{"id":1032,"date":"2025-02-11T02:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T01:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2026-01-12T00:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T23:02:29","slug":"destroy-boys-botanique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/concert-reviews\/destroy-boys-botanique\/","title":{"rendered":"Destroy Boys &#8211; Botanique"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The opening band on before them was called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaffatapesandy.co.uk\/\">Gaffa Tape Sandy<\/a>. I hadn\u2019t heard of them before but they had some songs that I really enjoyed such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B3YnXOMBb8Q\">Energy<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E_zpQaLgoGI&amp;t=6s\">My Desperate House<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Destroy Boys played a lot of songs from their newer albums but also some of their most popular older songs. The setlist of their UK\/EU tour includes <em>Shadow (I&#8217;m Breaking Down)<\/em>, <em>Crybaby<\/em>, <em>Drink<\/em>, <em>Plucked<\/em>, <em>K Street Walker<\/em>, <em>Vixen<\/em>, <em>Bad Guy<\/em>, <em>Beg for the Torture<\/em>, <em>Should&#8217;ve Been Me<\/em>, <em>Muzzle<\/em>, <em>Amor divino<\/em>, <em>Boyfeel<\/em>, <em>Fences<\/em>, <em>You Hear Yes<\/em>, <em>Piedmont<\/em>, and the excellent <em>I Threw Glass at My Friend&#8217;s Eyes and Now I&#8217;m on Probatio<\/em>n.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only negative aspect of the concert, but unfortunately one that was not possible to ignore, was that, throughout both bands\u2019 sets, the sound balance was off in such a way that all the instruments made the vocals barely audible most of the time. Listening to songs I hadn\u2019t heard before felt like a guessing game to decipher and form a proper idea of the melody lines and lyrics in my head.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure if this problem was due in part to the acoustics of the venue but I would find it unlikely as I\u2019ve attended multiple other concerts in that exact room and never noticed this problem to the extent it was present last Friday February 7<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regardless, as frustrating as this was, it didn\u2019t take too much away from the overall experience and my enjoyment of it. Destroy Boys\u2019 lead singer\u2019s stage presence was spectacular, the instrumentalists were very skilled, and the music was great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1101\" style=\"width:333px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-3.png 1200w, https:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-3-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Destroy Boys - Shadow (I&#039;m Breaking Down) (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B2g-3M3CiHU?start=20&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 7th of February, I attended a concert for the rock\/punk band Destroy Boys with some friends. I\u2019ve known and thoroughly enjoyed their music for a few years now, so I was thrilled to go see them perform live at the Orangerie hall at Botanique concert venue in Saint-Josse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30,36,52,32,51,43],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-concert-reviews","tag-botanique","tag-concert","tag-destroy-boys","tag-diary","tag-punk","tag-rock"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image_2025-06-21_172242575.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"https:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}