This was my first time seeing Bloc Party and I believe their first time in OH. I've wanted to see them a couple years now as they're my favorite active band I hadn't seen up to this point. I had made plans for various festivals to catch them, but those didn't seem to work out. The band was totally on top of things and giving it their all tonight and I must say, Matt is one of the most wicked drummers I've ever seen and Kele is a powerful frontman. For some reason, it took a really long time for the crowd to get into them as the majority seemed very lost on their music until they heard the singles 'Banquet' and 'The Prayer'. They were finally into every song once 'Uniform' completely blew every source of life in the venue off their feet. It was definitely the highlight of the evening. 'Like Eating Glass' was pretty intense as well and got the crowd going wild. 'Two More Years' and 'The Once and Future King' got solid responses and it was good to hear them live.

Toward the end of their main set, I went out on a limb and did something I sort of hate to hear other people do, but I knew I had an off-chance in hell for them to play it. No one had bothered them with requests so far, so I took it upon myself to be that guy. I yelled out "Pioneers!" because my friend and I really wanted to hear it as it's one of our faves from 'Silent Alarm', but no luck during the main set...nor the *first* encore. Suddenly, they came back out and I completely expected them to play 'I Still Remember' as that's been a huge single for them in Columbus and I imagined most of the audience who did know some of their songs wanted to hear it. What we got was...'PIONEERS'!! So glad we didn't jet. They said they hadn't played it in a long time, but it completed our night as only chanting "We will not be the last!" could do. Cool