Howie Day
Over 1,100 students packed into Irvine Auditorium at the University of Pennslvania last night for the last stop of Howie Day's fall tour. All were seated, but that didn't stop people from heckling Howie between songs. He finally had enough and improvised the lyrics of Sunday Morning Song to reflect one obnoxious girl who was screaming during a song. Howie was having a bit of a problem with one of his pedals but that only affected two songs, so it wasn't too bad.
I am disappointed in the audience. I'd say 90% of these so-called "fans" attended the show because they like "Collide" and have never heard a Howie Day song live to save their lives. The people around me were complaining about Howie's looping and how he should just give up on the "background music." Unfortunately, I think that was the sentiment of the entire crowd, since everyone pretty much got up and left before Howie even finished "Collide." Seeing this mass exodus of people, the light crew must have realized no one was sticking around for an encore so they turned the house lights on and we missed out on a couple more songs (slated to be "Perfect Time Of Day" and "Madrigals" per the setlist). I had a great time at the show and love the new songs and cover, but the entire experience was soured by people here at Penn generally being assholes and not knowing proper concert etiquette (or not caring enough to follow it) and leaving before the show was over.
The setlist was as follows:
Sorry, So Sorry
Brace Yourself > (Don't Panic %)
Numbness For Sound
Be There
Bunnies
I'll Take You On >
Don't Dream It's Over $
Sunday Morning Song
Disco
Been There
She Says > (One #)
Ghost > Beams of Light
Collide% Coldplay
$ Crowded House
# U2
There were some changes to the original setlist, including a little bit of reordering, "Don't Dream It's Over" replacing another cover, "The Drugs Don't Work," and of course the loss of the two song encore.
Here's a Flickr photoset of some pictures I took during the show. Also, there was a taper at the show, named Casey, who said the show should be out in a couple of weeks. I'll keep an eye out for it and post a link to it here when it's available.
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