Concert Review: The Vaccines Turn MHOW Into A Rock, Dive Bar
We all love dive bars because they make us feel like we are taking a swig at the end of the earth. They feel cozy and rebellious, all at once, like you are in the beer hovel of a revolution. In some ways, The Vaccines transformed MHOW into a dive bar of seedy, salacious, and starry fun.
The Vaccines strangely live up to their name; injecting musical preventions for boredom. Their performance made me feel like I was watching The Beatles in a Liverpool basement of The Clash at a London club. Their star power was magnificently big, yet cusped by the approachability of MHOW as a venue. Thus, you felt ignited by how they approach performance like a batch of Hulks; bashing through songs, “Handsome,” “I Can’t Quit,” and “Your Love Is My Favorite Band” as if they were buildings in their set way. Still, their music plays like an apocalyptic prom; making you save your last dance on your last day on earth for the one you truly love.
The Vaccines – I Can’t Quit (Official Video)
From “Teenage Icon” to “If You Wanna”, The Vaccines’ raucous rock can zip with a pop electricity, it anchors with a sweet wildness that can turn even the oldest couple into a batch of crazy-in-love youths. Yet, this dynamism literally emanates from front-man/ tour-de-force Justin Young. We flock like moths to flames when we see a human being absorb and give energy with a supernatural strength that, often, we cannot muster. Part of why we love a rocketing, lead singer is not simply because we wish we could sing. It is also because we wish we could be in the “front;” the person that does not hide from gawking eyes, and, instead, churns spirits to mosh and climb on top of each other at his whim. Young is a literal magician at how he maneuvers a crowd with a wry humor, enlivening personality, and his sheer mission for everyone to IDGAF the night away.
The Vaccines – If You Wanna
The Vaccines are such a good concert because they ground themselves on both the riotous romance of love, and the romance of having a good, clear night. In a world that overthinks and stresses, they show such things for what they are: distractions to joy. Your negativity wants to protect itself from your happiness because then it will no longer be yours, and The Vaccines give a show that literally uses guitar melodies to unlock you from negativism. For More Information On The Vaccines Click Here.
