On Friday, August 30, 2024, I went to the Cage The Elephant concert in Cincinnati with some of my friends. I learned a lot from the behaviors of the other concert-goers and discuss them below in my review section.
Cage The Elephant Tour Excerpt
“Cage The Elephant, the GRAMMY® Award winning rock band mark their return and announce both the release of their forthcoming sixth studio album, Neon Pill (May 17, RCA Records) and their 45-date North American summer tour. The new album finds the Kentucky-bred six piece—brothers Matthew Shultz [vocals] and Brad Shultz [guitar], Daniel Tichenor [bass], Jared Champion [drums], Nick Bockrath [lead guitar], and Matthan Minster [guitar, keys, backing vocals]— forging new musical ground, while maintaining their uncompromising creativity and wildly cathartic performances. “To me, Neon Pill is the first record where we were consistently uninfluenced, and I mean that in a positive way,” observes Matthew. “Everything is undoubtedly expressed through having settled into finding our own voice. We’ve always drawn inspiration from artists we love, and at times we’ve even emulated some of them to a certain degree. With this album, having gone through so much, life had almost forced us into becoming more and more comfortable with ourselves. We weren’t reaching for much outside of the pure experience of self-expression, and simultaneously not necessarily settling either. We just found a uniqueness in simply existing.”
Cage The Elephant’s 45-date North American US tour, will kick off in June and will include a stop in Cincinnati, Ohio at Riverbend Music Center on Friday, August 30 with support from Young The Giant, Bakar and Willow Avalon.” (Riverbend Music Center, n.d.)
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Before and during the concert:
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REVIEW
This experience was a good example of how people interpret their role in cleaning up after themselves. The venue allowed closed water bottles, and many drinks and food options were available. The set up was a large turf area where you could bring blankets or low chairs. After the concert, many people left their waste behind. In fact, when I was grabbing my own bottle of water, my friend said something along the lines of “you should just leave it, the trash cans will be full and the event staff will get it.” It was interesting as I saw it as my own responsibility, but a majority of others saw it as someone else’s responsibility. This is important for my capstone project as figuring out what makes people feel responsible for their own litter is vital in thinking of how to design for less waste in parks. If people always think someone else will clean it, how do I design something to motivate them to take care of it themselves?
After the concert:
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REFERENCES
Cage the elephant – neon pill tour – Friday, August 30, 2024. Riverbend Music Center. (n.d.). https://riverbend.org/concerts/2024/08/cage-the-elephant-neon-pill-tour
Krug, N. (2019). [Cage the Elephant group member photo]. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2019/04/26/717584228/cage-the-elephant-processes-grief-with-social-cues
