Local Natives and Wild Nothing Iron City Birmingham, AL 10/1/13

When you are the only one out of your college friends that has a car? You end up driving them to the concerts they want to go to, which works out perfectly for me. The show was at Iron City in Birmingham. That venue freaking rocks. The acoustics are great and the acts that come through are great as well. I had only heard of Local Natives because of college. I do not know why I did not start listening to them sooner because they were great. The night before our show, they sold out The Tabernacle in Atlanta. I do not know if our show sold out, but it was definitely a great crowd. Every person there wanted to be there and they knew every single word to every song.

The opening band was Wild Nothing. To me they were just average. I really really liked their drummer. They jammed just a little too much, which is not my favorite thing in the world, but hey, I am at a show, right? Right. Anyway, their light set up was almost seizure worthy. They flashed way too much. They also were not very personable. I think bands should be personable to an extent. But like I said earlier, at least I am at a show! They played

Nocturne

Confirmation

Ocean Reporting (Big Eyed Girl)

Your Rabbit Feet

Paradise

Summer Holiday

The Blue Dress

Ride

And then it was time for Local Natives! The crowd was hyped. They played

Breakers

World News

Wide Eyes

Warning Signs

Ceilings

You & I

Black Balloons

Shape Shifter

Mt. Washington

Black Spot

Camera Talk

Airplanes

Bowery

Who Knows Who Cares (WKWC on the setlist)

(Encore)

Columbia

Heavy Foot

Sun Hands

In the middle of the show, the band stopped and gave their bass player a birthday grilled cheese sandwich. I do not know the significance behind it, but it was pretty freaking funny.

During WKWC, the crowd went absolutely crazy.

Sun hands was definitely the best song of the night. The energy in the room building up to the end of the song is something that I cannot put into words because it was so perfect. The crowd screamed the end of the song and everyone's arms were in the air and we were all one entity. It was beautiful.

I highly recommend going to see this band because they know how to put on a show, they are extremely humorous, and they know how to put on a damn good show. Props to you, Local Natives.