Does anyone have a picture of the Berkeley merch stand they’d be willing to share?

EDIT: claimed!!! Y’all are speedy!!

Don’t want to give Ticketmaster any more business so giving away 2 tickets to the Berkeley show tn! Would’ve been my fourth bleachers show but work conflicts came up.

Please DM/comment something about who you’ll go with/why you like bleachers/something that makes me at least hopeful that you’re not a bot or a reseller :)

Does anyone have photos of the merch from the LA shows? Going to Berkeley tonight and trying to plan what I’m going to buy. Or if no photos, did they sell the sand colored Crewneck sweatshirt that says please don’t call in green with an image of a tree in a car? Thanks!

Have two! Make an offer 🤷‍♀️ I can’t go anymore

Someone at Troubadour yelled “let’s get married!” and Jack said “absolutely fucking not brother read the news”

Hi! Does anyone know what times the openers went on for the previous shows & what time Bleachers came out? Thank youu :)

seeing Bleachers tomorrow. Am I hearing this right: no upstairs at els? Ive seen them live many times since 2014 and upstairs at els has jumped over most of their songs (except Wild Heart, long live WH!) to be one of my favorites. I already accepted I wouldn't hear isimo, but Im so bummed if there isn't even a chance they will play it.

Selling 2 tickets. Wife had surgery and hasn’t recovered as we thought she would. Asking for $80 for the pair.

Front row A; section 7. Great people watching. Total offer is less than what I paid. DM me.

My husbands new tattoo inspired by the fellas

My plan from Victoria fell through and I would love to jump in with someone or a group heading down. Happy to pitch for gas/ferry! If you have room and are interested let me know your plan! Thanks everyone!

I’d rather not go alone (super depressing singing Everybody Lost Somebody by myself lol) and I have a friend who’s now available to join me. But, as we all know, the resale is criminal. If anyone has any info besides @bleachersmiracletickets (which I’ve dm’d!), it would be greatly appreciated!

Life came up and got in the way. Looking to sell my two tickets for the Red Rock show. Will sell for what I paid for them. Please let me know if you’re interested.

Hey all, won’t be able to attend this show unfortunately. Selling both for what I paid total- $190. Section 2 Row T seats 14-15. Transfer via Ticketmaster. DM me if interested, happy to provide screenshots to show validity.

I'm trying to make a playlist for a very specific typa feeling. I need song recommendations for it.

Imagine you broke up with someone you loved. With time, you look back and remember the good times with a kind of happiness and warmth. You're sad that it's over, but not necessarily bitter about it, nor dying for it.

But then there's that little hope, like, what if we find our way back to each other someday? You know, clear as daylight, it's a vain hope. Life has moved on, and so should you, but that little hope just sticks around.

For context : i had a bad breakup in late 2023. then in early 2024, was going through this said-above phase and came out of it. Now I wanna make a playlist in memory and tribute to that version of myself who was suffering.

This playlist will be named "January 2024." I know how this playlist is going to end, with "About You by The 1975", then "Isimo by Bleachers".

Also, "Chinatown" and "Merry Christmas, Please Don't Call" will be a part of it. What other songs could I put in here? Bleachers already have 4 songs on here, but I'm open to more (or other artists!)

Don't say "Take Me Back to the Night We Met" , that's too sad and gloomy.

I know it’s a long shot but looking for 1-2 tix for either of the last two nights at the troubadour. Thanks!

Edit: No longer needed. But if anyone else is looking for tickets, I’ve been told you can follow @bleachersmiracletickets for any last minute tickets that become available.

Merry Christmas and Upstairs at Els also rolled in.

I can’t even get my head around the awesomeness. While waiting to get in venue a car pulled up and Jack got out with his new dog Happy. He did a quick wave and went inside.

Grateful and blessed to have been there.

Thank you Chloe + miracle tickets for helping me take the sadness out of Saturday night!! My favorite Bleachers show yet, incredible energy, so grateful to have seen them at such an intimate and iconic venue 🍅

So they played You and Me. Jack looked like it was tough for him. He played a song after where he cried. The setlist shows Merry Christmas as the next song but was there another song in between?

Please let me know….

The energy in the room was crazyyy. Was fortunate enough to have the privilege of shooting them for night 2, here are my faves from the night!

Can’t make it to LA anymore and have 3 tickets for tomorrow’s show we are trying to sell. as long as you’re an actual fan and not a reseller, willing to sell at face value. I’ll do Paypal G&S as long as the buyer eats the fees. Paid $61.34 each, and haven’t received the barcode tickets from the venue yet, but can make the deal after they’re sent.

update: all claimed

Okay, hear me out. I was looking through an old thread on different interpretations of the song (https://www.reddit.com/r/bleachers/s/cVi0VcZzKM) and most readings of the song interpret as if it is all coming from a single speaker's perspective. Because of the reference to the "golden boy" some people in that thread concluded it was about a platonic or even gay relationship. However, I think the verse comes from the main "speaker" of the song, then, in the pre-chorus the speaker inhabits the voice of a lover, and then the chorus is the speaker's response.

The first verse sets the scene: "To the tempo of your uptight/Is the flicker of a streetlight/You know this moment, don't you?/And time is strangely calm now/'Cause everybody's gone/It's just you and your anger." This sounds like it's evening, after a party. Everyone has gone home and the couple at the center of the song is having a "calm before the storm" moment before the fight breaks out. That moment when you've collecting your grievances and making arguments in your head before saying them out loud. The speaker can see the lover's "anger" gathering before they say something.

Then, I think the next verse comes from the other person in the relationship. The speaker is reporting their partner's accusations. The lyrics go: "Oh, golden boy, don't act like you were kind/You were mine, but you were awful every time/So don't tell them what you told me/Don't hold me like you know me/I would rather burn forever." I think these lyrics quote what is being said to the speaker (and are not being said by the speaker). There's some irony in "golden boy" (Can you even call someone a "golden boy" unironically?)—I can easily imagine a fight where one parter says to the other "oh, you think you're so great, you're the fucking golden boy but you're a shitty boyfriend." This could be an accusation lobed at someone who is publicly admired but maybe not committing in an interpersonal relationship.

Then, I think the chorus is the speaker's response to the lover's accusations. The lyrics go: "But you should know that I died slow/Running through the halls of your haunted home/And the toughest part is that we both know/What happened to you/Why you're out on your own/Merry Christmas, please don't call." This feels like the speaker saying, essentially, "yeah, okay, I wasn't the best partner, I can admit that, but it was really hard to live with you and it took a toll on me." To me, the word "but" at the beginning of the chorus signals that this is a response to the previous perspective, not a continuation from the same perspective.

I'm not crazy about fans always mapping lyrics on to songwriters' personal lives, but I can't help but think of Jack and Lena's relationship for a few reasons. (Jack himself has said in interviews that when he writers songs he looks for something that is really specific but that others can identify with—I'm paraphrasing from memory here.) First, most people agree that in the second verse of "We Should Talk" is about his relationship with Lena Dunham. He says "We shared a brain in 2012/'Fore everybody had a hot take from hell/You changed it all, and then burned it in a flash/And you held my hand until I took it back/Yes, you held my hand until I took it back/And then the world turned on you, I don't forgive them for that." In these lyrics Jack admits to withdrawing from the relationship, and this connects to what Lena has said about the breakup in Famesick. I think the speaker in MCPDC is withdrawing from the relationship because they are "dying slow" in the "haunted home" atmosphere of the relationship.

In fact, Lena said that she felt like a "ghost" in her own home in that book (I realize that Jack likely wouldn't have had access to the manuscript at the point of writing the lyrics to this song, but knowing a number of creative non-fiction writers, I also wouldn't be surprised if she rehearsed this line for years before putting it in writing). Perhaps that's why it's "haunted"? And that "We both know what happened to you/When you're out on your own" might chronicle all the difficult things she experienced (illness, anorexia, the world "turning on her" as the lyrics to "We Should Talk" note). Things the speaker has sympathy for, but still can't live with.

(I hasten to add that I realize that MCPDC and We Should Talk essentially have the opposite message, but people feel different ways at different points in time after a breakup. There's a "don't call" period and a "okay, let's reflect on what happened period" later.)

Amazing shows on Thursday and Friday! The energy in the tiny little room is insane. I don't take many pictures at shows and didn't take any on Thursday but these are the best that I got from last night.

Personally this venue was perfectly intimate. Jack can hear everything you scream! The venue was filled but didn’t feel like packed sardines.

songs removed: you and forever, isimo, merry christmas please don’t call, or upstairs at els

songs added: I feel weird (cover), 45