Electric Callboy Brought the Moves to Boston
On a warm May evening, Lansdowne Street was already chaos before a single note was played. Between the Red Sox game at Fenway Park and a sold-out Electric Callboy show next door at MGM Music Hall, the area was packed with baseball fans, metalheads, and everyone in between. But this wasn’t just another stop on the tour. Boston hosted the final night of Electric Callboy’s North American run, and both the band and the crowd seemed determined to make sure it ended with a bang.
Scene Queen kicked things off in full bimbocore fashion. Bright colors, huge personality, and enough attitude to fill the room on her own. During her set, she brought out Joey Fleming for “Barbie & Ken,” which got one of the loudest reactions of the night from the early crowd. She also took a moment to acknowledge the issues women often face in the music industry while making a point to shout out the men on this tour, including her own band, for being genuinely good people. It was a nice moment before diving right back into the chaos.
Then Polaris hit the stage. Honestly, I don’t have a ton of detailed notes on their set because I spent most of it getting completely sucked into what was happening. The Australian metalcore band was absolutely relentless from start to finish. Circle pits opened up immediately, the crowd was moving nonstop, and crowd surfers started coming over the barricade in waves. By the time their set ended, the room felt like a pressure cooker ready to explode.
When Electric Callboy took the stage, the room felt like it was ready to erupt. Considering it was the final night of the tour, nobody seemed interested in saving any energy for later. From the opening notes of “TANZNEID,” the crowd completely lost its mind. The band’s setlist bounced between fan favorites like “Tekno Train,” “Hypa Hypa,” “MC Thunder,” “Neon,” and “Pump It,” and every single one felt like a headlining moment. The crowd sang every word, jumped for nearly every song, and somehow never seemed to run out of energy. If there was one word to describe the atmosphere inside MGM Music Hall that night, it was electric.
One of the coolest moments of the night came when the band brought a piano into the middle of the crowd. Surrounded by fans, they performed “Fuckboi” and their cover of “Everytime We Touch” from the center of the venue, turning the entire room into one massive singalong. Seeing thousands of people belt out every word while the band played from the middle of the audience was one of those moments that reminds you why live music is special.
If there was one thing that stood out all night, though, it was the crowd. I’ve seen a lot of crowd surfers over the years, but this was on another level. It felt like security barely had time to put one person down before another was coming over the barricade. From the first opener to the final encore, the room never stopped moving. Every section of the venue seemed fully engaged, whether they were in the pit, singing along from the balcony, or launching themselves toward the front of the room.
The celebration continued through “Mindreader,” “Hypercharged,” and a medley of older material before the band moved into the final stretch of the evening. When the encore arrived, “RATATATA,” “Spaceman,” and “We Got the Moves” provided the perfect ending to a night that never slowed down.Electric Callboy closed the night the same way they spent the entire evening, turning MGM Music Hall into one giant party.
If Boston was going to host the final night of the tour, there was no better way to do it. From Scene Queen’s bimbocore spectacle to Polaris’ relentless set and Electric Callboy’s nonstop chaos, MGM Music Hall was the place to be that night.️
