Okay, I caught these guys opening up for Kings of Leon in Atlantic City and what a nice discovery!

I really enjoyed the energy and the songs that night! Their tag is right, it is my new favorite band!

Um, so it seems the Features have been opening for Kings of Leon for this current leg of the tour...

i wish they would have opened for kol here in july...i got stuck with the awful secret machines instead! i am dying for the next time i get to see them live....

They are doing a week with them Carl....

Hm. Seems like something you would hear about on a messageboard...

I was at the Borgata show as well and I have to say I was quite surprised by The Features. I figured that the opener wasn't going to be that good, but boy was I wrong. I have to say from a show perspective I think The Features put on the better show than Kings Of Leon. Don't get me wrong KOL rocked, but they just came on stage, didn't really engage the audience, hammered out their catalog and left for the night. The Features rocked as well, but also engaged the audience and they had so much energy. They definitely won over a new fan. My only disappointment is that the Exhibit A album did not sound as good as they do live. Don't get me wrong I like the album (I bought the EP as well), but man is it better live. KOL sound pretty much exactly they way they do on the album as they do live, but the Features man what a difference live makes. Somebody needs to get The Features to lay down a live recording, because this is definitely where they shine. I now have to go look for bootlegs of these guys.

They engaged the crowd ?!?!? I agree with you entirely about hearing them live and listening to Exhibit A though. I listened to their album maybe 8 or 9 times, but wouldn't mind hearing them live several times a month.

This is possibly my new favorite first post. Welcome, blizxt!

they do put on a much better show then kings of leon and i LOVE that band! i saw the features open up for kol at hammersmith in london the first day (they did three nights in a row) and when i got tickets to go the third day all i kept saying was "YES....I GET TO SEE THE FEATURES AGAIN!!!!!" i've never been so excited for a band before and i cant wait until they tour more in the states so i can see them again! if they dont come around here i'm planning on just driving to tennesse to see some shows!

i'll have to second that emotion...their music live is amazing. only, when i saw them opening with kol here in nashville i left when the kings hit the stage.

i moved to nashville in summer '04. the weekend i was moving in (into downtown) i noticed people heading to the riverfront. i found out it was a concert so the boy and i headed on over as respite from hauling boxes. we arrived during the first band and paid some attention, then the features came on and i was rapt. i have never been hooked so early by a band. my boyfriend kept trying to talk to me during their set and i kept waving my hand at him and telling him to be quiet. anywho, cheers to those of you who have known about them and enjoyed their music for years. i have felt motivated to spread their music among friends and family since i first heard them and have been quite successful in my efforts, but i find that when i take someone to a live show they are sold.

as for engaging the audience...i've seen them several times in nashville over the last year, but when i was visiting a friend in atlanta we hit the show at the earl and they were a bit more, i don't know...high energy?. or i was just drunker than usual. both are most likely true, but regardless, the show was great. i did recognize some faces from nashville, so if you're on the board, maybe you can comment.

and while i'm dragging this post on with my stream on consciousness...i have some decent pics from the april 1st show at the exit/in. is there picture posting protocol (i love alliteration) or a place where i should post them (assuming anyone cares to see them)?

(Edited by warholkat at 8:49 pm on Sep. 26, 2005)

dude, i want to see the pictures! upload them on photobucket.com or something!

(Edited by krisan at 7:34 pm on Sep. 26, 2005)

here you go...let me know if it doesn't work:

http://photobucket.com/albums/b395/warholkat/

some are fairly decent and i used photoshop to help adjust the brightness, etc. i didn't get many with the whole band because of the lighting and where i was standing. anyway, i was pretty pleased with the way some of them turned out.

this is always the conclusion when the 2 bands play together.....it seems.

Great job! Thanks for sharing.

Yeah, that's true... if your sampling of people comes from people who have signed up on the Features Messageboard.

I agree that it's great to hear they're winning over KOL fans, but I'd like to know what everyone thinks. I guess if I wasn't so lazy, I could just look at the KOL messageboard.

Blizxt

Your post looked like the exact comments my friend and I had made about the concert! I initially went to see KOL on the behest of my friend because she is in lurve with Caleb. We got there while The Features were playing contemplating whether to hit the buffet court when BOOM...I sat there and I watched the show to the end forgetting that I was absolutely starving.

After the concert my friend and I milled around the casino loosing $70 bucks between us (not high rollers) and caught them sitting at this Lounge...KOL came by a little bit afterwards.

I was such a nerd... I couldn't get the courage up to get a picture with them! NEVER AGAIN...I have to cease the moment next time...Carps and Demons!

yeeeeeeesssssssss!!! thank you for posting these!

Hey whats up everyone?? I saw The Features last week at the Kings of Leon show in Cleveland! I thought they were great! I had never heard of them before the show, but i'm so glad i know them now! I've been looking for their albums at some music stores around here and no one has them! I guess i'm gonna have to order them online! But yeah...anyways, i'm glad to be a new fan!! The Features ROCK

All you new guys are totally rad.

amazon.com is quite a site to buy the cd. i've actually been buying exhibit a's like crazy and anytime a birthday comes up and even for christmas, that is what everyone is getting!! i'm slowly but surely spreading the gift of the features to everybody and i love it! i look like i've just robbed a cd shop or something because i have a stack of them in my bedroom!

I feel welcome.

If anyone knows of any places to get bootlegs of Features shows let me know. This is definitely one of those bands that if you see them live you take notice. If I had only heard the album I am not sure I would have been hooked.

Me and my friend were talking to The Features out at the sales table and had said "Blow It Out" should be a single and they replied that it was. Felt a wee bit dumb at that point. I complimented them on their show and moved on.

I skipped the gambling, not much of a gambler, tend to lose even when dealt good cards. Must have gambled too much in a past life