Editor’s Note: Welcome to V3 Weekend, Vanyaland‘s guide to help you sort out your weekend entertainment with curated selections and recommendations across our three pillars of Music, Comedy, and Film/TV. It’s what you should know about, where you need to be, and where you’ll be going, with us riding shotgun along the way.
Music: Lorde at TD Garden
What we hoped to be the Summer of Lorde unfortunately did not materialize, probably because this was truly the summer of nothing. But Autumn of Lorde is still in play, and the kickoff begins tonight when the alt-pop luminary returns to Boston for a musical sermon at TD Garden, the latest stop on her Ultrasound World Tour. In April, queen Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor resurfaced with “What Was That,” her first new track in four years, fueled by a pop-up show in Washington Square Park in New York City, and soon followed that up with June album Virgin. Now she’s here to bless us within the largest room in Boston, and it promises to still be quite intimate. “Every show I play is a collaboration between you and me,” Lorde writes. “We meet in a room and we make music together, our bodies and the machines in search of something bigger together. 12 years of meeting up and making sound that’s just for us. Since last time I’ve been stripping away unnecessary layers, finding us more room to move. I think that Ultrasound could be our masterpiece.”
LORDE + BLOOD ORANGE + THE JAPANESE HOUSE :: Friday, September 26 at TD Garden, 100 Legends Way in Boston, MA :: 5:30 p.m., all ages, sold out :: Event info
Comedy: Gabriel Iglesias at TD Garden
Hey, screw it, we’re making it a TD Garden weekend, and we might as well settle in as uncertain new seasons from the Bruins and Celtics fast approach. After some Lorde action on Friday, we’ll be hiding in the rafters like a circus monkey for Gabriel Iglesias on Saturday. Here’s Jason Greenough with the word via Mic’d Up: “In the event that you were hoping to catch a living comedy legend in town this weekend, Iglesias is coming in hot as part of his celebratory stand-up run simply dubbed The 1976 Tour. While the new show is meant to shine a light on the milestone of Fluffy’s 50th birthday ahead of the exact date in July 2026, it’s also giving way to a new chapter of the California native’s epic and decorated career, with a brand new hour that follows up his most recent special, Legend of Fluffy, which premiered on Netflix earlier this year. Of course, Boston is a true hotbed of comedy excellence, but it’s not every day you get to see someone of Iglesias’ stature strut into town and take control of one of the biggest stages in the city with ease. So don’t miss this one.”
GABRIEL IGLESIAS: THE 1976 TOUR :: Saturday, September 27 at TD Garden, 100 Legends Way in Boston, MA :: 7 p.m., Tickets start at $49 :: Advance tickets
Film/TV: Drinking around town with Charlie Day
We usually reserve this space for cool film screenings at the indie cinemas that catch our attention, but with a light movie slate this weekend, we’re leaning back on the TV side of the section. Obviously, watching television doesn’t lend itself to going out, as V3 Weekend encourages, but this weekend it does as It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia star Charlie Day hits Boston for a drinking tour with Four Walls Whiskey. Here’s Greenough again serving up the goods: “While we don’t know the spaghetti policy of any of the establishments on the Merrimack College alum’s radar this weekend, we do, in fact, have the deets on how you can rub elbows and raise a glass with a true Philly legend… Before [he sets] up shop at Lucky’s Lounge at 9:30 p.m. on Friday, Day will get the shenanigans underway at Back Bay Social starting at 8 p.m. before popping over to Flight Club Boston at 8:30 p.m. to close things out for the night. On the Saturday docket, Day is slated to host a bottle signing at Total Wine at South Bay Center in Dorchester at noon, before ending his epic weekend in the shadows of Fenway Park by pouring shots at Lansdowne Pub starting around 6:30 p.m. If, at any point this weekend, you ask yourself ‘What do now?’ — this is it. Do it for the Day Man. Do it for Danny DeVito. Do it for the ghost of Wade Boggs.”
DRINKING WITH CHARLIE DAY :: Friday, September 26 and Saturday, September 27 at various locations around Boston :: Four Walls on Insta