Collected Animals • The Live Thread: concert experiences

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Post **Posted:** Wed Apr 30, 2014 8:42 pm

Animal Collective
Hampshire College 2005 (there were literally 20 people at this show)
Avalon 2006
Avalon 2007
House of Blues Boston 2009
ODDSAC Hampshire College 2010
TTG Guggenheim 2010
Royale 2016
Calvin Theater 2017
Pitchfork 2021
Mass MoCA 2022
Paradise 2022
College Street Music Hall 2022

Avey and Kria
Red Barn, Hampshire College 2006

Avey Tare
Knitting Factory 2011

AV's Sl8shr Fliks
Brighton Music Hall 2014

Panda
Union Transfer 2014
Paradise 2014
Paradise 2018
Paradise 2019
Roadrunner 2025

Panda Bear and Sonic Boom
Paradise 2023

Guess where I went to college!

Avalon 2006 was the best live music experience I have ever had, followed closely by 07.
Consequently, The Calvin 2017 was one of the worst live music experiences I have ever had.

Post **Posted:** Thu May 01, 2014 1:25 am

AC:

charlottesville 2007 (get the boot, it's fantastic. a lot of people were dressed up in costumes and face paint and were doing this call and response during the intro of WCWAR, among other things)
All Points West 2008
930 club 2009
Electric Factory 2009
The Ottobar (got to meet the band and hang out upstairs and drink beer after the show and got to meet Jack, the dude who did the giant ball visuals and the oliver twist video) 2009?
MPP 2011
930 club 2013

Panda Bear:

Hopscotch music festival 2009
The Ottobar (with Deakin) 2009
930 Club 2014

Avey Tare

U Street Music Hall 2011

Oddsac

Somewhere in Baltimore 2010

I was supposed to see SFLX at U Street but it was one of the shows that got cornpilled. sad.

Post **Posted:** Tue Dec 02, 2014 7:14 am

bumped for updates

Post **Posted:** Tue Dec 02, 2014 4:47 pm

PB - Manchester 2011 (?) Tomboy tour with SB. First AC show, it blew my face off. The visuals and Bros as an encore, I felt like I was flying down an infinite wind tunnel. I'll never forget it.

AC - Manchester 2012 (?) Chz tour. I was driving, school night, after the show I realised I'd hurt my neck from dancing too hard. Crowd was pretty good, lots of people knew the CHz lyrics and were singing along. It got a bit mental for My Girls & BroSport, loads of casuls rushing to the front but they were unbelievable performances, the ten-minute BS techno orgy edition especially. I got done for speeding on my way home, but the court never got in touch! Karma.

Post **Posted:** Thu Dec 04, 2014 4:13 am

Animal Collective
The Beacham, 2011 (pre-CHz, drove four hours from my old place in Miami and back same night just to see AC)
Hollywood Bowl, 2012 (met the person that ended up becoming my girlfriend and several current friends at this show. did you know that there's little to no security at the hbowl? pay for $10 nosebleeds and simply walk up to much better seats no problem)
the Wiltern, 2013 (had a moment alone during The Purple Bottle)

Panda Bear
the El Rey, 2014 (Noah Lennox Please Come Back to Los Angeles in 2015)

Avey Tare/Slasher Flicks
Friday Flights at the Getty w/ Bjorn Copeland, 2014 (sat right in front of Bjorn for this, loudest show i've ever been to)
Slasher Flicks, FYF 2014 (first festival, not really interested in going to more unless Dave or Noah or AC play)

it also turns out that i sat right in front of Dave and Angel at a Hannibal Buress stand up set in March but i pretended they weren't there and let them get on with their night

Post **Posted:** Thu Dec 04, 2014 4:57 am

Re: Hannibal Buress set. You're a better fan than I

Post **Posted:** Thu Dec 04, 2014 5:26 am

AC
9:30 club, june 11 2013
9:30 club, dec 2013 (came back for seconds later that year.. hehe)

Slasher Flix
austin psych fest, may 2014
u street DC, 2014

Panda Bear
austin psych fest, 2014
9:30 club, 2014
mr smalls theatre, 2014

bought tix for the upcoming ottobar dj set with deaks n geo

Post **Posted:** Sat Dec 06, 2014 12:02 am

AC :
23/05/2013, Trianon, Paris
01/04/2016, La Botanique, Bruxelles
09/04/2016, La Cigale, Paris

Panda :
Nov 2013, Pitchfork Fest
July 2014, Midi Festival
March 2015, La Gaité Lyrique

When I saw him this summer i spent times with him backstage, noah is reallly super cool and friendly. Talked with him before the show and told him that i really liked boys latin ( i sung it, didn't know the name at the time) and after the show He told me "Hey I played your jam !", it was super cool. Talked like 20 minutes with him. When i had to go I started walkin away, waving my hand all shy and He just put his hand in the air and gave me a friendly handshake ( hands when you arm wrestle). Really made my day. The same day at the venue I met the coolest girl too. It was a perfect night and the show was just amazing.

Post **Posted:** Sat Dec 06, 2014 2:07 pm

Wow Dallou that story is amazing! So jealous.

Post **Posted:** Sat Dec 06, 2014 2:41 pm

Aha, yeah it was really amazing. The best is when I came across him, he went out of the toilet and i was waiting in front to go in. When he came out I was stunned. Such a good moment. And it was super cool caus at the end his tour manager was telling him that they had to leave in 5 minutes and was like "yeah yeah okay" .The guy came back and said "in 2 minutes" it was the same, like he was enjoying the conversation. Such a good guy.

Post **Posted:** Sun Dec 07, 2014 3:13 pm

Dallou wrote:

AC : 23/05/2013, Trianon, Paris

Panda : Nov 2013 Pitchfork Fest
July 2014 : Midi Festival
Gonna see him in Paris in a few month

Wow, I also saw Animal Collective live at le Trianon, Paris in 2013! Amazing experience, still the best concert I've been to! The performance was fantastic and the audience was really into it. Peacebone, Brother Sport and Purple Bottle in particular were out of this world.

I also saw AnCo at Pitchfork Festival Paris 2012 but it was a bit disappointing. The sound wasn't so good and the audience was completely inert. I really wish I had discovered them earlier and seen them circa 2007 ; I think the energy level was really insane back then.

Haven't seen Panda Bear live yet, gonna see him in Paris in March too; maybe we can meet up!

Post **Posted:** Sun Dec 07, 2014 4:45 pm

safer wrote:

Dallou wrote:
AC : 23/05/2013, Trianon, Paris

Panda : Nov 2013 Pitchfork Fest
July 2014 : Midi Festival
Gonna see him in Paris in a few month

Wow, I also saw Animal Collective live at le Trianon, Paris in 2013! Amazing experience, still the best concert I've been to! The performance was fantastic and the audience was really into it. Peacebone, Brother Sport and Purple Bottle in particular were out of this world.

I also saw AnCo at Pitchfork Festival Paris 2012 but it was a bit disappointing. The sound wasn't so good and the audience was completely inert. I really wish I had discovered them earlier and seen them circa 2007 ; I think the energy level was really insane back then.

Haven't seen Panda Bear live yet, gonna see him in Paris in March too; maybe we can meet up!

If you were among the dancing person, we must have seen each other, I was like a crazy lunatic during those songs, some guy told me to calm down and then "Open up open up" so I went insane. But then the non dancing, moving guy is always wrong if comes around the fun area. And yeah that would be fun for the panda show

Post **Posted:** Sun Dec 07, 2014 5:28 pm

Haha yeah that Today's Supernatural + Brosport + Purple Bottle combo for the encore was wicked. I started the concert at the front row (maybe you saw me then) but ended in the back, otherwise I probably would have fainted; I had zero energy left at the end but I really had a blast. I was probably among the dancing ones - you should have seen me during Purple Bottle ! You were right to give it your all, that's what makes a good AnCo audience !

dud · Post **Posted:** Sun Dec 07, 2014 8:36 pm

AC:
Prospect Park Brooklyn 8/15/09
setlist:

Spoiler: show

First AC show, dream set list. 7 merriweather tracks + graze, wwiws, leaf house, 20 minute fwx, #1, comfy in nautica, slippi…dunno if I’ll ever see an AC show with a better setlist than that. This was the first time they played Graze since the pre-merriweather shows in 2007, so that was a huge surprise. In the flowers was particularly great, definitely a stand out. Made out with this girl who must have been like 10 years my senior during also frightened and now I can’t listen to that song anymore without thinking of that lol…guy eyes was really fun too, they released these glowing/flashing inflatable beach balls on the crowd during the song.

Prospect Park Brooklyn 7/12/11
setlist:

Spoiler: show

Not as much to say about this one, great show tho, knew all the chz songs going into it because of the boots. They had technical difficulties during wide eyed and had to start again which was pretty funny. We Tigers was a blast and so was that crazy hip hop version of taste that they played on this tour

Union Transfer Philly 10/28/13
setlist:

Spoiler: show

Halloween show, they told everyone to wear costumes but it was last minute so only some people did. The band members all had masks or wigs on. Post-album crimson and honeycomb were nice treats. First time seeing amanita which was fun. Purple bottle/peacebone/I think I can were highlights for sure, but the surprise standout track was actually BROTHERSPORT. I overplayed this song so much and was so sick of it by this point that it was probably the track I was least excited for on the setlist, but holy shit the energy in this place when they played it was something I haven’t experienced at many shows before or after. Everyone danced like crazy during this song, jumping and pushing and swaying, screaming the lyrics, and I was so drenched in sweat and out of breathe afterwards, felt amazing (as did the post-concert gatorade). vid of brothersport so you get an idea of how crazy it was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm1Zc1aoCns

Avey Tare:
Knitting Factory Brooklyn 12/2/2011
setlist:

Spoiler: show

So glad I caught Avey on this tour! Nice small crowd. Laughing Hieroglyphic was sooo much fun to sing along with, and avey got really into it too. and the new tracks blew my mind live, still waiting for that ep </3

Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks:
Metro Gallery 6/6/13
Setlist:

Spoiler: show

This was the very first slasher flicks show. It was announced unexpectedly via avey’s facebook the afternoon of the show, and my friends and i decided on a whim to drive all the way down from north jersey. so worth it tho. couldn’t have been even 100 people at this show, and we were so close I could have reached out and strummed avey’s guitar. It was cool hearing all these songs without knowing them at all. The strongest track by FAR was the outlaw, when we left the show we all agreed unanimously that that song slayed. The album does not capture the energy of that song live, avey poured his soul into it. The guitar part at the beginning had a different effect on it that sounded super cool

Panda Bear:
Union Transfer 5/17/14
setlist:

Spoiler: show

Warsaw Brooklyn 5/18/14
setlist:

Spoiler: show

The visuals really added a lot to these shows, and those fucking strobe lights that were going constantly at the end of the set took a lot away…I actually brought sunglasses to the second performance, and even with my eyes closed AND sunglasses on, the strobe still blinded me and hurt my eyes. At least they only used them liberally for the second half of the show. The warsaw show had these sick lasers that were not at the union transfer show, they were pretty cool. also torn hawk was a riot at the warsaw show. He took my sunglasses at one point and started playing his guitar with them, and was feeding me and my friends red bull after red bull while playing…I walked out of there with like 5 red bulls in my pockets. He talked to us before his set and at the end of his set he gave me his number/email and said we should grab drinks lol still haven’t taken him up on that offer...

Post **Posted:** Mon Dec 14, 2015 3:29 pm

AC
2007-09-30 Webster Hall - Strawberry Jam
2009-01-20 Grand Ballroom - MPP
2009-01-21 Bowery Ballroom - MPP
2009-05-13 Terminal 5 - MPP
2010-03-02 Visual Arts Theatre - Oddsac Screening w/ Avey, Deakin, Geo
2011-07-11 Prospect Park - Centipede Hz
2012-12-05 Terminal 5 - Centipede Hz
2016-02-23 Irving Plaza - Painting With*

Panda Bear
2007-06-23 Bowery Ballroom - Person Pitch Tour
2011-07-03 Music Hall of Williamsburg - Tomboy Tour w/ Sonic Boom
2011-10-01 Webster Hall - Tomboy Tour w/ Sonic Boom
2015-01-11 MoMa PS1 - PBvGR Tour

Avey Tare
2011-12-02 Knitting Factory - Down There (+ all that other unreleased material) Tour

Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks
2013-06-17 Glasslands Gallery

Post **Posted:** Thu Dec 31, 2015 11:35 pm

Animal Collective:
5-17-2007 @ Metro Chicago
9-7-2007 @ Vic Theatre Chicago
7-19-2008 @ Pitchfork Fest Chicago
1-22-09 @ Metro Chicago
6-12-09 @ Bonnaroo
3-17-10 Oddsac @ Music Box Theatre Chicago
7-15-11 @ Pitchfork Fest Chicago
10-17-13 @ Riviera Chicago

Panda Bear:
9-29-11 @ Vic Theatre Chicago
5-21-14 @ Thalia Hall Chicago
7-17-15 @ Pitchfork Fest Chicago

Avey Tare:
12-5-11 @ Scubas Chicago
7-18-14 with Slasher Flicks @ Pitchfork Fest Chicago

Deakin:
I don't know the date because I didn't have a ticket. My band's first real show was opening for Deakin in 2010 at the Empty Bottle in Chicago. This was probably my favorite experience because Brian and Danny Perez were there. We hung out all night smoking and drinking in the band room downstairs, and they watched us play and had nothing but nice things to say, even specific moments in the songs they liked. It was so much fun, and those three are some of the coolest dudes ever.

Post **Posted:** Fri Jan 01, 2016 6:07 am

Kick fuckin ass, that rules dude. Must have been a special time, rad

Post **Posted:** Sun Feb 07, 2016 8:41 pm

AC

P4k 2011
Fox Theater Oakland 09/2012 (both nights)
Treasure Island Music Fest 2013
(upcoming)
Newport Music Theater Colubmus 02/2016
Royal Oak Music Theater Royal Oak 05/2016

Peebs
Popped Music Fest Philly 09/2011
The Fillmore SF 05/2014

Slasher Flixxxxxxxx
First City Festival Monterey, CA 08/2013
Great American Music Hall SF, opening for Deerhunter 08/26/2013
GMAT SF 08/24

AnCo DJ Set
1050 Folsom SF ??/2014

Post **Posted:** Sun Feb 07, 2016 9:07 pm

AC
Prospect Park 2011
union transfer
irving plaza (night 2)
[s]levitation fest[/s]
upcoming:
starland ballroom
terminal five
cat's cradle

Panda Bear
p4k 2011
Governor's Island 2011
warsaw 2014
moma 2015
music hall of williamsburg 2015
irving plaza 2015
bowery ballroom 2015

Avey Tare
bowery ballroom 2014
webster hall 2014

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 09, 2016 2:50 am

ac:
terminal 5 2009
prospect park 2009
atp 2009
ttg guggenheim 2010
prospect park 2011
mann center 2012
UPCOMING
union transfer
irving plaza x2
levitation
starland

avey tare/slasher flicks:
gov island dj set 2010
knitting factory 2011
bowery ballroom 2014

panda bear:
atp 2009
gov island 2010
music hall (w sonic boom) 2011
music hall 2014
irving plaza 2014
bowery ballroom 2015

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 09, 2016 4:09 pm

Is it like god-level to have been at the Gov Island Peebs show? I would listen to that boot and be like, man, that was me.

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 09, 2016 4:13 pm

Bonnaroo Late night set 2AM-4AM was magical!
Portland 12/02/13

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 09, 2016 6:36 pm

tdegenaro wrote:

Is it like god-level to have been at the Gov Island Peebs show? I would listen to that boot and be like, man, that was me.

it was an incredible show

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 09, 2016 10:04 pm

tdegenaro wrote:

Is it like god-level to have been at the Gov Island Peebs show? I would listen to that boot and be like, man, that was me.

one of the best AC related shows i've ever seen.

outdoor AC shows are my fav

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 16, 2016 1:44 pm

AC outdoor is like magic, but better. Thanks for sharing your stories.

Post **Posted:** Thu Feb 18, 2016 1:02 pm

So Dave said that they're not going to play My Girls for a while.... i wanna be at the concert where they play it for the first time in 15 years

Post **Posted:** Thu Feb 18, 2016 11:10 pm

Painting With is gonna slay so hard live, im jealous of everyone who is going tonight.... or this month ugh
Boots pls!!!

Post **Posted:** Sat Feb 20, 2016 6:04 am

Think I have it all here...

November 2006 Avey & Kria - First Unitarian Church, Philly
June 2007 Animal Collective - South Street Seaport, NYC (Free Show with Danielson)
June 2007 Panda Bear - First Unitarian Church, Philly
Sept 2007 Animal Collective - Starland Ballroom, Philly
Jan 2009 Animal Collective - Grand Ballroom, NYC
May 2009 Animal Collective - Terminal 5, NYC
March 2010 Animal Collective - Guggenheim Museum, NYC - (Transverse Temporal Gyrus)
Sept 2010 Panda Bear - Governor's Island, NYC
July 2011 Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion, Baltimore
Dec 2011 Avey Tare - Johnny Brenda's, Philly (Down There)
Oct 2012 Animal Collective - Mann Center, Philly
Dec 2012 Animal Collective - Terminal 5, NYC
Oct 2013 Animal Collective - Union Transfer, Philly
June 2013 Slasher Flicks - Glasslands,NYC
May 2014 - Panda Bear - Union Transfer, Philly
July 2014 - Slasher Flicks - Johnny Brendas, Philly
Feb 2016 Animal Collective - Union Transfer, Philly

Post **Posted:** Sat Feb 20, 2016 10:02 am

Sadly, but in a way happily, the only time I've seen AnCo live was at Bonnaroo 2009. It was also during the peak of my first ever acid trip. The night before, my tent mates and I found a guy about 20 feet from us who was selling acid laced sugar cubes. I honestly have no idea what my actual dosage was, but my god did that show change my life. The majority of the songs were from MPP, but about 2/3 in this familiar beat started to crawl in. I remember slowly turning my head to my friend Sarah and saying, "Is that Comfy in Nautica" before realizing the grass had turned into neon-green glowsticks, and I started experiencing extreme synesthesia. About an hour later I had almost stripped completely naked after the of Montreal show, and spent a good hour dancing in the mud during Mars Volta at Which Stage. It was one of the most ethereal and surreal experiences of my life, and I'll be damned if I ever forget it.

Post **Posted:** Sun Feb 21, 2016 5:19 pm

September 2007 - Animal Collective, Emo's, Austin Tx
June 2009 - Animal Collective, Stubbs, Austin Tx
November 2010 - Deakin, Fun Fun Fun Fest, Austin Tx
September 2011 - Panda Bear, Granada theater, Dallas, Tx
September 2012 - Animal Collective, Austin City Music Hall, Austin, Tx
September 2014 - Panda Bear, The Mohawk, Austin, Tx

Upcoming
April 2016 - Animal Collective, Levitation Festival, Austin Tx

Post **Posted:** Wed Feb 24, 2016 9:30 am

great stories in here... very envious of some of the shows same of yal were at, especially any 07-09 shows, down there tour or reaper tour. feel like sets from those 3 tours are the total summation of my life/music i would want to make, esp mpp era...man live shows are ephemeral as shit, and u cant go back or like time-travel to tours u missed, too bad.

AC:
Fall '12- New Orleans House of Blues
2/19/16- Union Transfer
2/23/16- Irving Plaza
(spring '15, dj set @ nola one eyed jacks)

Slasher:
Spring '14- Nola HoB

Deakin:
fall '10 (house of blues nola, opening for deerhunter)

Post **Posted:** Fri Feb 26, 2016 3:03 am

which deakin show? that was a pretty unique time

Post **Posted:** Fri Feb 26, 2016 6:41 am

Didn't realize until today that the march 2013 boston show i went to was the live debut of bluish!

july 2011 prospect park, ny
march 2013 boston house of blues
sep 2014 panda bear, paradise boston
feb 2016 royale boston

Post **Posted:** Fri Feb 26, 2016 6:50 am

legitimately did not know it was ever performed live, and I'm very jealous ^

Post **Posted:** Fri Feb 26, 2016 3:54 pm

Bluish live was freakin' otherworldly. For me:

AC
3/7/13 House of Blues, Boston, MA
2/20/16 3S Artspace, Portsmouth, NH
2/22/16 Royale, Boston, MA
(upcoming) 6/3/2016 Primavera Sound, Barcelona

Panda
9/19/14 Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA

Slasher Flicks
4/22/14 Brighton Music Hall, Boston, MA

Post **Posted:** Sun Feb 28, 2016 9:29 am

2007-09-10 The Vic Theater
opened with one of my unsung favs "Unsolved Mysteries" and I can still hear Panda's floor tom
2008-04-28 The Electric Factory
(I think) debuts of "Chocolate Girl," "Lion In A Coma," "Comfy In Nautica" and "Grass" + Dave's bday song
2009-01-29 Metro
sick Dave meant no "Winters Love," but "Comfy" was a treat
2010-07-17 Pitchfork
Panda is a dream boat
2011-07-13 Mr Smalls
will never forget "We Tigers" or that take on "Taste"
2011-12-05 Schuba's
still waiting for a recorded "Song For Jerome"
2012-09-30 The Tabernacle
"Cobwebs" forever forever forever
2015-07-17 Pitchfork
I think PBVSGR works a lot better live
2016-02-28 Conchord Hall
best ever drops for "Daily Routine"

Post **Posted:** Sun Feb 28, 2016 11:53 pm

jfw7 wrote:

which deakin show? that was a pretty unique time

he was opening for deerhunter in new orleans. really good set... guy from gang gang i think did drum pads. ariel pink and os mutantes were playing that night too and it was so hard to pick but deak broke the tie cuz otherwise it totally woulda seen ariel...

and ya had no idea bluish got introduced during the '13 dates, thats sick. didnt they play it very briefly toward the end of mpp tour?

Post **Posted:** Mon Mar 07, 2016 10:59 pm

Diomedes wrote:

jfw7 wrote:
which deakin show? that was a pretty unique time

he was opening for deerhunter in new orleans. really good set... guy from gang gang i think did drum pads. ariel pink and os mutantes were playing that night too and it was so hard to pick but deak broke the tie cuz otherwise it totally woulda seen ariel...

and ya had no idea bluish got introduced during the '13 dates, thats sick. didnt they play it very briefly toward the end of mpp tour?

sadly no

im pretty sure they only ever played bluish once at that show!! which is crazy...i remember the night of that show i was mad hyped looking at the thread for it on old ca...and a rogue trooper posted "BLUISH!" and the whole thread exploded lol!!! i was on vine/insta/anythang to hear it. its such a beautiful rendition

Post **Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2016 2:39 am

it looks like bluish was played in montreal too, march 8

Post **Posted:** Fri Mar 25, 2016 10:16 pm

emo's (austin tx) - 22 sept 2007
stubb's (austin tx) - 05 june 2009
bonnaroo (manchester tn) - 12 june 2009
austin music hall (austin tx) - 28 sept 2012
fox theater (oakland ca) - 07 mar 2016
fonda theater (los angeles ca) - 08 mar 2016
fonda theater (los angeles ca) - 09 mar 2016
levitation @ emo's (austin tx) - 30 april 2016
fernwood resort (big sur ca) - 23 sept 2016
fernwood resort (big sur ca) - 24 sept 2016
white oak music hall (houston tx) - 15 nov 2016
music box (new orleans la) - 17 mar 2018
music box (new orleans la) - 18 mar 2018

panda bear:
austin psych fest (austin tx) - 04 may 2014
the mohawk (austin tx) - 14 sept 2014
desert daze (joshua tree ca) - 13 oct 2017
levitation @ the mohawk (austin tx) - 27 april 2018
cat's cradle (carrboro nc) - 09 May 2018

avey tare:
austin psych fest (austin tx) - 03 may 2014
desert daze (joshua tree ca) - 14 oct 2017

geologist:
levitation @ the mohawk (austin tx) - 27 april 2018
cat's cradle (carrboro nc) - 09 May 2018

dj sets:
vulcan gas company (austin tx) - 13 feb 2015
the lyric (los angeles ca) - 08 mar 2016
vulcan gas company (austin tx) - 29 april 2016
music box after party (new orleans la) - 18 mar 2018

will update more later