Last year Young Empires played their very first show in San Francisco at the small dive club, The Parkside. This time around on their second visit to the city Young Empires opened for the Generationals at a slightly larger, more renowned venue and to a sold-out crowd at Bottom of the Hill.
By 10:00 the place was packed and the Canadian indie, rock band had the show underway with one of their more bubbly catchy tracks, "Enter Through The Sun". Before continuing on with what was sure to be more off of their recently released EP, Wake All My Youth lead singer took a moment to introduce the band "What's up everyone? We're Young Empires from Toronto."
During the world rhythm infused indie anthem-ish, "Rain of Gold", my good friend and plus one to the show that night who wasn't familiar with Young Empires told me that she liked them, she liked the band. My friend is a huge fan of The Killers, so if you're not familiar with Young Empires that should be a good insight to what they sound like.
Some of the synthy-ness on "Glory of the Night," was lost on stage but acted as a good transition into, "Earth Plates Are Shifting," following the trend of slowing the tempo of the show down just a tad without ceasing the fun being had. For an indie show/crowd/venue I was pleasantly surprised at the amount of movement through out the crowd which has a tendency to be somewhat minimal with SF show goers.
Right when we got to the show that night I had mentioned to my friend that the guitarist was not the guitarist I remember seeing last year. Sure enough before playing what I'd say is their most well known song, "White Doves" lead singer Matthew introduced the new bandmate: "This is Randall our new guitar player. He's been with us for....how long? Four weeks? About 4 weeks. He's from South Africa but he loOoOves America."
A playful arrogance exuded from the stage throughout Young Empires set and you could see and feel that they were happy to be there. "This has been a great experience. Last time we played in San Francisco we played at a place down the street and blew the power like three times, it was really shitty!" the lead singer shared. It's true. They did blow the power like three times at The Parkside but that night the sound was just fine at Bottom of the Hill. And on that note Young Empires ended their set with energetic dance track "We don't Sleep Tonight."
We stuck around to see what the Generationals are all about and they're good in their own regard but my friend and I both said that we enjoyed Young Empires a bunch more.
Go see for yourself! Catch Young Empires on tour!
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| Photo by: Nikki DeMartini |
During the world rhythm infused indie anthem-ish, "Rain of Gold", my good friend and plus one to the show that night who wasn't familiar with Young Empires told me that she liked them, she liked the band. My friend is a huge fan of The Killers, so if you're not familiar with Young Empires that should be a good insight to what they sound like.
Some of the synthy-ness on "Glory of the Night," was lost on stage but acted as a good transition into, "Earth Plates Are Shifting," following the trend of slowing the tempo of the show down just a tad without ceasing the fun being had. For an indie show/crowd/venue I was pleasantly surprised at the amount of movement through out the crowd which has a tendency to be somewhat minimal with SF show goers.
Right when we got to the show that night I had mentioned to my friend that the guitarist was not the guitarist I remember seeing last year. Sure enough before playing what I'd say is their most well known song, "White Doves" lead singer Matthew introduced the new bandmate: "This is Randall our new guitar player. He's been with us for....how long? Four weeks? About 4 weeks. He's from South Africa but he loOoOves America."
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| Photo by: Nikki DeMartini |
We stuck around to see what the Generationals are all about and they're good in their own regard but my friend and I both said that we enjoyed Young Empires a bunch more.
Go see for yourself! Catch Young Empires on tour!
 |
| Photo by: Nikki DeMartini |
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