Tour: New Jersey vs. the World
Venue: House of Blues
Date: Sunday, November 17th
Opener: Narrow Head, co-headlining tour with Saves the Day who is playing the 20th anniversary of “Through Being Cool.”
Band Members:
• Buddy Nielsen – vocals
• Gavin Caswell – guitar
• Jason Milbank – guitar
• Steve Carey – drums
• Daniel Wonacott – bass
Review: Senses Fail has got to see the band I have seen the most. I have been seeing them since high school at Warped Tour and I try to see them every time they are in town. I have seen them on many anniversary tours. I saw them play “Life is Not a Waiting Room” and “Still Searching” on anniversary tours. When I was at s conference in Atlanta in 2019, I hopped on Bands in Town to see who was playing and got last minute ticket to the “From the Depths of Dreams” tour. And last month I saw “Let It Enfold You” for the 20th anniversary. And this wasn’t even the first time I saw it played for an anniversary! In 2014, I saw them play it for the 10 year anniversary. It is my favorite album of theirs and I hope to see it in another decade for the 30th anniversary.
The show was at the House of Blues in Boston, a venue that I surprisingly haven’t been to in a long time except for seeing Bowling for Soup there a month prior when they played their second album, “A Hangover You Don’t Deserve” in it’s entirety. It is a great venue of a 1000 people. It is right outside of Fenway and the MGM, a new favorite menu. It’s a lot of fun coming out of the show there at night and seeing all the bright lights. They have the downstairs floor and upstairs balconies, which I imagine cost a little more. It’s pretty quick and easy to get a drink there. I just wish that the only option for water was not Liquid Death. I don’t know how that company has monopolized the concert industry, but it really doesn’t taste good enough for a seven dollar canned water.
There is something about an anniversary tour. A Time Machine back to simpler days. Seeing a favorite album of yours from when you were a teen and being instantly transported back to those days.
My friend and I got there for most of Saves the Day set. We hadn’t really listened to them and hadn’t seen them since high school. We had a memory of seeing them playing an acoustic set at Work door and met them after. Nothing will ever be quite like Warped Tour again. Especially the one they’re doing next year.
Anyway, Saves the Day put on a super fun show with really trippy background visuals. I go to a lot of concerts and the bands mostly have a giant backdrop and that is the background of the show. But I was pleasantly surprised to see that both Saves the Day and Senses Fail had different videos during each song of their set lists.
Senses Fail played my favorite album, with the audience singing along to every lyric. The bonus songs were Bloody Romance, Calling All Cars, Can’t Be Saved, and the final song was a cover of My Chemical Romance’s Helena with Chris Conley, the singer of Saves the Day.
Upcoming Tour Dates: https://sensesfaillmtd.com/pages/tour
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