I posted this in the Live forum, but I'll share here, too with a few addtional edits.
Awesome, amazing show. The energy and enthusiasm of the crowd definitely gave the band what it needed to play for nearly three hours. Mike and Jeff were especially animated, and several times Jeff appeared to be joking with his guitar tech as he switched out basses. Ed talked a little bit about Jeff's Luvco shirt during the first encore about how when they first met (I think that was the story), Jeff had that shirt. Stone was animated at times, more so than I remember him to be. The band really looked like they were having fun and in really good spirits. During one song, Ed, Jeff, Stone and Mike all jammed together on Mike's side of the stage (Betterman, I think).
For Porch, they played the slow bluesy intro and ramped right into the song full blast. The green, large plastic lights that descended up and down during the show dropped low enough that Mike, Jeff, Stone, Ed and Boom could grab and push them, swinging them out to the pit. It made for a frenetic sight while Mike and Jeff dodged these swinging green orbs. Meanwhile, Ed walked to the back of the stage, returning to the front, tried to swing from a light, and instead chose to finish the song in the pit.
Small Town was played to the back, "we're going to play to a place a little larger than Trees, the back of the house".
Rocking in the Free World was crazy. Annie Clark on tambourine and taking the second verse. Carrie Brownstien strutting the stage with her bass. Ed tossing tambourines to the crowd as if they were candy. It was hilarious to watch the stage tech grab two more tambourines, position himself relative to Ed and toss them to Ed as he ran around the stage.
I enjoyed Pendulum as an opener, Can't Keep was a nice surprise, still can't get into Yellow Moon or Future Days. I was hoping that seeing the latter two songs live would help me appreciate them, but not so much. I'm bummed Let the Records Play was cut for Daughter but I think it was a good audible to go into Chloe Dancer from that instead of LTRP. For Sirens, the chant outtro whatever was weird, seeming that Ed wanted to keep it going and the band said what the hell and joined it.
Side note, I took a friend who was a hardcore fan up until Yield, and appreciates the band. She'd never seen them live. I tried not to hype the experience too much, but when the intro music played and I saw the side curtain pulled open, I turned to her and said "Are you ready?" She loved it. Saying of Ed, "He could lead a cult and I'd have a hard time not following him".
A really fun show.
I do like the pop up merch trailer that is set up. Makes it very nice to grab stuff and take it back to the car.
what were some of the highlights?