Say Anything Setlist
Modern Baseball Setlist
Tour Dates
7/18/15 - Omaha, NE - Waiting Room 7/19/15 - Denver, CO - Summit Music Hall 7/21/15 - Salt Lake City, UT - The Complex 7/23/15 - Seattle, WA -Showbox at the Market 7/24/15 - Portland, OR - Roseland Theatre 7/25/15 - San Francisco, CA - Regency Ballroom 7/26/15 - Santa Ana, CA - Observatory OC 7/28/15 - Los Angeles, CA - Regent Theater 7/29/15 - San Diego, CA - House of Blues 7/30/15 - Phoenix, AZ - Pressroom 7/31/15 - Las Vegas, NV - Hard Rock Café Read More
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Hard Girls (with Joe)
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Highlight of their set was the closing song "The Quark"... you know "a song about subatomic particles?" Joe from Cymbals Eat Guitars joined them on the song to add a guitar boost to the music.
Cymbals Eat Guitars
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Singer Joe said that the last time CEG was at 7th Street/First Avenue, it was four years ago with Hooray For Earth (technically they were at First Ave with The Thermals in Sept 2010 and Los Campesinos in May 2010, which we can proudly say, we were there). Despite having been on constant tour for the better part of their lives, Joe confessed that this will likely be his last Minneapolis show, saying that he might go back to college after this.
The best part of their show was for their set finale "Laramie", which went on for about six minutes of extended guitar feedback and loops. If this is Cymbals Eat Guitars' last ever Minneapolis show, they certainly ended on a high note.
Modern Baseball
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While many of these songs were old favorites from 2012's Sports (Lame-O Records) and You're Gonna Miss It All (Run For Cover Records), the Philadelphia band unveiled a new song called "Alpha Kappa Fall of Troy Part Deux".
Just a side note, but recently Brendan Lukens of Modern Baseball contributed two songs ("Death 4 My Birthday" - Say Anything cover and "Stockholm" - Jason Isbell cover) to Funeral Sounds Presents: A Compilation for Casa Ruby, benefiting Casa Ruby, a Washington, D.C. area multicultural, bilingual LGBTQ+ resource center. You can support Casa Ruby at bandcamp.com.
Accompanying Say Anything on stage was a string quartet (featuring two violin players, a viola, and cellist). According to singer Max Bemis, the four classically trained performers only had two days before the tour started to learn their parts. While I think this is really cool, I feel sometime the strings were often overpowered by the loud guitars ... perhaps they could arranged it so that all the other instruments could be silenced for a movement so we can really appreciate the sweeping strings.
Setlist
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The biggest hit of the night was, of course, for "Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too", which immediately got a massive reaction when they heard the telephone ring from the stage. Fans from the balcony were running down to the dance floor to join the crowd.
For the double song encore, Bemis said that usually Tom DeLonge joins them on stage to sing/play on "Nibble Nibble", but for some reasons or another, he could not make it last night. Then before "Ahhh... Men", Bemis expressed, once again, that he was incredibly grateful for his loyal fanbase.
Say Anything's album Hebrews is out now on Equal Vision Records. The record came out last year, but according to Bemis, it won't be too long before the band will be back in town with a new record.
Say Anything at First Avenue, Minneapolis (17 July 2015) |
Cymbals Eat Guitars also played "Living North" off of "Why There Are Mountains."
Posted by: Matt Hoy | 10/23/2015 at 11:21 AM
thanks
Posted by: W♥M | 10/24/2015 at 01:54 AM