The Lonely Island @ The Armory
by Susie on 9/5/19Armory - MinneapolisThe Armory venue is very cool! The opening act - Neal Brennan was fantastic!
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The Lonely Island on Tour
Though The Lonely Island exploded into pop culture in 2005, it took the music and comedy trio 14 years — plus seven Saturday Night Live seasons, three uproarious LPs, and two movies — to get around to touring. Chalk that up to the successful careers of actor-writer-producers Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone, who have as a group been nominated for multiple Grammys, an Oscar, and a Creative Arts Emmy (which they won).
They earned all that by writing and performing such absurd yet undeniable rap anthems as "Dick in a Box" (featuring Justin Timberlake), "Lazy Sunday" (about going to see a Chronicles of Narnia movie), and "I Just Had Sex," in which autotune hook-master Akon coos those titular words with believable enthusiasm.
That they hadn't previously taken that act on the road is equally silly when you consider their talent and chemistry, honed over decades of friendship and collaborative work, not to mention their love of performance, props, ridiculous outfits, and surprising guest cameos. To wit, a 2018 warm-up show featured Michael Bolton in a pirate hat, singing along to "Jack Sparrow."
The Lonely Island Background
Friends since their junior high days in Berkeley, California, the three men who make up The Lonely Island moved into a cheap Los Angeles apartment in 2000 with plans to work in film. Between dead-end gigs, they managed to become pioneers in sharing comedic video shorts online and stumbled upon their true gift while recording joke rap songs with their musician roommate after-hours.
In 2005, the guys parlayed budding Internet stardom into a writing gig for the MTV Movie Awards and, as a result, a role on SNL where they'd head up their own Digital Shorts department.
Their run on the show was legendary, expanding SNL's reach into both viral clips and radio hits, while The Lonely Island created a series of star-studded music videos and LPs — from 2009's Incredibad (featuring T-Pain, Natalie Portman, and Jack Black, among others), to 2011's Turtleneck & Chain (Nicki Minaj, Snoop Dogg, Lady Gaga), to 2013's The Wack Album (Pharrell Williams, Kendrick Lamar, Hugh Jackman). The Lonely Island also eventually made it to Hollywood with 2016's Judd Apatow–produced mockumentary Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, which poked fun at the music industry they unwittingly found themselves within.
The Armory venue is very cool! The opening act - Neal Brennan was fantastic!
Loved seeing The Lonely Island. They were very entertaining, refreshing, and hilarious. I really liked how they handled the fact that most of their songs feature famous artists. They seemed to truly enjoy performing even with this being their last show of the tour, and made the night incredibly fun.
I've loved the Lonely Island since I was a kid, and they did not disappoint. Their concert covered some of their best works, and it was awesome to see how they adapted it for a stage performance. I'll never forget this concert.
Acoustics were fabulous, the energy of the crowd and the performers was spectacular. Great venue and would have loved for Lonely Island to be on for more than one hour!
This was such a fun and amusing concert. Would love to see them again in the future
The show sounded fun but I can't say for sure as the Armory has terrible sightlines from the floor and I couldn't see anything. It would have been fine if they had used the giant video wall better.
The show was entertaining and the guys killed it, but standing room only general admission is brutal. I couldn't see most of the show and people were constantly shoving past me.
Loved the show and celebrity appearances. And the bathroom was nuts!
If you are short, avoid getting GA tickets at The Armory. I'm over 6' and could barely see the stage from the GA Floor section. I had to watch the video screens the entire show.
This concert was a blast! Everything I expected and more. Loved Lonely Island before and concert and love them even more now. I don’t think there was a single person in that building that’s wasn’t having an absolute blast.