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Flashback: Ivy at the 400 Bar, Minneapolis (10/24/2001)

Setlist Ivy at the 400 Bar Minneapolis (10/24/2001) Read More Ivy The New York band Ivy is still around, they released an album, All Hours, in 2011, but recently (August 2012) unveiled "Lost in the Sun" video via YouTube. …

I saw Ivy at the 400 Bar in 2005 and complained that they didn't do any songs from their Apartment Life album, but the truth is Ivy played plenty of Apartment Life four years earlier at the same venue.

Ivy: Long Distance T-Shirt American Apparel

Also, I should point out that I'm misremembering things, because I picked up Long Distance album and t-shirt at this 2001 show, not the 2005 show (I mean: same band, same venue, I was bound to confuse the two.) I still have the T-Shirt, it's one of my favorite shirts and I wear it regularly. I would have the Long Distance CD in the photo, but ever since I digitalized my entire music collection, all my CDs and cassettes are in storage.

The thing about the 400 Bar was that I never bought advance tickets to their shows. The problem (at that time) was the lack of means of buying tickets without occurring extra charges in advance. For First Avenue and 7th Street, you could easily pick up tickets at any outlets like Down in the Valley. There was nothing like that for the 400 Bar, so the only way I bought tickets was showing up for the show on the day of the event. Thankfully, all the shows I went to didn't sell out.

Tickets to see Ivy at the 400 Bar on 10/24/2001 was $10, doors opened up 8pm.

As you can see from the setlist, the beginning and ending were good portion of Apartment Life, sandwiched in the middle were songs from Long Distance. The only songs from their debut Realistic played that night were "Get Enough" and "Shallow", which I'm fine with because it's not particularly my favorite album from the band.

Fascinated Nettwerk

I think Ivy is dead, their last single release Fascinated came out two years ago (2012) on Nettwerk with no communication on Ivy's Facebook page since September 2012. Their last live performance was at The Gramercy Theatre in New York on September 24, 2011.

Guitarist Adam Schlesinger is currently in Fountains of Wayne and Tinted Windows. Singer Dominique Durand and bassist Andy Chase are both in Paco, but that band seems inactive since 2011 as well.

Anyway, if Ivy comes back, you know I'll let you know.... in the meantime, I'm still rocking my Apartment Life in my T-Shirt.

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Ivy at 400 Bar, Minneapolis (06/08/05)

News To celebrate the release of the video, Ivy is asking our fans to help choose the best remix of the song to be included on an upcoming remix EP, to be released later this year. More details HERE, or at FACEBOOK HERE. Read More Ivy Ivy, Guestroom, New York, USA, Dominique Durand, Adam Schlesinger, Andy Chase......

Here's a band that I thought broke up ages ago: Ivy.

ALL HOURS

The New York band is still around, they released an album, All Hours, in 2011, but recently (August 2012) unveiled "Lost in the Sun" video via YouTube.

It's been a long time since I listened to them (since Guestroom and In the Clear).

The last time I saw this band, they were on tour in support of In the Clear, although if you look at their setlist, they did some oldies, but goodies.

My favorite Ivy album is Apartment Life, which was the first album that I own by them on cassette - so naturally I loved those songs they did live ("These Are the Things About You", "Get Out of the City", "Ba Ba Ba"). I was waiting for "I've Got a Feeling" and "You Don't Know Anything" (my two favorite Ivy songs), but, sadly, they never did those songs.

Surprisingly (or not surprisingly because I only love their "In the Shadows"/'moonshadow' song), no songs from Realistic were played.

At the time, I don't think they had any In the Clear album, so I ended up buying Long Distance at their 400 Bar show, since it was the only album at the time that I didn't have.

Ivy looked and sounded great, especially singer Dominique Durand, who looked fantastic, as always.

I don't think Ivy's come back to Minneapolis since 2005, I could be wrong.

Ivy at 400 Bar, Minneapolis (06/08/05)

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Ivy - Let's Go To Bed

Ivy - Let's Go To Bed

Ivy

Artist: Album: Website: Location: Members:

Ivy Guestroom www.thebandivy.com New York, USA Dominique Durand, Adam Schlesinger, Andy Chase

It's time for another cover.

The best thing about this Cure cover is that semi-broken-but-cute-French-accent. I've always been fond of covers that sounds nothing like the original (yes, I am a huge fan of William Shatner's "Common People").