Friday, Apr 18, 2025
Bright Eyes
- Date
- Friday, Apr 18, 2025
- Show time
- 7:00 PM
- Venue
- House of Blues Boston
- City
- Boston, MA
- Went with
- Jonas
- Sold by
- Ticketmaster
Five Dice, All Threes tour, billed at Citizens House of Blues Boston. No order confirmation survives — the record comes from Live Nation's 'this Friday' reminder and the morning-after feedback email. John's second Bright Eyes show, twenty years after the Capitol Center night.
What they played
- Bells and Whistles
- El Capitan
- Method Acting
- We Are Nowhere and It's Now
- Gold Mine Gutted
- Take It Easy (Love Nothing)
- First Day of My Life
- Real Feel 105°
- Loose Leaves
- Spring Cleaning
- Soul Singer in a Session Band
- Trains Still Run on Time
- Carmelita Warren Zevon cover
- Old Soul Song (for the New World Order)
- Happy Accident
- Tiny Suicides
- Rainbow Overpass
- Shell Games
- At the Bottom of Everything
Encore
- Poison Oak
- Nothing Gets Crossed Out
- Hypnotist (Song for Daniel H.) Lullaby for the Working Class cover
- One for You, One for Me
23 songs, from setlist.fm. Contributed by whoever was standing there taking notes.
The moment
Twenty years, five months short of the day, after John, Mickey, and Jonas saw Bright Eyes at their new-Dylan peak in Concord — Feist opening, comp tickets, the night before Thanksgiving — the band was back within reach: Five Dice, All Threes out that fall, Oberst in his mid-forties, the catalog now spanning a whole adult lifetime. The archive holds the arc: 2005's anointed prodigy, 2015's working songwriter, 2025's survivor. Same three chords of a voice, twenty more years of weather on it.
From the time
- Five Dice, All Threes
“The 2024 Bright Eyes album — the late chapter of a catalog that grew up alongside its audience.”
The stub
No physical stub on file — this show was reconstructed from the
Ticketmaster confirmation email. Drop a photo in public/stubs/ and add
"stubImage" to this show's record to attach one.