{"id":2580,"date":"2014-02-06T11:55:15","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T16:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2014-02-06T20:34:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T01:34:10","slug":"postcards-pit-panic-disco-colourist-x-ambassadors-roseland-242014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2014\/02\/06\/postcards-pit-panic-disco-colourist-x-ambassadors-roseland-242014\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcards from the Pit: Panic! at the Disco \/ The Colourist \/ X Ambassadors, Roseland, 2\/4\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a rare thing, getting to watch a band grow up.<\/p>\n

My first (indoors) Panic! at the Disco show was at Roseland Ballroom in May 2008. I say indoors because my actual first Panic! at the Disco show was at Bamboozle a few days earlier, and when I saw them I couldn’t really see them, because I had just broken my glasses in the Bouncing Souls pit. I could hear them just fine, though, and against all odds – they were in their hippie phase, wore lots of beige and had four tattoos between them – I loved them.<\/p>\n

But at Roseland I could see them, and they looked like sweet-faced deer in the headlights. Their stage presence was probably best described as “charmingly awkward.” But the songs still made me happy. And so, for good or for ill, I was in for the long haul.<\/p>\n

This past Tuesday night – six years, two records\/style-shifts, and three line-up changes later – they were at Roseland again, one last time before the places closes down in the spring. <\/p>\n

The openers this time around were X Ambassadors and The Colourist. <\/p>\n

X Ambassadors<\/a> had a dark dreamy-draggy-occasional-burst-of-thundering-drums vibe going, which I rather liked. Plus their lead singer is also their saxophone player, which was unexpected and awesome. Verdict: A++, would see them at their own show.
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\nThe Colourist<\/a> was a little bit bouncier; apparently they describe themselves as “majestic rock” and\/or “math pop” which, okay, I guess that makes sense. All I can tell you is they had super-intense, high-energy drums (majestic, indeed) that were precise but not cold or stiff, and that when they were done I definitely wanted to see them at their own show as well.
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\nAnd then Panic! at the Disco<\/a> came out, and – though I have seen them many times since 2008, I’ve watched the show evolve, I know what’s coming – I was struck, again, by how Brendon Urie has evolved as a front man. Gone is the almost-bashful boy who once wore a ringmaster’s costume, and his place is an actual showman in a glittery jacket and skin-tight leather trousers with a signature back-flip move – which he deployed twice – who finally seems comfortable in his skin.<\/p>\n

(I really love that back flip. So graceful, and he makes it look effortless. I live in hope someone will put him in a Broadway show while he can still stick the landing.)<\/p>\n

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