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Monday, March 13, 2006
This past Tuesday, David Gedge and his Wedding Present came back to the Boston area for the second time since the release of their latest album, Take Fountain, and they used the return to dig even deeper into the Weddoes/Cinerama catalog. Less recent songs, and more old faves they didn't play back in April '05. They touched on all six of their proper albums, and dropped in the occasional single-only track and Cinerama song. It was a real treat for a fan of Gedge's entire songwriting career, and especially for one like me, who fell in love with 'em during the Bizarro/Seamonsters-era. Having seen them live a half dozen times (including as Cinerama), this one ranks nearly at the top.  The Wedding Present Live at the Middle East Cambridge, MA Tuesday, March 7th, 2006 (note: files removed on 6/5/2006) 1. Corduroy / Sucker 2. Blue Eyes 3. Always The Quiet One 4. Apres Ski 5. Go Out and Get Em Boy 6. Don't Talk Just Kiss 7. Loveslave 8. A Million Miles 9. Suck 10. I Am From Further North Than You 11. Come Play With Me 12. It's Not You It's Me 13. Crushed 14. Falling 15. 2, 3, Go 16. Click Click 17. Ringway to Seatac 18. Brassneck 19. Nobody's Twisting Your Arm 20. Heather For those keeping score, 'Go Out And Get 'Em Boy' was their first single, and can be found on the Tommy singles collection. There were two songs from George Best, their debut, and three each from Bizarro and Seamonsters. Three songs can be found on the Hit Parade 1 singles collection (including 'Falling', the Twin Peaks theme), and 'Loveslave' is on Hit Parade 2. One song each from Watusi (the excellent 'Click Click', which I've always wanted to see live) and the Mini EP. One song from Saturnalia, and three from Take Fountain. As for Cinerama songs, we got 'Apres Ski' off of Disco Volante, along with 'It's Not You, It's Me', which was Cinerama's latest (last?) official single. Like I said, they touched on an awful lot of releases. The setlist hasn't varied much (if at all) during this tour, and familiars will know that they don't take requests or do encores. Not sure I'll ever get used to walking into a club and seeing one of my musical heros standing by himself behind the merch table, answering questions and taking cash. Sure does attract the fans, though, and you gotta wonder how much his presence there boosts sales. Me? I picked up the Cinerama tour DVD and a set of Weddoes postcards, the only two things on display I didn't yet have. Kyle over at Information Leafblower saw them a couple days before me down in D.C., and he's got some more words and pictures for ya. And just a few days after me, Frank Chromewaves caught them up in Toronto, so behold his words and pictures as well. Frank saved me the trouble of describing the Weddoes lineup changes, but I will add that I thought the two new guys were ace, even going so far as to say the drummer was the best I've seen backup Gedge in years. For some video action (of marginal quality, but still), someone shared up the band performing 'Falling' at Neumos in Seattle last month, and another fan has a clip of them doing 'Ringway to Seatac' in Chapel Hill last week (follow link to the forum, where you'll find a link to the video).  On an entirely unrelated note, you may have noticed that I've been conspicuously absent from the 'Nac for a few weeks... I won't bore you with the many reasons why, but I'll sum it up with 'life changes' and leave it there, at least until my next giganto-post. Hopefully I'll get to that in the next day or two, but regardless, Boston-area readers should stop by here tomorrow when I'll start a contest to give away a couple of tickets to see a certain nostalgic new-wave-pop band on their farewell tour... Labels: livemp3s  |
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