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Haley Bonar Setlist
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Local radio station 89.3 The Current just celebrated their 12th anniversary last week (January 27th and 28th). Although the station plays popular alternative modern music, they also proudly support the local music scene.
Friday’s show featured Jeremy Messersmith, Portland’s Joseph (the all sister act named after their grandfather), Strand of Oaks (aka Tim Showalter), Black Market Brass, and Jay Smart.
For the Saturday sold out show, we’re treated with local Monica LaPlante, starting right on time at 7:30pm (unlike the last time we saw them).
LaPlante is a real favorite at the Current, who had the band in for some local sessions and interview when they were promoting their new album Noir (Hollander Records). Of course, LaPlante expressed that the entire band was “thrilled to be here.”
Their set was similar to their October 2016 show, including the first two songs ‘Fragile’ and ‘Can’t Stop’, but ending the show with ‘Hope You're Alone’.
They also played a brand new song in the middle of their set (although they confessed that they played that new song a few nights ago at the Triple Rock Social Club show with Royal Brat).
In between bands, DJ Shannon Blowtorch (Grrrl Prty) handled the playlist. Her music choices were mostly from the 90s, including some fan-favorite Prince medleys.
Next up was The Sam Roberts Band. The Canadian band is actually on tour with Hollerado (who was playing next door at the smaller 7th Street Entry), but the Current requested the Sam Roberts Band to play the main room.
The band started their set with ‘FIEND’, a song they often save for the encore, but considering that they love playing the song, and with a shorter opening set, they decided to put that song up front first.
Before they played ‘Shapeshifters’ from Lo-Fantasy, the band said they were all tuned into The Current on their long drive from Canada.
Jade and Mary Lucia gave Zuluzuluu a nice intro. Jade said that the first time she heard them, she had to book them at any given opportunity. With that, Zuluzuluu played a few track from their The Cover Up album, including ‘On Our Way’.
We previously saw the band with Femi Kuti on July 2016 and wrote that it’s a projected fronted by Greg Grease.
Brian Oake and Jill Riley introduced their new favorites The Lemon Twigs, who are currently touring with Nashville’s Savoy Motel (playing next door with Hollerado). We’ve seen the band before, and noted that they drew in a huge crowd, thanks to the buzz that the Current generated for this young band.
Shortly after playing their first song, ‘I Wanna Prove to You’, they realized that they broke their bass drum pedal (which, surprisingly was not the first time this happened to the band). The First Avenue staff was quick to bring them another pedal, so the whole ordeal was actually pretty painless as they transitioned to ‘Haroomata’ and ‘These Words’.
Like the last time we saw them in October 2016, they had a harmonizing moment in their set before the two brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario switched instruments and pick up their pace.
Before Haley Bonar closed out the night, everybody currently working at the Current were on stage, standing behind Mark Wheat, who gave us a nice speech about the Current and how important the radio station is to everyone.
Wheat mentioned that Bonar started in South Dakota, transplanted to Duluth, and eventually settled to St Paul... but there was a dark moment as he said she moved to Portland. Anyway, what’s important is that she’s back in Minnesota, and her new album Impossible Dream is one of our favorite from 2016.
Bonar started her set with the fitting song, ‘Hometown’, and went through almost everything off Impossible Dream (‘Your Mom Is Right’, ‘Stupid Face’, ‘I Can Change’, ‘Skynz’, ‘Better Than Me’, ‘Kismet Kill’). She didn’t play my favorite song ‘Queen of Everything’, but instead offered another queen song entitled ‘Called You Queen’ from the new album.
Like Mark Wheat said, The Current is important to Minnesota, and we love what they do for local musicians.
Friday’s show featured Jeremy Messersmith, Portland’s Joseph (the all sister act named after their grandfather), Strand of Oaks (aka Tim Showalter), Black Market Brass, and Jay Smart.
For the Saturday sold out show, we’re treated with local Monica LaPlante, starting right on time at 7:30pm (unlike the last time we saw them).
LaPlante is a real favorite at the Current, who had the band in for some local sessions and interview when they were promoting their new album Noir (Hollander Records). Of course, LaPlante expressed that the entire band was “thrilled to be here.”
Their set was similar to their October 2016 show, including the first two songs ‘Fragile’ and ‘Can’t Stop’, but ending the show with ‘Hope You're Alone’.
They also played a brand new song in the middle of their set (although they confessed that they played that new song a few nights ago at the Triple Rock Social Club show with Royal Brat).
In between bands, DJ Shannon Blowtorch (Grrrl Prty) handled the playlist. Her music choices were mostly from the 90s, including some fan-favorite Prince medleys.
Next up was The Sam Roberts Band. The Canadian band is actually on tour with Hollerado (who was playing next door at the smaller 7th Street Entry), but the Current requested the Sam Roberts Band to play the main room.
The band started their set with ‘FIEND’, a song they often save for the encore, but considering that they love playing the song, and with a shorter opening set, they decided to put that song up front first.
Before they played ‘Shapeshifters’ from Lo-Fantasy, the band said they were all tuned into The Current on their long drive from Canada.
Jade and Mary Lucia gave Zuluzuluu a nice intro. Jade said that the first time she heard them, she had to book them at any given opportunity. With that, Zuluzuluu played a few track from their The Cover Up album, including ‘On Our Way’.
We previously saw the band with Femi Kuti on July 2016 and wrote that it’s a projected fronted by Greg Grease.
Brian Oake and Jill Riley introduced their new favorites The Lemon Twigs, who are currently touring with Nashville’s Savoy Motel (playing next door with Hollerado). We’ve seen the band before, and noted that they drew in a huge crowd, thanks to the buzz that the Current generated for this young band.
Shortly after playing their first song, ‘I Wanna Prove to You’, they realized that they broke their bass drum pedal (which, surprisingly was not the first time this happened to the band). The First Avenue staff was quick to bring them another pedal, so the whole ordeal was actually pretty painless as they transitioned to ‘Haroomata’ and ‘These Words’.
Like the last time we saw them in October 2016, they had a harmonizing moment in their set before the two brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario switched instruments and pick up their pace.
Before Haley Bonar closed out the night, everybody currently working at the Current were on stage, standing behind Mark Wheat, who gave us a nice speech about the Current and how important the radio station is to everyone.
Wheat mentioned that Bonar started in South Dakota, transplanted to Duluth, and eventually settled to St Paul... but there was a dark moment as he said she moved to Portland. Anyway, what’s important is that she’s back in Minnesota, and her new album Impossible Dream is one of our favorite from 2016.
Bonar started her set with the fitting song, ‘Hometown’, and went through almost everything off Impossible Dream (‘Your Mom Is Right’, ‘Stupid Face’, ‘I Can Change’, ‘Skynz’, ‘Better Than Me’, ‘Kismet Kill’). She didn’t play my favorite song ‘Queen of Everything’, but instead offered another queen song entitled ‘Called You Queen’ from the new album.
Like Mark Wheat said, The Current is important to Minnesota, and we love what they do for local musicians.
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Monica LaPlante |
Sam Roberts Band |
Zuluzuluu |
The Lemon Twigs |
Haley Bonar |
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Haley Bonar at First Ave, Minneapolis (28 Jan 2017) |
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The Current's 12th Birthday Party at First Ave, Minneapolis (28 Jan 2017) |
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