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Friday, March 29, 2024
Timeflies

A music duo who started in Boston, Timeflies brought an astounding amout of energy to the crowd, perfectly melding the onstage charisma and brio of Rod “Rez” Resnick and Cal Shapiro.

Timeflies delight the Orpheum Theater

This past Monday, amongst the long hours of studying for midterms, a vivacious and spirited concert took place at the Orpheum. Students and locals alike made their way down State Street to see Timeflies perform. Despite the pouring rain, this concert continued to fill up with devotees by the minute. With the scent of fresh rainfall around me, I was ready for the concert to begin.

Right at 7:30 p.m., Down With Webster opened the evening with their set. Now, while I had never even heard of Webster before this evening and I didn’t know any of their lyrics, they brought the perfect amount of energy to hype up the crowd and I was 100 percent engaged. Their time on stage lasted for a shorter time than I expected, playing only three or four songs and then quickly exiting. Unfortunately, of the songs they played, most of them all sounded the same. The heavy bass and continuous chanting of the same lyrics seemed to drag on, but overall they were a great opener.

The 15 minutes between each performance was filled with more and more people filling up the floor space, girls lining the upper deck seats and basketball players arriving in the box seats. Kap Slap, a DJ from New York, was next and exceeded my expectations. His original remixes and inclusion of popular hits from earlier this year and past years made his show feel semi nostalgic. While I did really like it, this part became a bit less enjoyable as Kap Slap seemed to go on for an extremely long time plus the floor space was becoming even more crowded.

When Timeflies finally came out onto the stage, I was feeling a bit tired, considering we had just danced and sang for almost two hours. But, my feeling of exhaustion was soon eliminated. The entire theater immediately became pitch black and a phenomenal light show began. I had never attended a Timeflies concert before and I was impressed the entire time, my jaw continuously dropping.

Beginning with a combination of lights and fast remixes of some of the current Top 40 songs, everyone was oozing with anticipation and excitement. Running onto stage, Cal Shapiro began with their hit “I Choose You.” The crowd was singing along to every lyric, jumping up and down and taking pictures and Snapchat videos the entire time. They continued for a few more songs before Shapiro spoke directly to the crowd. For the duration of the concert, he expressed over and over his love and appreciation for the city of Madison.

Shapiro then performed a live version of “Timeflies Tuesday,” in which he took topic suggestions that people had submitted before the show and incorporated those phrases into a freestyle rap. I was absolutely amazed. I had no idea how talented of a rapper he was and all of the lyrics he came up with were extremely impressive. The crowd went wild when he mentioned Camp Randall, Jump Around and Melvin Gordon.

During the concert, Timeflies continued to refer to how they got their start and thanked everyone who had supported them since the beginning. Once the freestyle rapping ended, Rob “Rez” Resnick took out a guitar and they began performing acoustic covers, which made the crowd erupt. They picked a variety of genres, which helped tremendously because every single person in the audience sang along to at least one, if not all, of their songs.

Towards the end of the concert I was shocked over an hour had already passed since they began their set. Timeflies performed Monsters, asking everyone to take out their phone’s flashlights and sway along to the song. And finally they sang another one of their hits, “All The Way,” to end their concert. Or so we thought. After chanting for an encore, Shapiro came back onto stage and performed not only one, but two more songs, videotaping the entire thing to be part of “Timeflies Tuesday” for this week.

I hadn’t been to a live concert in such a long time and this was a perfect way to get back into them. Timeflies brought an intense amount of joy and happiness to the show. The concert ended on a high note, with people jumping and singing along to every last word of the night, hopping onto their friend’s shoulders, trying to go all out for the very last song. I walked out among the masses into the deserted streets of Madison with Timeflies lyrics still ringing in my ears.

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