Went for the buffet yesterday morning. Â This was probably our 5th trip here over the years and might be our last. Â We picked it over other breakfast buffets because we thought it was a safer bet than trying something new. Â Buffet has fruit, waffles, potatoes, bacon, biscuits with gravy, grits and a egg station. Â When our party of 9 hit the buffet the only offerings available were biscuits, bacon and the 15 person deep line for made to order eggs. Â Really, why not have a pan of scrambled eggs out? Â People were forming lines just to wait for new food to be brought out. Â What food we could get was decent and our server was good. Â I'll try some place new next time.
Review Source:Went there yesterday 7/13/2013 and sat at the Bar. First time there! When I walked in was greeted by a hostess and I said I'm heading to the bar. As I walked past the host stand I noticed a waitress standing there and I said "Hey, how are you" and she said fine and as I got 5 steps passed her I was like "OMG that was Lindsey from Myrtle Manor!!!" LOVED that show and she was my favorite on the show and hated that she left. Anyway headed to the bar and thought I've got to get a picture with her! A TV star! Sat at the bat and met Daniel & Christine and another BT who was just leaving, didn't get his name. I noticed that they had Titos vodka right off the bat and Daniel and I started talking about vodka. It was Happy Hour which was nice, nothing wrong with $2.50 Bud Lights. I let the BT's know that I'd like to get that pic with Lindsey and she obliged!!! We talked for a few minutes about the show and what not, good times! Thanks Lindsey! Daniel and I had something else in common, besides bartending, we both served in the US Navy and both had the same rate! Good times sharing sea stories! Started to get hungry and being a "Wing Guy" was very happy that Daniel made it happen. The wings were AMAZING! Grilled, tossed in sauce with Jamaican Jerk sauce on the side! Pratically slid off the bone!! Ridiculous!! Then I had the Heat Seeker burger and that's when I met Jessica the new bartender who just came on. Great conversation with her. Being a bartender I critique where ever I go and all three were great! It's just what we do. In the end I had a great experience and now that I'm a local I will be back to see them!
Review Source:Disappointed, my food was ok and so was the service, but they just were not organized and had several items on the menus that were not available. Â We had such a good experience at the one in Downtown Disney in Orlando this past winter so we were looking forward to coming to this won, but it was not the same.
Review Source:We came for breakfast on a Wednesday morning, late, but there was plenty of food at the buffet and it all tasted very fresh! The omelet bar was amazing, very quick and fresh and plenty of ingredient to choose from. There was also back , biscuits, gravy, grits, waffles, and fresh fruit! Tons of food for a reasonable price. I wish we ha discovered this sooner, a a healthy breakfast spot is not always easy to find!
Review Source:We have been coming to HOB regularly since the 90's and it used to be our go-to spot for a long time, but it has been slipping for several years so we have not been much lately but we decided to give it another try. Boy was that a mistake. THe service was wonderful as it almost always has been, but the food is really, really bad now.
THey have a new menu curated by celebrity chef Aaron Sanchez, but they assured us they had some of the favorites that we loved from the old menu. I share of love of spicy food with Sanchez and loved his Heatseekers show, so i thought about the Heatseeker Burger but was told it used plain old canned jalapeños instead of fresh ones. SO i opted for the my usual off the old menu of jambalaya. The server said it was a new recipe, but assured me it was just as good but unfortunately he was wrong. It was a much smaller portion than before, which actually turned out to be a blessing since it was full of rubbery fish fins, small rock hard nuggets of some sort of sausage and a few pencil eraser consistency baby shrimp. There was chicken in it allegedly, but i detected none, and the rice and sauce formed a puddle of mush that was more like a weak tomato-rice soup mix than anything else. Also gone was the habanero garnish, replaced by limp green onion that I will assume was grilled but could have just as easily been boiled.Either Sanchez knows zero about Cajun food, or the kitchen can't execute his recipe correctly.
On our servers recommendation we tried the Voodoo Shrimp appetizer and it was just awful. It had a bitter, burnt taste to the broth and majorly overcooked shrimp. The best part was digging the cornbread out of it, wiping the nasty broth off and eating it.
My friend ordered a turkey burger and some sort of banana desert that he seemed to enjoy, but overall this was just a disaster.
There are so many wonderful places to eat in Myrtle Beach now that one can really leave this out of their options unfortunately. Such a shame really that this once great place has fallen so far.
Interesting decor, friendly server, food was good. I had the jambalaya very tasty, wanted to know if this was made with chicken breast or a mixture of chicken meat, was told it was chicken breast which is the way I wanted. Â Came out with a mix of white and dark meat, disappointed the server didn't know how it was prepared. Menu put together by Aaron Sanchez from tv shows Chopped and Iron Chef.
Cornbread was excellent and the chicken quesadillas for appetizers.
Other dinners we had were Shrimp and grits, grits were formed into a cube, very good. Char grilled fish tacos were excellent. Ribs were very good.
Outside of my dinner, would rate as a 4. Going with a 3.
We try to go here every time we're staying in or passing through the Myrtle Beach area. Â I've always had good service at the House of Blues, and our server Jeremy did an excellent job of taking care of my eccentric family. Â We ordered the Jerk chicken wings on his recommendation and they were the best wings I've had in quite some time.
The true star was the wonderful young woman who welcomed us, Chelsea, who somehow managed all of her duties in addition to befriending and captivating the attention of my four year old daughter. Â Thanks to Chelsea's efforts, our very energetic and spirited daughter sat down and ate all of her dinner just so that she could come back and see Chelsea one more time before we left for the evening. I will be back for sure.
Had dinner here on Saturday night and it was a wonderful experience. The service was outstanding! Our server had an extensive knowledge of the menu and made some fabulous suggestions! The food was just as wonderful as wonderful as she said it would be! I am a local, and because of Jennifer's service alone we will definitely be returning more often!! Keep up the tremendous service!!
Review Source:Great vibe all around. Â From the moment you walk in to the moment you pull out of the parking lot, this is a cool find in Myrtle Beach!
Food was fresh and delicious... had the blackened chicken tacos and they were amazing! Â Burgers were also good and enjoyed the sweet potato fries as an option.
Kids meals were all devoured.
Wait staff was accomodating with our food allergies and offered menu suggestions.
*One thing I didn't understand was that gratuity was included for our party of 6... Â I found that extremely odd but given that our waiter was good, it didn't bother me so much.
Tis the start of spring and spring break so I guess it's time for everyone to open their business. Â House of Blues is now serving breakfast buffet during the week from 8 to 11 AM. The price of the buffet is $7.99. Â I would have done much better at IHOP or Denny's I think. Â When we walked in, we were asked to wait while the hostess answered the phone and made reservations for someone for Easter. Â That's wasn't so bad. Â After she completed the call, she thanked us and asked if we wanted a table or a booth and we chose a booth. Â Our waitress was helping the table behind us so we waited for her to end her conversation. Â Toni was our waitress and she explained that Robert was at the bar in the front of the dining room and he would make eggs or an omelet of our choice. Â I saw a fresh bowl of fresh fruit, which I immediately went for. My significant other and I ordered a cup of coffee., Â If you do not have hair on your chest and you drink this coffee......I believe some will grow. Â It was so strong and extremely bitter, I could NOT drink it! We both had Robert make us scrambled eggs with cheese. Â There were many veggies to pick from if you wanted an omelet. Â Other choices at the buffet table were mini waffles/syrup, bacon, gravy (which my partner said was too salty and sweet at the same time.(and he LOVES salt!) and biscuts. They had grits which I do not eat. Â The bill came to around $22. Â Toni asked if we wanted more coffee and I told her there was no way I could drink it because it was just too bitter and gross. Â She took both cups of coffee off the bill, which I thought was nice of her to do. Â She also explained that others have voiced the same opinion about that coffee. Â The total bill was $17.66. Â I did not like it and will not go back again. Â I did thoroughly enjoy that fresh fruit which consisted of fresh pineapple, cantaloupe, honey dew melon and watermelon. Â I find this disturbing because I've been here to the House of Blues for their Murder Mystery dinner theater and that dinner was delicious. Â If you get a chance to go to the Murder Mystery Dinner theater, go. Â You will enjoy that, just don't go there for the breakfast buffet because I'm sure you'll be very disappointed.
Review Source:I think what I like most about House of Blues happened to be the decor. It was fantastic. It had a rundown warehouse sort of feel to it on the outside (which really made it feel like we were meeting in a speakeasy to hide from the popo, which I liked), and I really liked the wooden/eclectic interior. Since we're in Myrtle Beach on vacation, we didn't know that Sunday between...some time and 2 was gospel brunch, so that was a surprise. We sat down and asked for menus and our waiter (a wonderful guy, Jeremy I think? I'm not sure) told us all about the buffet. He was really funny.
Anyway. The food? Pretty darn good, especially all things considered that it was a buffet. The macaroni and cheese in particular was fantastic. They had an open omelette...maker...place where a guy made omelettes. He was super nice, and kept me entertained by flipping things, and got my omelette just right. The bread pudding was good too, though by the time I got to it I was stuffed, so I didn't eat much of it.
The gospel music was good too. I got into the music though my friend did not, but said friend also has a tendency to be like "Ugh, that's lame," to everything and would rather hide behind her hair than do anything, whereas I'm the embarrassing friend who will jump in the middle of a situation and be dumb, so--yeah.
The reason I'm going four stars is because said friend and I were tucked away behind some pillars, people had a tendency to forget about us. It took us about 20 minutes from sitting down to get drink orders, and then we sat and drew on the paper tablecloth for 30 minutes before our check was brought to us after all of our plates had been cleared. A bit expensive as far as buffets go too, but to be fair, this is a place that involves a top chef.
Over all though, I didn't really mind the wait, because, as stated, we were listening to good gospel music so...nothing to really complain about on that front! Over all, enjoyable.
While this type of venue has the potential benefit to bring the audience and artist closer, physically -- it is offset by the appearance of their violating fire code by being so incredibly over capacity. Â If there was a fire in this building -- there are going to be deaths, either from trampling or burning. Â People are sitting in stairwells to get a view, standing on steps and leaning over an average height person just to glimpse the front. Â I've been to three shows here, the most recent being Tenacious D in March , 2013. Â We arrived an hour early and were one of the last people to enter -- downstairs and upstairs seating was already at capacity, I believe -- and more people were coming in. Â My wife and I thought we might need a chiropractor after we left because we had to stand at an angle for two hours to avoid a pillar, people holding their cameras up and average height people (I'm almost 6 ft and stood on steps). Â It's unfortunate. Â On the other hand, if you arrive 2-3 hours early and get in line early -- you can really enjoy a great view of the artist, but you must brave being on the main floor with drunk a-holes still trying to mosh in 2013. Â Very mixed results.
Review Source:Double review here for me. Â First this is where they hold the Murder Mystery dinner theater show and it's also a place I have eaten and grabbed drinks.
First the theater show. Â So much fun! Â I had a ball and it was really fun to see live acting. Â The storyline is funny, silly and pretty easy to resolve who did it. Â The food served during the show is ok but nothing memorable.
Now HOB specifically is a really cool venue I think. Â The decor does wonders for my ADD and the bar is built like a kings bar. Â Great carvings in the wood and very ornate. Â I love that.
This is based on the breakfast only. After reading the other reviews, may be the only time I'll ever go. No complaints on breakfast buffet at all. The grits, bacon, and potatoes were out of this world. Omelette bar worked for me. Bacon, cheese, and onion. Â Would've been better if the waitress didn't pour sweet tea on it just after i cut it up. Can't beat it for the price. $3 for an orange juice is a little crazy, hence why my daughter got water on her refill instead.
Review Source:Went here for Gospel Brunch. It was terrible. Arrived at 11:30; was not seated until 12:30. After that long wait, it took 15 minutes to get drinks even though half the tables were empty. The wait for the buffet was very long, and then much of the food trays were empty. Those that weren't were unappetizing; the " cold" shrimp was floating in a bowl of water, the "roast beef" was floating in greasy liquid, the macaroni & cheese was dried out. The buffet line goes through the kitchen and is very crowded, but the staff doesn't seem to be able to keep the buffet tables clean or filled with fresh food. After standing in line for 20 minutes and then encountering this awful buffet, we put down our plates, left money for the drinks and left without eating. And by the way, the whole time we were there, we never heard any gospel music. What a disappointment! Will never return.
Review Source:After going to the HOB with our family while on vacation in 2010, we couldn't wait to return this year and take a family member that wasn't with us last time. Myself and a few others considered it our favorite stop during that trip. While we didn't catch a show, the atmosphere was awesome, there was a band on the deck and the food was amazing. FAST FORWARD TO JULY 2012: We couldn't wait to get there and decided to go on Sunday evening. We checked the ad we had and someone even checked on-line. There were no big scheduled shows which was great with us. We planned on just checking out the random band that would be on the deck which is advertised as being open "7 nights a week". We arrived and were shocked that there wasn't much of a wait to dine for our party of 10. So far, so good. We were seated and handed our menus along with an explanation that the menu had changed since we had been there last. If you have been to HOB in the past (before the menu change) I highly encourage you to check out a menu before getting a table. The food was OK and I believe that Chef Sanchez ruined what HOB had going for it. For what the food was, the menu was way overpriced. In all honesty, this was the worst meal we had all week. We finished up figuring we would make the best of it and hang out on the deck before checking out some other things at Barefoot Landing. We were then informed that the deck is now only open 6 nights a week, although the sign right out front still advertises 7.
   It bums me out that such a great place has went downhill like this. In hindsight, I can completely see why we didn't have to wait for a table like we did a couple years back.
I really love going here for concerts but be wary of the early access. Â They will tell you that you don't have to be in line until the last minute but they are also telling 100+ other folks the same thing. Â You will also find it difficult to get anyone live on the telephone. Â The food is also very expensive. Â Why do I still give it 4 stars? Â They have great line-ups and will go again and again. Â You should just know the deal before you go.
Review Source:the breakfast buffey was kinda bland tasting. The atmosphere was popping and enjoyable. Might go back to try the made to order food that chef Sanchez has created. HE MAY WANT TO DO THE BREAKFAST BUFF ALSO cause people will walk away thnking thats his food also.
We did return later in the week to give the dinner menu a try. The portions were large. Fried chicken was great! ANY MAC&CHEESE DISH WAS PATHETIC. We didnt see any cheese nor taste any at all. It was kinda soupy. Lobster mac is the same way. We asked if this batch was normal and 2 waiters said yes and they love the mac n cheese. They cooked another batch and it was the exact same way. Â How do u screw up that all american dish? It wasnt even baked. Geesh!. Tacos didnt have much taste either.
I have gone here for many years for shows. Â The only reason being is it's one of the ONLY venues in my area that sometimes has decent acts come through. Â Hell, for the longest it was one of the only venues, period. Â If there was anything better I surely wouldn't waste time going to the H.O.B. Â
First off, if you have any questions about an event you can never get through to a real person when calling them. Â This is just mildly annoying though. Â Planning on dining there? Â Don't waste your time. Â There's plenty better options in the area to hit before catching a show. Â The food is lackluster and overpriced in the H.O.B. restaurant. Â And dear god, do not purchase alcohol here unless you're a raging alcoholic who will die without another drop. Â You might pay $20 for 2 beers.
The music venue itself leaves something to be desired. Â Like I said, I only go because it's the only place some bands go when passing through. Â The sound quality is always terrible. Â When pretty big acts do come through H.O.B. is less than accommodating and the show obviously suffers from it.
When it comes to the staff, I've dealt with numerous rude security and ticket personnel. Â Although there are some great employees there, and I have had positive experiences with them the bad ones have heavily outweighed the good. Â Then there's the misinformation relayed from them that has created countless hassles for my friends and I when attending shows.
Only go if you must catch your favorite band there and there's no other venue you'd be able to. Â That's what I will continue doing.
I did Sunday brunch here, and a three man gospel band was playing. Good food, awesome music, definitely worth the money. I loved the HUGE selection of food that ranges from made to order omelets (disgustingly heavy on the cheese) to cocktail shrimp to beef stew. Enjoyable, relaxing, entertaining way to spend a morning on vacation.
Review Source:A really enjoyable meal! I had the buffalo chicken sandwich- fantastic!!!!! I love me some buffalo anything. My friends got the chicken fried chicken with mashed garlic potatoes it all of it was superb! We were all gaga gooing over it. For dessert we got some sort of white chocolate bread pudding that was to die for. Sadly, they said the menu was changing soon, so I don't even know how long this review will be good for....
Review Source:The House of Blues complex sure does have a lot going on! Â Breakfast buffet, lunch, dinner, full bar, live music, murder mystery theater, concerts, and so on. Â It's amazing how much stuff they do.
We've been twice in the past week. Â First was dinner before a show at the Alabama Theater, which was excellent. Â Everything is home made and the prices are reasonable. Â There is a wide variety of choices for all appetites. Â The corn bread with honey butter is great! Â Our party of six had the Catch of the Day (Mahi Mahi - as mentioned earlier, a bit heavy on the broccoli), Chicken Fried Chicken (loved it!), Meatloaf (very good), grilled chicken salad of some sort (no complaints), Blues Burger (looked okay, but I've seen better), and something else that I don't remember. Â None of us had any alcohol so we can't comment on the drinks.
During intermission at the Alabama Theater, we heard the live music coming from House of Blues. Â It sounded great and there was a huge crowd there.
We went for the breakfast buffet today and were thoroughly impressed. Â There isn't a huge selection like some places have, but everything was outstanding and the staff was great (Momma Mary at the hostess counter is a trip... Southern Hospitality at its finest). Â Biscuits and gravy, cheese grits, roasted potatoes, bacon, mini waffles, assorted fresh fruit, and an omelet station at the bar. Â Best part: $6.95/person! ... and we had buy one get one free coupons. Â You can't beat that anywhere. Â The only extras are beverages...$2 for coffee and tea, $3 for sodas (free refills).
The staff encouraged us to walk around the property and check out the scenery. Â Whoever did their decorating and lighting is a genius. Â The whole complex is a feast for the eyes... unique art everywhere you look, neat lighting, paintings and fixtures of all kinds. Â Wow!
We are are looking forward to checking out the mystery theater and a concert. Â Hopefully on this vacation, but it may need to wait until next year. Â 4.5 stars for now... just not quite 5 star material for me; will update again when we return.
Don't forget to check out the Company Store if you want some cool HOB merchandise. Â T-shirts, glasses, etc. Â Be sure to bring plenty of $$$!
While heading to see 38 Special I decided to have dinner at the House of Blues. The food was great with no exception. Evereyone loved their meals and the bar was having Happy hour while we were having dinner. I was shocked when the bar bill for a Margarita, a tall beer and 2 cokes was $5. After the meal we went next door and the show was great. The venue is a rustic "blusy" kind of place but what do you expect. We had a really good time. Most shows are all ages but I didn't see anyone under about 18.
Review Source:I am giving them three stars because I had free beer and food here. Â Went here for the Myrtle Beach Half Marathon post race party. Â It was crowded, it was loud, the cover band was ok but I loved watching the drunk guy dance by himself and point at the band, that made my night. Â Ran into a few old friends which helped pass the time.
The food was free and it was a cold pasta dish and a warm pasta dish with meat - ok, but did I mention free and I burned over 2,000 calories running 13.1 miles - so yum!!
The beer was from a local brewery, wish I could remember their name because it was good.
Too many fun places in Myrtle Beach to go to besides this place, unless they had a really awesome band playing, I might go back.
ZERO stars, actually. Has it really come to this? Â Don't they know we have choices about where we spend our money? Â The only reason to eat at House of Blues Restaurant is if you will benefit from the "pass the line" feature. The drinks were weak (and I'm a lightweight in this aspect). The food was so mediocre. Our waitress was bland, unresponsive and, frankly, just unfriendly. A real downer experience leading up to a show I was excited about before dining there. Lots of cigarette smoke while eating dinner, too. Â Gross.
The music venue was fun, intimate, and drinks were much better. They have casual food options in the music hall... Wish we had known! Could have used better security/bouncer enforcements when an obnoxious, and obviously chemically influenced by something other than alcohol, couple shoved and trampled and body slammed their way toward the front of the venue during the concert. Everyone around felt unsafe, irritated, and angry. It would not gave taken much to spot their disruptive behavior, and to respond to it.
Thumbs up on the music venue. As for the restaurant: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice..." well, there won't be a twice.
Our party of 4 (2 adults, 2 kids) arrived early before dinner rush, around 6ish, and stepped into a nearly empty reception, so I was surprised with the 20+ minute wait.
Dinner itself was hit or miss: Â Soups were quickly served and piping hot, nacho appetizers were delayed, arrived cold, and sent back to be remade. Â 2 orders of ribs were enough to see that the standard offering was drowning in way too much sauce (we literally scraped the sauce off into giant puddles on my son's plate.)
Interesting location, but it feels like there is quite a bit of reliance on the cache of the name and the coolness factor, and not enough attention paid to the quality of the food and the timeliness of the service.
Kids enjoyed the separate gift shop, which had reasonably priced shirts, etc.
<a href="/redir?url=http%3A%2F%2FRestaurant.com&s=0aab4cbd731f3d3b0d1453050d3abc56a8c80bd214e25469c7555b750dca8a51" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://Restaurant.com</a> made the sting of the sketchy service and questionable food quality a bit more tolerable, but if I had paid full price, I would have been miffed at the lack of service and quality.
LOVE this place!
I stayed in N.Myrtle right behind the HOB for a week this summer. IN Barefoot.
Lets just say, I MET the Doobie brothers, went to a Hanson Concert, AND saw Bob Marleys son...STEPHEN marley in concert, and that was awesome!
Bartenders are pretty cool and the setup is sweet...if you eat dinner there, save your recipt and you get to butt in line at the concert and get right up on the stage!
love love love HOB MB SC!!!
I went here to watch my high school's jazz band perform while we were in Myrtle Beach for our annual band trip and adjudication (at that time I was a junior in High School and was an active member of the symphonic band). Â I wasn't too thrilled with the lunch buffet they put out for us, but the Myrtle Beach HOB is a nice venue for shows and would recommend it to anyone who happens to be in the Myrtle Beach area. Â Also, it's always really cool to see people's reactions when I tell them I saw my high school's jazz band perform at the House of Blues!
Review Source:This venue is commercial, tries not to be, still is, but I still kinda like it. Â You want to hate it, but it's designed fairly well so there isn't really a bad seat and that's something.
The Myrtle Beach House of Blues has a special place in my heart because I have met two of the artists I went to see here by happenstance! Â I saw Ben Harper here and one of my friends started talking to the sound engineer, and he arranged for us to meet Ben. Â Ben told me I had the softest hands he'd ever felt. Â The very hands I am using to type this story! Â I sort of swooned.
Another time in college, I went to see Dashboard Confessional (I know, but it was 2002, so cut me some slack, 'kay?) and Chris was hanging out in the bar watching the opening band. Â A male friend and I said hi to him, and told him we were big fans, and he was so nice. Â During the concert, he dedicated a song to his "new friends in the balcony." Â The song was romantic, which was awkward, because the guy and I didn't have anything going on like that, but it was still such a sweet sentiment.
Hooray for House of Blues for making those possible, despite serving beer in plastic bottles!
What a great place to see a show! Â I have been hesitant about House of Blues for a while, given it's a national chain and they get a lot of crappy bands. Â However, interspersed throughout the lineups are the occasional awesome group, such as the Flaming Lips, Clutch, Ben Harper and yes, even Daughtry (HA!).
HOB has more of a cool theatre vibe than a hopping club. Â There's a great balcony and views from pretty much all over the venue. Â It is what you might call an "intimate setting" and you can bet any band with a good stage show is going to light the place up. Â I have seen several acts here and have not been disappointed yet.
It only rates 4 stars because its not in Charleston. Â I have to drive 2 hours and therefore the rating suffers. Â Still a great place to see a show. Â Actually, the trip and making a whole evening of it is part of the fun.
I don't know exactly why I'm not giving this venue five stars . . . maybe it has something to do with the fact that it's a national chain? Â Anyway, the one in N. Myrtle Beach is awesome. The theme is religious folk art, and they even have 1 or 2 (maybe more) Howard Finster pieces scattered around (that crazed found-art prophet from Georgia, see <a href="/redir?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.finster.com&s=3824faa4c107d8da9ebf55910322df1e23dc463c6c781ea4a0160f9137abc5e2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.finster.com</a>).
What really made my latest experience here so stellar, though, was the act I saw: The Flaming Lips. This show was so incredible, it makes me want to come up with a new curse word with which to emphasize the experience. All the usual ones just don't do it justice. It was simply fucktaculous.
To begin with, costume-clad volunteers walked around the auditorium about 20 minutes before the show with big boxes of something wrapped in plastic. Assuming this to be candy, I grabbed two fistfuls, only to discover I now had possession of oh-so-many laser pointers. They passed out LASER POINTERS to the entire place. This made for a pretty annoying setup for the stagehands. But it also totally engrossed a restless crowd, including my pewful of misfits, who (thanks to me) had enough lasers to perform minor surgery. Â Besides being a helluva pre-show distraction, the Lips used the laser pointers to great effect during the concert, directing us all to aim them at a giant mirrored plate and later a giant balloon in a good ol' fashioned cooperative light show. Â
Am I gushing (yet)?  I've always loved their music, and their documentary is top-notch (<a href="/redir?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fearlessfreaks.com&s=c0e88d3954955d9599548c862d8becb0226c42fdbe2a5c93560c953164145b8b" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.fearlessfreak…</a>), but their concerts really must be experienced to be believed.
Highlights include:
A solid 5 minutes of orange confetti blinding the audience. . .
Dozens and dozens of giant yellow balloons bouncing all around the crowd and stage. . .
7-foot long streamers shot from plastic guns at various intervals throughout the show. . .
The whole thing was magical. I felt, and probably looked, like one of those preteen audience members caught on film at a Beatles concert: borderline hysteria. For the first 15 minutes I smiled until my face hurt.
Adding greatly to my enjoyment, no doubt, was the fact that we were treated to seats in the balcony. You usually have to pay to sit in the pews upstairs, which are probably well worth the additional cost, but a kindly usher took pity on us, so we got the perfect view (and no sore feet) for free. Shockingly, staying seated for most of the show did not interfere with our collective Rocking Out at any point.
The Flaming Lips don't come around these parts too often, but The House of Blues is a straight shot up 17-N from Charleston, so bow down to Ticketmaster and get thee to another show sometime soon. And if you are ever around when the Lips are playing, please don't hesitate to go.
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