Ah, Summer. The season where worries fall by the wayside, the sun stays out past its bedtime, and life just gets a little bit better overall. And one of those reasons it gets better is all of the concerts you're able to go to for a relatively low price. While Warped Tour has a stranglehold as the premier tour for emo bands to solidify their place in the scene, there's room for plenty of other great shows, and with a company like Journeys putting together a free mini-festival in the parking lots of malls all around America, the only thing you really have to figure out is how to get there. And when the tour came to the King of Prussia Mall in Pennsylvania, with hometown heroes Circa Survive headlining, there was no excuse not to be there.
The band took the stage at around 6:10pm, after all of the BMX/motocross/skateboarding expos where held and the free giveaways were handed out. With the sun shining down on the music stage, Circa Survive was greeted by hundreds of eager fans of all shapes and sizes, and each of them were equally invited to enjoy a 9-song set (and unexpected one-song encore) from the best live band in the world.
Beginning their set with the one-two punch of "Through the Desert Alone" and "Glass Arrows" from their most recent full-length Blue Sky Noise, the band mixed new songs and old fairly well, with Circa staples like "Living Together" and "The Great Golden Baby" mixing together perfectly with hidden gems like "Holding Someone's Hair Back" and "In Fear and Faith" from the band's debut full-length Juturna, along with monster singles "The Difference Between Medicine and Poison is in the Dose" and "Get Out" (which ended the main set). Despite the heat and little cloud coverage of the sun's rays, the band's energy never wavered, and Anthony Green was up to his old tricks, commanding the stage with an amount of passion no one else on this planet can match.
Perhaps the most intriguing part of these kinds of shows is that they are often played by bands who are native to the area who are taking the summer off of touring to finish a new album, and that's the exact reason you won't be seeing Circa in a venue near you until the fall. The band have completed their new album, and during the middle of the set, they played a new song off of that album, titled "The Birth of the Economic Hitmen." The song fit in perfectly, sounded great, and gave the fans a new level of excitement for what's to come from their hometown superstars. What's even better, Anthony Green teased the crowd with information, telling the crowd that details of the album will be announced "soon," and the band's fall tour will be announced "very, very soon." Despite only having enough time to play ten songs, the future doesn't look brighter for Circa Survive, and as one of my favorite bands, I can't wait to see what's next. Until then, I'll have to settle with yet another stellar set from my favorite band. So, there's that.
Setlist:
1. Through the Desert Alone
2. Glass Arrows
3. In Fear and Faith
4. The Difference Between Medicine and Poison is in the Dose
5. The Birth of the Economic Hitmen
6. The Great Golden Baby
7. Living Together
8. Holding Someone's Hair Back
9. Get Out
10. Act Appalled (Encore)
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