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Poppy Concert review

A few days ago I went to a poppy concert and wow, what a night of rock and roll.

The venue was the ogden theatre in denver CO. I’d never been to but it was really good, the audio was great, the stage design was good, and there was no bad seat in the house, really a cool venue and I will be looking to go again soon.

The opening act was PVRIS and although I wasn’t here for her or familiar with her music I thought she played good and had a good voice and stage presence. I wont say to much her other than she really did a nice job with stage design, had like a forest vibe. After the opening act there was a small intermission as there usually is and I started chatting with a guy named Liam who showed me this website (not sponsored by the way) called setlist.fm which had accurately showed me the set list. I wonder how the artist would feel about this, maybe they would consider this as harmful as a song leak but to me since it’s not and can in most cases be assembled by fans at the show I don’t see the ethical issue at all and will certaintly be using this resource going forward, big shout out to you this was so clutch and I wonder who the leak was because this was 100% correct.

Finally Poppy came on her stage design was much more minimal, but the show was full of energy, and even the occasional shriek which I did not get that on film once unfortunatly. I am a huge fan of her music I got sucked into the story thru a Shane Dawson video and ended up checking the music out of curiosity and was pleasantly surprised and have been listing to her ever since. I like the contrast of soft alternative rock and heavy metal in the same song and the more provactive electronic tracks as well, for those unintiated her sound is interesting and unique and some of the lyrics are really potent as well. If you are a fan of rock or electro you may be a fan of Poppy as well. Side note: Drummer and guitarist for Poppy were really talented, by my count the drummer had a 12 piece drum set and the guitarist was really showing his class, I kept a close eye on him as I am a novice guitar player and like to see the chords or finger placement to try to replicate later.

Some dude crowd surfing during the poppy show

Overall the Ogden theatre was a surprise gem of a venue, with effort in stage design, good views anywhere and by my count at least 3 bars which helps keeps the wait time reasonable, for the price of the ticket you can tell they did a good job in returning that value to the concert goer. Poppy was exactly what I expected, a good performer, cutting edge, and exciting. Packing in 17 songs in about 75 minutes. Another absolute banger of a concert.

Scary mask –
Concrete – Poppy with me doing background vocals lol
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Bully Concert – Marquis theater Denver, CO

Two days ago I went to a concert at the Marquis theater in Denver, CO to see the band Bully. Marquis theater is a smaller venue which I love because they’re more intimate and fun in my experience than a band with a stadium concert. Bully is a band based out of Nashville, Tennessee and the musical project of lead vocalist and guitarist Alicia Bognanno. The genre is alternative rock. I’m not sure how I found this band but I love a few songs and that’s basically the threshold for me to consider going to a concert. The logic behind this is if I have 3-4 songs from a band that I like if I see them live the chance they don’t play at least one of those is very slim. They played all the hits so I was pleased with that.

Bev-rage and the drinks

Doors opened at 7PM but the show didn’t start till 8PM. The opening act was a band called Bev-rage and the drinks. The lead for this band is a male who performs in drag and is called Beverley hence the name. The sound for these guys is 90’s punk rock. Think NOFX. I will say it seems there audio was louder than the main act but also had better mixing. Leads voice came out clearly which was not the case with bully as sometimes the leads voice would be drowned out by the instruments. But these things happen. Overall this was a good opener and they rocked hard for 30 minutes and got the crowd going.

Bully

The band played all the songs I liked and even graced the crowd with a cover of Jane says by Janes Addiction. Honestly I love covers and wish bands would do them more. Like weezers cover album is one of there best albums, some of my favorite nirvana songs are covers. Covers can be better than the original too. They played, feel the same, milkman, runnin, trying andI remember, all the hits and songs I knew well before going to the show, most of the rest was other things I didn’t know but still liked, when feel the same came on I joined the mosh pit and went a little crazy. I usually avoid moshpits but it was really fun, most alive I’ve felt all year, and was the most animated I was the entire show, really love that song. Concerts are the most fun thing I can do I literally love them. Overall this was a good 2 hours of music and I’m glad I went. Truth be told I almost sold the ticket because I’m broke as hell and have social anxiety. But I went to the show alone, felt fine chatted up some strangers danced and overall had a good time. After the show I got home safely in a taxi and called it a night.

Overall I’d recommend going to see bully if you like Alternative rock music. I thought it was a great show and the crowd had great energy. Glad I went. One thing I did like was this discordant chord thing they did in between every song. Cool way to go into a song.

Discordant chord thing I mentioned before going into “trying”
Jane says – Janes addiction cover
The final song of the night was Milkman, the first song I heard from this band