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Eliot Sumner Setlist
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Eliot Sumner just headlined the Turf Club in St Paul last Sunday, June 12th, in support of her latest Information
(Island Records).
Local guest Murder Shoes (featuring Tess Weinberg, Christopher White, Derek Van Gieson, Elliot Manthey, and Tim Heinlein) opened the show. We previously caught the band on their 30th show last Oct 2015 and wrote, “The band’s twin jangly guitars sometimes echo The Pixies or The Blasters, with singer Weinberg sounding similar at times to Patti Smith or an angrier Maria McKee of Lone Justice fame.”
Their music is a little dark, at times shoegazing (thanks to their three guitarists with their pedal effects and feedbacks), and for this show, they previewed all new songs (with a few exceptions such as opening song ‘Charlotte Manning’ and ‘How Does It Feel?’) that they just recorded that Monday and Tuesday. They seemed really excited about the new songs.
Philadelphia’s Cheerleader (Joe Haller, Chris Duran, Paul Impellizeri, Josh Pannepacker, Carl Bahner) was next, playing most of their album The Sunshine of Your Youth (Bright Antenna Records). The story of this band is that they originally started in Hartford, Connecticut between Joe Haller and Chris Duran, creating music in Duran’s basement. When they relocated to Philadelphia, the two decided to take their love of creating music seriously, so they form Cheerleader. The name may be a problem, as there are already several bands also called Cheerleader...
Highlight of their 40-min set was actually an unscheduled ‘Happy Birthday To You’ sung to their keyboardist Josh, right before unveiling their new song, which they have written on their setlist as ‘Domestica’.
If you didn’t know, Eliot Sumner is the child of Sting and actress/producer Trudie Styler. You have to point out this fact, because Sumner, when she talks or sing, it sounds a little bit like her father. It’s really uncanny.
Sumner started her music career very early, as a teenager called Coco. She stopped using that stagename, and reverted back to Eliot Sumner, when she signed with Island Records at the age of 17.
Songs on her slightly under an hour set featured mostly songs from the latest Information, including the title track that ended the main set. The title track is actually, possibly the best track, at least when heard live. It’s very upbeat and really ended on a high note.
Sumner returned to the stage for the inevitable encore, to end the show with ‘Species’.
Information is out now on Island Records. The remaining tour dates:
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Murder Shoes
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Their music is a little dark, at times shoegazing (thanks to their three guitarists with their pedal effects and feedbacks), and for this show, they previewed all new songs (with a few exceptions such as opening song ‘Charlotte Manning’ and ‘How Does It Feel?’) that they just recorded that Monday and Tuesday. They seemed really excited about the new songs.
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Cheerleader |
Highlight of their 40-min set was actually an unscheduled ‘Happy Birthday To You’ sung to their keyboardist Josh, right before unveiling their new song, which they have written on their setlist as ‘Domestica’.
If you didn’t know, Eliot Sumner is the child of Sting and actress/producer Trudie Styler. You have to point out this fact, because Sumner, when she talks or sing, it sounds a little bit like her father. It’s really uncanny.
Sumner started her music career very early, as a teenager called Coco. She stopped using that stagename, and reverted back to Eliot Sumner, when she signed with Island Records at the age of 17.
Songs on her slightly under an hour set featured mostly songs from the latest Information, including the title track that ended the main set. The title track is actually, possibly the best track, at least when heard live. It’s very upbeat and really ended on a high note.
Sumner returned to the stage for the inevitable encore, to end the show with ‘Species’.
Information is out now on Island Records. The remaining tour dates:
6/16 Denver, CO @ Lost Lake
6/17 Colorado Springs, CO @ Black Sheep
6/19 Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
6/21 Los Angeles, CA @ The Troubadour
6/22 San Francisco, CA @ Slim's
6/17 Colorado Springs, CO @ Black Sheep
6/19 Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
6/21 Los Angeles, CA @ The Troubadour
6/22 San Francisco, CA @ Slim's
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Eliot Sumner at Turf Club, St Paul (12 Jun 2016) |
