Sven Luijten

JPEGMAFIA: LAY DOWN MY LIFE tour

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I think I have whiplash after seeing JPEGMAFIA's energy switch from "so anyway, here's the next song" to him frantically jumping around on stage and screaming the lyrics at the top of his lungs in about half a second. This show was a deluge of weird but intricate beats, out-there bars, insane lighting effects and smoke, and the audience going absolutely crazy in the mosh pits. All-in-all, a fun way to spend a Monday evening.

Among the setlist was an unreleased song, which he'd seemingly been building on during the tour he's on now. I'd heard snippets before, but this version he played live was entirely different, more "full", and had extra lyrics that weren't in the previous versions I heard. Fun to see a song slowly come together like that.

JPEGMAFIA performing on stage, shrouded in fog

He didn't do a whole lot of talking or audience interaction during the show, but did take some time after it wrapped up to sign some merch for fans at the front.

Show highlights for me were his song BALD!, Steppa Pig, either on or off the drugs, and of course his cover of Carly Rae Jepsen's Call Me Maybe.