Framing Hanley and Foo Fighters

On Friday January 25th I drove to Nashville to see Framing Hanley and was it ever a good show. They are full of so much energy and emotion. Each one of them look like they are having the time of their lives up on that stage.


Thanks for the set list Nixon! :)
Built For Sin
The Fold
GhosTown
Home
23 Days
Wave Goodbye
All In Your Hands
Count Me In
Not What The Said
Alone In This Bed
Hear Me Now
Thats What She Said

The first new song was called "GhosTown" and I really enjoyed it. It was different from their other songs but it was fun to hear the different creative efforts that made up this song. I took video of it (please try to ignore the crackling sound...and also the muted portion toward the end.)


The second new song was called "That's What She Said" and it was also really good. Tim's guitar playing was amazing. He is incredible and plays difficult riffs while making them look so simple. Brandon was great as well but since he only came to our side of the stage a few times I didn't really get to observe him much. Chris really goes to town on his drums and was a joy to watch. Nixon is an excellent front man and really works the audience. He has great stage presence and his voice sounded great. He sounded a little uneasy at times during the new songs but that can be expected when you are performing songs for the first time. Overall the guys did a great job. I was very impressed with them.
After the show was over we hung out inside the venue for a little while and I got a poster signed by the band (nixon's face also got drawn on by Brandon and Nixon himself. I'll try to post a picture of it). I met some of the family members of the band and a fantastic guy named Chad who is friends with the guys in the band. He was crazy and fun. Finally everyone started getting kicked out of the venue so we went outside and sort of hung out with the band while we waited for Adrian. Brandon and Tim seem very nice, as does Nixon, but we didn't get to hang around long enough to really get to chat. Chris was busy packing away all the instruments so we didn't see much of him at that time.

On Saturday my friends and I got in touch with Chad and decided to meet up with him and Chris (drummer from Framing Hanley) before going to the Foo Fighter's concert. After Chad waited alone at TGIFriday's we made it and had a few drinks and some appetizers. Chad is a lot of fun and even though Chris wasn't feeling well he was still fun. It was nice to be around him outside of a concert setting. Eventually we made our way to the Nashville Municipal Auditorium with enough time to buy shirts before finding our seats. The guys went down to the floor and we went to our seats which ended up being not too awful bad, for balcony seats.
The Foo Fighters put on an AMAZING show. Nearly 2 hours of music. New songs, old songs, acoustic, jam sessions, drum solos, a triangle solo, Acoustic stage dropping from the ceiling...it was incredible.

Setlist:
- Let It Die
- The Pretender
- Times Like These
- Breakout
- Learn to Fly
- Cheer Up, Boys
- This Is a Call
- Stacked Actors > Drum Solo > Stacked Actors
- Skin and Bones (starts on main stage, ends on acoustic stage)
- Marigold
- My Hero
- Dave introduces the Band (complete w/ TRIANGLE SOLO!)
- Cold Day in the Sun (Dave on guitar, Taylor on drums and vocals)
- But, Honestly
- Everlong(starts on Acoustic stage, ends on Main stage)
- Monkeywrench
Encore:
- Keep the Car Running (Arcade Fire cover)
- All My Life
(Thanks to the Foo Fighters message board for the set list)

On a funny note...
Chad had brought a cover of some porn magazine where the girl was wearing a Foo Fighters shirt and he held it up to show the band. This was the result of that...


We laughed so much up in the balcony at that one. We cheered for Chad.

After the show we hung out in the parking garage for a while while the line of cars exited. Chad was crazy and fun and Chris was acting very fatherly toward him. It was nice getting to hang out with Chris more.