Mellt – DREAM TOUR

In this Dream Tour segment, the alternative rock band, Mellt, let you know who they would like on their ultimate tour lineup. You can check out the feature, after the break.

Our dream tour would be a worldwide tour of theatres and festivals opening for some of our favorite bands – Foals, Tame Impala, and Kasabian. The headlining band for each date would be decided by a coin toss that morning, and maybe just maybe we would have a chance to sit in on the encores of the headliner. This is a dream tour we’re talking about after all.

We would open the night with a feral, reverb drenched set fueled by lasers, smoke, and projections. There would be crowd surfing, sweat, and then when our time comes to a close we would step aside to let the maestros take the stage.

We love all of the bands mentioned – Foals, Tame Impala, and Kasabian – because of the combination of intricate, deeply layered studio albums, and explosive, transcendental live shows.

The members of Foals would walk on one by one to the sound of “prelude” from their third album Holy Fire. At this point, the collective minds of both us and the audience would be blown to the stratosphere. Over and over again. The band would close with the soaring, brooding, “Knife in the Ocean,” off their album What Went Down.

Tame Impala would emerge next through a swirling nebula of delay and phaser accompanied by oscilloscope visuals (check it out ASAP if you haven’t seen it.) Our ears would immediately perk up with the hypnotic sound of “Why Won’t You Make up Your Mind” from the album Innerspeaker. That hypnosis would last all the way until the end of the set when the band would finish with a monumentally epic outro of “Apocalypse Dreams” from the album Lonerism. We love Tame Impala for these crunchy, bubbling moments where organic guitars, vocals, and drums meet electronic wizardry to form something greater than the whole.

Kasabian would emerge through a haze of “Shiva” and into “Bumblebee” off their album 48:13. After pushing the crowd into a trance like state with some mid-show deeper album cuts such as “West Ryder Silver Bullet” and “La Fee Verte” they would unleash “Vlad the Impaler” and finish with “Fire”. We love Kasabian because of the combination of Thom and Serge’s vocals and the amazing organic-electronic production and songwriting present in every album and presented at every live show.

Throughout all these performances we’d be standing side of stage in awe, doing our best to decode the magic and chemistry that exists between these phenomenal musicians and hoping that whatever dream we were in would last forever.

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