Everything Everything Soar Through "Get To Heaven" at LA's The Bellwether
Everything Everything came to The Bellwether with one job: play Get To Heaven front to back for its 10th anniversary. What the packed Los Angeles crowd actually got was something even bigger, a tight, ferociously performed run through the entire album with a handful of deep cuts that turned an already special night into a genuine career-spanning victory lap.
The band eased the crowd in with a taped intro before launching straight into "To the Blade," and from there it was clear this was going to be a note-perfect recreation of the record, played with a precision that never once felt rote. "Blast Doors" and the thunderous title track "Get to Heaven" landed with the same manic energy that made the album feel so distinct a decade ago, while "President Heartbeat" and "Brainchild" showed off just how sharp this band's rhythm section still is. Everyone onstage was locked in and operating at their absolute best, and it became immediately obvious why Everything Everything has built a reputation as one of the most compelling live bands working today. They sound, if anything, even better in person than on record.
The record's singles were where the crowd's energy hit its peak. "Regret" got one of the loudest responses of the early set, and by the time the band reached the run of "Spring / Sun / Winter / Dread," "Distant Past," and "No Reptiles" later in the album, the room had turned into a full singalong, tons of voices matching Jonathan Higgs' distinctive falsetto note for note. Deeper into the tracklist, songs like "Zero Pharaoh," "Yuppie Supper," and "Hapsburg Lippp" proved just as vital live as the singles, closing out the album proper with "Warm Healer" and sending a clear message that there isn't a weak moment anywhere on this record.
Just when it seemed like the night might wrap there, the band came back out for an encore that reached well beyond Get To Heaven, pulling "Cough Cough" from 2017's Arc and "Cold Reactor" from 2022's Mountainhead. It was a smart, generous way to close the show, giving longtime fans a reminder that this band's catalog runs far deeper than one album, even a genuinely great one, and it turned the night from a pure nostalgia exercise into something that honored the band's full arc as artists.
Throughout the whole set, the musicianship stayed genuinely beautiful, intricate guitar interplay and shifting time signatures delivered with an ease that made technically demanding songs sound effortless. The pacing never dragged, moving from song to song with real purpose and barely a pause to catch a breath, which is no small feat across a set this long and this dense. The Bellwether crowd stayed locked in for every second of it, proof that a decade later, Get To Heaven has lost absolutely none of its power.
Everything Everything didn't just celebrate an anniversary in Los Angeles, they reminded everyone in that room why this band remains one of the most essential live acts in rock right now. If this tour comes anywhere near you, don't miss it!!
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