Live review: Death Cab For Cutie @ McCarren Park Pool

(photo from my phone, of course … didn’t want to risk the camera in the storm, which turned out to be a good call!)

Last Tuesday I went to see Death Cab for Cutie at McCarren Park Pool, about a 15-minute walk from my apartment. All day I was paranoid about the storm that weather.com said was going to happen, so I came prepared with a poncho (since I thought taking notes while holding an umbrella would be tough). I got there at least a half hour after the doors opened but somehow managed to snag a spot on the barricade at the front.

The show was fantastic, even though there were a few sound/instrument problems. However, the show got cut short before the encore because the storm was finally coming and it was too dangerous to be onstage (not to mention I was kind of terrified of the lighting rigs falling on my head).

It started raining as everyone was clearing out of the pool, and when I got my poncho out I couldn’t figure out where the head hole was because clearly, I’m an idiot. I was already soaked but resorted to wearing it around me like a cape, which … didn’t help much. The whole running-through-a-storm thing was very familiar, since the same thing happened at the Decemberists show in Millennium Park in Chicago last summer. That was worse though, my friends and I were on our way to a restaurant, not home, and all looked and felt like we had been swimming in our clothes. Gross.

Anyway, read my Billboard.com review here.