Last night me and my friends ventured out in the cold, ate a hearty McDonald's in the cold (tres Parisienne!) and queued to get in to the Zenith in the North of Paris to watch 'The Lumineers' a folk band from Denver, Colorado US!
The venue was buzzing with excitement and burst of chorus's from 'Ho Hey!'
The set was simple, but framed the band and their wonderful instruments perfectly. The stage was littered with guitars, banjos, ukuleles, cellos, honky tonk piano and a great percussion set.
The band, consisiting of front man- Wesley Schultz, Jeremiah Fraites on percussion, Neyla Pekarek on cello and vocals, Stelth Ulvang on Piano and Ben Wahamaki on Bass, put on a heartfelt and musically breathtaking performance. There's always worry with bands that 'they never sound as good as on the CD!' BUT.....ALAS! The Lumineers are not stumped with that title, in fact, their rawness and emotional quality of their music is MADE for live performance.
Their hits were performed with twists and extra bits which made the audience love them even more. (Stubborn Love, mainly sung by the audience!) But what amazed me the most, was their new music. There are issues with some folk bands where their music starts to sound quite 'samey' but, this again, is not the case with these guys. 'Falling' a duet between Schultz and Pekarek is definitely my favourite and had everyone in the audience dancing along and most likely going straight home to YouTube it. They also did their own rendition of Bob Dylan's 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' and made it their own with Schultz on guitar and vocals and the rest of the band producing some insane percussion.
Not only did their performance leave you going home to play it in the car on the way back, but their gratitude and thanks to the audience as well as their humbleness and modesty really made for a great evening.
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