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Speaking of stage design:

(That’s my crappy, blurry photo. I either need access to pit tickets 24/7 and/or a new camera. Both.)

The five eyeballs and glitter target at the Yeah Yeah Yeahs show at The Greek Theater – awesome! Eyeballs are a continuing motif with the YYYs, as an eyeball-in-mouth donned the cover of the “Zero” remix album:

Somehow the eyeball reminds me of the egg on the cover of It’s Blitz!

Eyeball = Egg

…squishy?

Ew.

Also, there were these super-size beach ball / eye balls released onto the audience by mid-set. Pretty neat to bat around a few eyeballs during “Hysteric”.

The YYYs began the show behind a mysterious, white curtain that covered the whole stage, which dropped after the first few lines of “Runaway”. I love this stage trick. It’s an old bag, but there’s something exciting about a band doing a Reveal on-stage, with the intent to surprise everyone with crazy stage design or special effects or weird costumes. It’s good showmanship.

And this band is not shy about weird costumes – Karen O rocked this inflatable, zebra-print, pseudo-Native American head dress and cape-kimono in the beginning of the show – no doubt a Christian Joy creation:

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