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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Mr.Whippy on April 08, 2009, 12:45:43 pm
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Hi,
I'm going to the Neko Case show on Thurs. with someone that wants to get there early and get a spot on the balcony rail. I've never gotten to the club early and tried to get one of those.
If there is someone that is going to the Wed. show and getting there early, can you please post an educated guess on what time we would need to get there to grab one of those spots?
Thanks.
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I know that if you get there as soon as door opens you can always get on the rail. You talking about upstairs right?
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I agree that if you get there at doors or shortly there after, you should be able to get a spot at the rail. Not sure how long the rail will take to fill though.
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You should also be prepared for people to evenutally push you out of your rail spot once the show begins.
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Or kick you in the back of the knee and then bust a bottle over your head.
You should also be prepared for people to evenutally push you out of your rail spot once the show begins.
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Anyone else underwhelmed by her new album? I was so underwhelmed I sold my ticket (bought in advance of my hearing her album).
It would be funny if she did the crickets/frogs song in its entirety.
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Has anybody else noticed that Will Sheff is now the opening act for Thursday's show?
Anybody have a Thursday ticket to sell to me at face?
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This was awesome!
Has anybody else noticed that Will Sheff is now the opening act for Thursday's show?
Anybody have a Thursday ticket to sell to me at face?
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You should also be prepared for people to evenutally push you out of your rail spot once the show begins.
or throw you over it.
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She'll be doing this as part of a surprise post-show noise set at Velvet.
It would be funny if she did the crickets/frogs song in its entirety.
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something wrong with you. I like the new album...but Crooked Fingers are > than Will Sheff.
Has anybody else noticed that Will Sheff is now the opening act for Thursday's show?
Anybody have a Thursday ticket to sell to me at face?
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Has anybody else noticed that Will Sheff is now the opening act for Thursday's show?
Yeah, I was gonna skip this show entirely and just see Crooked Fingers at Iota, but now I'm hoping I can score a ticket for tomorrow to see Will Sheff then head to Iota.
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Did anyone else notice that the crickets/frogs song was being played alongside Fleet Foxes after the encore? That was funny. Neko Case was pretty good but I enjoyed Crooked Fingers' set more.
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04/08/09
Crooked Fingers
1. Broken Man
2. Bad Man Coming
3. You Can Never Leave
4. Let's Not Pretend (To Be New Men)
5. Luisa's Bones
6. Phony Revolutions
7. Your Control
8. Angelina
9. New Drink for the Old Drunk
10. So Long, Savannah
Neko Case
1. Maybe Sparrow
2. People Got a Lotta Nerve
3. Fever
4. Hold On, Hold On
5. The Pharaohs
6. Middle Cyclone
7. Deep Red Bells
8. I Wish I Was the Moon
9. I'm an Animal
10. Prison Girls
11. The Tigers Have Spoken
12. Margaret vs. Pauline
13. Red Tide
14. Don't Forget Me
15. That Teenage Feeling
16. This Tornado Loves You
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17. Vengeance is Sleeping
18. Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth
19. Knock Loud
(Songs cut from the list: Polar Nettles, Magpie to the Morning and The Next Time You Say Forever)
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04/08/09
Crooked Fingers
1. Broken Man
2. Bad Man Coming
3. You Can Never Leave
4. Let's Not Pretend (To Be New Men)
5. Luisa's Bones
6. Phony Revolutions
7. Your Control
8. Angelina
9. New Drink for the Old Drunk
10. So Long, Savannah
Neko Case
1. Maybe Sparrow
2. People Got a Lotta Nerve
3. Fever
4. Hold On, Hold On
5. The Pharaohs
6. Middle Cyclone
7. Deep Red Bells
8. I Wish I Was the Moon
9. I'm an Animal
10. Prison Girls
11. The Tigers Have Spoken
12. Margaret vs. Pauline
13. Red Tide
14. Don't Forget Me
15. That Teenage Feeling
16. This Tornado Loves You
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17. Vengeance is Sleeping
18. Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth
19. Knock Loud
(Songs cut from the list: Polar Nettles, Magpie to the Morning and The Next Time You Say Forever)
Thanks for posting that!
I missed the show tonight, but I really wanted to hear Polar Nettles and The Next Time You Say Forever, so yeah! Looks like they'll get played tomorrow! Also looks like she's not doing John Saw That Number or Tightly. Hmm, maybe those will come tomorrow too.
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I'm really excited about the Will Sheff thing tonight, though I was looking forward to Crooked Fingers as well.
Can anyone who might have been there early comment on how early it would be good to show up to get a spot on the balcony railing? I bet if we were there by the time the doors opened, we would probably be OK, but if I knew that it was OK to get there more like 7:30, that would be great.
Thanks.
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I'm really excited about the Will Sheff thing tonight, though I was looking forward to Crooked Fingers as well.
Can anyone who might have been there early comment on how early it would be good to show up to get a spot on the balcony railing? I bet if we were there by the time the doors opened, we would probably be OK, but if I knew that it was OK to get there more like 7:30, that would be great.
Thanks.
wasn't this already answered???? Yeah I think 7:30 would be fine too. Anytime before 8 and the opening band actually would be fine.
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I say get there at doors. We got there about 7:35 or so and the rail was full.
I enjoyed the show, too bad about Magpie being cut, I would've enjoyed hearing that. It was cool that the Sec'y of Education was there. Aside from that there was some other excitement going on up in the balcony. Stumbly, possibly drunk guy crashing into people and the coffee bar, obnoxious queer person of unsure gender singing along way too loudly to the point we had to re-locate and someone passing out right in front of us at the rail. Kudos to the 9:30 staff for their response to that last one. I am always impressed with how quickly they rally in situations such as that.
Overall great show, despite the distractions.
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I missed the show tonight, but I really wanted to hear Polar Nettles and The Next Time You Say Forever, so yeah! Looks like they'll get played tomorrow! Also looks like she's not doing John Saw That Number or Tightly. Hmm, maybe those will come tomorrow too.
I'd bet on John Saw That Number as a closer tonight. Lucky you!
BTW, This Tornado Loves You kills live.
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Did anyone else notice that the crickets/frogs song was being played alongside Fleet Foxes after the encore? That was funny. Neko Case was pretty good but I enjoyed Crooked Fingers' set more.
Did Eric Bachmann have a band with him or did he play solo?
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He had two other people playing with him: a woman playing bass and doing background singing and a guy doing keyboards/some drumming. No violinist :( I remember being blown away by Crooked Fingers a couple years back (May 02, opening for Pinback) but that was with a 5 piece band with strings. I read somewhere that they played the West Coast in 2008 with a violinist and a couple Archers of Loaf songs...still on the fence with the IOTA show tonite....
Did anyone else notice that the crickets/frogs song was being played alongside Fleet Foxes after the encore? That was funny. Neko Case was pretty good but I enjoyed Crooked Fingers' set more.
Did Eric Bachmann have a band with him or did he play solo?
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I'm really excited about the Will Sheff thing tonight, though I was looking forward to Crooked Fingers as well.
Can anyone who might have been there early comment on how early it would be good to show up to get a spot on the balcony railing? I bet if we were there by the time the doors opened, we would probably be OK, but if I knew that it was OK to get there more like 7:30, that would be great.
Thanks.
wasn't this already answered???? Yeah I think 7:30 would be fine too. Anytime before 8 and the opening band actually would be fine.
If you want to be in the middle on the railing, I'd agree to get there at doors. If you don't care if your on the side railings, then like 7:15 or 7:20 would be fine...or at least it was last night. But later than that, the railing was full.
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That set list from last night sounds perfect. I'm seeing her tonight and I hope most stays the same...can't wait, I've never seen Neko live.
Has anyone seen Okkervil River live? What should I expect?
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He had two other people playing with him: a woman playing bass and doing background singing and a guy doing keyboards/some drumming. No violinist :( I remember being blown away by Crooked Fingers a couple years back (May 02, opening for Pinback) but that was with a 5 piece band with strings. I read somewhere that they played the West Coast in 2008 with a violinist and a couple Archers of Loaf songs...still on the fence with the IOTA show tonite....
Did anyone else notice that the crickets/frogs song was being played alongside Fleet Foxes after the encore? That was funny. Neko Case was pretty good but I enjoyed Crooked Fingers' set more.
Did Eric Bachmann have a band with him or did he play solo?
I've seen Crooked Fingers a few times and the best was when he had the Archers' bassist in the band. And they do sometimes play one or two Archers songs. The only ones I've seen them play are Chumming the Ocean, Dead Red Eyes, and White Trash Heroes.
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I'd say it was a great show last night. Much better than the last Neko show at the club but still the best Neko show I've seen was the second to last 930 show (the one with Martha Wainwright as the opener). Big surprise on the set list last night was "I Wish I Was The Moon"...
I'd hate you guys if you get "Running Out of Fools" or "The Train from Kansas City" tonite. SERIOUSLY!
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Yeah, I don't think she will ever be able to beat the one where she played with Martha...
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That set list from last night sounds perfect. I'm seeing her tonight and I hope most stays the same...can't wait, I've never seen Neko live.
Has anyone seen Okkervil River live? What should I expect?
I've seen Okkervil River before and they were great. Much more energetic than you would expect from the records. This is just Will, though, so I don't know what this will be.
Thanks to people giving reports on how early it was needed to arrive last night for a railing spot.
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I've seen Okkervil River before and they were great. Much more energetic than you would expect from the records. This is just Will, though, so I don't know what this will be.
That's what I was going to say! Okkervil is great live, but I'm not sure what Sheff alone will be like. Someone please ask him to play his cover of Ex-Girl Collection and then call me during the song so I can hear it! or record it on your phone! ;D
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Someone please ask him to play his cover of Ex-Girl Collection and then call me during the song so I can hear it! or record it on your phone! ;D
Saw him play this at Iota a few years ago when Charles Bissel opened for OR and it was awesome. Glad he finally recorded it. I hope he plays it again tonight. That and some stuff I've never heard live before, like Velocity of Saul...
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Loved the show last night. Great setlist. I was hoping for Magpie as well which would have completed it. I got there at 730 and the railing was full but still very sparse crowd.
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Tonights show was great. Same main set as last night, but the encores were:
-Vengeance is Sleeping
-Favorite
-Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth
-Magpie to the Morning
-Knock Hard
I never got to hear that line about "the Sistine Chapel painted with a gaitlin gun" from Polar Nettles. Sucks.
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Does anyone else think that Neko looks about 50? She is not aging well. Then again, neither am I. And I bet Kelly Hogan would be alot more fun in bed. Just saying.
Will Sheff was ok, but needed his band. I don't think he would have won Relaxer's love with that appearance. Is he one of the unsexiest rockers out there? He's like Rhett Miller without the sex appeal.
In the words of Randy Jackson, I though Neko was just ok, dawg. I agree that she her career peaked around the time she did that show with Martha Wainwright. Now she's just a chartbuster on autopilot. No thanks to the douchebag who yelled "Don't Fear the Reaper", and pretty much set the tone for the lame annoying stage banter of the second half. Jon Rauhouse had the best line when he exclaimed that he was laughing at something "that was actually funny."
I got stuck with one of THOSE women behind me. When Will introduced himself with "I'm Will Sheff, I usually play in a band called Okkervil River", she asked her friend, "Are they from here?" Then he proceeded with a song that drops "shit" in the first verse...and she exclaimed something to the effect of "Oh my god, he said 'shit.'" As if that's something that never happens in a rock song.
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Both nights were just ok, dog.
Crooked Fingers' set was exponentially better than Will Sheff's so night 1 wins over all.
Sheff's voice just rubs me the wrong way. The same can be said for ixkpd-bk who kept voicing his opinion of him to me in his own hilarious way as we stood in the front row. Plenty of stifling of laughter/shushing occured on my part. Tonight at the club, the laughter will not be stifled and the shushing will not take place. ;)
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Loved last night's set. Better than the 1st which was great in its own right. Thrilled to see Magpie on there! Not a fan of Will Sheff or Okervil River.
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Neko is eventually going to look like Kate from the B-52's.
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This show was perrrrfect for my mood. I am so grateful I got to go...
If I were in my normal state of mind I would agree with other reviews and probably think this show could have rocked harder. But I was feeling awfully awful, so I was glad it didn't make me feel out of place (not that the show was awful, just that it was subdued enough that I didn't feel like I was missing out cause I was melancholy). and there are just some parts of a girls life that Neko KNOWS, you know ;) so it was just PERFECT. A+++ So so so grateful I got to go, it lifted my spirits exponentially.
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I don't think the show could have rocked harder. That's like faulting Leonard Cohen for not rocking hard enough.
This show was perrrrfect for my mood. I am so grateful I got to go...
If I were in my normal state of mind I would agree with other reviews and probably think this show could have rocked harder. But I was feeling awfully awful, so I was glad it didn't make me feel out of place (not that the show was awful, just that it was subdued enough that I didn't feel like I was missing out cause I was melancholy). and there are just some parts of a girls life that Neko KNOWS, you know ;) so it was just PERFECT. A+++ So so so grateful I got to go, it lifted my spirits exponentially.