Luckily, we got to see Silverstein and Four Year Strong as Silverstein celebrated 20 years as a band with three sets with Four Year Strong providing support along with I, The Mighty! It was a packed house as Silverstein has the reputation of absolutely delivering each and every night live! Silverstein has also released “A Beautiful Place To Drown” while Four Year Strong is celebrating the recent release of “Brain Pain” via Pure Noise Records. I, The Mighty was the first band on the bill.
San Francisco’s I, The Mighty were the perfect crowd to warm up the crowd for Silverstein and Four Year Strong. Their vocals are soulful and versatile, and the guitars seemed to have provided perfect harmonics in order to create a fantastic alternative rock sound. The songs “Pet Names”, “Failures” and “The Lying Eyes of Miss Erray” really got the crowd moving. They kept it upbeat and lighthearted. Four Year Strong was the next band to take the stage.
Four Year Strong just started off with their take no prisoners moxie to really get the audience moving! You can tell that there was an audience that came there primarily to see Four Year Strong. They started off their set with “It Must Really Suck to Be Four Year Strong Right Now”, and the energy that they possessed with “We All Float Down Here”. People sang that song at the top of their lungs, and there was a really cool collective headbanging for “Get Out Of My Head”. The audience really enjoyed the cuts from their latest album “Brain Pain”. Their set was energetic, tight and the band is just a blast live!
After I, The Mighty and Four Year Strong warmed up the crowd, Silverstein took over the stage. This tour served two purposes. The first purpose was to support “A Beautiful Place To Drown” and secondly the band is performing three sets to celebrate 20 years as a band! It was plain to see why Silverstein have been around for 20 years, because they deliver each and every damn night live! They started off with “Burn It Down” and “Retrograde”, which got the crowd going ballistic. After a couple of medleys, they got the crowd in a massive singalong with their One Republic cover of “Apologize” and they closed off the first set with “The Afterglow”. They played an acoustic set which made it feel like a personal invitation to their living room and then the crowd went crazy the whole time over them playing “Discovering The Waterfront” in its entirety. This night was for any Silverstein fan that was there for the band from day one and also for those that might have been “late to the party”. We cannot wait to see them again!
Here is the setlist:
- Burn It Down
- Retrograde
- A Great Fire/Vices/Broken Stars
- Face of the Earth
- Infinite
- Stand Amid The Roar/On Brave Mountains We Conquer/A Better Place/In Silent Seas We Drown/California/To Live And To Lose/This Is How The Wind Shifts/Arrivals/Departures
- Apologize (One Republic cover)
- The Afterglow
Acoustic Set
- Massachusetts
- Still Dreaming
- Replace You
- Aquamarine
- Red Light Pledge
- Toronto
Discovering The Waterfront
- Your Sword Versus My Dagger
- Smile In Your Sleep
- The Ides Of March
- Fist Wrapped In Blood
- Discovering The Waterfront
- Defend You
- My Heroine
- Always and Never
- Already Dead
- Three Hours Back
- Call It Karma
Encore
- Bleeds No More
Silverstein have tour dates in Europe and United States this summer. The United States dates are rescheduled due to postponement because of the Coronavirus. Check out the gig dates below:
Thu. 6/18- Kastelsedijk in Dessel, Belgium
Fri. 6/19- Circus Maximus in Koblenz, Germany
Sat. 6/20- Rock The Hill Festival in Bischofsmais, Germany
Sun. 6/21- Colos-Saal in Aschaffenburg, Germany
Mon. 6/22- Kiff in Aarau, Switzerland
Tue. 6/23- Circolo Magnolia in Segrate Mi, Italy
Wed. 6/24- Ninkasi Gerland Kao in Vieux Lyon, France
Tue. 6/30- Pod Minoga in Poznan, Poland
Wed. 7/1- Peter-Weiss-Haus e.V in Rostock, Germany
Fri. 7/3- Fryshuset in Stockholm, Sweden
Sun. 7/5- Tower Musikclub in Bremen, Germany
Tue. 7/7- The Booking Hall in Dover, United Kingdom
Wed. 7/8- Green Door Store in Brighton, United Kingdom
Thu. 7/9- New Cross Inn in London, United Kingdom
Fri. 7/10- 2000 Trees Upcote Farm in Withington, United Kingdom
Fri. 7/24- Danforth Music Hall in Toronto, Canada
Sat. 7/25- Bogart’s in Cincinnati, Ohio
Sun. 7/26- House of Blues in Cleveland, Ohio
Tue. 7/28- Royal Oak Music Theatre in Royal Oak, Michigan
Fri. 7/31- The Masquerade in Atlanta, Georgia
Sat. 8/1- The Studio at Warehouse Live in Houston, Texas
Tue. 8/4- Gas Monkey Live! in Dallas, Texas
Fri. 8/7- Concord Music Hall in Chicago, Illinois
Mon. 8/10- The Truman in Kansas City, Missouri
Tue. 8/11- Ogden Theatre in Denver, Colorado
Wed. 8/12- The Depot in Salt Lake City, Utah
Fri. 8/14- The Showbox in Seattle, Washington
Sun. 8/15- Wonder Ballroom in Portland, Oregon
Tue. 8/18- The Belasco Theater in Los Angeles, California
Wed. 8/19- House of Blues in Anaheim, California
Fri. 8/21- Brooklyn Bowl in Las Vegas, Nevada
Sat. 8/22- Marquee Theatre in Tempe, Arizona
Wed. 8/26- The Studio at Warehouse Live in Houston, Texas
Fri. 8/28- Jannus Live in St. Petersburg, Florida
For tickets and further information on any of the gigs listed above, click here.
Fans can find Silverstein at the following locations:
www.facebook.com/silversteinmusic
- Photo Credit: Kim Casper at Garden State Band Connection
