Idlewild roll call

just a heads up for anyone going, got my tickets and the funk box warned me of a sellout around showtime, so dont TOO tardy if you're ticketless


also, heres the setlist from Boston on 9/6


Boston, Paradise
6th September 2005 -

1. Too long awake
2. Love steals us from loneliness
3. Little discourage
4. A modern way of letting go
5. Welcome home
6. These wooden ideas
7. I want a warning
8. I understand it
9. American English
10. The space between all things
11. Live in a hiding place
12. Blame it on obvious ways
13. When I argue I see shapes
14. El Capitan
15. The bronze medal
16. Roseability
17. You held the world in your arms
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18. Self healer
19. I'm a message
20. A film for the future

set times for tonight? i'm guessing 9.30 and 10.30, for each respectively?

Terrific show last night. The club was tiny and had great sound. I'm too tired to give a full review, but the band played everything I wanted to hear with passion and intensity. New songs sounded great live. Set list was a good mix of new and old. Roddy was very chatty. Very excited crowd. Looking forward to the show tonight!
Oh and Inara George has a beautiful voice. She's well worth checking out.

Agree with everything that Kurosawa said. Fun night all around with good music and a good crowd. It was obvious that everyone, from band to crowd, was having a good time.

inara george very much reminds me of maziestar. very enjoyable opener. she would be perfect for iota.

great set last night-18 songs. i thought for sure that show would sell out and was shocked to see it barely half full!

i thought Inara George was bad. no stage presence whatsoever and her babbling in between songs was very lame.

maybe she wouldve been a good opener for someone, but come on people, its a saturday night, lets try not to be so BORING!!!!

Inara was a little annoying. Some of the songs built up into a nice swingalong, but for the most part, it was kinda cutesy-boring. I think she'll have a Lisa Loeb-like hit and then drop out of view.
Idlewild were good, sometimes great, but they seemed tired and a little depressed that they were playing such a small venue. As I feared, Roddy showed up wearing a vest, looking very Joshua Tree in his Bono locks, black jeans and cowboy boots. Song selection was good – opening up with Film for the Future was a great treat.
But I did get the feeling that Roddy is wondering where it all went wrong. Maybe it was just fatigue, but he seemed disappointed in it all. After playing for huge crowds (albeit at European festivals), it probably is a downer to be playing to 3/4 crowd at the Black Cat.

If Scottish people get any more cheerful than Roddy was last night its a sure sign they are really American or on drugs.

He seemed in fine form to me. Then again I have only seen them 6 times over the space of 8 years.

I thought Idlewild were excellent. Even the new stuff - which I'm not terribly fond of on record - sounded very good live.

Originally posted by Relaxer:

But I did get the feeling that Roddy is wondering where it all went wrong. Maybe it was just fatigue, but he seemed disappointed in it all. After playing for huge crowds (albeit at European festivals), it probably is a downer to be playing to 3/4 crowd at the Black Cat.

yeah, the 8X10 is even smaller (by a lot!)

after talking to them after the show saturday, i dont think they were very bummed out by playing small shows, as they are aware its the only promotion they are going to get. and we were all up late drinking Sat night, which couldve been why they look tired!!!

and the black cat always makes me tired anyway!

idlewild is no question one of the best bands around right now, and though i think they should be selling millions of records, i am glad i got to see them with only two people standing in front of me!!!! :)

Originally posted by Jaguär:
Agree with everything that Kurosawa said. Fun night all around with good music and a good crowd. It was obvious that everyone, from band to crowd, was having a good time.

i wanted to find you and annoy you on sat, but the crowd was so huge i couldnt find you!!

Originally posted by sonickteam4:

Originally posted by Jaguär:
Agree with everything that Kurosawa said. Fun night all around with good music and a good crowd. It was obvious that everyone, from band to crowd, was having a good time.

i wanted to find you and annoy you on sat, but the crowd was so huge i couldnt find you!!

I may be a Jaguar but I am sly like a fox! :p

Originally posted by sonickteam4:

Originally posted by Jaguär:
Agree with everything that Kurosawa said. Fun night all around with good music and a good crowd. It was obvious that everyone, from band to crowd, was having a good time.

i wanted to find you and annoy you on sat, but the crowd was so huge i couldnt find you!!

You were actually standing right behind her the whole time.

lol. haha. why didnt you tell me?

saw them last night. was a great set with a good mix of everything. their new songs sound even better live. Roddy did seem a bit tired on stage, rubbing his eyes, etc. but i had heard it was going to be a rough few days. so its to be expected. besides listening to inara george beforehand nearly put me to sleep.

ive seen mazzy starr before and she's definitely no mazzy starr. i was rather hoping they were some band from the hillsides of scotland. too bad they were just from LA. at least they could have been from SF :)

it was nice to meet you relaxer :)

did they play "I wanna be sedated" last night?

Originally posted by sonickteam4:
did they play "I wanna be sedated" last night?

No, but they did play Neil Young's 'Looking for A Love'

the cool thing is that they obviously mix up the set list pretty much everynight. You don't find too many bands that do that nowadays.

Originally posted by redsock:
the cool thing is that they obviously mix up the set list pretty much everynight. You don't find too many bands that do that nowadays.

Jam bands do it all the time.

:D

Idlewild, Resting on Its Aurals

Tuesday, September 13, 2005; Page C04

Although Idlewild has become a mainstream act in Britain, here its career seems to have stalled. On Sunday night, the Scottish quintet drew a smaller crowd to the Black Cat than it did to the 9:30 club two years ago.

That might reflect some disappointment with the band's move from punk to punky folk-rock, but probably not. Its new album, "Warnings/Promises," continues a very gradual evolution and is hardly a dramatic break with its predecessor, "The Remote Part." Perhaps the problem is that, 10 years after it formed, Idlewild still doesn't know how to pace a live set.

Taken as a series of songs – whether older ones such as "Little Discourage" or brand-new numbers such as "El Capitan" – Idlewild's performance was irreproachable. The band was tight without being mechanical, singer Roddy Woomble could shout or lilt with equal authority and such textural digressions as acoustic guitar or electric piano didn't disrupt the central style. Yet the overall show was considerably less forceful than the individual selections. Even though the musicians didn't seem to be pushing themselves to the limit, they stopped to collect themselves after every tune, squandering the concert's momentum.

What worked in the group's favor was the quality of its songwriting. Whether stormy ("A Modern Way of Letting Go'') or serene ("Live in a Hiding Place''), Idlewild's material is well constructed and reliably melodic. But it's easy to see why fans who've seen the quintet a few times might decide to stick with the recorded versions.


– Mark Jenkins