Post Show Banter >>>>

Cock wrote:
Makes it easier for the pay to be a roadie roadie.

kosmo wrote:
speaking of shows with lots of banter

i saw a lengthy review of a Gene Simmons show and there was loads of banter with some "songs" thrown in…

it's absurd he would charge a fan that much in light of this news I just read
Simmons, 75, is reportedly the richest member of Kiss and is worth $400 million.

Here is the review of the Gene show

TL/DR - lots of banter and meh songs  also some unfortunate body shaming.

https://www.kissfaq.com/forum24/viewtopic.php?t=166712&sid=893a534dff0eb03d1d89aadbd2ea1cd3

BarelyHatch wrote:
slept on the mould tix…sold out :(
surprised this is at the black cat TBH

Picked up a last minute resale.

Thought the Bob Mould show was among the very best I've ever seen him do. J Robbins is an awesome opener, and it was a great time…but Bob's performance really was superlative. I felt like that was the closest to Husker Du that I'll ever see. It was relentless, a truly powerful show. And better than what I saw in New York, which I felt was already pretty fantastic. It also highlighted how his last string of 6 or so LPs really are some of his strongest and most consistent work. Some of those songs could have easily held up on a Husker Du record…"Next Generation", "Fireball", "You Say You", "Losing Time", "Hard to Get", "When Your Heart is Broken"…those are some incredible songs.

Great energy from the stage, for sure, but I always forget how sub-par the Black Cat is compared to other venues.

grateful wrote:
Great energy from the stage, for sure, but I always forget how sub-par the Black Cat is compared to other venues.

Amen to that brother. It’s sooooooo bad!

bearman🐻 wrote:
It was relentless, a truly powerful show.

I used "relentless" to describe the show last night, too.  Holy hell that was good.

bearman🐻 wrote:
Thought the Bob Mould show was among the very best I've ever seen him do. J Robbins is an awesome opener, and it was a great time…but Bob's performance really was superlative. I felt like that was the closest to Husker Du that I'll ever see. It was relentless, a truly powerful show. And better than what I saw in New York, which I felt was already pretty fantastic. It also highlighted how his last string of 6 or so LPs really are some of his strongest and most consistent work. Some of those songs could have easily held up on a Husker Du record…"Next Generation", "Fireball", "You Say You", "Losing Time", "Hard to Get", "When Your Heart is Broken"…those are some incredible songs.

Yes! ''Relentless'' is the key word.  At 64, Mould is still a ball of fire.  He was soaked in sweat by maybe the third song of his set of 26.  I've enjoyed his solo shows in the past, but when he's with this band it's on another level. Wurster makes the most of every drum and cymbal in his kit.

Bagley wrote:

bearman🐻 wrote:
Thought the Bob Mould show was among the very best I've ever seen him do. J Robbins is an awesome opener, and it was a great time…but Bob's performance really was superlative. I felt like that was the closest to Husker Du that I'll ever see. It was relentless, a truly powerful show. And better than what I saw in New York, which I felt was already pretty fantastic. It also highlighted how his last string of 6 or so LPs really are some of his strongest and most consistent work. Some of those songs could have easily held up on a Husker Du record…"Next Generation", "Fireball", "You Say You", "Losing Time", "Hard to Get", "When Your Heart is Broken"…those are some incredible songs.

Yes! ''Relentless'' is the key word.  At 64, Mould is still a ball of fire.  He was soaked in sweat by maybe the third song of his set of 26.  I've enjoyed his solo shows in the past, but when he's with this band it's on another level. Wurster makes the most of every drum and cymbal in his kit.

Yeah - Wuster was a big draw for me

Impressive set

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/bob-mould/2025/black-cat-washington-dc-7b5d5a00.html

hutch wrote:

grateful wrote:
Great energy from the stage, for sure, but I always forget how sub-par the Black Cat is compared to other venues.

Amen to that brother. It’s sooooooo bad!

This was one reason I didn't go. The other was that the birthday cake and ice cream were at home.

Space wrote:

hutch wrote:

grateful wrote:
Great energy from the stage, for sure, but I always forget how sub-par the Black Cat is compared to other venues.

Amen to that brother. It’s sooooooo bad!

This was one reason I didn't go. The other was that the birthday cake and ice cream were at home.

Happy 65th brother

That’s amazing! No shade man, 65 is huge considering how plugged in you are to the music scene. No need to pretend you’re any younger than you are!

Wow you get all the senior discounts now! I long for that day…..

Happy birthday Space

Cock wrote:
Happy birthday Space

He missed it. He’s in Portugal. 

bearman🐻 wrote:
Thought the Bob Mould show was among the very best I've ever seen him do. J Robbins is an awesome opener, and it was a great time…but Bob's performance really was superlative. I felt like that was the closest to Husker Du that I'll ever see. It was relentless, a truly powerful show. And better than what I saw in New York, which I felt was already pretty fantastic. It also highlighted how his last string of 6 or so LPs really are some of his strongest and most consistent work. Some of those songs could have easily held up on a Husker Du record…"Next Generation", "Fireball", "You Say You", "Losing Time", "Hard to Get", "When Your Heart is Broken"…those are some incredible songs.

Agreed! It was great!

Julian, wrote:

Cock wrote:
Happy birthday Space

He missed it. He’s in Portugal.

Thanks Cock. It's much more rare when I check the message board on taxpayers time these days.

Bad Moves / The Paranoid Style / Truth or Dare at Songbyrd

Will have to say Songbyrd is a nice little venue, just wish I hadn't spent 20 minutes trying to find a parking space around Union Market when there a super easy spot in from the schools around the corner. 

Anyways, first up were a newer DC band Truth or Dare who turned a in definite top tapping fun set.  While they describe themselves as "Cathartic pop punk for Animorphs fans" I would say they lean a bit more to the metal side with some big Hair Metal riffs.  They have a debut album coming, which I'm curious to hear.

https://truthordare.bandcamp.com/track/h-s-b-f

I learned today the Paranoid Style is actually a DC group, for some reason I thought they were from elsewhere.  Anyways, just got into listening to them recently and there is a lot going on with their records.  Saw someone describe them as brainiac rock.  Thought their set was a little haphazard, but then I saw they perform live like once a year so probably not a regular rehearsing band.  An interesting sidenote, is I had just seen that Peter Holsapple was playing guitar with them and yup there he was last night.  My guess is those of a certain age where surprised/excited to see him up there. 

Bad Moves is always a fun band to see live, they really turn in an energetic set.  My only comment is I have certain songs I immediately associate with them which they didn't play last night.  They choose to dig deep into their catalog and do more of their early songs, which I'm less familiar with..  I was thinking we kinda got Dark Bad Moves verses Party Bad Moves.  Which of course means I'm in for that final show at Black Cat.

Fontaines DC put on a great show
very packed, so got some pretty shitty sightlines, but sounded great and the crowd was digging it

I was thwarted trying to do my two venues in one night to see the bad nerves my friend even pulled "I know hutch" card and could not sway to staff to break the no reentry policy ;(