Been getting into Macklemore from Seattle recently, and was given tickets to see the show. We entered right before the main act, and most of the crowd was pretty young and white. This rapper draws straight from the burbs, I surmised, nothing wrong with that.
Macklemore ripped off the roof, Ryan Lewis, his D.J. is insane and the fact that they do a bit of mashup work in there (say "I've got soul, but I'm not a soldier" by The Killers,) did not detract at all for me. Macklemore put it out there, that 8 months earlier he came to Minneapolis and had 7th Street Entry full with 150 people, but now he's selling out shows at 1st ave. That's picking up some steam quick.
My deduction is that Macklemore's new hook focus, if he keeps building on it, will bring him more fans and attention. His songs "Irish Celebration" and "Life is Cinema" killed it, and with Lewis being added to the sound, it seams like that is the direction his music is going in. His older songs, with some exceptions unfortunately blended together a bit.
His stage presence was really great... he talked an awful lot. Which I enjoyed, because he was pretty entertaining, it was just interesting to me. He did "And We Danced" as his British rockstar mad twin or something, and that whole thing was energetic and alot of fun. Would love to see the dude perform again sometime. Maybe with Atmosphere, or another rad Minneapolis act? C'mon!
Thank you
Tim Brown
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