Sinister: Columbus Ohio quick report (dumb version)
Couldn't remember everything they played, or the order, but I'll try. Surfy Instrumental Thing Step Into My Office, Baby Dear Catastrophe Waitress Expectations You Don't Send Me Seeing Other People Traveling Light There's Too Much Love Asleep On A Sunbeam Photo Jenny Wrapped Up In Books Slow Graffiti Piazza, New York Catcher If She Wants Me Dirty Dream Number Two Lord Anthony Cecelia (audience request) Stay Loose Roy Walker Sleep The Clock Around No Encore They played brilliantly and the audience responded well to the songs - there was quite a roar when Mick launched into the trumpet part on Expectations. Thing felt a little weird though. People were yelling out requests all through the show, to the point that they kept interrupting Stuart and Stevie while they were trying to speak to the audience between songs - it became a bit embarrassing. The venue was not dance friendly and it seemed to bother Stuart and Stevie somewhat as they both mentioned the lack of dancing in various ways throughout the show. During the drawn out ending of Sleep The Clock Around, the string players all returned to the riser and I assumed there was another song coming, but at the end of it the band walked off stage, with only Sarah giving a tiny wave to the audience. The crowd were immediately on their feet with the "encore" applause, but after three minutes or so, the house lights and canned music came up and we were all left standing there blinking at each other. The lack of an encore was quite disappointing and I was left with the feeling that they were less than impressed with their audience tonight - sort of a downer ending to a beautifully performed evening of music from my favorite band. I hope Detroit comes off better for them. john barrick +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
--- john barrick <astroboy@cinci.rr.com> wrote:
I hope Detroit comes off better for them.
sorry for you columbus folks (but one of my friends was there and she loved it!), but yeah, i guess we fared a little better. two encores! "get me away from here i'm dying" (for which i was NOT in the ladies' this year) "you're just a baby." i can't remember the set list, although we did NOT get "if she wants me" or "seeing other people," so, good on you, columbus. we DID get a fucking awesome cover of the jackson 5's "i want you back," after which stuart proclaimed that he realized that he was "not 15" and "not black." it was amazing. i guess the dee-troit kids were dancing enough for the band. at first stuart seemed a little tired (or wary, if the previous night's show was not so lively), but soon they were bantering and rocking out. i wish they'd played "asleep on a sunbeam"! sarah was so great singing "women's realm"! oh and we also had strange light-show effects, which made me feel like i might have a seizure, but during "piazza new york catcher" it was just stuart wrapped up in his microphone cord and bobby with acoustic guitar and nice, static blue lighting, with stevie stepping in for a brief verse of harmonzing. and "lord anthony" was gorgeous and, if i remember correctly, not as spastically-lighted. at one point stuart asked if anyone had done anything interesting since they last played detroit (may 2002), and there was someone who'd gotten married (predictably), and someone who'd had a birthday (stuart: "well yeah, duh, we've all had a birthday" or something to that effect -- cheerily, though, not nastily), but there was one girl who'd graduated high school -- which seemed to floor them a little. and me -- i mean, she'd've been, what?, TEN when tigermilk came out?! damn. but all in all it was such a great show. i'm so glad that i realized that DCW is such an amazing album. i want more reporting back! xoxo, ree ===== __________________________________ "to me she was just marie." -mersault http://www.joannou.net/ree __________________________________ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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