Forgoing an opener, Mt. Joy brought their „Hope We Have Fun Tour“ to TD Garden in Boston on Saturday.
Forgoing an opener, Mt. Joy brought their „Hope We Have Fun Tour“ to TD Garden in Boston on Saturday.
Mt. Joy at TD Garden, Boston, Sept. 20, 2025.
For a Los Angeles-based band with roots in Philadelphia, Mt. Joy sure has some genuine love for Boston. But, it’s their focus on community that truly strikes a chord.
Forgoing an opener, Mt. Joy opted for a double set at TD Garden on Saturday night, playing a mix of old and new tracks across their four studio albums.
From bouncing and clapping to “God Loves Weirdos,” a song off the band’s latest album “Hope We Have Fun,” to swaying softly to songs like “Dirty Love” and “Orange Blood” off of older albums, the crowd, wearing light-up wristbands, matched the energy of the music and even soaked in the extended moments for instrumentals.
The band — Matt Quinn on vocals and guitar, Sam Cooper on guitar, Jackie Miclau on keyboards, Sotiris Eliopoulos on drums, and Michael Byrnes on bass — performed under soft lights, which shifted from hues of reds and yellows to blues and pinks. Behind the band, a large screen showed moving graphics, often providing a dreamlike feel to the performance.
The show ran a little under three hours with the band taking the stage around 8:15 p.m., pausing for a 20-minute intermission around 9:10 p.m., and wrapping up a two-song B-stage encore by 10:50 p.m.
A focal point of the performance came about two hours into the show when Quinn took a moment to reflect on hope and humanity, as he introduced the band’s song “Lucy.”
He explained how the band was inspired to write the track after learning that a friend had been diagnosed with multiple brain tumors and had a “difficult prognosis.”
The song, released as a single just ahead of the band’s fourth studio album “Hope We Have Fun” in May, has since connected Mt. Joy to fans who have experienced cancer or similar unimaginable hardships.
