I'd missed The Bravery the past few times they came through EssEff, so I was stoked to get decent seats this time around. Show started pretty late, so we were decently liquored up by the time they took the stage. Vox was dead-on, guitars/drums were perfect, sound was terrific at Warfield, but we were dead center stage, so you would expect it. My only quibbles were the setlist wasn't maintaining the energy of the crowd, and we seemed to drift between dreamy synth rythyms into brief debauchery and back a bit too fequently, with no real buildup-like a roller coaster. The singer, while looking quite involved in the performance, rarely smiled or showed us any personality...but his perfomance was better than 'faxed in'. He obviously prefers to let the music and lyrics do his talking, but I do have the albums for that...I was interested in seeing the people behind the music, to develop a closer relationship with the music, and found the concert would not achieve this for me. I can recommend going for a decent performance of great songs by a great band, but the actual concert was not particularly spectacular...so one was enough.