Wednesday, Nov 12, 2008

Kings of Leon

Only By The Night

Also on the bill: We Are Scientists , The Whigs

Date
Wednesday, Nov 12, 2008
Venue
Orpheum Theatre
City
Boston, MA
Went with
Mickey

Night one of two at the Orpheum on the Only By The Night tour — the record Closer opens. Five years after John first saw them as a club band at the Middle East. No ticket survives. Also on the bill, recovered from setlist.fm's record of who played this room that night. setlist.fm stores no running order, so the slot each act played is unknown.

What they played

  1. Closer
  2. Crawl
  3. My Party
  4. Razz
  5. Molly's Chambers
  6. Taper Jean Girl
  7. King of the Rodeo
  8. Sex on Fire
  9. Be Somebody
  10. Revelry
  11. Milk
  12. Four Kicks
  13. The Bucket
  14. McFearless
  15. Use Somebody
  16. On Call
  17. Cold Desert
  18. Slow Night, So Long

Encore

  1. Knocked Up
  2. Manhattan
  3. Charmer
  4. Black Thumbnail

22 songs, from setlist.fm. Contributed by whoever was standing there taking notes.

The moment

Five years after John saw them as bearded garage-rockers at a free WFNX club show, Kings of Leon were mid-detonation: Only by the Night had come out in September, 'Sex on Fire' was their first radio smash, and 'Use Somebody' was weeks from making them a stadium band. The Orpheum run was booked before the explosion — so this caught them in the last rooms of the old scale, playing arena songs in a theater. The before and after pictures, five years apart, both in this archive.

From the time

The stub

No physical stub on file — this show was reconstructed from the confirmation email. Drop a photo in public/stubs/ and add "stubImage" to this show's record to attach one.

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