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The Church Setlist
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Sydney’s The Church were back in town at the Cedar Cultural Center on Sunday, October 8th, to promote their latest record, Man Woman Life Death Infinity. The record, at least according to singer Steve Kilbey, is “the best album I’ve ever written.”
DJ Jake Rudh (from Transmission) played music videos as soon as doors opened at the Cedar. Music included all your favorite alternative hits from XTC to the Sundays to, of course, David Bowie. Normally Rudh would also DJ after the opening band, leading up to the headliner, but for this event, the Church said they would provide their own music.
Opening the show was Oregon’s The Helio Sequence. The duo, guitarist / singer Brandon Summers and drummer Benjamin Weikel, said that they’ve played all over the world, toured for many years, but this was the first time that they’ve ever, ever played “a cultural club” before. They weren’t used to the community-run, nonprofit center and actually insisted on using all their equipment (including amps and the drummer’s rug!) and running the whole thing by themselves.
You can tell they’ve been on the road for quite a while and just used to using their own gears. This also meant that they had probably more control and knew how far to stretch their equipment.
As you can see from their setlist (according to my notes), there were a few songs from their new self-titled album (‘Red Shifting’ and ‘Never Going Back’), but they mostly concentrated on earlier songs.
Drummer Benjamin Weikel was a joy to watch. He would often mouth the notes as the banged on the drums. Summers looked incredibly serious the whole time, playing in near darkness. The only time he spoke was to remark that he’s never been to the Cedar Cultural Center before.
As we previously mentioned, The Helio Sequence contributed a track to the compilation Transference. The record comes out December 1st on Marmoset Records.
Longtime favorite band The Church returned to the Cedar Cultural Center as part of their Man Woman Life Death Infinity U.S. tour. Currently the band has two founding members, singer/guitarist Steve Kilbey, and guitarist Peter Koppes. Making up the rest of the band is drummer Tim Powles (who joined the Church in 1994), guitarist Ian Haug, keys Jeffrey Cain (formerly of Remy Zero), and bassist Wilson McLeod (Wilson’s last name could have been misheard).
The Church had their own sound staff and guitar tech on hand, so there were no awkward “tuning stories” to be heard.
As you can see from the photo of the setlist, they played a lot of songs from Man Woman Life Death Infinity. They were really proud of the new songs. Of course, everybody’s favorite song ‘Under the Milky Way’ was saved until nearly the last song on their set.
They stuck to the set, up until the encore, which they switched some songs around - like ‘Dark Waltz’ was played first and the very last song was ‘Miami’.
Steve Kilbey was actually a lot more talkative on this tour, cluing us in to some titles of songs, like “I’m feeling delirous!” right before ‘Delirious’ and “I think I’m moving back to Miami,” before ‘Miami’.
The Helio Sequence and the Church continues their tour:
DJ Jake Rudh (from Transmission) played music videos as soon as doors opened at the Cedar. Music included all your favorite alternative hits from XTC to the Sundays to, of course, David Bowie. Normally Rudh would also DJ after the opening band, leading up to the headliner, but for this event, the Church said they would provide their own music.
Opening the show was Oregon’s The Helio Sequence. The duo, guitarist / singer Brandon Summers and drummer Benjamin Weikel, said that they’ve played all over the world, toured for many years, but this was the first time that they’ve ever, ever played “a cultural club” before. They weren’t used to the community-run, nonprofit center and actually insisted on using all their equipment (including amps and the drummer’s rug!) and running the whole thing by themselves.
You can tell they’ve been on the road for quite a while and just used to using their own gears. This also meant that they had probably more control and knew how far to stretch their equipment.
As you can see from their setlist (according to my notes), there were a few songs from their new self-titled album (‘Red Shifting’ and ‘Never Going Back’), but they mostly concentrated on earlier songs.
Drummer Benjamin Weikel was a joy to watch. He would often mouth the notes as the banged on the drums. Summers looked incredibly serious the whole time, playing in near darkness. The only time he spoke was to remark that he’s never been to the Cedar Cultural Center before.
As we previously mentioned, The Helio Sequence contributed a track to the compilation Transference. The record comes out December 1st on Marmoset Records.
Longtime favorite band The Church returned to the Cedar Cultural Center as part of their Man Woman Life Death Infinity U.S. tour. Currently the band has two founding members, singer/guitarist Steve Kilbey, and guitarist Peter Koppes. Making up the rest of the band is drummer Tim Powles (who joined the Church in 1994), guitarist Ian Haug, keys Jeffrey Cain (formerly of Remy Zero), and bassist Wilson McLeod (Wilson’s last name could have been misheard).
The Church had their own sound staff and guitar tech on hand, so there were no awkward “tuning stories” to be heard.
As you can see from the photo of the setlist, they played a lot of songs from Man Woman Life Death Infinity. They were really proud of the new songs. Of course, everybody’s favorite song ‘Under the Milky Way’ was saved until nearly the last song on their set.
They stuck to the set, up until the encore, which they switched some songs around - like ‘Dark Waltz’ was played first and the very last song was ‘Miami’.
Steve Kilbey was actually a lot more talkative on this tour, cluing us in to some titles of songs, like “I’m feeling delirous!” right before ‘Delirious’ and “I think I’m moving back to Miami,” before ‘Miami’.
The Helio Sequence and the Church continues their tour:
10/11/2017
Gothic Theatre
Englewood, CO
10/12/2017 The State Room Salt Lake City, UT
10/13/2017 Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV
10/14/2017 Pressroom Phoenix, AZ
10/12/2017 The State Room Salt Lake City, UT
10/13/2017 Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV
10/14/2017 Pressroom Phoenix, AZ
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The Church: Tim Powles and Steve Kilbey |
The Church: Peter Koppes |
The Church: Steve Kilbey |
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