Grammy-nominated artist Elle King brought her Drunk and I Don’t Wanna Go Home Tour to The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco.
Elle King‘s San Francisco engagement is a hometown show as she spent most of her life here. She call it the city that made her hate walking. Unfortunately, the show had a last-minute venue change from The Warfield, but that still didn’t stop her fans from making it out to see her.
Elle came out barefoot with oversized yellow sunglasses and a cowboy hat, showing how natural being on stage and sharing her music is. She was joined on stage by a full band. To start her set, she sang “Good For Nothin’ Woman” while perfectly playing the banjo. After that, she performed “Out Yonder,” her most recent single which was released on March 18th. But, of course, her fans already knew all the lyrics to the song.
Elle had multiple breaks in her set where she would converse with the crowd. Most of the conversation centered on how she was happy to be back in the Bay and how much fun she was having up on stage, and that she hoped everyone else was having as good of a time as her.
It would not have been an Elle King show without performing the four-time Platinum song “Ex’s & Oh’s.” It was by far the fan-favorite song of the evening as everyone was singing along at the top of their lungs. During her song “High,” a fan near the stage was smoking a joint and somehow passed it to Elle, who then made a joke saying she hoped it wasn’t something else.
Many kids came out to the show, and Elle took a moment to shout them out. She shared how even more special it is to see kids at her concerts now that she is a mom. She also talked about how being a mom now she remembers a lot more, but seeing as she was off that night it was okay to have a little bit more fun than usual. But that has also been trouble for her in the past because she’s been to a lot of cities before and sometimes doesn’t remember. This makes shows get a little awkward when she thinks she is somewhere for the first time when, in reality, she’s been there multiple times before.
Later in her set, Elle brought the banjo back out for “Good To Be A Man” and hit a crazy note at the song’s end. She explained the piece is a message to be whoever you want to be or identify as and that she supports you no matter what. She effortlessly switched between genres like country, soul, rock, pop, and blues, but she said she had to throw out a sad song called “Ain’t Gonna Drown.”
Like all good things, the night eventually had to end, and she closed the night out right with “America’s Sweetheart,” the last single from her debut studio album Love Stuff. Elle’s tour is just about to wrap, but she has a lot of new music coming soon, so be on the lookout for that.
