opener disappointment
so Ive seen Hayden live 3 times now. Her shows are always so amazing. She is my favorite artist of all time. I think she puts on one of the best shows I’ve seen in like 15 years of going to various concerts (obviously I’m a little biased lol) But 9 million…. dude Idk if they all hate each other or simply just don’t care that much about playing live but they have no stage presence!!!
Last time my wife and I saw Hayden in August of 2025 was the first time I saw 9 million as her opener and we were super underwhelmed. We hadn’t heard of them prior to seeing them on the bill so we’d listened to a few songs that day on the drive to the venue and were expecting some shoe gaze-ish type music. They sounded NOTHING like they do on their spotify recordings and what was worse everyone was just standing in a line at the front of the stage looking miserable. It sounded like all their instruments were mixed terribly like everyone was too loud to hear anyone else. Whatever. My wife and I chalked it up to a bad night for them.
Well, my wife and I again just saw her in Nola and 9 million was the opener again. jesus christ. Once again the mixing made it hard to hear anything going on in the music and once again they all were kind of just standing in a line doing nothing. There wasn’t really any stage presence apart from every once in a while one of them would do a couple hops to an upbeat part of the song. They even started packing up all their equipment in the middle of their last song, like several of the members just stopped playing their instruments to pack things into bags? I don’t know it was weird and felt like watching a high school talent show
their drummer seems cool though, he was the only person who my wife and I have consistently thought looked like he wanted to be there and knew what was going on.
has anyone else who’s seen her or just them felt similar?