Tuesday I made the drive from St. Louis to Nashville to finally see Rilo Kiley on their Sometimes When You’re On You’re Really F**king On Tour at The Pinnacle after over 20 years of being a fan.

I ended up finding out about Rilo Kiley back in 2001 or 2002 after reading an album review in Under The Radar, a magazine that I would end up buying for years. I think the only time that Rilo Kiley played St. Louis was when they opened for Cold Play and I did not want to sit in the lawn out at the Amphitheatre nor pay the high ticket price to get a closer ticket. I had always figured that the band would play St. Louis eventually but alas that never came to be.

The band kicked things off with ‘The Execution of All Things’ and over the nineteen song set the band would revisit each album and even played ‘The Frug‘ off of their EP Rilo Kiley, also known as The Initial Friend EP. I would have loved to have heard another song or two off of ‘Take Offs and Landings‘ but was happy to get ‘Pictures of Success‘. At one point in the show Jenny Lewis takes a GoPro and faces away from the crowd with it pointing at her while she sings and you could see that around 99% of the crowd was in the moment and not on cellphones. The band even made a comment about this a few songs later. Jenny Lewis and Blake Sennett talked a bit about how the reunion happened. They were both living in Nashville at the time and Jenny called up Blake to help put in some Gucci seat covers into her truck, noting she is not sure if Gucci actually makes seat covers so they could be knockoffs. They got to talking and said do you want to tour again and Blake said sure and here we are. The night ended with ‘Pictures of Success‘. Talking with a few fans after the show and everyone that had seen the band before the reunion tour all said that the band sounded just as good as when they had seen them

Omaha, Nebraska and former label mate The Faint opened the show.