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Sunday, April 03, 2005

04.02.2005 Death From Above 1979 @ Mesa Luna Vancouver, BC

This show not surprisingly sold out a few days before the show. A long lineup to get in meant not see much of Elizabeth one of the openers, so i can't really comment on that. Controller Controller was pretty good. They've got that dance punk sound going on. Quite entertaining if i must say so myself. Didn't roll tape though, as I don't really see a need to.

The venue itself was packed tight like sardines in a can. Got stuck near the side of the stage. Wasn't too happy about it but thought i could pull off an over the drummer's shoulder shot. Problem was he was too high. So I moved onstage towards the back and kneeled sorta behind the drummer. Not a bad view at all. Cam #1 was situated towards the back. Sightlines kinda sucked, but i guess that's the best you can do, unless you go balcony, and that has sort of a weird feel to it.

DFA took the stage and blasted right into turn it on the lead off track from their album. A few songs later, they hit their current single romatic rights. They played pretty much most the songs from their album managing to keep the momentum from playing their singles early on in their set. The crowd was really into them with many a crowd surfing done by the mostly underage looking crowd, even some kinds who couldn't be any older than 15. At one point DFA stopped a song mid flight in order to lecture the crowd about how crowd surfing only benifets the actual surfer. They played a little under an hour with one encore.

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