In the Sun, in the sun...

She & Him w/ The Chapin Sisters

House of Blues

Boston, MA

7/1/10

I have been so excited to see She & Him for so long. I couldn't believe it was already time! Lauren & Julia (two of my drama girls) met me at my place of work at 4:20 and we left immediately. We got stuck in major traffic on the way up there and then once we arrived in Boston Kojii (my GPS) told me to take a left onto a one way. Oh Boston how I despise your roads. So we got a tad lost.

Finally I met Carrie & Marielle at the House of Blues around 6:45pm. Luckily they were there early so were at the front of the line!! They opened the doors at 7:15 and we made our way to the floor to get a good spot near the stage. Due to our position at the front of the line we were about three 'rows' back from the stage. It was entirely standing only. Luckily the crowd was an older more mature crowd that didn't push and shove to get closer so I wasn't pushed around a lot and stood in my same spot pretty much the entire show (get to that later). As you can see from my picture we were really close! The pictures I took are kind of blurry because I took them with my iPhone and wasn't exactly the best lighting to take great pictures with a phone! haha. But Julia got some good shots.

So we waited around and chatted for the opening act to start -- The Chapin Sisters. They came on at 8:00pm and with their first mini-song we were all frightened. First of all, these girls (Lily & Abigail) were like cutouts of the 70's -- Lily looked a lot like a blonde version of the Carpenter Sister, which isn't a bad thing, I'm just sayin. And they're music is very chanty and ominous. When they talked to us - the audience - they were very funny and nice...just their music was not my thing at all. One of their songs though was pretty good, but I forgot the name of it.

And apparently Lily & Abigail are also backup singers for She & Him, so for their second to last song Zooey came out and sang with them! I was beaming! Yay Zooey! She is so tiny! But that may be because she was standing next to Abigail Chapin, who is a giant. After that song Zooey left and the sisters sang their last song, which was like an indian chant (NOT LYING!) it was very strange. Then they left to get ready for the rest of their gig with She & Him. Again, the sisters seem like very nice and funny people, I am just not a fan of their music.

So they were on from 8:00 - 8:40pm. We then watched the sound check guy -- who was a mixture of Waldo (from Where's Waldo) and a brunette Andy Dick -- do sound checks on all the instruments and mics.

Then finally at 9:22 the band came out followed by M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel! If you didn't know that already!! They sang pretty much all of their songs, and the entire set was amazing! M. Ward is a genius on the guitar and he has a really nice voice. At one point he played guitar using a beer bottle instead of his left hand, it was fantastic. That man has mad skillz yo! And Zooey...oh Zooey -- what to say about her! She is just phenomenally talented. And soooo adorable! Again, we were reallly close so I was in my glory as she is my favorite person. She has so much energy and played the piano, guitar and mini-guitar. Some guy in the audience held up a sign that said Marry Me Zooey and she so cutely told him "sorry, I'm taken". I read the sign later and it was really cute and funny asking her to move to Utah with him and practice polygamy and he would be 'INDIE-er" hahahaha. He was young and not creepy so that made the sign cute and funny rather than stalkerish.

They sang "You Really Gotta Hold on Me" towards the end and were sooo cute. They were giggling at each other and just being adorable. The entire show I was singing and sort of dancing with the limited space I had. It was so much fun! High energy and happiness surrounding the audience and stage.

For their encore they sang two songs that were awesome. I am in a fog right now so I don't know what they were. But Zooey sang the first one and M. Ward sang the second one. They were both soooo fun though.

Their set was over at 11:20 and I just wished they started the whole thing over again. I could have watched them all night. Afterwards we went out to the gate where they would come out. We saw one of the band members come out and he smiled at us. M. Ward came out of the gate and smiled and waved and went into the bus. We waited around for a while longer for Zooey...and she came out but she was on her phone and escorted by the security straight into the bus. :( That was a bummer...but I had so much fun and loved that concert so much and love them so much that it is all good! :) :)

I won't even get into the ride home because it was torture and I will never drive to Boston again! haha.

Loved every second of that concert and want to see them again!