I got the fucking tickets!

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Nuttkase

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I feel like a 10 year old on Christmas morning. So Modest Mouse is playing a record release show here in Seattle at some army/navy place type thing. It holds around 750 and 107.7 The End was giving away 100 tickets and so was KEXP, so that leaves about 500 tickets to buy. I got on the comp and kept hitting refresh on Ticketmaster (bleh...fuck them, but you have to do what you have to do) and was able to score three tickets. Show is this Wendsday too...I can't wait!
 

Nuttkase

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Yup, came out today. I got a free 7" with a bonus song when I picked it up last night. I'm going to also pick up on vinyl tommorow after the concert.

This will be like my 4th or 5th time seeing them, they always put on a good show.
 

B-Buzz

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It's fucking great, album of the year so far. It leaked over a month ago lol, and I've listened to it so many fucking times and I'm still not sick of it.
I remember they played at some awards show a few years back and Isaac had a black eye haha. I'm gonna pick it up in the next couple of days, too fucking good not to support it.
 

Nuttkase

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They got a regular and a delux edition, I got the delux of course lol. Do you have the rest of their albums RJ? While I do like the new album a lot, it's not their best work IMO. Prob. my 3rd favorite, after just having it a little while.

Although Marr kicked ass on guitar on the album and his style fits them perfect.
 

Nuttkase

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Holy fucking shit, that show was fucking amazing. The opening band straight sucked and that's as much as I'm writing about them.

Modest Mouse played a long one hour and forty-five minute set more or less straight through. Maybe out of that like 10-15 minutes tops was a little chatting with the crowd or getting ready for the next song. They played a really good mix from almost all their albums. They played what is prob. my two favorite songs by them (Paper Thin Walls and Tiny Cities Made of Ashes - which are both of off Moon and Antartica - in other words download/buy that album RJ)

I'd just like to say that Isacc Brock is a fucking amazing frontman. He kept the same energy from start to finish. He played the guitar with his teeth at one point and the chemistry between him and Johnny Marr was awesome to see live. Johnny kicked ass although I do have to admit he looked kind out of place seeing he is in his mid 40's while the rest of the band is in their early 30's.

The venue was really cool, it was at the South Lake Union Naval Reserve right on the water. Seriously, it was in the fucking gym, which was really surreal seeing a band as big as Modest Mouse was playing there. I kept on feeling like we were waiting for a local high school band to start playing or something lol.

Anyways no one prob cares but I just felt like saying it was a fucking awesome show, it wasn't my first Modest Mouse concert and it definitely will not be my last...especially seeing that I am going to their show at the Paramount in April lol.
 

Nuttkase

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Well most people like the album that more or less introduced them to a band the most so that is understandable.

We were like about 10 feet away from the stage, I'd guess Isaac was about 6'0 or so. He doesn't move around the stage much but he really gets into his performance a lot, like he looks like he is in a trance sometimes and at other times he is like a mad man. When they go on their nationwide tour if they are anywhere near you I'd really suggest you go RJ...I know you would love them live.

Oh yeah and you should also check out the band that Isaac started when he wasn't sure if he still wanted to do Modest Mouse or not anymore. It's named Ugly Casanova and they have one album called Sharpen Your Teeth, it's really good IMO.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_Casanova