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Wonder Woman may rule the box office at the movies-
But on the concert stage, these wonder women ruled this night of rage and rapture-
Hitting the road together for one of the year’s most anticipated tours, Blondie and Garbage have joined forces on the co-headlining Rage and Rapture Tour for an entertaining evening at the sold-out Mystic Lake Showroom from legendary bands fronted by equally legendary front women.
Another iconic front woman, Exene Cervenka and musical partner from X, John Doe opened the first leg and this show with a short twenty-three minute acoustic set. Half of the iconic punk band came off more like Johnny and June than say, Sid and Nancy, playing a folk-tinged, stripped set that included X classics, and a couple covers.
The bare versions of songs like ‘Because I Do’ shone the lyrics in a slightly different light and older covers of ‘If I Were a Carpenter’ (by Tim Hardin, but performed as Johnny Cash did it) and a Flatt and Scruggs song came across with enough edge to be considered as least partial punk. ‘Skin Deep Town’ about spring breakers in Florida seemed an odd song choice, but closing with ‘The New World’ and its lyric, “it was better before they voted for what’s-his-name” seemed like the ideal final statement from the duo.
After previously naming an album 2.0, this could be considered version 3.0 of the career of Garbage, the Madison, WI based band who resumed work in 2012 after a break, and is in support of last summer’s Strange Little Birds (on the band’s own Stunvolume Records) and also their own coffee table book, This is the Noise That Keeps Me Awake (Akashic Books).
Their new one-off single, the brooding ‘No Horses’ opened their seventy-five minute set, with singer Shirley Manson literally shimmering in a sparkling dress hiding Dr. Martin-style boots underneath. The band (Duke Erikson-bass; Steve Marker-guitar; Butch Vig- drums) remains a musically tight as ever, working in all the radio hits, in addition to a fewer newer songs.
Manson called the area their ‘second hometown” after the new ‘Empty’, having played their first show as a band at the 7th Street Entry in 1995 and emoted how grateful they were to be a part of such a lineup, “if nerds like us, can go on the stage with this caliber of bands…” and saying they learn things from watching Blondie, every day.
Before ‘Special’, Manson explained the origins of the song and its inspiration from Chrissie Hynde and told the story of meeting Bond composer David Arnold and being offered the opportunity that would become ‘The World is Not Enough’. ‘Stupid Girl’ and ‘Push It’ propelled the set to its finish line, with the band going back to its very beginnings, by closing with the still-compelling ‘Vow’.
Continuing with the wonder women show, the queen bee herself, Debbie Harry, and her band Blondie (Chris Stein, Clem Burke, Leigh Foxx, Matt Katz-Bohen, and Tommy Kessler) took the stage to a standing ovation. Harry, wearing a bee headpiece, mentioned that profits from Blondie’s 11th studio album Pollinator would help the bees... and to put it bluntly, we should “stop f**** the planet.”
What set Pollinator apart from Blondie’s previous records, is that it’s more or less a collaboration album... and features guests such as Johnny Marr (from The Smiths), which Harry mentioned for ‘My Monster’.
The Bob Dylan cover ‘Rainy Day Women #12 & 35’ (aka “Everybody Must Get Stoned”) is also worth a mentioned. The entire room sang along to the chorus, it was loud and fun to hear.
Of course, the band played the classic Blondie hits that fans knew and loved, from the start of ‘One Way Or Another’ (a song that’s been used in many commercials, including a recent Swiffer one) to ‘Call Me’ to ‘Atomic’ to set closer ‘Heart of Glass’.
After a brief exit, the band returned for the inevitable encore, starting with The Paragons’ cover ‘The Tide Is High’. Although the original song is a reggae song, it’s certainly Blondie’s version that people are more familiar with (similar to ‘Hanging on the Telephone’... where most people know this as a Blondie song instead of The Nerves song).
The last song, ‘Dreaming’ was one of Blondie’s big hit in the UK (peaking at #2 on the singles chart).
As musical superheroes in their own right, the teaming of Blondie and Garbage on The Rage and Rapture Tour is a stroke of brilliance and getting a chance to watch these heroines flex their musical muscles shouldn’t be missed.
Remaining The Rage And Rapture Tour Dates
But on the concert stage, these wonder women ruled this night of rage and rapture-
Hitting the road together for one of the year’s most anticipated tours, Blondie and Garbage have joined forces on the co-headlining Rage and Rapture Tour for an entertaining evening at the sold-out Mystic Lake Showroom from legendary bands fronted by equally legendary front women.
Another iconic front woman, Exene Cervenka and musical partner from X, John Doe opened the first leg and this show with a short twenty-three minute acoustic set. Half of the iconic punk band came off more like Johnny and June than say, Sid and Nancy, playing a folk-tinged, stripped set that included X classics, and a couple covers.
The bare versions of songs like ‘Because I Do’ shone the lyrics in a slightly different light and older covers of ‘If I Were a Carpenter’ (by Tim Hardin, but performed as Johnny Cash did it) and a Flatt and Scruggs song came across with enough edge to be considered as least partial punk. ‘Skin Deep Town’ about spring breakers in Florida seemed an odd song choice, but closing with ‘The New World’ and its lyric, “it was better before they voted for what’s-his-name” seemed like the ideal final statement from the duo.
After previously naming an album 2.0, this could be considered version 3.0 of the career of Garbage, the Madison, WI based band who resumed work in 2012 after a break, and is in support of last summer’s Strange Little Birds (on the band’s own Stunvolume Records) and also their own coffee table book, This is the Noise That Keeps Me Awake (Akashic Books).
Their new one-off single, the brooding ‘No Horses’ opened their seventy-five minute set, with singer Shirley Manson literally shimmering in a sparkling dress hiding Dr. Martin-style boots underneath. The band (Duke Erikson-bass; Steve Marker-guitar; Butch Vig- drums) remains a musically tight as ever, working in all the radio hits, in addition to a fewer newer songs.
Manson called the area their ‘second hometown” after the new ‘Empty’, having played their first show as a band at the 7th Street Entry in 1995 and emoted how grateful they were to be a part of such a lineup, “if nerds like us, can go on the stage with this caliber of bands…” and saying they learn things from watching Blondie, every day.
Before ‘Special’, Manson explained the origins of the song and its inspiration from Chrissie Hynde and told the story of meeting Bond composer David Arnold and being offered the opportunity that would become ‘The World is Not Enough’. ‘Stupid Girl’ and ‘Push It’ propelled the set to its finish line, with the band going back to its very beginnings, by closing with the still-compelling ‘Vow’.
Continuing with the wonder women show, the queen bee herself, Debbie Harry, and her band Blondie (Chris Stein, Clem Burke, Leigh Foxx, Matt Katz-Bohen, and Tommy Kessler) took the stage to a standing ovation. Harry, wearing a bee headpiece, mentioned that profits from Blondie’s 11th studio album Pollinator would help the bees... and to put it bluntly, we should “stop f**** the planet.”
What set Pollinator apart from Blondie’s previous records, is that it’s more or less a collaboration album... and features guests such as Johnny Marr (from The Smiths), which Harry mentioned for ‘My Monster’.
The Bob Dylan cover ‘Rainy Day Women #12 & 35’ (aka “Everybody Must Get Stoned”) is also worth a mentioned. The entire room sang along to the chorus, it was loud and fun to hear.
Of course, the band played the classic Blondie hits that fans knew and loved, from the start of ‘One Way Or Another’ (a song that’s been used in many commercials, including a recent Swiffer one) to ‘Call Me’ to ‘Atomic’ to set closer ‘Heart of Glass’.
After a brief exit, the band returned for the inevitable encore, starting with The Paragons’ cover ‘The Tide Is High’. Although the original song is a reggae song, it’s certainly Blondie’s version that people are more familiar with (similar to ‘Hanging on the Telephone’... where most people know this as a Blondie song instead of The Nerves song).
The last song, ‘Dreaming’ was one of Blondie’s big hit in the UK (peaking at #2 on the singles chart).
As musical superheroes in their own right, the teaming of Blondie and Garbage on The Rage and Rapture Tour is a stroke of brilliance and getting a chance to watch these heroines flex their musical muscles shouldn’t be missed.
Remaining The Rage And Rapture Tour Dates
07/28/2017 Red Bank, NJ Count Basie Theatre
07/29/2017 Bethel, NY Bethel Woods Center For The Arts
07/30/2017 Boston, MA Blue Hills Bank Pavilion
08/01/2017 New York, NY Beacon Theatre
08/02/2017 Philadelphia, PA Mann Center for Performing Arts
08/03/2017 Vienna, VA Filene Center At Wolf Trap
08/05/2017 Raleigh, NC Red Hat Amphitheater
08/06/2017 Atlanta, GA Chastain Park Amphitheatre
08/08/2017 Hollywood, FL Hard Rock Live
08/09/2017 Orlando, FL Hard Rock Live
08/11/2017 Austin, TX ACL Live at The Moody Theater
08/12/2017 Dallas, TX South Side Ballroom
07/29/2017 Bethel, NY Bethel Woods Center For The Arts
07/30/2017 Boston, MA Blue Hills Bank Pavilion
08/01/2017 New York, NY Beacon Theatre
08/02/2017 Philadelphia, PA Mann Center for Performing Arts
08/03/2017 Vienna, VA Filene Center At Wolf Trap
08/05/2017 Raleigh, NC Red Hat Amphitheater
08/06/2017 Atlanta, GA Chastain Park Amphitheatre
08/08/2017 Hollywood, FL Hard Rock Live
08/09/2017 Orlando, FL Hard Rock Live
08/11/2017 Austin, TX ACL Live at The Moody Theater
08/12/2017 Dallas, TX South Side Ballroom
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Blondie at Mystic Lake Showroom, Prior Lake (21 July 2017) |
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