Neko Case show help

He had two other people playing with him: a woman playing bass and doing background singing and a guy doing keyboards/some drumming. No violinist :(  I remember being blown away by Crooked Fingers a couple years back (May 02, opening for Pinback) but that was with a 5 piece band with strings. I read somewhere that they played the West Coast in 2008 with a violinist and a couple Archers of Loaf songs…still on the fence with the IOTA show tonite….

amnesiac wrote:

azaghal1981 wrote:
Did anyone else notice that the crickets/frogs song was being played alongside Fleet Foxes after the encore? That was funny. Neko Case was pretty good but I enjoyed Crooked Fingers' set more.

Did Eric Bachmann have a band with him or did he play solo?

wml7 wrote:

JonathanEH wrote:
I'm really excited about the Will Sheff thing tonight, though I was looking forward to Crooked Fingers as well.

Can anyone who might have been there early comment on how early it would be good to show up to get a spot on the balcony railing?  I bet if we were there by the time the doors opened, we would probably be OK, but if I knew that it was OK to get there more like 7:30, that would be great.

Thanks.

wasn't this already answered????  Yeah I think 7:30 would be fine too.  Anytime before 8 and the opening band actually would be fine.

If you want to be in the middle on the railing, I'd agree to get there at doors.  If you don't care if your on the side railings, then like 7:15 or 7:20 would be fine…or at least it was last night.  But later than that, the railing was full.

That set list from last night sounds perfect.  I'm seeing her tonight and I hope most stays the same…can't wait, I've never seen Neko live.

Has anyone seen Okkervil River live?  What should I expect?

Hello wrote:
He had two other people playing with him: a woman playing bass and doing background singing and a guy doing keyboards/some drumming. No violinist :(  I remember being blown away by Crooked Fingers a couple years back (May 02, opening for Pinback) but that was with a 5 piece band with strings. I read somewhere that they played the West Coast in 2008 with a violinist and a couple Archers of Loaf songs…still on the fence with the IOTA show tonite….

amnesiac wrote:

azaghal1981 wrote:
Did anyone else notice that the crickets/frogs song was being played alongside Fleet Foxes after the encore? That was funny. Neko Case was pretty good but I enjoyed Crooked Fingers' set more.

Did Eric Bachmann have a band with him or did he play solo?

I've seen Crooked Fingers a few times and the best was when he had the Archers' bassist in the band. And they do sometimes play one or two Archers songs. The only ones I've seen them play are Chumming the Ocean, Dead Red Eyes, and White Trash Heroes.

I'd say it was a great show last night. Much better than the last Neko show at the club but still the best Neko show I've seen was the second to last 930 show (the one with Martha Wainwright as the opener). Big surprise on the set list last night was "I Wish I Was The Moon"…

I'd hate you guys if you get "Running Out of Fools" or "The Train from Kansas City" tonite. SERIOUSLY!

Yeah, I don't think she will ever be able to beat the one where she played with Martha…

nmsles wrote:
That set list from last night sounds perfect.  I'm seeing her tonight and I hope most stays the same…can't wait, I've never seen Neko live.

Has anyone seen Okkervil River live?  What should I expect?

I've seen Okkervil River before and they were great.  Much more energetic than you would expect from the records.  This is just Will, though, so I don't know what this will be.

Thanks to people giving reports on how early it was needed to arrive last night for a railing spot.

JonathanEH wrote:
I've seen Okkervil River before and they were great.  Much more energetic than you would expect from the records.  This is just Will, though, so I don't know what this will be.

That's what I was going to say!  Okkervil is great live, but I'm not sure what Sheff alone will be like.  Someone please ask him to play his cover of Ex-Girl Collection and then call me during the song so I can hear it! or record it on your phone! ;D

MyraEllen wrote:
Someone please ask him to play his cover of Ex-Girl Collection and then call me during the song so I can hear it! or record it on your phone! ;D

Saw him play this at Iota a few years ago when Charles Bissel opened for OR and it was awesome. Glad he finally recorded it. I hope he plays it again tonight. That and some stuff I've never heard live before, like Velocity of Saul…

Loved the show last night.  Great setlist.  I was hoping for Magpie as well which would have completed it.  I got there at 730 and the railing was full but still very sparse crowd.

Tonights show was great. Same main set as last night, but the encores were:

-Vengeance is Sleeping
-Favorite
-Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth
-Magpie to the Morning
-Knock Hard

I never got to hear that line about "the Sistine Chapel painted with a gaitlin gun" from Polar Nettles. Sucks.

Does anyone else think that Neko looks about 50? She is not aging well. Then again, neither am I.  And I bet Kelly Hogan would be alot more fun in bed. Just saying.

Will Sheff was ok, but needed his band. I don't think he would have won Relaxer's love with that appearance. Is he one of the unsexiest rockers out there? He's like Rhett Miller without the sex appeal.

In the words of Randy Jackson, I though Neko was just ok, dawg. I agree that she her career peaked around the time she did that show with Martha Wainwright. Now she's just a chartbuster on autopilot. No thanks to the douchebag who yelled "Don't Fear the Reaper", and pretty much set the tone for the lame annoying stage banter of the second half. Jon Rauhouse had the best line when he exclaimed that he was laughing at something "that was actually funny."

I got stuck with one of THOSE women behind me. When Will introduced himself with "I'm Will Sheff, I usually play in a band called Okkervil River", she asked her friend, "Are they from here?" Then he proceeded with a song that drops "shit" in the first verse…and she exclaimed something to the effect of "Oh my god, he said 'shit.'" As if that's something that never happens in a rock song.

Both nights were just ok, dog.


Crooked Fingers' set was exponentially better than Will Sheff's so night 1 wins over all.
Sheff's voice just rubs me the wrong way. The same can be said for ixkpd-bk who kept voicing his opinion of him to me in his own hilarious way as we stood in the front row. Plenty of stifling of laughter/shushing occured on my part. Tonight at the club, the laughter will not be stifled and the shushing will not take place. ;)

Loved last night's set.  Better than the 1st which was great in its own right.  Thrilled to see Magpie on there!  Not a fan of Will Sheff or Okervil River. 

Neko is eventually going to look like Kate from the B-52's.

This show was perrrrfect for my mood.  I am so grateful I got to go…

If I were in my normal state of mind I would agree with other reviews and probably think this show could have rocked harder.  But I was feeling awfully awful, so I was glad it didn't make me feel out of place (not that the show was awful, just that it was subdued enough that I didn't feel like I was missing out cause I was melancholy). and there are just some parts of a girls life that Neko KNOWS, you know ;)  so it was just PERFECT.  A+++  So so so grateful I got to go, it lifted my spirits exponentially.

I don't think the show could have rocked harder. That's like faulting Leonard Cohen for not rocking hard enough.

Samantha wrote:
This show was perrrrfect for my mood.  I am so grateful I got to go…

If I were in my normal state of mind I would agree with other reviews and probably think this show could have rocked harder.  But I was feeling awfully awful, so I was glad it didn't make me feel out of place (not that the show was awful, just that it was subdued enough that I didn't feel like I was missing out cause I was melancholy). and there are just some parts of a girls life that Neko KNOWS, you know ;)  so it was just PERFECT.  A+++  So so so grateful I got to go, it lifted my spirits exponentially.