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San Cisco at Cedar Cultural Center
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Carla Geneve Setlist
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Australian band San Cisco (Jordi Davieson, Scarlett Stevens, Josh Biondillo, and Jennifer Aslett), headlined the Cedar Cultural Center on Friday, June 14th.
Opening the show was Perth-based Carla Geneve, on her very first American tour (and obviously her first time in Minneapolis). I would describe her music as singer/songwriter, especially with just her solo on guitar and lyrical song. You can see a bit of Courtney Love (as referenced in one of her songs) and Courtney Barnett (for the thoughtful lyrics).
Geneve is still quite new to the music scene, her bio lists her debuting in the West Australian scene in 2017 (but it seems like she’s been playing local music since as early as 2010). Her debut single “Greg’s Discount Chemist”, got strong support from Australia national radio Triple J.
With new musicians, transcribing their setlist is next to impossible because they haven’t released too many songs. In fact, officially, Geneve’s only got one six-track self-titled EP that dropped on June 7th via Dot Dash / Remote Control Records. Most of the songs I’ve listed on her setlist don’t have official song titles, and 100% will be different song titles when she does release them in an album.
Still, you can tell that she’s got a lot of songs in her, and as one of “West Australian’s Six Brightest Young Stars of 2019”, you can bet we’ll be hearing more from her.
There were a couple of stand-out tracks from her set, first is her debut single, “Greg’s Discount Chemist”, which is a great descriptive song. Unfortunately, in America, no one calls it “the chemist” (it’s commonly known as Pharmacy or Drug Store), so it might not really take off in America.
The other song, is about women in the music industry. The song might actually be biographical, describing her road to creating a band and being the “only pair of tits” in an all-male music festival. I think that song might do really well with fans of strong women songs.
As you know, we’ve been following Fremantle’s San Cisco since the review of their debut single, “Golden Revolver” in April 2011 (the band’s average age was about 18 at the time). We’ve watched their rise with superstardom with “Awkward” (hitting #7 in Triple J's Hottest 100 Countdown) in Oct 2012. By this time, San Cisco toured the USA market for the first time, we got a chance to chat with Jordi Davieson at CMJ 2012.
Around this time, Minneapolis’ local radio, The Current randomly decided to test out and played “Awkward”, not thinking much of it. That one play generated so much interested from listeners that the Current was forced to play that song again (thanks to so many phone calls asking for them to play that song again). Thanks to the Current, there’s always been really, really strong support for the youth band since their debut in the Twin Cities at Turf Club, St Paul (21 Oct 2012).
Since then, we’ve never missed the band (having seen and review them a total of eight times). Unfortunately, the band had to cancel their 7th Street Entry in August 2017 and that meant that the last official time the band’s been in Minneapolis was in Jun 2015 at the now-defunct Triple Rock Social Club (they’ve played there three times!)
It’s been four long years, and by now, the band’s already well into The Water (released in 2017) and already have a forthcoming (yet to be titled) new 2019 album “in the can”. We are also presented with a new bassist called Jennifer Aslett, who replaced Nick Gardner since 2018.
Now that we’re all caught up with San Cisco, I have to say that it’s amazing that San Cisco’s audience seem to be YOUNGER than previously seen at their shows! This is partly thanks to The Cedar’s all-ages policy (one of the few local venues that is always all-ages), so the average age of the audience is under 20 years old. This is not a bad thing at all.
Although the band have released three albums, as you can see from the setlist, they mostly concentrated on the later two albums. Only two songs from their self-titled 2012 album were played: the mega-hit song “Awkward” and “Fred Astaire”. It would’ve been nice to hear “Golden Revolver”, but I’m sure the band is sick to death of playing their first single.
During “introducing the band” (before “Wash It All Away”), Jordi thanked The Current for supporting them in the early days of the band. He also reminisces about The Triple Rock Social Club, mentioning that it was the only venue that had feedback monitors directly faced toward his feet, so that his feet would feel every thunderous bass line. It’s like he missed the venue, but not its sound system.
There were a couple of new songs introduced, the first is the live debut of “Skin”. According to Jordi, the band’s never played it before and is going to be the lead single from their forthcoming 2019 album. The other song is called “Flaws” (I misheard Jordi saying “Floors” with his thick Australian accent), which was played solo as the first “encore” song.
Opening the show was Perth-based Carla Geneve, on her very first American tour (and obviously her first time in Minneapolis). I would describe her music as singer/songwriter, especially with just her solo on guitar and lyrical song. You can see a bit of Courtney Love (as referenced in one of her songs) and Courtney Barnett (for the thoughtful lyrics).
Geneve is still quite new to the music scene, her bio lists her debuting in the West Australian scene in 2017 (but it seems like she’s been playing local music since as early as 2010). Her debut single “Greg’s Discount Chemist”, got strong support from Australia national radio Triple J.
With new musicians, transcribing their setlist is next to impossible because they haven’t released too many songs. In fact, officially, Geneve’s only got one six-track self-titled EP that dropped on June 7th via Dot Dash / Remote Control Records. Most of the songs I’ve listed on her setlist don’t have official song titles, and 100% will be different song titles when she does release them in an album.
Still, you can tell that she’s got a lot of songs in her, and as one of “West Australian’s Six Brightest Young Stars of 2019”, you can bet we’ll be hearing more from her.
There were a couple of stand-out tracks from her set, first is her debut single, “Greg’s Discount Chemist”, which is a great descriptive song. Unfortunately, in America, no one calls it “the chemist” (it’s commonly known as Pharmacy or Drug Store), so it might not really take off in America.
The other song, is about women in the music industry. The song might actually be biographical, describing her road to creating a band and being the “only pair of tits” in an all-male music festival. I think that song might do really well with fans of strong women songs.
As you know, we’ve been following Fremantle’s San Cisco since the review of their debut single, “Golden Revolver” in April 2011 (the band’s average age was about 18 at the time). We’ve watched their rise with superstardom with “Awkward” (hitting #7 in Triple J's Hottest 100 Countdown) in Oct 2012. By this time, San Cisco toured the USA market for the first time, we got a chance to chat with Jordi Davieson at CMJ 2012.
Around this time, Minneapolis’ local radio, The Current randomly decided to test out and played “Awkward”, not thinking much of it. That one play generated so much interested from listeners that the Current was forced to play that song again (thanks to so many phone calls asking for them to play that song again). Thanks to the Current, there’s always been really, really strong support for the youth band since their debut in the Twin Cities at Turf Club, St Paul (21 Oct 2012).
Since then, we’ve never missed the band (having seen and review them a total of eight times). Unfortunately, the band had to cancel their 7th Street Entry in August 2017 and that meant that the last official time the band’s been in Minneapolis was in Jun 2015 at the now-defunct Triple Rock Social Club (they’ve played there three times!)
It’s been four long years, and by now, the band’s already well into The Water (released in 2017) and already have a forthcoming (yet to be titled) new 2019 album “in the can”. We are also presented with a new bassist called Jennifer Aslett, who replaced Nick Gardner since 2018.
Now that we’re all caught up with San Cisco, I have to say that it’s amazing that San Cisco’s audience seem to be YOUNGER than previously seen at their shows! This is partly thanks to The Cedar’s all-ages policy (one of the few local venues that is always all-ages), so the average age of the audience is under 20 years old. This is not a bad thing at all.
Although the band have released three albums, as you can see from the setlist, they mostly concentrated on the later two albums. Only two songs from their self-titled 2012 album were played: the mega-hit song “Awkward” and “Fred Astaire”. It would’ve been nice to hear “Golden Revolver”, but I’m sure the band is sick to death of playing their first single.
During “introducing the band” (before “Wash It All Away”), Jordi thanked The Current for supporting them in the early days of the band. He also reminisces about The Triple Rock Social Club, mentioning that it was the only venue that had feedback monitors directly faced toward his feet, so that his feet would feel every thunderous bass line. It’s like he missed the venue, but not its sound system.
There were a couple of new songs introduced, the first is the live debut of “Skin”. According to Jordi, the band’s never played it before and is going to be the lead single from their forthcoming 2019 album. The other song is called “Flaws” (I misheard Jordi saying “Floors” with his thick Australian accent), which was played solo as the first “encore” song.
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San Cisco at Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis (14 June 2019) |
P.S., Sorry about all this inside baseball notes, but the last time we covered a show at the Cedar Cultural Center was in 30 April 2018 (over one year). There are a few reasons. One, First Avenue, which books most of the shows we cover, purchased the Turf Club (in 2013), the Fine Line Music Café (in 2018), and added the Palace Theatre (in 2016). Between First Avenue’s six different venues (First Avenue, 7th Street Entry, The Record Room, Fine Line, Turf Club, and Palace Theatre) and Live Nation’s two venues (The Armory and Varsity Theater), there are very few songs left for the Cedar. To be fair, the Cedar does book their own shows, but their specialty is World Music, which we generally don’t cover. Hopefully, this is not our last Cedar coverage. We’d like to cover more Cedar shows, as we’ve mentioned many times before, this is a really good venue for listening to music.
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