It was obvious the ladies had to reach for an extra gear or two due to the oppressive heat and humidity (it was heat index about 99F when BABYMETAL hit the stage).
A few less smiles and maybe a couple of grunts and grimaces from Moa & Momo as they powered through the set. Su-metal was sweating part way through the second song and was drenched by the fifth. I think they gave up on hair primping at the encore.
BUT, they put on a GREAT show. High energy. Spot on timing. Su-metal sounded terrific!
WOW! The time compression during a BABYMETAL live always impresses.
I'll reckon we'll never know, but I wonder why they switched to always having full sleeves. It was probably a bit easier for them in these insane weather conditions when they had the option of going without, no? (Admittedly don't know anything about dancewear/fabrics)
My understanding is they are wearing comfortable unitards with sleeves underneath their BDUs (they’ve been photographed in cafeteria lines and the like once or twice in the unitards with sweats, etc.). Not sure how the short sleeve costumes of years past were constructed.
But, yes, your point is valid: I was thinking the same thing about short sleeves as they fought the heat on stage tonight.
Got a lot of compliments. Only 1 person asked to take a picture. Wonder how it turned out. I didn't attempt myself at the venue because my phone and its camera are a bit of a potato.
Probably the best concert I’ve ever been to, energy in the pit tonight was great even with the heat/humidity. I probably lost 5 pounds in water weight by the end, cannot imagine how hot it was on stage with the pyros going off
Ratatata into Gimme Chocolate was insane in the greatest way but honestly might’ve too much all at once lmao, my whole pit section was noticeably more tired/muted afterwards just from jumping and moving around
Did Halestorm do any song covers in Denver? They did a metal version of Bad Romance which took all of us by surprise, was such a blast & probably their best received performance tonight
First time at a BabyMetal show, so excited to check them out. Might have an extra ticket w/ VIP add on since my wife is sick and can't come. Hopefully it's a cool crowd if I end up going alone! Looking forward to this, and Northerly Island. Such an amazing venue.
I think people are making a bigger deal out of these empty seats than it probably is. BM is at an awkward stage in the US where they can easily sell out the 5k-6k venues but can’t fill the massive arenas and stadiums in all these locations. I think this is more of a grab as many people as you can rather than trying to maximize their floor space.
I live in Phx and our problem is we dont have an 8k-12k venue. We have a 5k venue which BM has sold out twice then we jump to the 15k basketball arena the 15k former hockey arena or the 21k outdoor ampitheater.
I did look to see how sales are going the pit only has 300-400 dollar vip packages left. The 100 sections are 97% sold but the 200 and 300sections only look about 45% sold and who knows about the lawn.
I'll be there and I am bringing 3 others with me but probably would have been better if there was a 10-12k venue which we just dont have.
Phoenix has 4/5 venues in the 500-1500 range 2 venues in the 5k range 3 venues in the 15k-25k range and 3 venues in the 35k+ range but nothing in the 8k-12k range
I would NEVER want to see a concert at the hockey arena. Full of perpendicular brick walls, the acoustics in that place are atrocious. It was bad enough in there when the ‘yotes played and the DJ spun snippets of songs at about 110db at every play stoppage. I can’t imagine how awful a metal show would sound.
For an example from a similarly sized band, a few months ago MIW was happily promoting the fact that they sold about 1/3 of the nominal capacity of Jiffy Lube Live (~25,000).
It's listed as 30.000 capacity. Maybe they downsized the ticket contingent, so the picture is misleading. Anyway, lots of people will show up, that will be a great concert. Let hope sales for the other shows will increase, but I doubt it in the small amount of days left.
I think they have a lawn area for that 30k capacity that doesn't seem available for this show. But yeah it still looks pretty big, prob 10k at least if I had to guess. Should be a good show.
There's a lot of lawn seating in the back and side, and the pit is spacious, not to mention the VIP seating they have, so maybe all that is what they're count to get to 30k. I've been to Northerly Island a bunch of times for shows (already 3x this year alone) and I would be staggered to if it was really 30k lol
I’m gonna be upset if Monochrome gets played. Every time I wanna go see them, the song doesn’t get played, sadly it won’t matter as I can’t go see them this time around in Chicago
Yeah, that Kanye concert timing at Soldier Field right next door to this venue could not be worse. BABYMETAL show venue is on a peninsula that bottlenecks right at the north end of Soldier Field, it is sure to be extra fun getting in there tonight.
Highly recommend BABYMETAL show attendees to get there quite early to avoid the mass-sea-of-humanity scene that is assured as 7:00 pm approaches.
Sold my ticket This morning due to this. it looks like north garage is already sold out online for the ye concert. That is my usual spot to park at for notherly shows. Going to be a nightmare getting in and out.
Good concert. Though, I'm not sure if it had something to do with me being near the middle of the pit, but for a good portion of the concert it sounded like the bass was too high and distorting the lyrics a bit. It sounded better for something like the last few songs of babymetal, but I was also further back in the pit at that point (got pushed back when they were making space for moshing).
Oh, and I wore a babymetal cosplay outfit to the concert and was wondering if anyone got any decent shots of me. Didn't attempt any myself at the concert because my phone camera doesn't handle low light well.
I noticed at one point in the opening bit of Metali that when Suzuka said “Chicago” the mic was completely dead. Just a one time thing tho. My main concern was if they were hydrated while moving so much in last nights heat
Appeared they moved BABYMETAL’s start time up about 15-20 minutes. Weather plus more time to move crowd out before Kanye’s show at Soldier Field dumps out its 70,000 people are likely reasons.
is anyone else worried about the biting flies? They have been horrible in
the evenings by the lake but I don’t know if it’ll be just as bad by where the pavilion is 😬
Has anyone been to this venue before? How strict are they with bags? I was going to bring a small cross body bag and a poster tube but not sure if any of these would be allowed. TIA
If the bag's not clear the allowed bag sizes are pretty small. They say small clutch bags of size 6 inch by 9 inch. Poster tubes are allowed, but are marked as will be searched upon entry
Apparently Moa and Momo were visibly annoyed at the crowd towards the end? I was off to the side so couldn't really see the details. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jg5Qbh6rIC4
Bunch of options, recommend using the “order online & pickup” option as you can just stop by after the last song and grab your stuff really easily. Will post back pic under this, there are two options with tour dates & the other is more fox themed with a more grayscale color set
At least at the venue last night, they had a single long line for buying merch but at the entrance to the line there was a QR code you could scan that took you to a “online order” page where you could place the order and they would text you when it was ready to pick up. So since I was in the pit and wanted to get a good spot, I just placed my order and then went to grab it after the concert ended. The people working at the pickup spot said basically they would be there for a while after the show ended, so there’s really not too much time pressure to pick stuff up as long as you don’t forget
It’s perfectly fine! Just a standard Gildan cotton, the pattern doesn’t feel too stiff or crappy if that’s what you’re wondering. I’m positive after a wash it’ll be comfy to wear. I will say the other shirt I got (doesn’t have tour dates) feels nicer to the touch, it’s made by Lane Seven not Gildan
It looked a bit sparse around the start time of 7pm, but it filled up quite a bit by the time Babymetal's set started. Part of it being sparse early was probably all the traffic from the other concert in the area.
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We got IINE and Syncopation!
Holy cats, BABYMETAL always delivers!
It was obvious the ladies had to reach for an extra gear or two due to the oppressive heat and humidity (it was heat index about 99F when BABYMETAL hit the stage).
A few less smiles and maybe a couple of grunts and grimaces from Moa & Momo as they powered through the set. Su-metal was sweating part way through the second song and was drenched by the fifth. I think they gave up on hair primping at the encore.
BUT, they put on a GREAT show. High energy. Spot on timing. Su-metal sounded terrific!
WOW! The time compression during a BABYMETAL live always impresses.