{"id":1185,"date":"2012-02-08T11:30:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T16:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2014-02-06T20:34:14","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T01:34:14","slug":"postcards-from-the-pit-the-darkness-foxy-shazam-crown-jewel-defense-irving-plaza-242012-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2012\/02\/08\/postcards-from-the-pit-the-darkness-foxy-shazam-crown-jewel-defense-irving-plaza-242012-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcards from the Pit: The Darkness \/ Foxy Shazam \/ Crown Jewel Defense, Irving Plaza, 2\/4\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This past Saturday night I went to the third show of The Darkness’ current North American tour<\/a>, which is their first visit to these shores after a six year hiatus. It was an amazing evening; one of the many highlights of my time in the pit was the multiple occasions the dudes around me started air-guitaring along with the band.<\/p>\n

The setlist was a mixture of old and new songs, and included the entirety of their first record, Permission to Land<\/em>. Highlights: One Way Ticket<\/em>, Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us<\/em>, Get Your Hands off My Woman<\/em>, Love Is Only A Feeling<\/em>, Everybody Have a Good Time<\/em> and, of course, in I Believe In a Thing Called Love<\/em>. If the new tunes are anything to go by, the record they’re working on right now is going to be a banger. I can’t wait to hear the rest of it.<\/p>\n

And now, some pictures, starting with the first opener, Crown Jewel Defense<\/a>, who have a record out.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_4957\"<\/a>Taylor Hood and Steve Ford<\/p>\n

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\"IMG_4942\"<\/a>Nick Clinch<\/p>\n

 
\nNext up was Foxy Shazam<\/a>, who have become somewhat ubiquitous (omnipresent?) in my concert-going adventures in the last couple of years or so. <\/p>\n

The first time I saw them was during their own headlining tour, where the first show I attended concluded with Eric Nally literally half-naked and swinging from the lighting rig on the ceiling.<\/p>\n

But more recently I’ve caught them as an opening act for Panic! at the Disco and Courtney Love. In all instances, they have put on a SHOW (all caps totally appropriate) and the audience reacted with either enthusiasm or bafflement (Panic!) or else just plain bafflement (Courtney Love).<\/p>\n

This time around, they won over a restive crowd within one song. The dudes around me especially appreciated Eric Nally sticking his head into the drums, and also his mid-song headstand. (I’m fond of that move myself.) I got approximately three decent pictures of them, though at this point I think all y’all know what they look like.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here is a Eric Nally singing while bathed in moody green light:
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\nAnd then it was time for The Darkness<\/a>. Here was where everyone (including me) really got going and started jumping, singing, and waving their hands in the air. There were one or two crowd-surfers, and at the end, someone on the balcony climbed down onto a riser and jumped into the crowd. It was complete chaos, and it was glorious.
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\"IMG_4993\"<\/a>Dan and Justin Hawkins<\/p>\n

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\"IMG_5003\"<\/a>Justin Hawkins and Frankie Poullain<\/p>\n

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\"IMG_5020\"<\/a>Dan Hawkins, Ed Graham is behind those drums, and Justin Hawkins<\/p>\n

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\"IMG_5022\"<\/a>Dan and Justin Hawkins jamming out on the drum riser.<\/p>\n

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\nJustin Hawkins playing his guitar behind his head.<\/p>\n

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\"IMG_5039\"<\/a>Dan Hawkins, Ed Graham is (still) behind those drums, and Justin Hawkins.<\/p>\n

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\"IMG_5044\"<\/a>Frankie Poullain<\/p>\n

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\"IMG_5049\"<\/a>And then Justin Hawkins took his jacket-shirt thing off.<\/p>\n

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\"IMG_5051\"<\/a>The tattoo on his stomach says “Lowestoft”, which is where they are from. It’s a town on the east coast of England, and Wikipedia tells me it’s also the most easterly point in England.<\/p>\n

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\nI just like this one. Isn’t his moustache dashing?<\/p>\n

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\nHe donned a special fancy hat for Holding My Own.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I think this costume change happened while I was trying to avoid being trodden upon by glamazons.<\/p>\n

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\nThe new costume again in color, because I like the purple light in this one.<\/p>\n

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Every once in a while I get a shot that I think \u00e2\u20ac\u0153now that is a damn beautiful picture of [insert name here]\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in an almost abstract way, as if I had just stumbled over it and not, you know, taken it. This is one of those pictures:<\/p>\n

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