The Ikon
Open My Eyes
World Wide Epiphany
This must be one of the few venues where the backstage door is actually the front stage door! As we approached the venue the tour bus seemed to be at the front of the building and we had to go up a side street to enter! The Chameleon Club was a small club venue with a balcony around the top so that one could look down literally on the heads of the band if you wished! The doors opened at 7.30 and the opening act (a guy playing folk music on an acoustic guitar, wearing a “nice” jumper) came on at 8.15. As they advertised a party starting at 11.30, we were getting concerned about how long they’d be playing when they came on at 9.30.
We had the usual three opening tracks but with no scissor kicks during Couldn't I Just Tell You but that was probably because they just didn’t have room on the very small stage! Yer Fast went down a storm tonight and there were even lots of people singing “So hot” during # One Lowest Common Denominator so sleepy Lancaster is obviously a Todd town.
Todd gave quite a political speech during the break in Love In Action tonight (which I didn’t understand at all!). Earlier in the show he said that this was the penultimate concert of the tour and went on to say that tomorrow’s concert was a Dinosaur of Rock festival and that we could experience Kasim meeting up with Joan Jett again! Kasim remarked that she’d probably punch him in his stomach for leaving her band!
In Todd’s solo spot tonight he sang Tiny Demons again and then gave us the full Hawaiian War Chant story, complete with the “We’re gonna go rape, we’re gonna go pillage, we’re gonna kill everybody there” song too! It was good to see Todd’s mother in the audience tonight. Kasim had a few family members by the side of the stage too that he frequently spoke to. Todd complained several times that he needed more backlight so eventually his own techs just set up a light on the stage. There was a big “Chameleon Club” neon sign on the stage and Todd asked if that was ever switched off!
Probably the largest cheer of the tonight was for Trapped as the audience just loved that song (so do I!) and it lead into a Utopia melody with Fix Your Gaze and Hammer In My Heart before I heard the opening bars of Buffalo Grass which I knew would lead to the end of the concert!
In One World we had the hand punch at the end of the second verse and the line “From New York to Lancaster” before they returned to the stage for the now familiar The Ikon and Open My Eyes first encore and World Wide Epiphany second encore!