Blondie!!

When Reeves Gabrels (who would work with David Bowie through most of the 90s) saw Bowie’s Glass Spider Tour back in 1987, he said that one thing that stood out about the music is that it seemed more “muscular” than their studio counterparts.

That’s exactly how I would describe the music at the Blondie show last night. Every song was superior to the original, given a new power by a band that had clearly been at this for a while. I mean, Blondie was around in the 70s, right, so clearly she’s been performing for nearly 50 years. Not only was she great, but the band too.

Fun night, thank you to our friend who made these tickets available to us!

Our seats were just 13 rows back, just left of center:

The show started in the daylight but it was dark out by the end of the show.

Here we are, before Blondie took the stage, eagerly awaiting the show (the warm-up act was a DJ who played era-relevant music to pump everyone up):

Blondie opened with “One way or another” (first picture below), closed the main set with “Heart of Glass” (second picture below), and played just about every Blondie track I knew over the course of the evening.

Here’s the band, taking their curtain call at the end of the night:

I kind of wish I had more pictures of my first concerts, in the years before camera phones! This was fun to capture little bits of the show in ways you really couldn’t just 20 years ago!