Garbage / Starcrawler
Happy Endings Tour
Franklin Music Hall - Philadelphia, PA
Garbage is one of my favorite bands of all time, and they're on a farewell tour with a stop at my favorite venue for live music. There was no way in the world that I was going to miss this!
Franklin Music Hall - Philadelphia, PA
Garbage is one of my favorite bands of all time, and they're on a farewell tour with a stop at my favorite venue for live music. There was no way in the world that I was going to miss this!
Things got a little interesting between the opening act and the headliner. I got light headed all of a sudden and felt like I was going to pass out. I'm not sure if I hadn't eaten enough, or drank enough water, or if my blood sugar crashed, or if it was something else altogether, but Angie got me a bag of Skittles and a bottle of water and I rested for a little while near the stairs and it passed after a little while.
The opening act was an awesome band from Los Angeles called Starcrawler. The have kind of a psychedelic metal punk sound, but I'm really terrible at describing music to people, so have a listen for yourself.
This playlist is their three albums, Starcrawler, Devour You, and She Said, with their non-album singles added in chronological order, or at least what I think is chronological order to when they were released.
Garbage took the stage next. They've been one of my favorite bands since I heard their debut album for the first time when I was fifteen years old. I've seen them in concert on three other occasions: they were the opening act for Blondie in July 2017, for Tears For Fears in June 2022, and for Alanis Morissette in July 2022. They were incredible each time, but I had never gotten to see them perform a full set until last night. It was a phenomenal experience, and I'm so glad that I was able to be here for it.
I was very pleasantly surprised when they played one of my favorite songs in their catalog, Bleed Like Me. The setlists for the shows on the Happy Endings tour prior to this show didn't include it, so I wasn't expecting them to play it.
I didn't take very many photos, and I didn't take video at all because I just wanted to live in the moment as much as possible. A couple people recorded the full concert and uploaded it to YouTube though. No video can ever do a concert justice, but I'm thankful that they shared it.
