I know, I know, we’re all sick of posts about The xx. But I can’t help myself! Video above from their show Friday at Webster Hall (Flipcam audio surprisingly deece, no? More: Nighttime and VCR.) Point, though, aside from ‘damn how awesome is this band’: LOOK AT THAT ENORMOUS CROWD. (Check around 3:40.)
It’s crazy thinking that when I first wrote about them was the day of their 2nd or 3rd show in the US, and that my boyfriend and I saw them at Pianos (for crying out loud, Piano’s, where, like I could get booked playing a kazoo tomorrow night if I felt like it) for a crowd of, like, 18 people max — and now they’re playing sold-out shows to a completely packed Webster Hall (that’s capacity of 1200-2000, kids, depending on setup) — and, like me, a chunk of the crowd left shortly after, early into Friendly Fires’ set.
Forgive me if I’m devolving into Lefsetz-esque nostalgia and ranting, but like, damn. I can complain about marketing or whatever, and crashing CD sales (fun fact: ten years ago today was the day the RIAA filed their first lawsuit agains Napster!) and speculate about whether ‘hype’ leads to ‘success’ and ‘whether or not this band has a future’ — but at the end of the day, I just think it’s kind of awesome that in a period of three months a bunch of goth 19 year olds from the UK with relatively little deliberate label push behind them goes from having 18 fans in a city to having 1800 internet-users cough up a disgusting $20+ per ticket and then brave the worst weather we’ve had in months to get there on time to see them, because it’s totally worth it.
