Bloc Party at McCarren Pool
It’s been almost a week since I had the pleasure of checking out Bloc Party (currently one of my favorite bands) play Williamsburg’s McCarren Park Pool, so I imagine I’ve already forgotten a good bit about the show. However, there are a couple things that really stuck with me for days after.
One was how good Bloc Party’s music is. Even though they only have one studio album out, all the songs are real keepers and came across very well live. No, they’re not some mega-rock band or anything full of over the top stage performances, but that’s not the point. They played great music in a show that was quite powerful and energetic…
Which brings me to the next thing I really remember: the crowd sucked, sucked, sucked! I know from too many concerts to recall that New Yorkers make terrible audiences for live music. Too often, I’ve been at shows where bands from the UK or the West coast have come to play a show in New York only to be met with a crowd of too-cool-to-bother-dancing-or-even-clapping New Yorkers with an over active sense of entitlement, but I must admit it seems even worse in the all-image Williamsburg hood.
A few years ago, I noticed this abysmal crowd performance at the Warsaw in Williamsburg for The Streets first trip to our fair city (before they went soft). It was so wretched that time, that Mike Skinner (the front man) started hurling curses and full beer bottles at the crowd.
I’m all for being cool. Dressing cool. Listening to cool music. Reading cool books. Creating cool art. But I hope I remember not to become so “cool” that I can’t dance, cheer, and have fun at a rock concert.
By the way YoutTube has tons of video of the Bloc Party show.
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