The Spill Canvas - 06.11.08

The Spill Canvas - The Fillmore NY  At Irving Plaza

June 11, 2008 - New York, NY

1. Hush Hush
2. The Truth
3. The Tide
4. This Is For Keeps
5. All Hail The Heartbreaker
6. Lullaby
7. Reckless Abandonment
8. Polygraph, Right Now
9. Sunsets & Car Crashes
10. The Dutch Courage
11. Connect the Dots
12. Lust A Prima Vista
13. So Much
14. All Over You

Encore

1. Self-Conclusion
2. Staplegunned 
   

O.A.R. - 08.19.08

O.A.R. - The China Club

August 19, 2009 - New York, NY

1. The Wanderer
2. Black Rock
3. One Day
4. On My Way
5. This Town
6. Love And Memories
7. Dinner Last Night
8. That Was A Crazy Game of Poker
9. War Song
10. Shattered (Turn The Car Around)

Encore

1. Hey Girl
   

New Kids On The Block - 09.24.08

NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK - NASSAU COLISEUM

September 24, 2008 - Uniondale, NY

with Natasha Bedingfield

 

*setlist needed*

Jesse Lacey - 11.25.08

JESSE LACEY - MUSIC HALL OF WILLIAMSBURG

November 25, 2008 - Brooklyn, NY

with Kevin Devine and Brian Bonz

Jesse Lacey Setlist

1.  Untitled #1
2. The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot
3. Trailer Trash
4. Jude Law & A Semester Abroad
5. Luca
6. Play Crack the Sky
7. Thunder Road
8. Moshi Moshi
9. OK, I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don't
10. Two Headed Boy Part 1
11. Jesus Christ
12. Cotton Crush
13. Degausser
14. Coca-Cola
    

Brand New - 03.06.09

BRAND NEW - WEBSTER THEATER

March 6, 2009 - Hartford, CT

1. Jaws Theme Swimming
2. Sic Transit Gloria
3. The Archers Bows Have Broken
4. Millstone
5. The Shower Scene
6. The No Seatbelt Song
7. Okay, I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don't
8. Bought A Bride
9. Luca
10. Sowing Season
11. Jesus Christ
12. Degausser
13. You Won't Know

Encore

1. Mix Tape
2. Seventy Times 7
3. Play Crack the Sky
   

Mike Errico - 04.10.09

MIKE ERRICO - ROCKWOOD MUSIC HALL

April 10, 2009 - New York, NY

*setlist needed*

Kevin Devine - 04.24.09

KEVIN DEVINE - BOWERY BALLROOM

April 24, 2009 - New York, NY

With Brian Bonz and the Dot Hongs

1. Cotton Crush
2. Carnival
3. Another Bag of Bones
4. Go Haunt Someone Else
5. You're Trailing Yourself
6. No Time Flat
7. Hand of God
8. Fever Moon
9. Murphy's Song
10. I Could Be With Anyone
11. The Burning City Smoking
12. Yr Husband
13. Tomorrow's Just Too Late
14. Brooklyn Boy

Encore

1. All Of Everything, Erased
2. Longer That I'm Out Here
3. Just Stay
4. Brother's Blood
5. Ballgame
   

Travis - 04.25.09

TRAVIS - WEBSTER HALL

April 25, 2009 - New York, NY

1. 3 Times and You Lose > Chinese Blues
2. Writing to Reach You
3. J. Smith
4. Selfish Jean
5. Re-Offender
6. Something Anything
7. Long Way Down
8. Love Will Come Through
9. Closer
10. Driftwood
11. Side > Eyes Wide Open > Side
12. Falling Down
13. Sing
14. All I Want To Do Is Rock
15. Before You Were Young
16. Turn

Encore

1. New Amsterdam
2. Ring Out The Bell
3. My Eyes
4. Why Does It Always Rain On Me?
5. Flowers in the Window
   

The Indigo Girls - 06.16.09

THE INDIGO GIRLS - CENTRAL PARK SUMMERSTAGE

June 16, 2009 - New York, NY

With Matt Nathanson

 

Matt Nathanson Setlist

1. Car Crash
2. To The Beat Of Our Noisy Hearts
3. Sooner Surrender
4. Wedding Dress
5. Falling Apart
6. All We Are
7. Laid
8. Come On Get Higher
9. Don't Stop Believing (Journey cover)
10. Answering Machine
    

Gin Blossoms - 08.11.09

GIN BLOSSOMS - HICKSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL

August 11, 2009 - Hicksville, NY

* setlist needed *

O.A.R. - 08.15.09

O.A.R. - MADISON SQUARE GARDEN

August 15, 2009 - New York, NY

With: Matt Nathanson and Brett Dennen

 

O.A.R. Setlist

1. About Mr. Brown
2. About An Hour Ago
3. Untitled
4. Conquering Fools
5. Something Coming Over
6. I Feel Home
7. Love and Memories*
8. What is Mine*
9. On My Way*
10. Shattered (Turn The Car Around)
11. Black Rock
12. City On Down
13. Lay Down
14. Wary Song
15. Whose Chariot

Encore

1. Fool in the Rain $
   
2. This Town #
   
3. That Was a Crazy Game of Poker

Encore #2:

1. With A Little Help From My Friends $#%
   

* - Full band acoustic
$ - Robert Randolph on pedal steel
# - DJ Logic on turntables
% - Matt Nathanson on vocals

Matt Nathanson Setlist

1. To the Beat of Our Noisy Hearts
2. Still
3. Princess
4. Wedding Dress
5. Car Crash
6. Come On Get Higher
   

Matt Nathanson - 08.30.09

MATT NATHANSON - EAST COAST REP PARTY

August 30, 2009 - Redding, CT

1. Prove to Me
2. Vandalized
3. Everything You Say Sounds Like Gospel
4. Loud
5. Little Victories
6. Amazing Again
7. We'll Recover
8. Continue Dreaming
9. Heartbreak World
10. Sooner Surrender
11. Illusions
12. Come On Get Higher

The Killers - 09.01.09

THE KILLERS - NIKON AT JONES BEACH THEATER

September 1, 2009 -Wantagh, NY

With Wolfmother

1.  Spaceman
2. This Is Your Life
3. Somebody Told Me
4. For Reasons Unknown
5. Bones
6. Losing Touch
7. Bling (Confession of a King)
8. Shadowplay
9. Smile Like You Mean It
10. Change Your Mind
11. Human
12. A Dustland Fairytale
13. Love Me Tender
14. Read My Mind
15. Believe Me Natalie
16. Mr. Brightside
17. All These Things That I've Done

Encore

1. Jenny Was A Friend of Mine
2. When You Were Young
   

A Very Kerri Christmas 5 - 2009

1. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Dustin Kensrue.  I love this guy's voice.  I love that this guy released an entire album of Christmas songs.  I hate that I had to narrow it down to one.
   
2. Last Christmas - Glee cast.  They should release a Christmas album.  But since they haven't, I'll settle for them singing my second favorite Christmas song.
   
3. Things We Don't Need Anymore - Jenny Owens Young
4. Snake Oil Tanker (Xmas) - Alkaline Trio
5. ex miss - A New Found Glory.  The first line of this song pretty much sums it all up: "Everything that could have went wrong, went wrong this year." 
6. My Christmas List - Simple Plan 
7. A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like A Kiss) - Glasvegas
8. Happy Birthday Guadalupe! - The Killers
9. Rudolph the Red Neck Reindeer - Rocket Park.  Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer to the tune of Freebird.  AWESOME.
   
10. Cold White Christmas - Casiotone for the PainfullyAlone
11. O Come All Ye Faithful - Weezer
12. We Three Kings - Fuel
13. Christmases When You Were Mine - Taylor Swift
14. Someday At Christmas - Remy Zero
15. Believe In Me - fun.
16. The First Song - Band of Horses
17. Fairytale of New York - Stars
18. All I Want for Christmas - The Genuine Fakes
19. Splitting Up Christmas - Kevin Devine.  Again, this song will be on every Christmas CD I ever make.  Best Kevin Devine song ever.  Best Christmas song ever.  Even at my worst, thing song reminds me that my friends and my family all are my backbone.  For a free download, check this out!
    

The Airborne Toxic Event - 10.15.09

THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT - WEBSTER HALL

October 15, 2009 - New York, NY

With: Henry Clay People and Red Cortez

1.  Does This Mean You're Moving On
2. Something New
3. This Magic Moment
4. Gasoline
5. Echo Park
6. Girls in Their Summer Dresses
7. Papillon
8. This Is Nowhere
9. [New Song]
10. Wishing Well
11. Sometime Around Midnight
12. Goodbye Horses
13. All I Ever Wanted
14. Innocence

Encore

1. Happiness is Overrated
2. People Who Died
3. Missy 
   

The Airborne Toxic Event was absolutely incredible. They are hands down the best band of 2009 - best lyrics, best song, best band period. As soon as the opening instrumental of "Sometime After Midnight" begun, I felt my throat closing up. The tears were rolling down my face by the end of the first verse. That song is one of the absolute most amazing songs I've ever heard. I love it so much.

The Get Up Kids at Irving Plaza - 10.31.09

THE GET UP KIDS - IRVING PLAZA

October 31, 2009 - New York, NY

With: Kevin Devine and The Life and Times

The show kicked off pretty much at 9 on the dot, a rarity for Irving Plaza to actually be punctual - the opening band was called "The Life and Times" and they were rocking ZZ Top costumes and calling themselves "ZZ Times" - I wasn't overly impressed by them, but as far as opening bands go, they weren't awful.

Kevin Devine was next - his band dressed up as mummies and he had changed from when I'd seen him earlier into a dress with a short blond wig, sparkly flat shoes, and several long necklaces. "I got confused, I thought they said we were going as MOMMIES," he said. 45 minutes went by way too quickly, but he NEVER disappoints me, and every time I see him, I know it's going to be amazing.

Kevin Devine Setlist 

1. No Time Flat
2. Longer That I'm Out Here
3. Yr Husband
4. Hand of God
5. Cotton Crush
6. Carnival
7. Another Bag of Bones
8. Brother's Blood
   

Irving Plaza always plays weird, trippy movies with no sound in between their sets . . . this time it was "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" and "The Wizard of Oz", which I thought was just random happenstance until the lights dimmed, the screen lifted, and "We're Off To See The Wizard" started playing throughout the venue . . . the Get Up Kids took the stage dressed up as the characters from the Wizard of Oz (the poor guy who played "Dorothy" looked so innocent that it was actually more adorable than it was disturbing).

The Get Up Kids Setlist

First Set - Something To Write Home About

1. Holiday
2. Action And Action
3. Valentine
4. Red Letter Day
5. Out of Reach
6. Ten Minutes
7. The Company Dime
8. My Apology
9. I'm A Loner Dottie, A Rebel
10. Long Goodnight
11. Close to Home
12. I'll Catch You

Second Set

1. Man of Conviction
2. Coming Clean
3. The One You Want
4. Off the Wagon
5. No Love
6. Campfire Kansas
7. Mass Pike
8. Don't Hate Me
9. Keith's Case
10. On A Wire
    

Guster at Higher Ground - 11.07.09

GUSTER - HIGHER GROUND

November 7, 2009 - Burlington, VT

My first online diary entry I ever wrote, on April 7, 2000, mentioned that I had purchased Guster's "Lost and Gone Forever" album the day before. I had known of Guster before then - I'd heard them when I went to Woodstock '99 and then saw them again in September at a radio station concert in Connecticut. But I didn't really know them until Zach sent me a few mp3s. I remember he sent me "So Long", "Happier", and "Rocketship" and I was in love and I bought "Lost and Gone Forever" almost immediately afterwards. My first diary title was "Two Points for Honesty", which to this day remains my favorite Guster song, and I've seen them a bunch since, and I've spoken to Adam Gardener on the phone and I've seen their bare asses and Zach and I have a bet going that if I'm not married within three years from Anna and Alan's wedding (which was in June 2008 . . . I'm so going to win) he's going to fly me anywhere in the world I want to see them . . . GOD I love Guster. So severely.

I first learned about this while I was in London, and tickets sold out before I could get them for the New York show, but Liz agreed to go with me up to Vermont, and to Vermont we went.

The show was pretty friggin awesome. What can I say. It was a LOT of driving . . . I left my house at 9:40 yesterday and we didn't get up to Burlington until after 6 and then today, I didn't get home until 8:30, and we barely did ANYTHING other than go to the concert, but it was so worth it.

The first set was a bunch of random stuff . . . awesome. Setlist:

First Set

1. The Captain
2. Backyard
3. Satellite
4. Red Oyster Cult
5. Don't Fear the Reaper
6. [New Song]
7. Demons
8. Keep It Together
9. [New Song]
10. Rocketship
11. Manifest Destiny
12. The Beginning of the End
13. Airport Song
    

Second Set - Lost and Gone Forever

1. What You Wish For
2. Barrel of a Gun
3. Either Way
4. Fa Fa
5. I Spy
6. Center of Attention
7. All The Way Up To Heaven
8. Happier
9. So Long
10. Two Points for Honesty
11. Rainy Day

All of my favorites come from "Lost and Gone Forever" . . . I still maintain that "Happier"/"So Long"/"Two Points for Honesty" may be one of the best 1-2-3 punches of any album ever. So much brilliance in so few songs. I didn't realize until Ryan said it that "Barrel of a Gun" is about masturbation. But then he sang another little song along with it "The gun is a penis . . . the penis is a gun. The bullets are my semen, who will be the special one . . . that I will impregnate?" He explained "The tour's almost over, we're getting a little punchy. . . " Haha. I love them. 


Encore

1. Hang On
2. Come Downstairs and Say Hello
3. Jesus on the Radio (acoustic)

For "Jesus on the Radio", they didn't just do it "acoustic", they literally unplugged all the guitars, Brian used a tambourine instead of drums, no microphones . . . you could hear a pin drop in the crowd. It was awesome. Just . . . awesome.

Brand New at Nassau Coliseum - 11.28.09

BRAND NEW - NASSAU COLISEUM

November 28, 2009 - Uniondale, NY

With: Glassjaw, Thrice, Manchester Orchestra, and Kevin Devine

Brand New Setlist

1. Welcome to Bangkok
2. Sink
3. Degausser
4. You Won't Know
5. Okay I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don't
6. Sic Transit Gloria . . . Glory Fades
7. Limousine (just Jesse until "7 loves you so much)
   
8. Vices
9. Gasoline
10. Sowing Season
11. You Stole
12. Luca
13. The Archers Bows Have Broken
14. Jesus Christ
15. Bought a Bride
16. At the Bottom
17. Play Crack the Sky
18. Seventy Times 7

Brand New. Oh, Brand New. I love, love, love them, so much, and I was so proud of them. They were amazing and I was so happy for them . . . there were a couple of moments when I saw Jesse looking around the Coliseum, realizing that there were 10,000+ people there and just taking it all in . . . they kept hailing the show as the "homecoming" show for them, and their set was PERFECT . . . they ended with "Play Crack the Sky" (my all time favorite) followed by "Seventy Times 7" (which has hit particularly close to home lately) and it was awesome. There is nothing like 10,000+ people singing "I HOPE YOU CHOKE AND DIE" at the top of their lungs.  Best band ever.

Glassjaw Setlist

1. Tip Your Bartender
2. Mu Empire
3. Star Above My Bed
4. Ape Dos Mil
5. The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports
6. (You Think You're) John Fucking Lennon
7. Pink Roses
8. Siberian Kiss
   

Thrice Setlist

1. Of Dust and Nations
2. The Earth Will Shake
3. All The World is Mad
4. A Song for Milly Michaelson
5. The Artist in the Ambulance
6. Silhouette
7. Beggars
   

I thought I might start crying when Thrice came on . . . I'd seen them twice before (I told Liz and my friend Mike from high school who we met up with there "I've seen Thrice twice . . . after tonight, I'll have seen Thrice thrice!") but before I knew any of their music . . . Dustin Kensrue has a beautiful voice, and I couldn't help but be excited to see them, especially when they played "The Artist in the Ambulance", my favorite song of theirs.

Manchester Orchestra Setlist

1. Wolves at Night
2. I Can Barely Breathe
3. I've Got Friends
4. Shake it Out
5. Where Have You Been?  (with Kevin Devine)

Kevin Devine Setlist

1. Just Stay
2. Carnival
3. Another Bag of Bones
4. Cotton Crush
5. Brother’s Blood

My love for Kevin Devine has only strengthened with time . . . seven years and thirteen shows later, Kevin Devine has gone from this amazing singer to this amazing singer who is also my hero who is also . . . um, AMAZING. God, I don't know how else to describe him. Nothing gets me more excited than when I see him and he sees me and his eyes light up in recognition . . . we've only met a few times, and he has no idea what my name is, but when he took the stage tonight to open up for Brand New at Nassau Coliseum, I felt such a surge of pride for him. The first time I saw him was at the Mercury Lounge with Shannon, in June 2003, when we were the only two people in the venue who weren't his friends or family. Tonight he sang to hundreds, maybe even thousands of people, and I was so proud of him. I congratulated him when I saw him after the show and he just looked so overwhelmed and grateful, I just adore him. He's just amazing.

me with Kevin Devine