Moxy Früvous Concert Review #1!!

I bought tickets a couple of weeks ago for me and one of my friends (who was coming because I was making her, she’d never heard them before), but found out the day of the concert that two other people wanted to come as well…neither of them had heard Früvous either! So it was a good sign :-)

We took the metro from my house in Arlington to the club…the metro stop is about 2 or 3 blocks from the club…I had walked it before many times, no problems. But this time, this scary guy starts following my group as we walked out of the metro! He walked up to us and said “I’m not going to hurt you” gruffly (I’m thinking…yeah right…get as far away from this guy as possible!), and then started lecturing my friend Andy that he can’t let us (the three girls) push him around, and then he walked up to us and demanded we give him some change. We complied…and then he followed us all the way to the club, and eventually disappeared after asking a few other people in line for some change. I think I’ll be getting a car ride to the 9:30 from now on, thank you.

We got there a little before 8, doors weren’t until 9. We stood in line for a while, met some very nice NG früheads (one bearing cookies!), and had a jolly old time. When doors finally opened, we went to stake out a nice floor spot, but as my friend Adrienne had a headache, we decided to go for the aerial view from the balcony (which was better than the floor would have been, at least in my opinion…I was right at the edge, stage Dave, and had an amazing view of the guys with no 6 foot tall person standing in front of me, as there almost always is at the 9:30).

Jess Klein came on at 10:15 or so. She was dressed all in black, her hair was cut short and was wavy, and she carried a guitar. She had been described to me while waiting in line as kind of “Indigo Girls, or Jewel-like”…that’s a pretty accurate description. The people in the very front of the floor seemed to adore her, but most of the other people in the club talked right through her set. She was all right…not my cup of tea, but nice.

By the time Jess Klein had exited, the club was getting pretty full! Now, this club is not small…it holds about 1200 people! Where on earth did all these Früheads come from?? They get no radio airplay here at all, the only written thing I saw about them was in the smallest font possible in the ad that lists all the acts in the 9:30 club in the Washington Post…I was just amazed! It was wonderful!

On with the show!! (using kate’s setlist)

Sahara-long into as various members of the band walked onstage at different times
Laika
Video Bargainville - got a great reaction from crowd…we had to shout out “one price for two!” twice because Jian was just not satisfied with the first one! :-)
Horseshoes
You Will Go to the Moon-
Sad Girl -
Splatter Splatter – The vocals were a little unclear on this one, but what I heard was clever!
Get In the Car
I Love My Boss
Minnie the Moocher- grampa fruvous came out, and the guys put on bowler caps…a few D.C. related lines “You know, this city was built on a swamp”…fun for all!
Too Careful ("New")
Michigan Militia
Johnny Saucep'n
Fly- This was one I really wanted to hear. I was expecting more of a reaction from the crowd than it got, but _I_ loved it.
Independence Day ("New")
Spiderman – with instruments
King of Spain - one guy had been yelling out for this before, and the guys threatened to turn on (and off) the “hoses they had strategically placed around the club”…outroed to -
Green Eggs & Ham – short version
Psycho Killer
1st Encore: Dancing Queen medley -entire crowd was singing along and jumping up and down
2nd Encore: Drinking Song

Some banter about “Rock Superstars” and how the Frü-guys were all from different supergroups that joined together.

Some Mel Gibson thing that led to a song compilation thing where they were going to mention a few Gibson movies, but only came out with singing “give me back my son!” over and over…and said that when they saw the movie in the theater, everyone cheered when that line was spoken

Someone in the crowd gave Murray Smarties (the canadian kind) and he said “I’m in the US and you’re giving me Smarties? Is this in case I feel homesick? I’m going home Sunday, you know!” and he gave some to Mike, and then handed them (not threw—handed) to some audience members)

It was wonderful. There was one lady near me in the balcony who looked like she was having a wonderful time dancing, and I was pretty much the only other one dancing that I could see on that side of the balcony, so I didn’t feel all alone :-)

The crowd was wonderful! No moshing like at TMBG! They didn’t come just to hear one song! (Well, with the exception of the “King of Spain” guy)

I had told my friends! I had told them! I said “You’ll thank me for this! You’ll love them! You will say, ‘Aleigh, you are amazing! How did you ever find this wonderful band?’” Well, two of my friends are wet blankets (well, one had a headache), but the other one, it was her first concert ever and she had an amazing time!! She fell in love with Jian and Murray and just had a ball. And she did tell me “I love you! You are amazing! I love this band! You must make tapes for me!” mwahahaha…my second convert…this is getting fun!

Quote of the Week!
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"Not knowing knowledge never ennobles." ~Moxy Früvous

Link of the Week!
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The Official Moxy Früvous Site What else? Check it out, a compendium of all things früvous!