The Big Pink Tickets

They really put on an awesome show.. The vocals was on point.. Dominoes and of couse velvet sound just like the recording..

The Big Pink was very good I must say but I have a couple complaints. They did not play my favorite song off the album, Golden Pendulum, which was disappointing. Also they kind of wasted our time with a boring slow winer as the second to last song and then ended with Dominos. However overall I would still recomend seeing this band live as the rest of thier set was very good, it was just getting late and I'm getting older with an hour drive back to NH. It was also hard for them to follow A Place to Bury Strangers as they were INCREDIBLE! I was not able to make thier last show in Boston and was really happy to have seen them this time. Excellent! It was worth thier set to go to this show!

The Big Pink was great! They played all their songs to near perfection. However, the band that opened for them was deafening.

Saw The Big Pink at First Ave. Great show and great band. Their music is a bit heavier, as far as beats go, so I was concerned about being able to actually hear the words. Before the show I read up on them a little bit in some music mag, they mentioned how the words they put to their music mean a great deal to them, and are an important part of what they do. I think that definitely showed. I could hear the lyrics better than any other show I've been do... Loved evey minute of it, especially their female drummer. She adds a great balance to the mix. Score one for England.

Love Love Loved The Big Pink!!!, but scratch the opening band. Way too much distortion and I couldn't hear any words. Then back to the pink... AHHH! AMAZING!

It was super good and they had the crowd going. The singer has an amazing voice. I was a little disapointed that they didn't do an encore since the singer kept announcing that Minneapolis was his favorite city....or is it?? Do they say that in every city? Usually bands do at least one encore....what was up with that???

It made so much sense to have The Big Pink and A Place to Bury Strangers playing on the same stage one right after the other. The opener Active Child completely fit in as well. It was a night of dark and loud but beautiful music.

Who is the idiot who added Active Child as an opener. Not only were they horrendous and totally useless, since A Place To Bury Strangers was playing as well, but it made the show ends late. A Place To Bury Strangers but The Big Pink were so so - too many slow tracks broke the rhythm of their performance.

I only caught one of the opening acts (Crystal Antlers) but they were really pretty awful - screaming into an echo-drenched PA system is usually a cover-up for lack of singing ability, and they were no exception. When The Big Pink finally came on, they immediately started blasting strobe lights into the audience's faces. There was no warning from the Bowery Ballroom that strobe lights would be used, and the lights were not only superfluous, they were distracting and really rather annoying. The band played their songs OK, but the vocals weren't great - he sounded strained and a bit tired, and the overall high volume of the band couldn't disguise the fact that they weren't really giving it their all. Relying on bright lights and loud amps is not a good substitute for really committing to a live performance.

Missed the first act but arrived in time to see Crystal Antlers in their reduced line-up. Johnny Bell has a pretty awesome voice and managed to appear manically charged in spite of having limited space to move around in. Could just be the way the arrangements work between organ, guitar and double percussion but things sounded pretty mucky. Big Pink, by contrast, was clear as a bell (if that bell was attached to a blackhawk helicopter in a full-frontal assault). Phil Spector would be so proud that they've taken "wall of sound" to a new height. The vocal harmonies are fantastic and of course the melodies are hooky as can be. There is something vaguely Sigue Sigue Sputnik-y about them but I mean that in the best possible way. My only complaint is that each song ended with a churning of one kind of white noise or another from the electronics genius at stage right. My problem wasn't with the sound itself but rather that it effectively drowned out the sound of the genuinely heartfelt applause. You'd think the band would want to hear when they were hitting the mark with audiences as they did last night. They ended with "Dominos", which was expected, and didn't come out for an encore (unless I left just a bit too early), which I also didn't really mind. There's a certain frankness to the idea of saving the hit to last and then moving on, sparing everyone the charade of the encore. PiL was like that and I loved them for it. Don MacLean plays "American Pie" last in the set and then plays more of it for an encore. I hate him for that cuz that song's already far too long but at least he doesn't make people beg for something they know he has to play anyway.

Not bad. Not what I Xpected from them. Loved the female drummer they had. They closed it w/"Domino". Loved the show. Would C it again.

Man, I was probably 20 years older than a lot of people there at the El Rey. The first band, I/O Echo was pretty good. The singer was an energetic pixie with a good rhythm section. The 2nd band, Crystal Antlers seemed promising to me, with a girl keyboardist and Afro-American percussionist...but then the bassist started screaming - and screaming for every song. It got boring. They sure like their crash cymbals. Big Pink finally started and they were a sigh of relief - with their danceable beats and catchy melodies. I wore my earplugs out of love for my ears...but they still sounded great and it was a cool light show.

horrible sound, a performance that needs to be tweeked and some very good song. Left 3/4's of the way through (along with many others) after having trouble finding a place in the room where the sound was decent.

They really need to tour some more and figure things out a bit. Once they warmed up, I saw what could be a really good show. Love that they didn't do an encore, and killed the drum kit at the end. I hate encores. This WAS their first US gig, so I am not going to complain too much. Hopefully, next time around, they don't just prove to be a studio band.