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The Faint at Fine Line
The Faint Setlist
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Electro-pop/danse wave band The Faint headlined the Fine Line Music Café on August 12th.
Opening up the show was Closeness, the project from the Faint’s singer Todd Fink with his wife Orenda Fink. Their music isn’t quite like the Faint, but more like The Knife. For example, if you listen to their song “End of the Maze”, it’s not fast-paced electro-pop/dance that you would expect from the Faint’s singer… but it felt more experimental and even thoughtful.
Since their music isn’t quite the same, it also felt weird that the lighting was very similar to The Faint’s set (very frenetic and energetic).
Speaking of lights, in contrast, Detroit’s Ritual Howls played in blood red lighting throughout their set. I was quite impressed with their very dark goth music, which sounded a bit like Peter Murphy or maybe something like She Wants Revenge, thanks to the singer’s deep vocal style.
The trio (Paul Bancell, Ben Saginaw and Chris Samuels) did not have a live drummer, instead relying on a drum machine. From my understanding, this might be the band’s first time in Minneapolis… but at the end of their set, they promised to, “see you next year”, indicating they’ll be back shortly.
As for The Faint, they are truly a great live band. It is pretty amazing that the entire band ( Todd Fink, Graham Ulicny, Dapose, and Clark Baechle), dancing their hardest throughout their entire hour plus set.
Although the tour is for their new Egowerk album (Saddle Creek), looking over their setlist, they played quite a few older classic songs, such as crowd pleasers, “The Geeks Were Right” and “Desperate Guys”.
Most of their songs sounded like straight out of their studio recording, but there were a few that they mixed it up live. One of those songs was “Take Me to the Hospital”, which started surprisingly slow (but obviously does pick up as the song builds).
“Young & Realistic” was dedicated and is about Fink’s wife, Orenda. Even if you didn’t know that, the line “Do you know if this room's under Orenda” should clue you in.
The set ended with two of The Faint’s best songs, “Worked Up So Sexual”, which Fink said this is the song that they would always play, and “we hope you like it”. This combined with closer “Paranoiattack” was a pretty good combination. Unfortunately, about 50 seconds into the closing song, they messed up and had to restart. Fink shouted out, “we only play this song every 10 years!” as they restarted again. It was incredible satisfying to hear the entire crowd “Paranoia! Paranoia! Paranoia!”
For the encore, “Child Asleep” (new song from Egowerk) and fan-favorite “Agenda Suicide” with “Glass Danse” (the latter two are from The Faint’s most important and best-known album Danse Macabre).
To close, the Faint’s fanbase is very dedicated and have supported the band throughout the years. Singer Todd Fink was very humble, stating that he would love to personally meet and talk to everyone at the show and sounded like he really meant it. If they didn’t have to go back on the tour bus for a long drive to their next venue, they would probably handshake everybody at the show.
Opening up the show was Closeness, the project from the Faint’s singer Todd Fink with his wife Orenda Fink. Their music isn’t quite like the Faint, but more like The Knife. For example, if you listen to their song “End of the Maze”, it’s not fast-paced electro-pop/dance that you would expect from the Faint’s singer… but it felt more experimental and even thoughtful.
Since their music isn’t quite the same, it also felt weird that the lighting was very similar to The Faint’s set (very frenetic and energetic).
Speaking of lights, in contrast, Detroit’s Ritual Howls played in blood red lighting throughout their set. I was quite impressed with their very dark goth music, which sounded a bit like Peter Murphy or maybe something like She Wants Revenge, thanks to the singer’s deep vocal style.
The trio (Paul Bancell, Ben Saginaw and Chris Samuels) did not have a live drummer, instead relying on a drum machine. From my understanding, this might be the band’s first time in Minneapolis… but at the end of their set, they promised to, “see you next year”, indicating they’ll be back shortly.
As for The Faint, they are truly a great live band. It is pretty amazing that the entire band ( Todd Fink, Graham Ulicny, Dapose, and Clark Baechle), dancing their hardest throughout their entire hour plus set.
Although the tour is for their new Egowerk album (Saddle Creek), looking over their setlist, they played quite a few older classic songs, such as crowd pleasers, “The Geeks Were Right” and “Desperate Guys”.
Most of their songs sounded like straight out of their studio recording, but there were a few that they mixed it up live. One of those songs was “Take Me to the Hospital”, which started surprisingly slow (but obviously does pick up as the song builds).
“Young & Realistic” was dedicated and is about Fink’s wife, Orenda. Even if you didn’t know that, the line “Do you know if this room's under Orenda” should clue you in.
The set ended with two of The Faint’s best songs, “Worked Up So Sexual”, which Fink said this is the song that they would always play, and “we hope you like it”. This combined with closer “Paranoiattack” was a pretty good combination. Unfortunately, about 50 seconds into the closing song, they messed up and had to restart. Fink shouted out, “we only play this song every 10 years!” as they restarted again. It was incredible satisfying to hear the entire crowd “Paranoia! Paranoia! Paranoia!”
For the encore, “Child Asleep” (new song from Egowerk) and fan-favorite “Agenda Suicide” with “Glass Danse” (the latter two are from The Faint’s most important and best-known album Danse Macabre).
To close, the Faint’s fanbase is very dedicated and have supported the band throughout the years. Singer Todd Fink was very humble, stating that he would love to personally meet and talk to everyone at the show and sounded like he really meant it. If they didn’t have to go back on the tour bus for a long drive to their next venue, they would probably handshake everybody at the show.
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Closeness |
Closeness |
Closeness |
Ritual Howls |
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Ritual Howls |
Ritual Howls |
The Faint |
The Faint |
The Faint at Fine Line Music Cafe, Minneapolis (12 August 2019) |
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