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
- Closer
- Crawl
- My Party
- Razz
- Molly's Chambers
- Taper Jean Girl
- King of the Rodeo
- Sex on Fire
- Be Somebody
- Revelry
- Milk
- Four Kicks
- The Bucket
- McFearless
- Use Somebody
- On Call
- Cold Desert
- Slow Night, So Long
Encore
- Knocked Up
- Manhattan
- Charmer
- 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
- Only by the Night
“The 2008 album that detonated — 'Sex on Fire' and 'Use Somebody' carried them from theaters to stadiums within the year.”
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.