this is a few days back but i wanted to comment..
" They normally only play for an hour and play mostly from the current album. I dont like sleeping with ghosts. "
thats not really true. well, seeing as the other times they played america swg hadnt been released yet, but ive seen setlists and have video of shows other then the little "promo tour" that we were given.
when they played this past summer it was definately a bummer. i was totally psyched that the first show in the us in what seemed like eternity was in dc, but i guess that has some disadvantages with it. (ie the travelling so much the night before and not feeling so well once you finally get to your destination spot).
luckily my fiance and i had planned to go to the show in philly the next day and boy oh boy! was it worth it! the set was like the night before only +6+ more songs. even an extra (nicely planned mind you) encore. then again the philly crowd seemed waaaaay more into it.
but... we got the nice oppurtunity to talk to them all at the bar afterwards and pretty much came to the conclusion that while they were switching labels, they had to promote the album to see what it was worth. they promised to come back before the year ended (which they are coming through with) and promised to play more than just swg (which i dont particularly mind anyway).
steve said something like do we really want them playing the songs that they arent feeling at the time anyway.. and where i guess that can be true to a point, i dont really think the prearranged set list would follow under this category nor would he want to play anything off of self titled because he wasnt even in the band yet.
oh well, today is like the first day i have invested in posting and i realize that they are lengthy.
SORRY!