Relive the Utah Concert Experience!
King Diamond • Overkill • Night Demon • November 16, 2024 • The Complex
Reviewed and Photographed by Nate Bonney
King Diamond Stopped by Salt Lake City on November 16th, performing his St. Lucifer Hospital tour at the Complex. He brought along some openers, which made for a great night of metal!
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Trans-Siberian Orchestra • November 20, 2024 • Delta Center
Reviewed by Kevin Rolfe
Photos by Jason McEachern
Do you ever wonder how traditions start? Is it something you’ve done for a few years and haven’t noticed, then once you have you decide that you’ll be doing it from then on? Or maybe it’s something that was happening long before you arrived and you are continuing. Many of my traditions started unintentionally. For example, I covered the Trans-Siberian Orchestra back in 2018. Little did I know that I would be returning to the Delta Center every year since, to review this band in late November. It’s a tradition I did not expect but have embraced.
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Mark Ambor • Kenzie • November 19, 2024 • The Complex
Reviewed and Photographed by Josilyn Wakkuri Lybbert
Fans of indie artist Mark Ambor happily waited in line and braced cold temperatures to get the perfect spot for his highly anticipated, sold-out Rockwood Tour stop at The Complex in Salt Lake City! It didn’t surprise me when a security guard said that over 900 tickets were sold for the show because even before the show started, the crowd flowed out into the lobby and couldn’t fit into the entire room in the venue that the show was to take place in!
I quickly noticed that the crowd was more diverse in age than I was expecting! While a large portion of the fans were teens to twenty-something year olds, there were quite a few people beyond that age range, and I even noticed a handful of little kids. One stood right at the barricade but couldn’t even see over it!
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State Champs • Knuckle Puck • Meet Me @ The Altar • Daisy Grenade • November 18, 2024 • The Depot
Reviewed and Photographed by Sam Howard
The Depot is a venue that makes a show’s production feel huge while still maintaining a very intimate experience between the audience and the performer. State Champs playing there was no different. With big sounds from the stage, an audience of roughly 650 people, and a pop-punk fan’s dream of an opening lineup, the State Champs’ show was definitely one that got the crowd’s hearts beating hard. The crowd grew more hyped with each opening act, all the while having a good mix of people attending to see each band and not just the headliner.
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Hockey Dad • Remo Drive • Tatiana Hazel • November 14, 2024 • The Complex
Reviewed and Photographed by Morgan Newbold
Last Thursday, surf rock band Hockey Dad came out to Salt Lake City to play a lowkey, intimate gig at The Complex! They just got started on their US/Australia tour this winter with Tatiana Hazel and Remo Drive! I am always grateful to photograph shows of artists that I’m hearing for the first time! It’s a great experience and challenge to shoot, not knowing what to expect. However, I did listen to Tatiana beforehand and now I am definitely a new fan of hers! This was honestly the most intimate show I’ve attended at The Complex, but the energy was UP in the Grand room! With a majority of young fans in the crowd, everyone came to get absolutely wild. This show brought a triple threat of indie-rock splendor! I certainly enjoyed sitting back and losing myself in the music when I wasn’t shooting.
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Chase Atlantic • 24kGoldn • November 13, 2024 • The Complex
Reviewed and Photographed by Amelia Weyerstall
“This may be the best night of your life so far, fingers crossed, and I say so far because life is very long and it’s also fleeting, if you want me to get deep with it, but for real it means the honest world to us that you guys came here and put us on this stage right now. So thank you Salt Lake City, make some MTF noise!” shouted Mitchel Cave, the lead singer for Chase Atlantic. The energy inside of the Rockwell at the Complex was electric when both Chase Atlantic and 24kGoldn took the stage. The entire west side of Salt Lake was shaking from the audience jumping along to the songs during the sold-out show on November 13th.
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Allies Gala • Andy Bell • October 5, 2024 • Eccles Theater
Reviewed by Kevin Rolfe
Photographed by Alisha Gregson
So, I’m sitting down, drinking a protein shake, and watching the morning news. I’m trying to convince myself that I need to start working, so I negotiate with myself that I’ll watch TV for 15 more minutes and then I HAVE to get to it. Within that 15 minutes, I watched the local morning news, and I saw, Equality Utah Executive Director, Troy Williams talking about the upcoming Allies Gala. He then mentions that the featured artist at the gala will be Andy Bell, the lead singer of the synth-pop duo, Erasure. My jaw dropped. Erasure is my favorite band. Learning that one half of my favorite band would be performing right here in Salt Lake City? I knew I had to be there.
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The The • October 30, 2024 • Eccles Theater
Reviewed and Photographed by Austin Dayton
This last week, alternative indie band The The, led by the ever-enigmatic Matt Johnson, made their way to Salt Lake City Utah, playing their “Ensouled” world tour at the Eccles Theater. The much-anticipated return of The The to the music scene was prefaced with “Ensoulment”, a new album released by the band earlier this year. The Utah-based audience that had crowded into the theater was treated to a near-perfect night of music across a vast musical landscape that included everything from new wave, alt-rock, post-punk and so much more. For many it had been 20-plus years since they had seen the band live, truly marking the performance as one to bring back old memories whilst cementing new ones!
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Dashboard Confessional • Boys Like Girls • Taylor Acorn • October 15, 2024 • The Complex
Reviewed and Photographed by Morgan Newbold
Last week, Salt Lake welcomed alternative American rock band Dashboard Confessional to The Complex! They made their rounds to Utah on their fall U.S. tour, after 2 years since their last show here! I was stoked to see and photograph these guys! Their music has been something I keep coming back to over the past couple of years. I really enjoy their sound and their spirit. I got to shoot alongside some of my best friends and enjoy a phenomenal performance from Dashboard. The Complex is probably the venue I’ve photographed at the most, and it’s always a great time. This was a nearly sold out show, and it was PACKED. Even as the first of two openers came on at 6:30 on a Tuesday night, a majority of the fans were already there!
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UCR On Tour • Weezer • Voyage to the Blue Planet Tour • The Flaming Lips • Dinasaur Jr. • October 1, 2024 • Blue Arena • Loveland, Colorado
Reviewed and Photographed by Alisha Gregson
I have been a Weezer fan for as long as I can remember. When it comes to ranking my favorite bands, they come second only to The Beatles. It was actually at a Weezer concert a few years ago that I first felt the desire to become a concert photographer. Just a few months later, I covered my first show. I had no idea just how much one Weezer concert would change my life.
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