Last night I had the pleasure of viewing The Rapture live, and quite the pleasure it was. First of all it was at the Henry Fonda Musicbox Theatre which I like more and more everytime I go there. Good sound and you can see from everywhere, plus the drink prices aren’t too too bad. I got there around 9:15 and caught the end of The Presets. They are awesome, if you want to know more about their live show, read my thoughts here (photos, mp3s, words) and the dance party here.

When I first saw that The Rapture and The Presets were on tour I knew it would be a huge dance party and had to get tickets. It was everything I thought it would be. The whole front half of the Fonda was dancing and everybody in the sold out show was having a great time. With a band like The Rapture where you have an arsenal of good songs it’s hard to have any down time. They played alot of stuff from the new album Pieces of the People We Love as well as good songs from previous albums. Things started to get really interesting and heated when they came back out for the encore. First of all, the only song I really had to see/hear live was “Don Gon Do It,” which was the first encore song. Then the mob started get a little rowdy. One guy managed to jump up on stage, shake his rump and almost dance for like a second, then jumped into the crowd. I was pretty close to the left of him and I think his friends caught him. Then other people started crowd surfing, getting pulled down - then pushed around by the rest of the crowd when they tried to make it back to their spot. People were pretty pissed off about it for some reason. Come on guys… it’s all in good fun. There were three songs in the encore to close out the tour and then out of the awesome sweaty mess we were all in and out to the Hollywood streets.

Overall great show, the guys in The Rapture really know how to keep a show at a high energy point for a good 45 minutes. By the time the show is over I was pretty danced out so we didn’t go to the after party at Starshoes down the way. In closing; it was a really fun show and I would definately try and see them again any time I can.

For a video with really crappy audio (sorry) head here on You Tube.

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