Jens Lekman -- 9:30 sellout?

[azaghal1981]

Sort of in the middle, slightly stage left.
 
 

Originally posted by Hoya Paranoia:
   

Originally posted by azaghal1981:
  Yeah he did. And the first song was "into eternity."
 There was a douchebag directly behind me who kept begging for an elbow to the teeth by making this annoying yelping noise between songs and once right in the middle of "cold swedish winter" but other than that, the crowd seemed awesome too.
 

hah, where were you? [/b]

[amnesiac]

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  If you had the new album, you probably wouldn't care what he didn't play off of previous albums. I found his previous stuff to be hit and miss. He went 12 for 12 on the new album, bringing it to a whole new level.
 

Well, I'll probably get it on my next emusic haul and end up regretting I skipped this show.

[ggw]

I was hanging with nkotb and bookert outside after the show.  I was hoping to spot you.  We were going to beat you up and steal your lunch money.
 
 

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  Very near the front, on the left near the speaker...wish i had brought earplugs (thus, stage right).
 
 I was just kidding. I wasn't expecting anybody to pick me out in the crowd. I'm not sure I would be able to pick anyone out, other than the few boardies who I've met on more than one occasion.
 
 

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I would have thunk the show would have inspired sloppy wet kisses rather than that. Either way, good thing I darted as he was finishing.
 
 
 

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  I was hanging with nkotb and bookert outside after the show.  I was hoping to spot you.  We were going to beat you up and steal your lunch money.
 
   

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  Very near the front, on the left near the speaker...wish i had brought earplugs (thus, stage right).
 
 I was just kidding. I wasn't expecting anybody to pick me out in the crowd. I'm not sure I would be able to pick anyone out, other than the few boardies who I've met on more than one occasion.
 
 

[/b]

[nkotb]

Next show it's swirlie time.
 
 

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  I was hanging with nkotb and bookert outside after the show.  I was hoping to spot you.  We were going to beat you up and steal your lunch money.

[Vas Deferens]

Philly roll call?  

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  I was hanging with

not to get too far afield, but did you ever weigh in on the billy bragg show?  i was expecting some blabbing, but nothing like that

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

After reading of Julian's Philly adventure, I'm sterring clear of Philly for a long, long time. What a useless city.
 
 

Originally posted by wanderlust j. marshmallow:
  Philly roll call?    

[ggw]

I couldn't make the Monday show, but I've seen him 5-6 times, including his Birchmere gig last year.  He's been getting progressively gabbier for the past few years.  Fortunately, he's generally entertaining.
 
 

Originally posted by Hoya Paranoia:
   

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  I was hanging with

not to get too far afield, but did you ever weigh in on the billy bragg show?  i was expecting some blabbing, but nothing like that [/b]

[calecp01]

Originally posted by azaghal1981:
  I concur.
 
 Did anyone stick around to see if there really was another set somewhere else like he claimed there would be?
 
 
 I do have a recent recording from somewhere in Sweden where he played a bonus set in a parking lot after the main set/encores.

Jens himself never made it to the after party which was at St. Ex but some of his band members did.
 
 Our photographer was a no show - does anyone have any pics they'd like to share?

[dhs122]

So has there been an definitive setlist posted? Thanks!

[starrdogg92]

The setlist I posted before definitely had all of the songs, I just don't know the order, someone sort that out for me and we'll have a real-deal setlist.

[azaghal1981]

Just came across
  this.

[slowgraffiti]

i drove four hours in the most hideous cats and dogs rain and traffic for philly last night. the setlist was mostly the same, he played a little of "it was a strange time in my life," and then for the encore since the opener was this a capella group, he played track 11... the one with the swedish title with them doing the ba-ba-bas, and that was cool... followed by hammer hill and friday night at the drive in bingo.
 afterwards when he came out to talk to people and sign things he said he'd play some acoustic songs upstairs, so the twenty or so people left are led to the upstairs, and we walk into this tiny chapel with magnificent walls and everyone sits down at the pews. he came in, and took requests. he finished off with pocket full of money and said it was even better than at the black cat. i'm totally smitten.

[ggw]

Jens Lekman
 
 Jens Lekman is the latest musician to become the face of indie coolness by acting as if he has no idea what the term even means. The Swedish star took the Black Cat stage Thursday night in a garish floral shirt, smiled like a complete goofball throughout his entire set, sang songs with titles like "Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo" and even briefly ran around the stage "flying" like an airplane.
 
 But don't think his newfound status has anything to do with irony. If the boyish 26-year-old isn't yet a certifiable pop music genius, his inspired performance in front of an enraptured sellout crowd proved that he's at least well on his way.
 
 Lekman croons like Morrissey and shares a fey gene with Belle and Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch, but has more in common with fellow free spirit Jonathan Richman. This is particularly true of his lyrics, which are at one second hilarious and the next touching, but always delivered with the same unflinching sincerity. "I took my sister down to the ocean/But the ocean made me feel stupid" he sang on the jubilant "The Opposite of Hallelujah," the kind of song so catchy that it should appeal to anyone with a pulse, not just MP3-blog readers.
 
 Most songs were bouncy and buoyant, thanks to Lekman's backing band of six Nordic females who played flute, saxophone, guitar, bass, keyboard and drums, all while maintaining icy gazes. If the results didn't necessarily sound like the work of his country's most famous musical exports, Lekman's songs do have the same irresistible immediacy of Abba tunes. The few numbers he played unaccompanied lacked the sizzle of the full-band material but offered a chance for better connection with the audience.
 
 Set closer "Pocketful of Money" took a reliably horrible gimmick -- Lekman and the audience singing a round, in unison -- and made something truly magical out of it. Even Lekman admitted it was the "most beautiful" version of that song to date and to play anything else would simply ruin the moment.
 
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/26/AR2007102602001.html