The Fever, live
Saw Dengue Fever at the Sugar Club here in Dublin last Saturday with a big gang of mates and had an awesome time ;)
Somehow, despite living in Southern California for 3 years, I managed not to see them play live over there — so this was the first time I’d seen them live.
The Sugar Club actually turned out to be a pretty good setup for them; there was a good bit of seating, but still lots of room up the front for dancing. With a bit of encouragement from Chhom Nimol that’s where we were, right up front, singing along (phonetically at least).
Mental number of gigs on, that night, though. Dengue Fever, TV On The Radio, Jay Reatard (scheduled but AWOL), Cut Copy, and others — all competing for the limited number of Dublin punters! The Fever did a great job, it looked like the place was full up.
I only recently got my hands on their first album, so I had no idea they did such good covers of the classics, specifically Chnam Oun 16 (I’m Sixteen) and Ma Pi Naok (Thanks A Lot):
Both were played, as you can see from the setlist above; in fact, ‘Chnam Oun 16′ was the closing encore. Tune!
Afterwards, there was opportunity to chat with the band as they stuck around in true future-of-the-music-biz style. I got to gush about how I’d been a massive fan for 4 years, blah blah. I’m sure they get that shit all the time ;)
November 20th, 2008 at 12:03 am
I got the impression that a lot of people seeing them were not that familiar with their stuff on record - it was noticeable, say, that their introducing songs by name did not get that much of a reaction. But everyone loved them, I wonder will they be back in the enormodome?