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Post by wealdstone on May 14, 2009 17:54:07 GMT -5
Positive Jam Constructive Summer Chips Ahoy Sequestered Party Pit Massive Nights Yeah Sapphire Stations Hoodrat Stay Positive Slapped Actress Resurrection
and one for Stephanie, Rain King - CF w CC's
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Post by Felix on May 15, 2009 1:24:18 GMT -5
Good things come in small packages.
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Post by stevedave on May 15, 2009 1:39:43 GMT -5
A great set. Good to see them digging the venue
"Thanks for coming out to our FIRST Wembley show" - Craig
It's fair to say they rocked both Counting Crows and Blind Pilot off the stage. I gotta say everyone in the band is looking very lean and road hardened. They were tight. Way tight.
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Post by JonnyJay on May 15, 2009 1:49:27 GMT -5
I really like the looks of these short opening setlists. It's nice to see them throw in a few selections from each album, even with the time restraint. I've seen them seven times in concert, but my life feels incomplete having never started it off with a Positive Jam, and ended with a Resurrection. Wembley es muy verdad.
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Post by toastie on May 15, 2009 2:34:14 GMT -5
HARRF was MADE for Wembley.
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Post by mattjs on May 15, 2009 3:33:30 GMT -5
sweet setlist...and would love to have seen Craig with Counting Crows!
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Post by stevedave on May 15, 2009 4:05:34 GMT -5
There seems to be a genuine affection between the two bands. Great to see that kind of endorsement helping the guys up to Arena shows of their own.
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Post by jamesjesusangleton on May 15, 2009 4:06:51 GMT -5
I believe he also sang With a Little Help From My Friends with Counting Crows. Didn't hang around to watch. Bumped into Wealdstone before and after the show so I know he wasn't fussed about hanging around for the encore.
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Post by lilhan on May 15, 2009 6:07:28 GMT -5
Positive Jam Constructive Summer Chips Ahoy Sequestered Party Pit Massive Nights Yeah Sapphire Stations Hoodrat Stay Positive Slapped Actress Resurrection and one for Stephanie, Rain King - CF w CC's oh that's SWEET. i mean, really sweet. and yes, first wembley show. there will be others...
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Post by theblondette on May 15, 2009 8:49:46 GMT -5
I am so glad for the boys that they got to play Wembley. That is so cool!
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Post by Admin on May 15, 2009 9:01:59 GMT -5
and one for Stephanie, Rain King - CF w CC's THE Stephanie?
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Post by stevedave on May 15, 2009 10:05:01 GMT -5
With a little help from their friends
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Post by stevedave on May 15, 2009 10:07:57 GMT -5
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Post by lilhan on May 15, 2009 10:09:41 GMT -5
AWE-SOME.
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Post by wealdstone on May 15, 2009 10:28:21 GMT -5
and one for Stephanie, Rain King - CF w CC's THE Stephanie? That's just my take on it, I'm pretty sure she's a fan
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Post by koko on May 15, 2009 11:29:06 GMT -5
I just landed in London TODAY...they should do another show tonight
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Post by stevedave on May 25, 2009 6:07:00 GMT -5
From The Times May 18, 2009
Counting Crows/The Hold Steady at Wembley Arena
Adam Duritz has made a career out of transforming a morbid self-absorption into songs of life-affirming beauty
David Sinclair
Smile and the world smiles with you. Frown and the world just keeps on smiling, provided you are Adam Duritz, the Counting Crows singer, who has made a career out of transforming a morbid self-absorption into songs of strangely life-affirming beauty.
The San Francisco band’s relationship with London goes back 15 years, to when they first played at the Borderline. Now they routinely perform at Wembley, yet still seem to exist in a cult bubble, well removed from the modern mainstream.
They are not a heritage act and managed to ignore pretty much anything that smacked of a “greatest hit”. Yet they only mustered three songs from their most recent album, Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings, an epic study in the emotional mechanics of debauchery and redemption, released last year. The first of these, a full-on rocker called Cowboys, wrested so much effort and feeling from Duritz, 44, that the singer was literally floored, and remained flat on his back for some time at the end of it.
As the set progressed, Duritz presented a portrait of the artist on the verge of an emotional meltdown on numbers including A Murder of One and Speedway, the latter prompting a tirade of highly personal abuse about the ex-girlfriend who inspired the song. Never mind Morrissey, this man is truly the king of pain.
Earlier, the Hold Steady, from New York, performed a superlative set of storytelling rock’n’roll that began with Positive Jam, a song incorporating a potted history of the 20th century, and reached a climax with the rallying cry of Stay Positive. That’s a lot of positivity from a band that in between travelled to some dark and dangerous corners of the American psyche, courtesy of the brilliant, poetic lyrics of the singer Craig Finn.
The Hold Steady returned to the stage, along with the other support group, Blind Pilot, towards the end of Counting Crows’ set, and everyone threw themselves into a version of Rain King that incorporated a verse or two of With a Little Help from My Friends. It was a remarkably upbeat finale to a show that ventured into some dark corners of the soul.
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Post by lilhan on May 25, 2009 6:09:56 GMT -5
thanks, steve.
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Post by stevedave on Jun 23, 2009 13:49:21 GMT -5
Rain King
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