The Duke Spirit at the Fine Line Cafe, Minneapolis (11/08/08) ♥ photo by vu |
The Duke Spirit Tour Dates
09 Nov 2008 High Noon Saloon Supporting Eagles of Death Metal Madison, Wisconsin
10 Nov 2008 The Bottom Lounge Supporting Eagles of Death Metal Chicago, Illinois 11 Nov 2008 Small’s Supporting Eagles of Death Metal Detroit, Michigan 13 Nov 2008 the Mod Club Supporting Eagles of Death Metal Toronto, Ontario 14 Nov 2008 Studio JPR Supporting Eagles of Death Metal Montreal, Quebec 15 Nov 2008 Paradise Rock Club Supporting Eagles of Death Metal Boston, Massachusetts 16 Nov 2008 Music Hall Of Williamsburg Supporting Eagles of Death Metal Brooklyn, New York 17 Nov 2008 Bowery Ballroom Supporting Eagles of Death Metal New York, New York 18 Nov 2008 9:30 Club Supporting Eagles of Death Metal Washington DC, Washington DC 20 Nov 2008 The Note Supporting Eagles of Death Metal West Chester, Pennsylvania 21 Nov 2008 Lincoln Theatre Supporting Eagles of Death Metal Raleigh, North Carolina 22 Nov 2008 Center Stage Supporting Eagles of Death Metal Atlanta, Georgia 24 Nov 2008 One Eyed Jacks Supporting Eagles of Death Metal New Orleans, Louisiana 25 Nov 2008 the Meridian Supporting Eagles of Death Metal Houston, Texas 28 Nov 2008 The BottleTree (headline show) Birmingham, Alabama 29 Nov 2008 40 Watt Club (headline show) Athens, Georgia 30 Nov 2008 The Exit/In (headline show) Nashville, Tennessee 02 Dec 2008 Radio Radio Indianapolis, Indiana 03 Dec 2008 The Basement (Headline Show - CD101 Low Ticket Price) Columbus, Ohio 05 Dec 2008 Wonderbar - WHTG Asbury Park, New Jersey 06 Dec 2008 Newbury Comics (Instore) Boston, Massachusetts 08 Dec 2008 David Letterman - The Late Show Performance New York City, New York 09 Dec 2008 Blender Theatre at Gramercy-WRXP presents show with The Ting Tings New York City, New York 10 Dec 2008 MAGIC STICK (WITH MERCURY REV) DETROIT, Michigan 11 Dec 2008 Metro-With Mercury Rev Chicago, Illinois 12 Dec 2008 Fine Line Music Cafe-With Mercury Rev Minneapolis, Minnesota 14 Dec 2008 Fox Theater- With Mercury Rev Boulder, Colorado 17 Dec 2008 The Independant With Mercury Rev San Francisco, California 18 Dec 2008 The Independant with Mercury Rev San Francisco, California 19 Dec 2008 THE ROXY (HEADLINE SHOW) LOS ANGELES, California 13 Jan 2009 LIDO - BERLIN - HEADLINE SHOW Berlin, Berlin 15 Jan 2009 WERKSTAT - KOLN - HEADLINE SHOW Cologne, Rheinland-Pfalz 16 Jan 2009 O25 - FRANKFURT - HEADLINE SHOW Frankfurt 17 Jan 2009 KAMMGARN - KAISERSLAUTERN - HEADLINE SHOW Kaiserslautern |
I find that a lot vocals-only singers tend to just move/dance while singing, but Moss was constantly using the tambourine, sticks, and variety of rattle instruments - and not to mention the occasional harmonica. She was definitely full of energy and had a lot of great showmanship on stage that kept me interested.
I actually enjoyed all their songs, starting off with "Send A Little Love Token" from their new album, Neptune. I thought "Into the Fold" and "Lassoo" sounded great live too, it was really too bad that the crowd of mostly younger folks was there for Eagles of Death Metal. I felt that their sound did not match, and I did manage to catch that they were originally going to tour in support of another band, Scars on Broadway, but it didn't work out.
Highlight of the show was during "You Really Wake Up The Love In Me" when she did this:
UPDATE: I just got an announcement that Eulogies to tour with Darker My Love and The Duke Spirit: Dangerbird Records' Eulogies are proud to announce support dates with Darker My Love and The Duke Spirit. All dates are below. The band's Tempted To Do Nothing EP is available now. The 4-song release is pressed on VinylDisc, a new format which combines CD and vinyl capabilities on one disc. The VinylDisc is packaged with an adapter, making the vinyl side playable on any record player. Tempted To Do Nothing is also available for download at all digital retail outlets.
Eagles of Death Metal came on stage fashionably late, but boy, were they ever sincere when singer Jesse Hughes said:
It's a full house tonight!! Hotdammit!!!!
I wasn't sure if he was joking, but throughout the show he kept saying how much awesome it was for them to play in Minneapolis, and the audience was eating it all up, hanging on to every last words spoken.
The band was in full 70s getup. There are four band members, but I will have to point out that Jesse's mustache should qualify as a fifth member. They rocked out HARD to songs like "I Want You So Hard" and "Cherry Cola", where the whole audience sang to every tune.
Just to let you know how die-hard their fans are, prior to the band taking stage, I was talking to two girls, Nicole and Vanessa, who drove eight hours from Winnipeg, Canada, to stand near the stage and rock out to the band. That's hardcore, man.
Vanessa, during the concert gave Jesse her red bra and, of course, as rock n roll as he was, he placed it over the drum set after wiping his sweaty brow.
Incidentally, they kind of reminded me of Wolf Mother or Jet. Apparently the Australians love that cock and roll sound that I hear Eagles of Death Metal is doing quite well in Ozland.
PS, if your work hasn't blocked Twitter, I have been reporting concerts "as it happens" on twitter. I normally use my cell phone to text, but with this one, my iPod was doing most of the reporting.
Links: dukespirit.com myspace.com/thedukespirit eaglesofdeathmetal.com myspace.com/eaglesofdeathm
thedharmablues wrote:
Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 4:34 AM
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[this is good] Liela Moss features on a few songs by The Brakes. She is such a lovely person off stage. Well, she said nice things to me so that makes her alright in my book.
The live blogging via twitter was awesome! You definitely should have mentioned the bra incident in your tweets!
Chris wrote:
Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 1:38 AM
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Hey Vu - Brody got some very cool video footage... really wish I coulda made it out. It's been a while man, hope you're doin alright.
-Chris
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