Last Tuesday I had the opportunity to go to the Jack’s Mannequin West Coast Winter Tour when it made its stop here in Kansas City. For those of you who don’t know lead singer of Jack’s Mannequin is actually Andrew MacMahon from Something Corporate. Also on the bill for the show were Head Automatica and The Audition here at The Beaumont Club in KC on a snowy cold night.
I was extremely excited to see the show since I bought my tickets a few months back. I have been a big fan of Jack’s Mannequin since I bought their first album Everything in Transit back in 2005. Well it was no suprise to me that they sounded great live and a great majority of their songs are piano driven and it definitely added another element to the live experience. They pretty much played everything off the Everything in Transit album with a couple Something Corporate songs as well. Overall their show was outstanding and in my opinionsome of the highlights for me were songs like Dark Blue, Into the Airwaves, The Mixed Tape and Holiday From Real. I have to say my favorite part of the show was torwards the end when they actually did a cover of Message in a Bottle by The Police. It was very unexpected but it sounded great and was definitely the highlight of the show for me.
I definitely look forward to when they come to Kansas City again and I can’t wait for their next album to come out. If they are going to be in your area, I highly recommend seeing them and be sure to go buy their debut cd Everything in Transit as I can assure that you won’t be disappointed.
