If you aren’t already scared off by the Authentic Pittsburgh cuisine (i.e. Diarrhea), the worst piece of architecture in sports arena history (PPG Paints Arena), or the fact that there’s an anime convention going on at the same time down the street, tonight’s haunting main event may do you in.
With hundreds of the thousands of fans, young and old, flooding the streets, dawning skeletal makeup and costumes right out of a nightmare, as well as music flooding past the show space you can’t help but move to, Ghost takes any arena & City they find themselves in by storm – and you’ll know when they’re there.
Set List Breakdown:
First, I’d like to note the pre-show/Intro Music starts at 7:50, and goes till 8:10, which is when the “Peacefield” intro begins.
- Peacefield
- Lachryma
- Spirit
- Per Aspera ad Inferi
- Faith
- Call Me Little Sunshine
- The Future Is a Foreign Land
- Devil Church
- Cirice
- Darkness at the Heart of My Love
- Satanized
- Satan Prayer
- Umbra
- Year Zero
- He Is
- Rats
- Kiss the Go-Goat
- Mummy Dust
- Monstrance Clock
(Encore)
20. Mary on a Cross
21. Dance Macabre
22. Square Hammer
More to Note:
another different, yet fancy way of helping people find their seats without their phones (they’ll do literally anything except going back to old school tickets – even when it’s a Phone Free event)
We broke down most of the show specifics (performance, entry into the venue with the Yondr system, etc.) in our first Ghost article (which you can read by clicking here), and I have some fun Ghost-related surprises for future articles on this tour. so, I figured I’d just share some fun snippets from the night to close this one out.
If you’ve followed along/read some of the articles during Hockey Season on our partner website rockcitychronicle.com, you know that PPG Paints arena is at the bottom of my rankings. Now, we don’t have to get into that too much here, since it is heavily targeted towards our Hockey Arena rankings, BUT, I would like to point out another flop by the arena as a whole. at the beginning of my nights on these tours, before breaking out the pad & paper, before finding a little nook to hide out in to write my notes and draft what you’re reading now, I enter the arena as a normal attendee, so I can write from the perspective of a guests attending a show at a specific arena for the first time, especially when it comes to differing entry policies like this whole yonder thing. Like, I feel like it would take away from these articles in a large part if the beginning was “I go in three and a half hours early and sit at a desk on the Concourse till stuff starts happening” like half these other articles out there (no offense to any colleagues I may have met along the way who do that – To be honest, I did it towards the back half of our “Saviors” (Green Day) Tour coverage, because those stadiums just had to many people cramming in at once…like double the arenas). ANYWAY, the attendance in itself was not anything north of Cleveland’s (in fact, the arena in general holds 432 less people), but, it took an hour and fourteen minutes longer to get in, from roughly the same place in line, and getting into the line at the exact same time.
from the nearest street corner directly to the door in Cleveland, it was roughly twenty minutes? (6:30 line entry, 6:52 building entry) – in Pittsburgh, it took over an hour (6:30 line entry, 7:44 building entry). it’s things like that, that very arena rankings for Journalists that keep them, for those of you wondering.
Oh, and should I mention something about the drunk guy falling down two rows of seats and onto me? or am I starting to get too far from the purpose of this article with that one? Fine. Maybe next time.
Fun Facts about the Arena:
PPG Paints arena does not have row letters “I” or “O”, in fear of confusing guests because they look like numbers “1” and “0”.
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