New Videos >> YACHT at Crescent Ballroom

Videos from the YACHT >> show this past Thursday night at Crescent Ballroom have been posted to the zBORED YouTube channel. Don Ricardo and Onuinu played sets to start the evening before the headlining YACHT took stage in downtown Phoenix to wrap up the last leg of theirĀ Shangri-La tour.

YACHT >> at Crescent Ballroom

The Portland-based duo opened with 'Summer Song' and immediately got the house going absolutely fucking bananas. The oversized screen behind Jona and Claire featured the classic YACHT triangle in front of various retro images of them and other miscellaneous nonsensicals like microscope footage [I think I also saw scenes from a few different Hitchcock flicks]. Jona wasted no time getting into the crowd at center stage to sing with us using YACHT's classic, infinitely long microphone cord which Claire would later tangle herself in at vocal breaks.

After the intro song came a band intro and then they got right into lots of Shangri-La tracks like 'Utopia', 'One Step', 'I Walked Alone' [with live cowbell!], 'Dystopia [The Earth Is On Fire]' and my favorite off the album 'Tripped And Fell In Love'. Sporadic tracks off prior albums would later ensue like 'I'm In Love With A Ripper' and 'Psychic City [Voodoo City]' which they outro-ed with [I'm not using 'closed' or 'closed out' anymore since encores have sadly become predictably standard these days - I think this warrants a future post]. The tour and album title track 'Shangri-La' made for a perfect 'encore' as Claire let us sing along for most of the bridge and every hook.

It was such a fun show. They are really cool [got to chat with them before the show, stay tuned for my exclusive interview coming this week] and I'm anxious to see what kind of show they put on in San Francisco for Outside Lands in August.

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