To kick off the encore at their LA display on Thursday (October 6), Yeah Yeah Yeahs welcomed out The Linda Lindas and Japanese Breakfast – both equally of whom opened the exhibit – to carry out a address of Kim Wilde’s 1981 hit ‘Kids In America’.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs are now touring in assist of their new fifth album, ‘Cool It Down’. The LA gig – a person of two special shows declared again in Might – took location at the 17,500-ability Hollywood Bowl, and opened with the band inviting Fragrance Genius out to complete their joint solitary ‘Spitting Off The Edge Of The World’ (the new album’s direct one).
‘Kids In America’ was the initially of two songs carried out in Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ encore, rounded out by ‘Date With The Night’ (the guide single from their 2003 debut ‘Fever To Tell’). Somewhere else in the demonstrate, the band carried out 5 other tracks from ‘Cool It Down’ and a few far more from ‘Fever To Tell’, as well as 3 from 2009’s ‘It’s Blitz!’ album, two from 2006’s ‘Show Your Bones’, and only just one from 2013’s ‘Mosquito’.
Have a search at crowd-shot footage of the ‘Kids In America’ deal with below, then see Yeah Yeah Yeah’s complete setlist (by way of setlist.fm):
https://www.youtube.com/view?v=1r9MLoxOqcM
Yeah Yeah Yeahs played:
1. ‘Spitting Off The Edge Of The World’ (with Perfume Genius)
2. ‘Cheated Hearts’
3. ‘Pin’
4. ‘Under The Earth’
5. ‘Burning’
6. ‘Zero’
7. ‘Wolf’
8. ‘Fleez’
9. ‘Soft Shock’
10. ‘Lovebomb’
11. ‘Blacktop’
12. ‘Maps’
13. ‘Gold Lion’
14. ‘Y Control’
15. ‘Heads Will Roll’
16. ‘Kids In America’ (Kim Wilde go over, with Japanese Breakfast and The Linda Lindas)
17. ‘Date With The Night’
Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ subsequent displays will be in Mexico – they are established to complete at the Studio Theater Cavaret in Zapopan on Thursday November 17, ahead of showing at this year’s Corona Capital festival that weekend. Discover tickets and extra data listed here.
The LA gig followed a a single-off clearly show in New York at the begin of the thirty day period. In a four-star assessment of that gig, NME’s Erica Campbell wrote: “There’s a rebelliousness, and uncontainable spirit shining from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, types that proceeds to encourage generations of musicians, a single that is raw and felt intensely.
“It’s an strength that could be felt in Forest Hills on Saturday night time, from the entrance row to the nosebleeds. It’s the identical pleasant and defiant electrical power that despatched the sea of New Yorkers back to their proper boroughs buzzing, grateful they acquired to see the Yeah Yeah Yeahs grace their hometown yet again.”
‘Cool It Down’ arrived on September 30 by means of Secretly Canadian, and in addition to ‘Spitting Off The Edge Of The World’, was supported by the solitary ‘Burning’. The album by itself attained 4 stars from NME, with the evaluation – also penned by Campbell – calling it “a inventive testomony to how refreshing it can be for bands to search forward alternatively of backwards”.
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