Just saw him last night. Awesome!
http://mog.com/fastnbulbous/blog/204812
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 18:22 (fifteen years ago) link
shit was off the hook in Denver last Friday
― tylerw, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link
he's curating ATP australia, mates!
― jigglepanda.gif (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 18:50 (fifteen years ago) link
saw him last night too, it was awesome except for the shitty sound at the riviera
― metametadata (n/a), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Saw him Sunday. It was great, but boring at times (just like his albums)
― Ivan, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link
fastnbulbous, i think you switched the set order around a little maybe ... i left during papa won't leave you henry and they had already played get ready for love. i assumed i was leaving pretty far in advance but i guess i only missed like one or two songs?
― metametadata (n/a), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 19:05 (fifteen years ago) link
also why were the girl shirts (hot pink with cartoony awesome nick cave and bad seeds logo) and kid shirts (black with BAD SEED in big caps) so much cooler than the dude shirts (typical tour t-shirt with album cover on front and tour dates on back)?
― metametadata (n/a), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 19:06 (fifteen years ago) link
here's what i said on chicago thread:
Nick Cave was great but the sound at the Riviera is really inexcusable for a venue getting acts of that level. we stood in front of the speaker on the lowest level, and while the quieter songs sounded ok, the loud songs were just like a blare of indistinct midlevel noise. it sounded like they were trying to push their sound system way harder than they should have. as we were leaving (early), we stood back at the bar for one song and back there it was just bass and little else.
― metametadata (n/a), Tuesday, September 30, 2008 9:14 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
my favorite song was actually the quietest one, the randy newman-esque "god is in the house":
― metametadata (n/a), Tuesday, September 30, 2008 9:15 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
the band has a great look though, all super-dapper middle-aged dudes except for warren ellis, who looks like some freaked out hippie demon. i wish we were standing closer to ellis, it was hard to tell what he was doing most of the time, jumping between electric violin, something that was either an electric mandolin or a child-scale electric guitar, percussion, and mysterious electronics.
― metametadata (n/a), Tuesday, September 30, 2008 9:20 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― metametadata (n/a), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link
actually you've got some other weird things on your set list: he played "god is in the house" and did not play "into my arms," at least not that early in the set (ie while i was there)
― metametadata (n/a), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 19:09 (fifteen years ago) link
man "god is in the house" is one of the worst songs nick has ever recorded IMHO.
― ian, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 19:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, I hate that song too, I guess I was trying to block it out of my memory of an otherwise perfect show. I remember asking out loud, "why did he ever record this song and why does he choose to torture us with it?"
My memory is imperfect when it comes to setlists, so I double checked it on a Cave forum:
1. Hold On To Yourself2. Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!3. Tupelo4. The Weeping Song5. Red Right Hand6. Midnight Man7. God Is In the House8. Nobody’s Baby Now9. The Mercy Seat10. Deanna11. Moonland12. Get Ready For Love13. We Call Upon the Author14. Papa Won’t Leave You, Henry15. More News From Nowhere16. Jesus of the Moon17. Hard On For Love18. Stagger Lee
I'd have substituted "She Fell Away" for "Hard On Love" but it was awesome just the same.
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 1 October 2008 04:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Carrie Brownstein sees Nick Cave, loses mind - http://www.npr.org/blogs/monitormix/2008/09/the_fall.html
You know, his skullet/mustache combo really does work.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 2 October 2008 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Sunday night in Chicago he played "Into My Arms" but did not play "God Is in the House".
Great concert. I'm floored by how he can deliver such intricate lyrics over such noise. And he has the Leonard Cohen thing (at least before Cohen became deified) of treating everything as sacred and everything as ridiculous.
― Eazy, Thursday, 2 October 2008 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I was surprised how the set list, except for the Dig Lazarus Dig songs and "Get Ready for Love", was just about idential to when I saw him in Chicago in 2002 or 2003.
― Eazy, Thursday, 2 October 2008 15:36 (fifteen years ago) link