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Yesterday I went to see Passion Pit at the HMV Forum.  A friend had an extra ticket, and it was pretty swell!

The opener-opener was probably the worst opener I've ever seen.  Worse than Skeletons, worse than the Honeydrips.  This was just a trip to Hell and back.  As far as I know, the band's name was "Little Death"?  Not sure, but if it was, I died a big death during their set.  It wasn't that it was just noise blasting my face.  What I could discern wasn't great either, songs without a whole lot of originality and the like.  Just wayyyyy bad.

The opener (there were two) was Ellie Goulding.  Me?  I could take it or leave it.  Some of it had the electronic bend to it (hence the selection as a Passion Pit opener making sense), but it was also basically a whole lot of pop.  Which means for me, I don't value it too highly.  But she was a solid performer.  She's apparently a very British phenomenon, and quite a few people actually only showed up for her (i.e. leaving after her set, before Passion Pit's).

But Passion Pit was sick.  They are ridiculously good live.  The only downer with them was that the setlist was super short.  Maybe 13 songs?  They played most of the Chunk of Change [EP] and most of Manners (maybe not doing like 2-3 tracks off of it).  The unfortunate thing about the show was the group of douchebags in front of me.  I won't go on much about that, though, it was just aggravating because I just wanted to watch the damn show and they constantly infringed upon my enjoyment of it.  Maybe I'm getting too old for those sorts of shows.

Back to Passion Pit, though, I would definitely catch them if at all possible.  It is my understanding that they had played Columbus back in October, but I missed them, mostly because back then I didn't really know who Passion Pit were (was?).  There's not a whole lot of the whole banter business going on in their shows, which may have been kind of a bummer but they were on top of their game.  And they were a remarkably lively band.  The fear with a keyboard-based group like Passion Pit is that they would just idly stand by their keyboards and twiddle knobs, but they had a definite sense of energy and movement about them, which definitely helped them maintain momentum throughout their (altogether brief) set.

That's basically the only news I have.  I should work on my paper a bit if I'm going to do something tonight.  Yuck.

Adios for now, folks
-e.

NP: Passion Pit - Manners