July 29th
The Fray: Live at the Marquee Theatre, July 23rd
There are two words that describe The Fray’s performance pretty well: it rocked. They played nearly all the songs on their album, as well as a cover of The Beatles’ Eleanor Rigby, and tasteful performance of “Summertime” (that one Jazz song) played solo style (i.e., lead singer and piano). You could also see them fairly up close. Enough to recognize their faces.
However, I don’t have anything good to say about the venue itself, or what we (meaning myself and my two sisters) had to go through in order to see The Fray perform.
Complaint the first
I live in Arizona. I live near Phoenix. Which, by implication, means that it is normally hot in the Summer. Apparently, there were a lot of people who wanted to see the Fray, which, by implication, means that the line to the theater was, well, very long. By now the more observant of you will have deduced that my sisters and I stood in line while the sun, even as it was on its way to set (think late afternoon), broiled us to a crisp, tasty delight.
We stood. We talked. We sweated. Repeat.
Of course, it’s unreasonable to blame the theatre for the temperature outside, so I won’t do that.
Complaint the second
The auditorium, if you can call it that, was really a large, rectangular room, complete with concrete floor and a very poignant lack of seating. If you squeezed people together so there was a minimum amount of two inches between them, you could probably fit four hundred people in the room. And that’s what they did.
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