Helen Marnie of Ladytron

Ladytron!  My first time seeing the British synthpop band was on October 8, 2011 at New York’s Terminal 5.  VHS or Beta opened the show and got the crowd ready to dance.  Ladytron took the stage around 9:30 and in additon to a great performance, there was a great light show.  Ladytron has 2 females and 2 males.  Helen Marnie sings most lead vocals and Mira Aroyo also sings lead on a few songs.  The 2 guys Reuben Wu and Daniel Hunt play keyboards.  Together, they make some pretty delicious dance grooves.

Ladytron

The nearly 2 hour set featured Ladytron hits such as “Seventeen,” “Discotraxx,” “Soft Power,” “Destroy Everything You Touch” (which was the final song of the night) and “Runaway.”  Tracks from their new album “Gravity the Seducer” including “White Gold,” ”Ace of Hz,” and “White Elephant” were played. The reception to the newer material was just as good as it was for the classic songs and it was a very fun show.

You can see the setlist (though it’s not that great of a photo) after the jump.

Ladytron Setlist at Terminal 5 in New York on October 8, 2011

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If you don’t know the music of Elbow, you are doing your ears a great injustice.  Their music is epic!  The band is great and lead singer Guy Garvey’s voice has been known to draw tears to many an eye.  I saw Elbow live at New York’s Terminal 5 on September 25, 2011 and the show was insanely awesome.  The final song of the night was “One Day Like This.”  Check out the video here.

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On September 28, 2011, Los Angeles’ Foster The People made a triumphant return to New York, playing their second of two sold out shows at Terminal 5.  I knew when I saw them earlier this year at the much smaller Bowery Ballroom they were going to be huge, and I was so pleased to see that the rest of the world has caught on.  In some ways, I expected their fan base to be emo hipsters, but instead it seemed to consist of tween girls.  But then again, when you think about the fact that Foster the People’s music is extremely catchy and the guys in the band are all hotties, it makes perfect sense.  Reptar and Cults opened the show (stay tuned for a video from Cults) and they were great.  Possibly my only complaint of the night was that Foster the People’s set was barely an hour and they didn’t even play all the songs off of their fantastic debut “Torches.”  However, what they lacked in set time, they made up in lighting.  Their stage presence has gotten bigger in every way and their laser lights show was extremely cool.  Lead singer Mark Foster talked about their participation with the Do Good Bus, an organization that travels around to various cities and helps local communities.  Also, we were treated to an as yet unreleased song called “Ruby” that Foster promised would be released some day.  Every song was a sing-a-long and highlights of course were the amazing “Helena Beat,” “Miss You,” “Houdini” and of course “Pumped Up Kicks.”  Click play to see what “Pumped Up Kicks” looked like from the front row!

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Guy Garvey of Elbow

Manchester’s Elbow played a sold out show at Terminal 5 in New York, on September 25, 2011.  Before you read on, if you don’t know Elbow’s music, you are doing your ears a great disservice.  Their 2008 album “The Seldom Seen Kid” is a masterpiece, according2g and it ranks up there with my favorite albums of all time.  It’s been about 2 years since Elbow played in New York and I forgot how funny lead singer Guy Garvey is.  In between songs, he talks to the crowd, flirts with some of the pretty ladies in the front and tells funny anecdotes.  At the end of the show, he expressed his gratitude for getting the opportunity to play for us and even went so far as calling the 5,000 capacity venue a bunch of “lovely fuckers.”  Classic!  It was quite an emotional roller coaster for me because at times I was laughing and at times I was crying.  I just happen to think that so many of their songs are so beautiful – almost too beautiful to be real –  and hearing them live was a little to heavy for my emotions to take.

Elbow

Aside from “Puncture Repair” and “Great Expectations” from their 2005 album “Leaders of the Free World,” Elbow stuck to playing songs off “The Seldom Seen Kid” and their latest album “Build a Rocket Boys!” From “The Seldom Seen Kid,” they played “Starlings,” “The Bones Of You,” “Mirrorball,” “Grounds For Divorce,” “Weather To Fly,” “The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver,” and “One Day Like This,” which was the epic final song of the night.  A video will be coming soon, so stick around for that.  From “Build A Rocket Boys!” they played “The Birds” “Lippy Kids,” “Neat Little Rows,” “The Night Will Always Win,” “The River” and “Open Arms.”  The band sounds fantastic, Guy Garvey’s voice sounds as great as it does on the albums and Garvey is so animated on stage.  He induced many sing-a-longs, arm waves from side to side and got the crowd to throw their hands in the air many times.  I am already having Elbow withdrawal and I hope they come back soon because they are absolutely sensational.  Thanks Elbow for an epic night!

Guy Garvey of Elbow

See the set list after the jump.

Elbow Set List Terminal 5

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This video is unlisted because the record labels have suddenly decided that youtube videos are killing the music business.  Since some of those people read this site, let me tell you that repackaging an album that all the fans already bought with one new song on it; the incompetent record execs who know nothing about music and are concerned only with the bottom line, incompetent PR people who give out all the perks to the “major websites” and then write terrible or no content on the event; charging 10 dollars for digital files that cost you pennies or less to upload and not getting in bed with technology before you got out-geeked is what killed the music business.

With that being said, here’s an amazing performance by the always amazing Lenny Kravitz, that you can only see here on According2g.com!  Thanks for your patronage.  When we say exclusive on this site, we actually know the definition of the word, so we mean it!

August 31, 2011.  “Are You Gonna Go My Way.”  Terminal 5.  New York.  Lenny!

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