The first night of Dan Deacon’s first lengthy U.S. tour in about three years got off to a shaky start last night at the Beachland Ballroom. Deacon, an electronica artist out of Baltimore, began the 90-minute show by instructing patrons to download an app to their phones and then raise them up the air. The idea was that the phones would flash like multi-colored lighters to the music. It didn’t exactly work and Deacon, who compared the experiment to the Wright Brothers initial attempts to fly, apologized for the snafu. Once that was out of the way, Deacon, who was flanked by two drummers and multi-instrumentalist, successfully turned the place into a wild dance party.
This article appears in Aug 29 – Sep 4, 2012.
