First time out to Merriweather tonight

Finally making the trek out to Merriweather Post for Thievery tonight. Are the directions on the website good or is there another route that works better? Coming from NW DC.

Thanks!


From the Washington DC area and points South: Take DC Beltway 495 to I-95 North towards Baltimore. Proceed 16.2 miles. Merge onto MD-32 West exit 38B toward Columbia. Exit onto Rt. 29 North, exit 16A. Take the Broken Land Parkway North exit towards Merriweather. Do not take the Broken Land Parkway exit you see earlier while on MD-32 West. Merge onto Broken Land Parkway. Turn right at first stoplight into Main Parking Area.

Or you could just go up Georgia to Colesville Rd./Rt. 29 without bothering with 495 and 95. Someone else will have to provide the turns from 29 because I only sort of know the road well enough to know what to do while I'm driving it. Besides, I come in from the complete opposite angle. I took that way, in reverse, last night into DC to avoid 295 congestion I saw up ahead me.

The directions from the website are pretty accurate and straight on. I've been there many times and those are the ones I use.

this is the fastest way for me :)

enjoy the show. I hate the sound at Merriweather but it's a decent venue.

Originally posted by Jaguar:
Or you could just go up Georgia to Colesville Rd./Rt. 29 without bothering with 495 and 95.

heh, tonight is my first time at merriweather as well. luckily i have an experienced guide who'll show me the way (and drive me there and back, to boot!). what with it being designed by frank gehry and what people say of its acoustics (except for mr. marshmallow), i'm looking forward to checking out the venue almost as much as any of the acts.

there's some deal about parking at the mall and walking over to the venue to avoid post-show traffic delays, but someone familiar with that bit of info will have to elaborate. although that might be all there is to say about that :)

Just got back from the show.

Traffic at Merriweather is no where near as bad as post-show Nissan traffic.

Show was great by the way

Except maybe for those on the lawn (was row K here).

Amazing show, I loved it, it was visceral.

merriweather is my new favorite outdoor venue. loved everything about it - great sound, amazing sight-lines, not too big, nice staff, no traffic hassles, the 932, good food and drink selection, and a million little touches like the art, the trees, etc.

fun fun fun show. loved all the acts. i'm a new fan of tvotr's live show, and thievery returned to their old glory - their stock had been sinking in my books recently, but last night they surged back. so much fun to dance to. managed to scoot over to dead-center, second row behind the pit - aka best seats in the house.

need to run and catch a train, more random ramblings later (if you're unlucky :p )

as promised/threatened:

- seu jorge added some much-needed variation to thievery's set.
- i had no idea there was a major thunderstorm going on until miss p brought to my attention. from our seats, so close to the PA, the rain was inaudible. it was shocking to turn around and see sheets of rain coming down. the wind and temperature drop that it brought were godsends, the humidity before that was borderline unbearable.
- i thought it was a classy move to let some of the lawn folk occupy the side loges. previously they were empty, obviously no loge tickets had been sold. that move brought a few people in from the rain and also filled up the pavilion - i'm sure the artists appreciated it.
- the white sangria is highly recommended.
- ordering "a shot" of top-shelf tequila while engaged in a lively conversation with the nice folks at the 932 can lead to a fuzzy day-after.

looking forward to my next show at merriweather.

also first time at that venue..only because ladytron was not playing at the 9:30 club…am I ever glad to spend some extra money for the pavilion seats.
it was insanely hot…
and also glad that I discovered how amazing and fun thievery corporation is..I danced .almost their whole show.
tv on the radio..just okay to me.
god i want ladytron at the 9:30 club so i can dance and hear more songs. wish they had the video on them.

funny when we went to get a drink the neon sign was saying 10 minutes till thunderstorm..ha ha and i agree that it was cool to have those fans move into loge.

what was the 9:32..saw the sign from my seat.

,,,

anyone have a setlist or remember any tracks for thievery corporation?

Originally posted by sweetcell:
managed to scoot over to dead-center, second row behind the pit - aka best seats in the house.

I happened to glance over to my right during TV on the Radio's set – and saw you and Miss P at the other end of my row. ;)

I tried waving, but with no success. I was going to try to catch up with y'all after the show, but I think you left (or at least moved) before the end.

Originally posted by lancha:
anyone have a setlist or remember any tracks for thievery corporation?

I didn't bother keeping a set list, but this is what I remember.

Some of the song names might be off – for some of the ones I don't play all that often, I'm not very good at remembering the names.

The order is also approximate (after the first few).

- Instrumental tune (w/just Rob and Eric)
- Facing East
- Lebanese Blonde (feat. Sista Pat)
- a song with Karina, the Brazilian singer (I think "Exilio"?)
- Omid (feat. Loulou)
- another song with Karina (maybe "Pela Janela")
- a French-language song with Loulou (maybe "Le Monde"? "Un simple histoire"?)
- The Heart's a Lonely Hunter (feat. Frank Orrall)
- Originality (feat. Sista Pat and Sleepy Wonder)
- Assault On Babylon (feat. See-I)
- Illumination
- .38.45 (A Thievery Number) (feat. See-I)
- new track feat. Seu Jorge
- Warning Shots (feat. Sleepy Wonder)
- Radio Retaliation (feat. Sista Pat and Sleepy Wonder)

Encore:
- new track feat. Seu Jorge
- The Richest Man in Babylon
- Coming from the Top

Ah, yessss….I remember my first time at Merriweather: The Cars, 1984. What a show. "Heartbeat City" had just hit the racks and the venue was packed to the gills. On the drive up, me and my special lady friend jammed to Ray Parker Jr.'s "Ghostbusters," which was tearing up the airwaves that season. We split a six of Mickey's Big Mouths, tossing the pull tabs into the moist summer wind. The shackles were off alright, the gimp was released and a primordial tension unfolded in front of me. I was on my way to see THE CARS!!! I donâ??t think I was aware of it, I was so jacked. They have that ability to draw you inâ?¦through the often hypnotic pulse of the music, or just the compelling interaction of Okasek and his subordinates (don't kid yerself, Ben Orr was just a hired hand). Anyway, we had to park in a distant corn field, where we enjoyed a brief tussle in the tassles. We pushed our way through the teeming throngs to the Post. Back then, everything was made of wood at M-Weather and wow, it smelled fantastic after the sweet summer rains. The opening act, who was, I shit you not, Wang Chung, were just exiting the stage. My lady and I downed a couple of stadium sized Millers and grooved to the summer's other big smash â?? "Owner of A Lonely Heart"â?? over the soundsystem for what seemed like an enternity until suddenly…the lights went out, the roar went up and the anticipation was like the moment before your lover drops his or her last remaining shred of decency in the boudoirâ?¦simple aweâ?¦dangerous, completely on the edge of the cliff, dangling over the precipice, in fact teasing the precipice and even letting go but never completely falling into the void. Hovering about it and giving it the middle finger and farting in its face. I never understood until much later how important tension was to the creative processâ?¦pisses you off, makes you chip your teeth as you grit, pulls back the layer and exposes the anger but then relieves you of it. Yes, it was the Cars, live and in person. The hits flowed, Okasek bobbed his head as if feigning attention, the drums plodded in a singsong rhythm and I felt as if I was indeed getting a delicious, stolen handjob from my best friend's girl. One after the other the songs knocked me back down, like trying to survive in a rough sea, gasping, swimming and pulling toward the surface, the sheer force of pop genius would not let me up. I think it was during "Candy-O" when I finally passed out for good. When I came to, my special lady friend and Greg Hawkes were engaged in a white-hot game of Parchessi (my gal down to her Jordache and a pair of elbow-length gloves), while Okasek tried to bring me around by blasting the first Suicide album and drooling in my ear. I tell 'ya, seeing Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds debut later that year paled in comparison. Drive…

Originally posted by Christine Moritz:

Originally posted by lancha:
anyone have a setlist or remember any tracks for thievery corporation?

I didn't bother keeping a set list, but this is what I remember.

Some of the song names might be off – for some of the ones I don't play all that often, I'm not very good at remembering the names.

The order is also approximate (after the first few).

- Instrumental tune (w/just Rob and Eric)
- Facing East
- Lebanese Blonde (feat. Sista Pat)
- a song with Karina, the Brazilian singer (I think "Exilio"?)
- Omid (feat. Loulou)
- another song with Karina (maybe "Pela Janela")
- a French-language song with Loulou (maybe "Le Monde"? "Un simple histoire"?)
- The Heart's a Lonely Hunter (feat. Frank Orrall)
- Originality (feat. Sista Pat and Sleepy Wonder)
- Assault On Babylon (feat. See-I)
- Illumination
- .38.45 (A Thievery Number) (feat. See-I)
- new track feat. Seu Jorge
- Warning Shots (feat. Sleepy Wonder)
- Radio Retaliation (feat. Sista Pat and Sleepy Wonder)

Encore:
- new track feat. Seu Jorge
- The Richest Man in Babylon
- Coming from the Top

awesome, thanks. sounds similar to the setlist they played at night 1 of the 4 shows they did at 930 a couple of years ago. I was there for the first night and had loved every second of it - closing with "marching the hate machines into the sun" is one of the coolest concert closers i've seen.

Originally posted by Christine Moritz:

Originally posted by lancha:
anyone have a setlist or remember any tracks for thievery corporation?

I didn't bother keeping a set list, but this is what I remember.

Some of the song names might be off – for some of the ones I don't play all that often, I'm not very good at remembering the names.

The order is also approximate (after the first few).

- Instrumental tune (w/just Rob and Eric)
- Facing East
- Lebanese Blonde (feat. Sista Pat)
- a song with Karina, the Brazilian singer (I think "Exilio"?)
- Omid (feat. Loulou)
- another song with Karina (maybe "Pela Janela")
- a French-language song with Loulou (maybe "Le Monde"? "Un simple histoire"?)
- The Heart's a Lonely Hunter (feat. Frank Orrall)
- Originality (feat. Sista Pat and Sleepy Wonder)
- Assault On Babylon (feat. See-I)
- Illumination
- .38.45 (A Thievery Number) (feat. See-I)
- new track feat. Seu Jorge
- Warning Shots (feat. Sleepy Wonder)
- Radio Retaliation (feat. Sista Pat and Sleepy Wonder)

Encore:
- new track feat. Seu Jorge
- The Richest Man in Babylon
- Coming from the Top

Were you row 2 (I?) center? I think I saw you there.

Originally posted by Christine Moritz:

Originally posted by sweetcell:
managed to scoot over to dead-center, second row behind the pit - aka best seats in the house.

I happened to glance over to my right during TV on the Radio's set – and saw you and Miss P at the other end of my row. ;)

I tried waving, but with no success. I was going to try to catch up with y'all after the show, but I think you left (or at least moved) before the end.

dang, sorry we missed you. yes, we left before the show ended - we were both exhausted, and wanted to beat the rush (not that there is much to beat, apparently). if i remember correctly, we left during "the richest man in babylon". glad to hear we didn't miss too much more.

Originally posted by mrpee:
(the usual)

seven months to the day without a peep from you, and you return to regal us with a story making more analogies between okasek and sex than i feel comfortable with.

*sigh*. welcome back, mrpee.

Originally posted by Sir HC:
Were you row 2 (I?) center? I think I saw you there.

Yep – row 2, center block of seats, about 9 seats in from the left.