The Faint and Ladytron are currently on a co-headlining US tour. They played two dates at Webster Hall, alternating the headlining slot. I caught Friday night’s show where Ladytron headlined, and I have to say, when you compare the energy levels of each band’s set, it seems clear that The Faint should be holding that headlining slot. I enjoy Ladytron, but after getting pumped up and shaking my ass to The Faint’s set, that whole disaffected head bob thing didn’t work out so well. Okay, maybe I wiggled my butt a little during “Seventeenâ€.
I have little critique for this show. Both bands put it out there, with sets spanning their sizable catalogs. Todd Fink is a spaz in the best way possible. The vocal duo of Helen Marnie and Mira Aroyo continues to be endlessly sexy and fairly mysterious. Nothing new here. It was a Good Show. I danced, I snapped photos, I watched from the balcony as a girl beat the living hell out of her significant other wholly undisturbed by security (he sported some facial blood once security finally did show up to escort them out), and my girlfriend and I got rubbed up on from behind—and almost got into an altercation with—a total creepster [read: old] in a leather jacket. It was an eventful evening.
Photographic evidence as follows:
