I got back from the pillows live at the el rey a few hours ago. The live show was amazing. The opening band was extremely bad, and no one remembered their name. This opening band had to get a substitute drummer, relied on synths too much, and all of their songs sounded the same.
Next was the noodles, an all-girl japanese rock band. Their songs were okay. Their last two songs were great! But they didn’t have intensity and presence.
Finally, the pillows came on, and immediately, the mood of the whole place changed. People just want crazy when they came on the stage. And the pillows rocked the rest of the night. It was amazing seeing them in person. The show ended too quickly.
I used my cell phone to capture about half of the pillows show. But it turns out that if you exit from video mode with the “end call” button, the video doesn’t actually save. (But audio recording saves automatically when you hit the “end call” button.) So pretty much, I lost all the video :(. I guess the phone software designers weren’t all that great, but ultimately, it was my fault for not knowing this.
Also, after the first two bands played, I went to the merchandise table, but unfortunately, about the time I got there, all medium sized t-shirts sold out, so I didn’t get anything.
But in any case, I finally got to see my favorite rock band, the pillows!
