The NorVa                                                                Norfolk, VA.  February 23, 2018

Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, artist, comic book hero LIGHTS born Valerie Anne Poxleitner brought her vibrant color and effervescent music to life at The NorVA in Norfolk, VA. along with openers Chase Atlantic and DCF.

Opening the show was DCF, then came Australia’s alternative/indy band Chase Atlantic. Chase Atlantic is a trio of brothers Mitchel and Clinton Cave and longtime friend Christian Anthony.

They were amazing….high energy, great at pumping up the audience and Clinton's amazing saxophone adds so much to the live sound….they are just plain FUN!! You can truly tell they enjoy what they do and the fans fed off of it.
 

It was the time of the night that everybody was waiting for as the lights went down, the crowd grew wild with excitement. The stage & production was definitely one of the bests and consisted of a huge led background screen and lights coming from the sides and above, plus enough room for LIGHTS to dance around the beautifully lit open stage.

LIGHTS opened up the set with ‘New Fears’ and instantly the crowd went wild. Filled with vibrant color and effervescent music - LIGHTS was charming, had great energy and delivered a really memorable 16 song set that included 3 soothing acoustic songs and 2 astounding encores ‘We Were Here’ and ‘Almost Had Me’. You could definitely tell there were some truly dedicated LIGHTS fans by the way the whole venue sang along to each song.

A lil bit about LIGHTS….

• LIGHTS was awarded the 2009 Juno Award for New Artist of the Year and two 2009 Astral Media Radio awards during Canadian Music Week.
• She began writing for Sony/ATV Music Publishing and composed music for the television series Instant Star
• The most recent and fourth studio album was accompanied by the comic with the same name, “Skin & Earth”
• The comic Skin & Earth is written and illustrated by LIGHTS herself!!  < MIND-BLOWING!!!!! 
• Married to Beau Bokan, the lead vocalist of metalcore band Blessthefall & they have a daughter together ‘Rocket Wild”

It was a spectacular evening of entertainment…where I came out a fan of both bands!

Make sure to check them out on one of the many the remaining dates on tour.

 1. New Fears

 2. Savage

 3. Second Go

 4. Toes

 5. Up We Go

 6. Siberia

 7. Moonshine

 8. Interlude: Skin & Earth

 9. February Air  (Acoustic)

10. Banner  (Acoustic)

11. Muscle Memory  (Acoustic)

12. Skydiving

13. Same Sea

14. Kicks

15. Magnetic Field

16. Running With the Boys

17. Giants

Encore:

18. We Were Here

19. Almost Had Me

 1. Swim

 2. Triggered

 3. Friends

 4. Drugs & Money

 5. Into It

 6. Okay