This past Wednesday night, Megan, James and I headed up to the Cincinnati Gardens for the Appetite for Construction tour, featuring Ruth, Relient K and Switchfoot. Awesome show! Relient K was the main draw for me, and they delivered! I think this was the third time I’ve seen them live and each show has been absolutely great. They played a good mix of old and new songs, including the oldie but goodie “Sadie Hawkins Dance,” which is one of my all time favorites by them. They also played the theme song to The Office and a little ditty they wrote about the show. In support of their new album, Let It Snow Baby… Let It Reindeer, they brought out one of those inflatable Christmas thingees and played a couple Christmas songs. Other songs in the set included Must Have Done Something Right, Who Am I Hate Who I’ve Been; Which To Bury, Us or the Hatchet, Be My Escape, High of 75, I So Hate Consequences, Devastation and Reform, Give, Forgiven and Fallen Man (and more that I can’t remember). Very nice set list that included most of what I was hoping to hear.

Switchfoot wasn’t too shabby themselves, though the lead singer seemed a little…weird…with his stage antics at times. I haven’t listened to much of their music lately, having been turned off when they hit it big and were overplayed, so it was good to hear some songs I haven’t heard in a while, such as Stars and We Are One Tonight, as well as many from their new album, including, Oh! Gravity, American Dream, Dirty Second Hands and Awakening.

Ruth is a newer band, but I like what I’ve heard from them so far. They put on a decent show, though they were very much overshadowed by the two headliners. There was an embarrassing when a radio personality from WAKW (an adult contemporary Christian radio station that I wouldn’t expect to play much from any of these artists), referred to the band Ruth as a “she.” D’oh! How can you not know this important bit of information before you introduce someone?

Some not-so-clear-pictures are up in the gallery.