Post Malone • Muscadine Bloodline • Dan Spencer • September 8 & 9, 2024 • Utah First Amphitheatre
Reviewed and Photographed by Nate Bonney
Post Malone started his F-1 Trillion Tour right here in his hometown SLC, Utah. He did a two-day stint and both days were packed. Seems the first show on Sunday was busier but not by much. I was able to shoot the images of the artists on Sunday the 8th and then I had the opportunity to view the show on the 9th. I will include both of Post Malone’s setlists. There was a slight variation on each night. Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre holds a max capacity of 25,000, so the energy was high for both nights.
Dan Spencer
The first opener was Dan Spencer. He’s a country folk singer. I believe he’s from the south. It seemed like it was short notice for him to join the tour because he said how he got the call Friday and was in Utah on Sunday. He has a unique sound. It’s a country-emo-goth fusion. A chemical romance country style. A bit different from the usual country song themes. Here is his setlist:
Cult Leader
Weepin’ Weekend
Lazy Vampire
I Like to Worship the Devil
Tennessee Buddha
Coffee Shop Cowboy Blues
Beat Your Ass to Death
Eternal Platitude
Immaterial
Fat Vampire
Dan’s act was good. No lighting was added just a nice raw performance. The first night there wasn’t anything behind them on the screen. On the second there was a black and white horror film on loop about a boy vampire being dug out of a grave with his logo over the video.
Muscadine Bloodline
Next up was Muscadine Bloodline from Mobile, Alabama. The group was started by two friends, Gary Stanton and Charlie Muncaster in 2016. Their music has a nice southern country rock style with high energy. Charlie’s contemporary vocals complimented by Gary’s harmonies and masterful guitar licks make them a strong band, especially when performing live. Here is their setlist:
Rattlesnake Ridge
Weyerhaeuser Land
Dyin’ For a Livin’
Porch Swing Angel
Mary Riley
Earle Byrd From Mexia
10-90
Devil Died in Dixie
Ginny
Me on You
Their set was the same for both nights as was Dan Spencer’s. They had lighting included with their set. They threw in a few partial covers for a vers here and there, which included “Black Water” by The Doobie Brothers to “Take Me Out” by Frans Ferdinand. Muscadine Bloodline put on a great show and had the crowd involved. For the energy that they had and their stage presence, they seemed like they could hold their own and not be considered an opener. Time will tell, and if they keep it up they will be going places.
Post Malone
Next up with Post Malone. The lights went dark and the intro to “Wrong Ones,” started playing. After about a minute he emerged onto the stage. His performance of the song was a strong opener. This song came with the whole shebang! Lighting, fog, fireworks, and of course flames! I would say that his stage setup is up in my top 10 if not top 5 of all the concerts I’ve seen.
He had a huge grid of lights overhead that caused amazing backlight. He had side lighting and scaffolding-looking towers on each side of the stage with big spotlights on top. Around the stage that was built up, there were vents on the side that distributed evenly the fog from the fog machines underneath. He had a huge screen behind him that had live footage of him and the band throughout. You can tell the lighting technician took great care in designing the stage.
After he played his two opening songs he took a moment to talk to everyone and explain that a few of his songs that he would be playing tonight will be the first time he’s performed them live. He said “Thanks for joining me tonight to play some shitty songs and party.” Here is his setlist for the first night.
NIGHT 1 (9/8)
Wrong Ones
Finer Things
Circles
What Don’t Belong to Me
Guy For That (Live debut)
Chemical
California Sober
M-E-X-I-C-O
Candy Paint
Fallin’ in Love (Live debut)
Who Needs You
Two Hearts (Live debut)
Stay (Performed with a fan named Jackson playing the guitar)
I Fall Apart
Better Now
Texas Tea
Psycho
Yours
White Iverson
Go to Hell
I Had Some Help
rockstar
Congratulations
Encore:
Sunflower (Post Malone & Swae Lee cover)
Night 2
Post Malone’s second night was very similar to the first except for a few things. Right after he played and debuted “Two Hearts,” he had a fan from the audience come on stage a play “Stay.” On the second night after he played “Stay,” he mentioned getting someone from the crowd to play the guitar on a song they knew. A fan said that they knew how to play “Stay,” but since he had already played the song he said that the fan could have all of his guitar picks and promised him that next time he’d have him come on stage and play. He then grabbed all the guitar picks and jumped down all the way off the stage to give him a handful of guitar picks.
On night two there were Two debuts. “Loser,” which he recorded with Jellyroll. The other “Ain’t How It Ends,” debuted at the end of his last tour but this was the first time on this tour he played it. He sang a song that he wrote for his daughter, “Yours,” which everyone was amazed by.
Post has a way of speeding up his sets and slowing them down without it seeming like a bumpy rollercoaster. And his transition from genre to genre works really well and he does an amazing job at it. The band that was Posty him did an amazing job playing his songs with a country twist to them. The sound was fuller and in my opinion, better than the recordings. Only because it was more of a symphony than just a keyboard and bass.
He finished with his encore of “Sunflower.” One that everyone wanted to hear. Keeping it until last was a way that almost everyone stayed until the end. Some people tend to leave early so they can beat the traffic. Post Malone’s show was worth the extra 30 minutes in the parking lot.
Here is his set for night 2:
NIGHT 2 (9/9)
Wrong Ones
Finer Things
Circles
What Don’t Belong to Me
Guy For That
Chemical
California Sober
M-E-X-I-C-O
Candy Paint
Fallin’ in Love
Who Needs You
Two Hearts
Stay
I Fall Apart
Better Now
Losers (Live debut)
Psycho
Yours
White Iverson
Ain’t How It Ends (Tour debut)
Go to Hell
I Had Some Help
rockstar
Congratulations
Encore:
Sunflower (Post Malone & Swae Lee cover)
