Show Review, Photos: Post Malone Brings The Party To Wheatland On "If Y'all Weren't Here, I'd Be Crying" Tour
Post Malone
w/ Beach Fossils
August 15th, 2023
Toyota Amphitheatre
Wheatland, CA
Review and Photos by Jaime Schultz
Post Malone has been on an upward trajectory into both the pop and rock stratospheres since coming onto the scene in 2016. In the last two years, he has released two full-length albums, with 2022’s Twelve Carat Toothache and this year’s Austin, a 17-track genre-fusing album named after…well, his real name. Post has been blending genres more frequently than ever, and fans were given a chance to witness the superstar in action on Tuesday, August 15th when he brought his most recent “If Y’All Weren’t Here, I’d Be Crying’ tour to Wheatland’s Toyota Amphitheatre, just a few minutes outside of Sacramento proper.
The show featured an opening set from Beach Fossils, an indie rock act based out of Brooklyn. The quartet’s music was more reminiscent of acts like The Neighbourhood and Bad Suns than anything you’d hear on the modern rap circuit, but the mellow vibe set a nice tone for the evening before the high energy of Post Malone’s set really got things moving.
This time around, Post was backed by a full live band, complete with a string section, who supported the performance during the entire show. Weaving through rock, rap, pop, alternative, indie, and a plethora of hits old and new, Post Malone brought one of the best shows of the year to Northern California. The twenty-five-song setlist pulled from every album of his career, opening with tracks from beerbongs & bentleys like “Better Now”, “Zack and Codeine” and “Psycho”. Despite the strong reaction throughout the evening, Post joked with the crowd, “Listen to the new album a few times. I have to put a kid through college”. While there were only four songs from Austin present in the set, the show wasn’t so much focused on the new album, but more on the impressive collection of songs that Post Malone has brought to the masses in just a few short years.
Watching a Post Malone performance is a genuinely entertaining experience; you can tell by the energy and the smile on his face that there is nowhere else in the world that he would rather be than right there on that stage. Dancing, engaging with the crowd, high-fiving everyone, inviting fans on stage to talk and play guitar – it’s all par for the course with a Post Malone set. Every night is a positivity party. A three-song encore concluded the evening with Stoney’s “Broken Whiskey Glass”, the infectiously popular Swae Lee collaboration “Sunflower” made famous by its appearance in Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, and “Chemical”, one of the new songs from Austin.
Capped off with a healthy dose of fireworks and pyrotechnics to accompany some of the most intense moments of the set, Post Malone brought forth a show that could make him worthy of the title of bonafide rock star. He is without a doubt one of today’s must-see performers.
Post Malone Set List
Better Now
Wow.
Zack and Codeine
Psycho
Goodbyes
Hollywood Dreams/Comedown
Mourning
I Like You (A Happier Song)
Jonestown (Interlude)
Take What You Want
Over Now
Rockstar
Feeling Whitney
Stay
Overdrive
I Fall Apart
Wrapped Around Your Finger
Circles
Enough Is Enough
Too Young
White Iverson
Congratulations
Encore:
Broken Whiskey Glass
Sunflower
Chemical
