Great Show in New Orleans
by SandyJordanFarms on 8/21/23My only complaint is that they weren't headlining.
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Bottle & Cork
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KEMBA Live!
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Val Air Ballroom
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McMenamins Grand Lodge
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Dashboard Confessional on Tour
Expect robust crowd participation when seeing Dashboard Confessional, a band that sonically splits the difference between R.E.M.-like jangle-rock and moodier emo-pop. The group favors cathartic songwriting full of deep, meaningful lyrics, ensuring that beloved singles such as "Screaming Infidelities" and "Vindicated" draw loud audience sing-alongs.
Early in their career, Dashboard Confessional toured with like-minded peers Weezer and Brand New, while in 2007 they went on the Rock Band Live Tour with Panic! at the Disco. In recent years, Dashboard Confessional have toured with Third Eye Blind and, in 2020, launched a 20th anniversary tour celebrating their vast catalog.
Dashboard Confessional in Concert
Chris Carrabba initially started Dashboard Confessional as a solo acoustic project when he was still fronting another band, the Florida-based emo rock act Further Seems Forever. When the vocalist/guitarist/songwriter left that group to focus on his own music, he quickly issued the second Dashboard Confessional album, The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most, in 2001. That album went gold and contained the song "Screaming Infidelities," which became a Top 25 alternative radio chart hit and spawned a music video that won the MTV2 award at the MTV Video Music Awards.
From there, Dashboard Confessional was off and running. Album number three, 2003's gold-certified A Mark, a Mission, a Brand, a Scar, reached No. 2 on the Billboard Top 200 and spawned the hit "Hands Down." The song "Vindicated" featured prominently in the 2004 film Spider-Man 2 and reached No. 2 on the modern rock charts. Carrabba and crew continued on a hot streak with another gold album (2006's Dusk and Summer, which also topped the U.S. Top Rock Albums chart) and more studio work. Dashboard Confessional released the studio album Crooked Shadows in 2018 and celebrated their 20th anniversary by releasing a greatest hits album, The Best Ones of the Best Ones, in 2020.
My only complaint is that they weren't headlining.
Been waiting to see Dashboard Confessional since 2020 when the SF show got postponed because Chris was sick. Worth the wait! Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness was great as well. Also got to see The Juliana Theory perform a full set.
The Masonic is a great clean and comfortable venue. Staff was friendly and helpful! My only suggestion would be to have more than one merchandise table to help with the wait time to buy things. Thank you for a great show!
Hands down one of the best shows I can ever remember. Waited a long time to see Dashboard and they did not dissappoint.
I was honestly just there for Andrew McMahon. I thought he was absolutely spectacular, everything sounded great, and the place was packed and energized.
I would love to see a show where Dashboard Confessional has more time to perform. Their segment was way too short for me!
Huge throwback to when they were big, Chris sounds and performs exactly as he used to and maybe sounds better than ever!
I flew from Boston to Dallas because Cartel was opening this leg of the tour. The venue posted on their Facebook (on the day of the show) that the doors were at 7 and show at 8. I arrive before 8 and Cartel had already played and the second act, Andrew McMahon was already on his third song.
Chris is such a great performer and you can definitely hear the passion in his songs and what he does. The show is always great (my second time seeing him live) & he treats his fans like old friends of his. 10/10 show, hands down
Andrew McMahon was amazing and dug deep into his catalog from Something Corporate to Jack’s Mannequin to his new stuff. Great energy and crowd engagement especially when he surfed the crowd in an inflatable duck! It was also great to see his old band mates Bobby Raw, Zac Clark, and Mikey on stage with him once again!