What it was like
Forty thousand people breathing at the same time in the dark is not a metaphor. It happened in this ballpark, and people were still describing it months afterward.
RUFUS DU SOL build sets the slow way — layer on layer, no early payoff — until an entire stadium is locked to one frequency, which is the trick that has kept them from ever choosing between scale and intimacy. Ben Bohmer opens with the aching melodic house that made him a festival fixture on four continents. Maribou State and Fcukers fill out a support card good enough to have been its own night.
Gates open in the early evening at Petco Park, and it is an all-ages show.
Get there before the first set: the sunset over the Western Metal Supply building is the opening act nobody puts on the poster. Bring whoever you want standing beside you in the dark.