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Josh Kelley - Newport Music Hall - Columbus, OH

My Review: The Daylights, Josh Kelley, OneRepublic
February 25, 2008
Newport Music Hall
Columbus, OH

There’s nothing better than when your fave artists go on tour and come to your hometown. I’m used to having to travel anywhere from 1.5 to 3 hours to go see an act, but that was not the case today. Josh Kelley came to me!

I didn’t know that there would be an opening act, but the Daylights sounded great. I like their sound.

I read last night that Josh was sick. During his set, he did mention having the flu, but I honestly couldn’t tell. He sounded good as always. He and his band always have a ton of energy and that’s refreshing!

I loved his story, during “Masterpiece” about going into Victoria’s Secret and “buying the slutiest shit I could find” for Katie. Everyone around me was cracking up after that!

I don’t know what it is about “Almost Honest”, but I just love that song! I was so excited when I heard the intro. I had my brother take video of it with the second camera. I also loved hearing “Only You” and “Amazing”, which was the song that made me a fan 5 years ago. Wow, I can’t believe it’s been that long! The only other song I really wanted to hear, but was left out of the set, was “Hard Times Happen”. It just gets me going!

So all in all, great night in Columbus! I will put the “Almost Honest” video as soon as it finishes uploading.

I didn’t stick around for OneRepublic. I was going to, but I wasn’t expecting the Daylights set and I was really hungry by the time Josh & co. got off the stage. Plus I’ve only heard 2 OneRepublic songs, so I figured I wasn’t invested enough to stay through their set. But I do love “Apologize”. That song is hot!

Here is the set list (I’m going from memory, so the order may be off, or I may have omitted some songs):

Two Cups of Coffee
Special Company
Amazing
Masterpiece
Hey Katie
Tidal Wave
Almost Honest
Unfair
Only You

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