Concert Report: The Black Keys

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Kelsey Newcomer
F111 – Concert Report 1

The concert I attended was the 2014 Turn Blue World Tour in Cleveland, Ohio by The Black Keys with opener Cage the Elephant. The Black Keys were doing a two-day tour in Ohio since they originated over thirteen years ago in Akron. Their first show was on Friday in Cleveland and their second show was on Saturday in Columbus. I attended the Friday, September 5th performance at the Schottenstein Center at Ohio State University. The Schottenstien Center is the Ohio State Buckeye’s basketball arena that can sit over 18,000 people. The doors opened at 6:30pm, which gave the fans an hour and a half before Cage the Elephant came on to perform. Since eighty percent of the people had seat tickets, there wasn’t …show more content…

I come to concerts to hear the bands play music that I love, and The Black Keys do just that. When I saw them on September 5th they were a bit livelier than normal, which most likely was due to the fact that they were back in Ohio, but like the first time I saw them they got straight to business playing their music. There was little communication between the lead singer and the drummer, and after every song that stage would go black until they were ready to play the next song. They never went to the edge of the stage to interact with the audience, nor did they talk a …show more content…

There were several things that I noticed throughout the performance that were understood rules pertaining to the audience. The first thing I noticed is that the people sitting in the stands didn’t stand for the opening performance, but stood the entire time for the main act. This is common during most large performances, but I kept thinking why and how did this start. I could tell there was people would have preferred to sit and enjoy the concert, but felt obligated to stand. The other thing that I noticed was that the general admission tickets, who were located on the basketball court in front of the stage, danced, clapped, sang along, and interacted more with the members of the band rather than those sitting in the arena seat. There is an understand that those audience members who are standing directly in front of the stage will have a lot to do with the attitude of the audience surround them. I believe that if the performers and general admission audience has a lot of fun interacting, clapping, and singing that everyone else in the audience will fell more inclined to do

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