Bright Eyes debut songs from forthcoming album at surprise Chicago show

Billed on the lineup as "7:55 Saturday Radical Stage Riot Boys" – a reference to their performance at Riot Fest next weekend – the trio played songs such as "Mariana Trench", "Method Acting", and "First Day of My Life" which was sandwiched between a cover of Thin Lizzy's "Running Back", and "Sorry You're Sick" by Ted Hawkins.

Tonight, Lincoln Hall in Chicago hosted the first of three “secret” intimate shows that @brighteyesband is playing in advance of their album release and some bigger shows starting next week. If tonight was any indication, everything referenced above—the other intimate shows, the… pic.twitter.com/9WkfJuyc9v

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Elsewhere in the set, they debuted songs from their forthcoming album, Five Dice, All Threes, including “Bells And Whistles,” “El Capitan,” “Bas Jan Ader,” “Real Feel 105°,” and “Tiny Suicides,” as is shown on setlist.fm. A night of many firsts, they also revisited the 2004 album, One Jug Of Wine, Two Vessels to play “Happy Accident” for the first time.