Phoenix Says It Best Themselves: "This Is Show Time"

What a great way to start a Fall Tour! Phoenix sold out all 17,000 seats at the Hollywood Bowl last weekend, and I was lucky enough to have gotten one of them! They played all of their "sweet-tempered, a little nostalgic and always danceable" (LATimes) songs off their new Wolfgang Amadeus album, starting and ending with two of their biggest hits: Lisztomania and 1901. The Hollywood bowl was the perfect venue for this indie music sensation. Their resilient and colossal melodies filled the    

packed outdoor amphitheatre. The whole audience stayed on its feet dancing to the catchy tunes of these musical missionaries. The phenomenal lighting and the band’s flawless live vocals and instrumentals made for a complete sensory experience. Mars even pulled out one of their French tunes in the middle of the audience. With a neon microphone in hand, he serenaded the crowd no more than 7 feet away from my seat! (Pictured) 

From Mars’ boyish blushing face to the band’s nonchalant hair flips, I left the Bowl thinking, "what a 'precious weekend ending'.”