1) All Over You
2) Selling The Drama
3) The River
4) Mystery
5) They Stood Up For Love
6) Run Away
7) Love Shines
8) Lightning Crashes
9) Sofia
10) Lakini's Juice
11) The Dolphin's Cry
12) I Alone
13) Heaven
14) Show

ENCORE
15) The Beauty Of Gray
16) Run To The Water
17) Shit Towne
18) White, Discussion
19) Dance With You

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"Live Succeeds Despite Venue"

Overall, Live put on a good show. I can't say that I had my normal, awesome experience at a Live concert, but it is hard not to have a good time seeing Live. The opening act, Zox, was pretty good. There wasn't much lag time between them and live. Live rocked by starting with All Over You and Selling The Drama. That got the whole crowd on the same page. Unfortunately, the area of the crowd I stood in was particularly dead. Nothing past Secret Samadhi really interested them. I felt kind of alone belting out the songs at the top of my lungs seemingly by myself. I do believe there were other parts of the crowd that were more lively, but I did not end up in those areas.

Live seemed worn from the long touring schedule, but had good energy towards the end with Shit Towne and White Discussion (which was awesome in concert). The interactive Dance With You ending was a lot of fun for Live fans like me, who like to connect with the band and audience members by singing along. I especially liked Run to the Water - if you tuned yourself in, you could really feel its energy.

Everything about this venu was poor. I have been here once before and don't remember it being this bad. The security was minimal and invisible; and was unfortunately needed due to a violent incident that took place during They Stood Up For Love. Pretty odd, right? Yes - there just wasn't that normal electricity in the air for this concert. Not Live's fault, in any way - before Live even came on the crowd had a subdued, sometimes hostile atmosphere. Sad to say, even if Live came to Northern Lights again, i would probably not go. That's saying a lot.

In summary, I enjoyed myself. The new songs sounded great and I am excited about the new Album. Next time Live comes to this area, I hope they choose a larger venue (like SPAC) where there is always that positive electricity in the air.

"Live reaches, crowd connects" by David Malachowski

It was a holiday (Presidents Day), but it sure didn't feel like a Monday night when Live roared into Northern Lights.

Although the crowd was wall-to-wall fans, and certainly a success for the club, you could say it was downsizing for a band whose shows only a few years back were held at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center and RPI's Houston Field House. That didn't seem to concern the York, Pa.-based crew, which still played as if 20,000 people were watching.

Singer Ed Kowalczyk, wrap-around sunglasses ringing his shaved head, was in fine voice and scream, as he and Chad Taylor (guitar), Patrick Dahlheimer (bass) and Chad Gracey (drums) slammed into "All Over You" with verve.

Many songs were culled from Live's forthcoming seventh studio album, "Songs from Black Mountain," and Kowalczyk called the crowd "beautiful guinea pigs" for listening to the new, untested material. The single, "The River," was urgent and earnest, "Sophia" was rock-solid and, though somewhat less impressive, "The Mystery" was aptly titled.

Live often straddles the fine line between the serious and the pretentious. Some of the tunes are informed by Eastern philosophies, and Kowalczyk did spend a lot of time with his knees bent, reaching for the sky, but then it didn't take long for him to remove his shirt, either.

Surprisingly, the band's older tunes have aged rather well. "Lightning Crashes" is a textbook lesson in dynamics, starting out with the slow simmer of a few sparse chords, slowly turning up the heat until it reaches a blue flame, with everyone on stage flailing away. The packed house went totally mad during "I Alone," jumping and dancing not only up front but in the back of the room -- a real rarity. A sharp arrangement of "Lakini's Juice," driven by a low, menacing riff, emerged as the show's centerpiece.

"Dolphin's Cry" held a deep backbeat groove, though "Run to the Water" was self-consciously dramatic. Although Live often overreached while trying to marry spiritual themes to bigger-than-life rock, it worked often enough to make the show powerful and moving.

Rhode Island's Zox played a puzzling set that fell short in many ways. Suffering a muddy mix and an oddly paced set, the quartet seemed proficient on their individual instruments but were saddled with weak material. Dazzling violinist Spencer Swain could have easily won over the crowd all by himself, if he had only been more than a whisper in the PA.