Disposable: Water From Your Eyes
Water From Your Eyes are a band you should know by know.
If you don’t, read this, then come back and look at the photos they shot of their show in Mexico last week, where they opened for Interpol in front of two MILLION people. More like one hundred, actually. Thousand. One hundred thousand. People. ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE. One hundred thousand fucking people. My god.
Rachel: I had food poisoning the day before so no coffee for me :( Cannot thank god enough that I did not get it the day of the show, I am truly so blessed for that. Anyways this was probably the least insane I felt all day.
bailey: Shoutout to Pedro and David who drove / guided us around the city! I'm a pretty confident driver by NYC or LA standards but CDMX had a whole different road flow and I surely wouldn't have been comfy behind the wheel ~ it's hard to explain but different cities have like, different driving ethea. People know the little nuances of how to rule the road in their own city. David was awesome.
Nate: Pedro and David were awesome. The place where we got coffee had pastries everywhere and I regretted not getting one. I don’t remember a ton from before we got to the venue but I think it was a nice morning.
Al: We spent the day before hanging out and doing a live session at La Bestia. After sleeping off a delicious dinner from La Docena, we were ready to get picked up by Pedro and David. Giggling and sipping coffee with my friends… there was a buzz in the air!
Rachel: I thought there were maybe 100 people watching us while we soundchecked but everyone else said there were more like 1000 people there. Easily one of our biggest shows.
Bailey: I think there were a couple thousand people at the soundcheck, everyone has been talking the number down. People had been queueing outside for a day or two to be front row for Interpol and they were jamming to our soundcheck like it was a set, lol. I guess it kind of was. We checked for almost an hour and I'm grateful we did, it was definitely the gnarliest acoustic environment I've ever played at. The echo of the drums in the square was crazy. The monitor engineer Juan had an Attack on Titan t-shirt on, it was awesome. Final season shit.
Nate: Soundcheck was really fun, something about that many people hanging out while we did our normal goofy routine felt absurd. I have a video of everyone screaming for Rachel while they did Lose Yourself.
Al: The sound of the drums bouncing around the empty Zocalo was so funny. Every time a new noise came through the speakers, the audience would cheer. It was hard to focus on soundchecking, all of the echoing sounds and cheering kept making me laugh.
Al: My mom came to see us play. Thanks mom!!!
Bailey: It was my first time in CDMX and I'd love to go back, we got to stroll just a bit in the center of town and it already felt like not enough time to take it all in.
Rachel: I loved the pyramid, it is so exciting to me to be able to gaze upon history like that. To see something stand the testament of time. To witness the same very thing that people have witnessed for thousands of years. Just astounding! And after that I really needed bobby pins so I made everyone walk to a store with me so I could purchase my little hair trinkets.
Nate: Pyramids are objectively the coolest man-made structures on earth so getting to see the remains was of special interest and made the gathering even more significant to me. I would love to spend longer in Mexico City.
Nate: I’m glad we got the opportunity to explore the square a little before it got too crowded - I could have spent most of that day just taking in the architecture. None of these pictures quite do justice to the size of that Mexican flag.
Rachel: It was really nice to get to see everyone from the Interpol crew again, I really love those people. It was also nice to walk around the square and see everything from outside the backstage area since we knew we weren’t going to get the chance once the show started.
Al: When you tour playing music, it’s a comfort seeing familiar faces in a bunch of different places.
Rachel: The mariachi band was so awesome, definitely a hard act to follow.
Bailey: We hadn't been told there would be a mariachi band, aha. These guys showed up and went up with no soundcheck and just blasted. So sick. They played some classics (I assume) and then hit an Interpol cover and people went nuts.
Nate: The day backstage went by pretty fast but it was super nice to get to say hi to Interpol and their crew, it feels like seeing cousins or something. This picture of us with Paul is maybe 10 minutes before we played but nothing had really set in yet.
Rachel: This is the part I remember the least. I viscerally remember blowing it at the beginning of Barley and straight up forgetting an entire verse of True Life. It would be nice to have remembered the moments that actually went well but I guess it’s just easier to remember what stuck out as wrong. The cell phone lights were amazing though, once I saw that I thought “Everything is perfect and nothing will ever feel like this again.” Honestly, despite my mistakes it was one of the best shows of my life. How could it not be?
Bailey: I think we were all fronting that we weren't nervous until the second before we went on stage, feeling a huge collective gulp. And then we went out and did the thing. People were so down irregardless of whether they knew the music, really clapping along and keeping the beat and stuff. I grew up watching so many videos on Youtube of like, metal bands playing in México. The crowds down there famously really follow the music even if it's trippy time signatures or really gnarly grooves or whatever, and it was totally true. I felt like they got every note.
Nate: I almost missed these lights entirely - I tend to just look at my guitar and feet when we perform and towards the end of the last song I felt Rachel tap my shoulder and tell me to look out. Thank god they did.
Al: Onstage was surprisingly comfortable. I was in awe of how wide the audience spanned, how far back it went, spilling into the streets beyond the square. I realized the people in front were looking my way, and we danced together from far away.
Rachel: I’ve seen Interpol play many times throughout the last year and a half but this was by far the best show because the audience was so passionate and excited. The joy really permeated throughout the space. I am really glad I got to see them play that show, maybe even more so than getting to play. It was just so unbelievably special.
BaileY: I had never seen Interpol live before and I can't wait to see them again because I truly couldn't hear anything from backstage over the crowd singing along!
Nate: The crowd singing along was so loudly that it was hard to hear Interpol play (didn’t keep me from watching). Blessed to see them play “Untitled” to that many people.
Al: It was amazing to watch Interpol play. This was by far the largest and most enthusiastic crowd I have ever seen. They sang and yelled all night, and I felt so grateful to share the moment with people who love music so deeply.
Rachel: Playing a show to 100,000 people was pretty awesome but being in a police escort going 65 miles an hour down the streets in Mexico City made me feel famous. Also I swear to god I was wearing a really awesome outfit on stage, you can’t really tell in any of these photos but I just need everyone to know that.
BaileY: Ciudad de México, muchas gracias. Vida verdadera.
Nate: Beautiful rush on a beautiful night. Beyond grateful for the experience. Rachel’s right, the police escort was wild.
