Music Hall of Williamsburg
Brooklyn
Words & Photos by Abbey Braden

For reasons beyond explanation, the night before Phoenix‘s sold out show at NYC’s Terminal 5 (a cavernous 3,000 person capacity venue) the boys hopped the East River and unleashed a full set in the much more intimate Music Hall of Williamsburg. Both tickets were hot commodities obvs, but the Brooklyn gig had people just about offering up their firstborns for admission (shout out to Bumpershine). Let’s just say whatever manner one had to resort to for entry – it was 100% justified. Thomas Mars and co opened with “Lisztomania” and closed with an up uptempo version of “If I Ever Feel Better.” Apart from United, we’ve caught these guys touring in support of every subsequent album and this time around was the tightest show yet.

Words and Photos by Abbey Braden