Out & About: Damien Rice Concert

Last night Gabe and I went to the 103.7 The Mountain Earth Day Concert at Benaroya Hall, featuring Damien Rice and opener Brett Dennen. This was a birthday gift from Gabe, and the show was awesome! There was a bit of a mix-up with our seats, though -- somehow Ticketmaster allowed seats to be sold twice (go figure -- Ticketmaster is the devil), and one of our seats also belonged to someone else. This worked out in our favor, though; Gabe and I had good seats to start with, but we ended up with GREAT seats because the house comped us with seats about 11 rows back and just a smidge to the left of the stage! The photo is of Damien Rice via my cell phone from our seats -- the picture sucks and you can't really see how great our seats are, but believe you me, they were great. :)




If you've never listened to Damien Rice or Brett Dennen, I highly recommend both of them. They are mellow, acoustic-y dudes, and as Damien Rice admitted last night, he tends to write "sad" songs. He kept introducing his songs, "Here's another sad song..." and he introduced another as, "Here is a happy song! Oh, but there is that twist at the end..." He was really great to watch and it was fun to listen to him sing and also tell his random stories. And Benaroya Hall is a great venue -- it isn't too big or super small, and we were told a couple of times by the emcees of last night's show that it is "acoustically perfect." Damien put this to the test by stepping away from the mike, unplugging his acoustic guitar from the amp and singing his song "Cannonball" solo in front of the stage for the last song of the main show. It was way cool and sounded beautiful!