"Surely a basketball arena wasn't too small for humble psych rock project Tame Impala, right? I would have said so, but the obscene lines wrapping around the outside of Barclays Center on the first of Tame Impala's four Brooklyn concerts in support of new album suggested it was an underplay. I've been to many New York shows and many at Barclays Center, and never have I ever waited over 30 minutes in line just to enter the building."
"The security staff siphoning off entrances was one thing; the sheer pandemonium around seeing Tame Impala live, most of us for the first time in several years, was another. Apparently, according to a security guard, the crowd density for this show was particularly high, and that's why the bottlenecked entrances were employed. Some 15,000 fans were set to see Tame Impala kick off their "Deadbeat Tour,""
Tame Impala played the first of four Brooklyn concerts at Barclays Center, drawing roughly 15,000 attendees and unusually long lines to enter. Arena entrances were bottlenecked due to high crowd density, creating over 30-minute waits for some fans. The show was staged in the round, filling the GA floor and all seating areas, generating intense energy across the venue. The performance followed the band's previous arena-focused Slow Rush tour and emphasized psychedelic spectacle, while signaling a shift toward immediacy for the new Deadbeat Tour. Kevin Parker occupied a dominant pop presence in New York that night.
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