anytime kevin devine is involved, it becomes less of a show and more like a weird family reunion for me. i love going to the shows and seeing all of my concert family, and of course i love to sing and dance along with the band. tonight was no exception.
bad books is, as you should know by now, a side-project mash up band consisting of members of both manchester orchestra and kevin devine and the goddamn band. the entire night was basically side-project and mash-up acts. hardello (hardy from dead confederate) opened up the night, with a less than entertaining set. there were more than a few times that i literally cringed at his voice. now, i know that i have no talent when it comes to singing, but that is exactly why i don't get on stage and pretend that i do. the best part of the hardello set was that it was only a few songs long, and wasn't a drawn-out torture.
gobotron is the side project of robert mcdowell of manchester orchestra, and was so much fun to watch on stage. kevin and a few of the other guys helped him out up there, and they meshed very well together. gobotron is an electric side project, and are a very dancy band, for sure. the song that stood out the most for me was the cover of "fuck & run" by liz phair.
right away, great captain, was next, and to be honest, i didn't watch much of his set. the phils game was on in the bar and we went to hang out there for a while instead. when we came back into the stage area, it was really dark, and it was just andy on stage, as it should be for this particular project. it must have been about half-way through his slur of songs, and after he ended the song, the audience clapped. he then asked the crowd to not clap until the end...something to do with manifesting his insecurities. it was strange and very much reminded us of something jesse lacey would say/do, and at that point, i was completely lost to what was happening on stage, and sat on the floor with some people to talk about jesse lacey instead.
after that, it was time for the reason we were all there...to see bad books! the CD hasn't even been around long enough for me to bother with titles, so i cant give you a very good set list, but i know that they did get to most of the songs on the album, most notably for me were mesa, AZ and please move.
kevin and andy are very good friends, which is why this project began in the first place, and that was so evident tonight on that stage. the banter between the two of them was just plain silly. it was full of a lot of inside jokes between them, but they shared in such a way that we could all get a good laugh out of what was going on as well. there was more than one moment that i caught myself wiping tears from my eyes because i was laughing so hard that i was crying.
the encore, which wasn't a true encore as the band never left the stage, consisted of some back and forth between kevin songs and man o songs. it was so much fun to hear those songs at the end of the night (and made the sting of the phillies loss to san fran a little less harsh) and the crowd really got into the songs. the encore went "just stay" (kd), "now that you're home" (mo), "cotton crush" (kd) and then i believe there was one more manchester orchestra song, but i hit my head really hard on the ceiling, so i dont remember. :(
i spent a little bit of money at the merch table (mostly because i love to bother almquist) and was able to pick up the bad books album on vinyl (its really pretty...red.) and the reissue of make the clocks move by kevin devine on CD. i broke a cardinal rule of concert-going, and we listened to my new kevin disk on the way home from the show. oh well.
anyway, pictures? sure thing...
(i cant wait until i get my new camera.)
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