Art Activism

The Bravery – Duckie and the Winchesters

Lillian Beauregarde on 12 9, 2009

The Bravery

This is the part where Miss Beauregarde realized how little of the Bravery’s music she actually knows. I know the entire album The Sun and The Moon and that’s pretty much it.  “Believe” was as good as I’d remembered and it was very much the same quality as was on the album track. Their set felt like Phil Spector’s “Wall of Sound” as there were sounds coming out from everywhere. The keyboards were synth one minute and then played straight the next.

Try a Little Tenderness

(Oh and the lead singer was wearing a Duckie hat… just so you know.) As was true of the music on The Sun and The Moon, the Bravery writes some wicked interesting lyrics. Here are two that I wrote down during the concert.

“You put the broke in brokenhearted. You put the art in retarded.” – Public Service Announcement

“Raise your glass in salutation, we drink to our annihilation.” – I Have Seen the Future

“Two in the box! Ready to go! We be fast and they be slow!”

The song “Jack O’ Lantern Man,” from the new album Stir The Blood, makes my head run around in the second season of the television show Supernatural. “Someday when push comes to shove, we’ll see who’s nothing then.” Being in the Supernatural fandom is nothing new for me with this band as that’s how I discovered them in the first place. Yay for discovering music in odd places!

The stand out moments of this set have to be “Time Won’t Let Me Go” and the encore performance of “The Ocean”. “Time,” while containing some vocal jumping that was a bit off-putting, was a wonderful showcase for the lead guitar and such an enjoyable song to hear performed live. The star, for me anyway, was “The Ocean”… a song I didn’t even really like on the album. The version they played at the show was a much harder version of the song and I’m glad to say that I found the remix for because it was so much better!

“Above and Below,” my favorite song by the Bravery, wasn’t played but all in all, I really enjoyed their set. The band had a advance buy meet and greet after the show for their new cd and I really enjoyed speaking with their bassist and drummer as they were funny guys who didn’t make fun of me when I babbled on like an idiot for loving The Sun and The Moon.

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