The adored indie rock band Luna performed last night at Atlanta's Terminal West. We were there and so was Eleanor Friedberger, who performed the opening set.
Eleanor Friedberger is the sister part of the brother-sister band Fiery Furnaces, and while the Furnaces are pretty hard to categorize, Eleanor's solo work would most correctly be categorized as "singer-songwriter." But while that category often brings to mind images of faux-sincere acoustic folk artists, Eleanor is a rocker and played her set solo (no band) but on electric guitar. To be sure, on a few songs, she played a recording of the backing music and sang the vocals karaoke style, holding the mic while singing and dancing on stage. We think that takes a lot of self-confidence, but then again, she rocks the best bangs in rock 'n' roll.
Here's one of her older songs (from 2011) but she covered it in her set last night, so we think it's fair to include it in this post.
Here's one of her older songs (from 2011) but she covered it in her set last night, so we think it's fair to include it in this post.
Following the 1991 break-up of the band Galaxie 500, dream pop/indie pop band Luna was formed by singer/guitarist Dean Wareham. The band recruited bassist Britta Phillips in 2000 and eventually broke apart in 2005. Wareham and Phillips got married in 2007 and toured occasionally as Dean & Britta and as the Dean Wareham Band.
Luna had a devoted, near fanatical, fan base, and after they got back together in 2015, we were lucky enough to have been among the audience for the reunion tour's first set, also held at Atlanta's Terminal West. Last night's audience seemed no less devout than at the 2015 set, if a little less beside themselves for the opportunity to hear the legendary band perform once again.
Luna opened the set with the instrumental GTX3 from their new EP, A Place of Greater Safety.
Since we got there early to see Eleanor Friedberger, we were one row back from the stage for Luna's set.
Britta was adorable as always, and showed everyone how to rock a jumpsuit.
The set was near perfect, and the interplay of the two guitars often created near hypnotic passages of pitch-perfect indie guitar rock. Luna's set lasted for well over 60 minutes and although a peek at the set list (one of the perks of being at the front of the stage) showed they only planned to perform two songs for their encore, they played a third solely at the request of one person in the audience.
Added old-fogie bonus points for getting home before 11:00 p.m.
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