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.
