Apparently Rebecca and her husband run a branch of a mortgage company, and they own a suite (like, their company name is written above the door to the suite…that’s how hard they own it) at the Broomfield Event Center so that they can give their clients tickets as gifts. Whenever they don’t have anybody to give them to, they pass them on to friends (or Facebook friends). We got to sit in awesome leather chairs in a suite that smelled like nachos (we didn’t feel comfortable eating their fancy food since it was never offered to us, so we just drank ice water out of the sink in the suite’s minibar/kitchen…yeah).

The concert itself was amazing. Arcade Fire rocked, and played all of their best music. We moved around to behind the stage for then encore. This was the first concert I recorded with the iPhone4, and am impressed with the quality over the 3GS. It’s still shit, so I recommend searching YouTube for a better version.

Wells Fargo Theatre (at the Denver Convention Center)

• N.E.R.D.
• Gorillaz

Another amazing show, but different than I expected. Gorillaz actually had a band, and not just a virtual one. A huge band, actually. I think I counted close to 40 performers altogether, not including all the artists that tour with them just to sing the 1 or 2 songs they’re featured on. Incredible.

Here’s the encore. Such poor quality that I recommend you don’t watch, and in fact, don’t even listen. Neither are worth it.

The Pepsi Center

• Passion Pit
• Muse

Incredible show. Up there with NIN as being the most visually compelling concert I’ve ever seen. The music was epic.

Here’s the encore shown in two parts. It was shot from my iPhone, so the sound and video quality are shit. There are much better recordings out there, but you know, incessant record keeping.

The Fox Theatre

• Delta Spirit
• The Rescues – in the 13th Street parking lot outside the theater. Only saw about half their set.
• Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
• Guster

Awesome show. Alex Ebert is a crazy performer, and Guster’s set was one of their best. I think it’s refreshing when they have new music to play.

I apologize for the ass hole behind the camera singing along off-key. Way off-key.