Chalk it up as one of the 5 best concerts I've seen so far this year; Interpol gave fans a night that will go down as "I was there." This is partly in due to the fact that it's the first time Interpol has played Madison Square Garden, it's first tour for a major label, and the band is musically synonymous with New York -it's home. The first two songs, "Pioneer to the Falls" and "Obsatcle 1" were played behind a curtain, which amplified the shadows of the members of the bands. This provided one hiccup for the night as the curtain malfunctioned and they had to take a short break to take it down. From the feeling of things, it would seem the curtain was supossed to automatcially drop right before the beginning of "Obstacle 1". There weren't many hiccups after that. Thankfully, they played many songs from the first two records -in fact, they played more songs off Lights than Admire. It was great fun to hear the new songs played live though, especially "Pioneer to the Falls", "Mammoth" and "Rest My Chemistry". One of the biggest crowd-favorites of the night was, obviously, "The Heinrich Maneuver". This is really the only song that fell short -it didn't live up to it's original urgency and catchiness...but the crowd seemed to love it so I guess that's what matters.
Other favorites of mine were "Say Hello to the Angels", "Hands Away", "Evil", "Not even Jail", and "PDA". The last of which was the finale to the first encore and was proceeded by really the only experimentation of the night. But this brief period of mostly quietness but with a familiar guitar loop was the perfect intro for "PDA", and was definitely one of the highlights of the night. It was a little surprising how effortless it looked for the quasi-young band, who hadn't played on such a grand stage before. They looked and sounded like seasoned veterans.
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