First I would like to say a few laudatory words about The Fillmore and its fantastic management. It’s probably the classiest, if not the only classiest venue in Charlotte. If you want to experience a great concert the Fillmore won’t let you down, with its nice acoustics, lights, stage, two or three tier viewing levels. But it’s no smoking, and make sure you pre-game or else you’ll be dishing out 8$ for a tallboy. And one tallboy is never truly enough. It’s a sharp contrast to Charlotte’s usual grimy hole-in-the-wall venues which are the top choices for Charlotte’s musician elites. I think The Fillmore offers a cleaner, bigger space, a nicer atmosphere… which makes sense in correlation with its expensive admissions and dranks.
Moving on, this is where I got to see the concert, and I was really blown away by the entourage of bands that performed as openers. Foxy Shazam were so full of energy! I especially adored the keyboardist, who I could only picture as an energetically bouncy Tribal Ryze come to life and getting as close as he could to making love to his keyboard with his clothes still on, beating it up, and riding it like he was taming a wild animal. He definitely rune prisoned the audience with his charisma.
I can only describe the band Fun in the following way: music for a Gray’s Anatomy Seattle atmosphere. It’s that whole reminiscent key and tone that makes you feel reflective, happy, sad, and a lot of other emotions all at once.
Panic at the Disco! Put on an amazing show as well. The song lineup was well mixed between new-old-new-old-old-new-new-old-new-etc so they did a great job at keeping the crowd on their feet with what’s coming next! Between humorous anecdotes, their performance was fantastic, and it took me all the way back to angsty high school times.
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