Staff Editor on October 6th, 2018

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Paul Banks of Interpol offered this review of the Hollywood Bowl on Thursday night: “Huge, but intimate.”

That’s the way it felt for the New York band’s 75-minute, career-spanning concert during which most everybody had a personal, visceral reaction to Interpol’s material. It seemed as if every song was greeted with a roar from the crowd by the second note — but everyone there jumped to their feet for “Slow Hands” — as the the band tore through 20 songs, ending the second encore with 2002’s “Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Down.”

In all, Interpol performed as many songs from their debut, “Turn on the Bright Lights,” released 16 years ago, as they did from their strong new album “Marauder,” released Aug. 24. They connected the dots with selections from their other four albums, with “Slow Hands” and “Evil” (which closed the main set), getting explosive receptions.

The Kills preceded the headliners, with Alison Mosshart confessing that she’d never seen a show at the Hollywood Bowl, and that this made quite an introduction.

Setlist: Pioneer to the Falls, If You Really Love Nothing, Roland, Public Pervert, All the Rage Back Home, NYC, The Rover, Complications, Leif Erikson, Not Even Jail, Number 10, Rest My Chemistry, Slow Hands, Take You on a Cruise, NYSMAW, Evil. First encore: Lights, Flight of Fancy, Obstacle 1. Second encore: Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Down.

Photos by Andie Mills