can't you see
On Tuesday night I got to meet musicdiamond - after lo, these many years of LJ friendship! - and we drove up to San Francisco together to eat Afghani food and see the Nick & Knight show. It was so much fun!
We agreed that Nick's voice, or his control of it, has matured well. Nick and Jordan were both looking quite natty; they had a few costume changes between suit jacket/vest with nice pants outfits and shirt with jeans outfits, but all were well fitted. The timing of the costume changes was a little clumsy; the band kept playing for most of the time they were offstage, but not all, and the gaps did start to feel long. I was surprised that they didn't use more of those exits to do solo numbers - though maybe I should back up and say I hadn't realized before it started how very much this was a joint show. Jordan only did one song without Nick, and Nick didn't do any on his own. So anyway, if I'd been running the show, I would have had them take turns singing solos while the other went off to change, but w/e.
They did abbreviated versions of I Want It That Way and Larger Than Life, and some NKOTB songs too, I believe, though I don't know those well enough to report which ones. I kept listening for any songs from Nick's earlier solo album but I don't think there were any.
What there was, however, was dancing. Dancing in a synchronized fashion. It was SO AWESOME. Nick and Jordan had very clearly choreographed routines to every song (except for the section of the show where Jordan played keyboard and Nick played guitar), and they slid very smoothly from general-but-coordinated movements around the stage (switching sides, etc.) to full-on side-by-side dance moves. Nick twirled! and Jordan twirled like Nick!
They introduced the band as Elevation Theory. I wished that they would introduce the individual band members by name, but they didn't. However, the very best part of the show, in my view, was when they brought all the musicians except the drummer up to the front and all five of them danced together. (While the musicians were still playing their instruments, for which they deserved extra respect!) I tried to take some pictures; the first one is slightly clearer, but the second one shows a little better how they were all doing the moves in step together.
IT WAS GLORIOUS.
We agreed that Nick's voice, or his control of it, has matured well. Nick and Jordan were both looking quite natty; they had a few costume changes between suit jacket/vest with nice pants outfits and shirt with jeans outfits, but all were well fitted. The timing of the costume changes was a little clumsy; the band kept playing for most of the time they were offstage, but not all, and the gaps did start to feel long. I was surprised that they didn't use more of those exits to do solo numbers - though maybe I should back up and say I hadn't realized before it started how very much this was a joint show. Jordan only did one song without Nick, and Nick didn't do any on his own. So anyway, if I'd been running the show, I would have had them take turns singing solos while the other went off to change, but w/e.
They did abbreviated versions of I Want It That Way and Larger Than Life, and some NKOTB songs too, I believe, though I don't know those well enough to report which ones. I kept listening for any songs from Nick's earlier solo album but I don't think there were any.
What there was, however, was dancing. Dancing in a synchronized fashion. It was SO AWESOME. Nick and Jordan had very clearly choreographed routines to every song (except for the section of the show where Jordan played keyboard and Nick played guitar), and they slid very smoothly from general-but-coordinated movements around the stage (switching sides, etc.) to full-on side-by-side dance moves. Nick twirled! and Jordan twirled like Nick!
They introduced the band as Elevation Theory. I wished that they would introduce the individual band members by name, but they didn't. However, the very best part of the show, in my view, was when they brought all the musicians except the drummer up to the front and all five of them danced together. (While the musicians were still playing their instruments, for which they deserved extra respect!) I tried to take some pictures; the first one is slightly clearer, but the second one shows a little better how they were all doing the moves in step together.
IT WAS GLORIOUS.