With Feist
Kia Forum – November 2, 2025
This was one Julie wanted to see. Lord Huron rarely plays in LA and she has been keeping an eye out for a local show. She called me when she saw that they were coming to the Kia Forum and told me she wanted to go. I asked her where she wanted to sit and how much she wanted to pay and she replied, “I don’t know. I usually just tell you I want to see something and you make the magic happen.” We ended up in tier 1 in row 11. I suspect I bought these particular seats because they were the closest I could get at this price point. We did pay full price though, and they weren’t cheap. I went to Ticketmaster the afternoon of the show and saw there were a ton of $39 tickets up in the rafters (or as we call them “the Tom Petty seats”) but not too many closer. I didn’t hate these seats. There was a bit of an issue with leg room that I don’t recall ever happening before, but they were otherwise good and we were on the aisle so no standing people would have been blocking us had anyone chosen to stand (they did not).
As is our custom with Forum shows, we Ubered over and had my husband pick us up at Vons afterward. We got there pretty early for us and there was no line at bag check. We didn’t bring bags anyway. I just shoved my phone, chapstick and earplugs into my pockets. Julie brought even less. There was a bit of a problem scanning our tickets and a supervisor had to come over. It was their machines, not my phone so it was fairly quickly resolved. We stopped at the restroom before the show (we had THAT much time!) and made our way to our seats.
Up first was Feist. I had actually heard of her. Julie had not. But I hadn’t heard of Lord Huron before I bought the tickets so I guess we were even. The Dodgers had just beaten the Blue Jays to win the World Series and Feist is from Toronto and kept bringing it up. She also had a weird image on the screen that was like a time lapse thing that just sort of looked like a piece of salmon. She was entertaining though, and closed out the show with her hit; “1, 2, 3, 4”.
There was a very long pause for load out/load in. Once we saw Lord Huron’s stage it was clear why. They had an entire set onstage. There were “rocks” and pathways, a payphone, an oversize projector and a jukebox all set up to look like a desert wasteland. The images on the screen behind the band enhanced this feeling. Their whole show was very theatrical. Ben Schneider sang into the payphone receiver for more than one song. There were two dancers as well who made their way on and off stage together and separately (and at one point popped up behind the sound booth to dance) to tell a story as the band wove their way through their set ending with The Night We Met. It was certainly interesting to watch. They managed to completely transform the stage just by changing the images on the screen. As they got to Meet Me In The Woods (or maybe Frozen Pines) they lowered vines down from the rafters (which lit up in time to the music) and the scene changed to a lush forest. They left the stage and half of our section got up to leave as I was looking up the setlist (Pro tip: go to setlist.fm and look up the last show they played) to see about an encore. It was a 4 song encore so we just sat in our seats. When Lord Huron came back onto the stage, everyone who had made their way up to the esplanade turned around and made their way back to their seats.
It was really a good show. With the elaborate set and the dancers, there was a danger of it just being campy and not working, but thankfully it did all work together well.