![]() ![]() He's so down to earth, just like Scott, the bass player. Chris actually will take time to meet and talk to the fans. that's what I love about him, he loves his fans. Had photos taken, asked Chris to write out song lyrics for our next tattoos (which he did). My friend won VIP tickets and we got to meet the band (we are such huge fans though, we have met them numerous times before). Hopefully this isn't a one summer and done kinda thing.įriday nights concert was fantastic! Well, the whole evening was from start to finish. Chris is interested in writing and recording a new Dashboard record, but is also hard at work on a second album with Twin Forks. Overall, it was a short set that left me wanting more (no "As Lovers Go" and "Rapid Hope Loss" among others). Undoubtedly DC's biggest hit, the crowd echoed every word and every single repeat of "That you meant it" at the end. ![]() Performance Highlight: Hands down it was "Hands Down", the finale. Dashboard has no new material, so all the songs were known to the over 1500 fans in attendance.Ĭomedic Highlight: - Chris explaining to one of his sound techs that the piano "had a lot of wrong notes in it" as he fumbled his way through one track. From playing on his back to standing on top of the piano, he demanded the audience's attention. Chris was smiling the whole time and had a good give and take with the audience. Chris was high energy despite a voice that was self-explained as a bit stressed. This meant that Chris did not perform a "Back to You" from one of his other bands, Twin Forks. The show in Minneapolis was a unique one for this tour as it was a smaller venue with a early curfew that led to all acts needing to remove songs from their sets. 6 years after their last record, Chris Carrabba and the gang are back on the road playing all your favorite songs. ![]() The band’s fifth full-length “The Shade of Poison Trees” arrived in October 2007, followed by “Alter the Ending” in November 2009. 2 on the Billboard 200, and was supported by a North American tour alongside Say Anything and Ben Lee. The full-length “Dusk and Summer” followed in 2006 featuring production from Daniel Lanois and Don Gilmore. The band’s song “Vindicated” was later used on the “Spider-Man 2” soundtrack and subsequently at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, the album earned strong reviews from critics, and spawned the singles “Hands Down” and “Rapid Hope Loss”. With a line-up now consisting of Carrabba, bassist Scott Schoenbeck, guitarist Johnny Lefler, and drummer Mike Marsh, the band released the full-length “A Mark, a Mission, a Brand, a Scar” in 2003. Also in 2002 the band recorded and released an instalment for the MTV Unplugged series, which represented the band’s biggest breakthrough, with the album “MTV Unplugged 2.0” going platinum. began collaborating with Dan Hoerner, which resulted in the EPs “So Impossible” in 2001 and “Summers Kiss” in 2002. Now a group, with Chris Carrabba at its introspective core, Dashboard Confessional gripped the emo genre by the scruff of its neck and shook it back to life.Īfter a several month tour in support of the album, Carrabba et al. In 2001 the sophomore album “The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most” was issued by Vagrant Records, and marked the arrival of a band in support of Carrabba. The singer’s debut output, 2000’s “The Swiss Army Romance” was released whilst Carrabba was still a member of Further Seems Forever, however after their debut “The Moon Is Down”, the singer left the group to focus on Dashboard Confessional. Dashboard Confessional was originally conceived as a solo side project of musician Chris Carrabba. ![]()
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