So Friendly Fires came through last Wed. to play the Church along with White Lies. Unfortunately I arrived w/ my posse in the middle of ‘Skeleton Boy’ which threw me for a loop because there is no way in hell Friendly Fires should have even been on stage at that point. Come to find out that White Lies were the headliner… WTF??? Band gets a little SXSW hype and they swap them on the bill? Needless to say I was pissed but that didn’t stop me from getting down. I had anticipated a lot more dancing from the crowd, which didn’t really get into it until the last song ‘on board‘.
Up next came White Lies who sound a lot like The Killers in my humble opinion. Turns out a majority of the people were actually there to see them, which would explain the lack of dancing during Friendly Fires and the uptight 30 y.o. frat alumni in the crowd with 30 packs of miller light. One of them tried to start a fight with my friend Marvinh who was trying to move in closer. He punctuated his point by saying he had like “30 boys outside” ready to rumble. We laughed this off and enjoyed the rest of the show before heading back to my place for a drink.
On our way out to the bars we see the two Eds from Friendly Fires on the corner so we yell out of the car window our praises. To which they signal for us to stop; we did and they hopped in ordered us to take them to the Pope in South Philly. We complied with their demands; and then we got them drunk! The lead singer Ed then tells me about gay parlors in Germany where people “skat” on each other. Ed swears he’s only ‘heard’ of such places and does not speak from experience. Sure 
Thankfully Marvinh brought his camera.
more pictures after the jump.
