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boston area shows of note:

friday, july 25th

comedian joel mchale

(from the soup)

@ the wilbur theatre

saturday, july 26th

bon iver

bowerbirds

@ the museum of fine arts

sunday, july 27th

the new collisions (debut)

red quiet

melt

@ tt the bears

sunday, july 27th

sunfold

antiques

@ the middle east upstairs

wednesday, july 30th

we are scientists

@ the middle east downstairs

wednesday, july 30th

earlimart

@ the middle east upstairs

wednesday, july 30th

spiritualized

the dirtbombs

@ the wilbur theatre

thursday, july 31st

the police

elvis costello & the impersonators

@ the tweeter center

friday & saturday

august 1st & 2nd

eddie vedder

liam finn

solo @ the opera house

saturday, august 2nd

wolf parade

@ the paradise

monday, august 4th

coldplay

@ the garden

tuesday, august 5th

(and every tuesday this month)

neil cleary's 'doozy'

a guest-packed 4-show residency

@ the lizard lounge

wednesday, august 6th

neil halstead (slowdive/mojave 3)

rogue wave

jack johnson

@ the tweeter center

saturday, august 9th

margot & the nuclear so and so's

@ the middle east

saturday, august 9th

melvins

@ the paradise

sunday, august 10th

ho-ag

six finger satellite

the in-out

certainly, sir

@ great scott

tuesday, august 12th

thao nguyen with

the get down stay down

david schultz & the skyline

pepi ginsberg

@ tt the bears

tuesday, august 12th

(and every tuesday this month)

neil cleary's 'doozy'

a guest-packed 4-show residency

@ the lizard lounge

wednesday, august 13th

radiohead

grizzly bear

@ the tweeter center

thursday, august 14th

grizzly bear

violens

outside in the courtyard

@ the museum of fine arts

friday, august 15th

the ex

getachew mekuria

debo band

@ the middle east downstairs

saturday, august 16th

+/- (plus minus)

broken river prophet (cd release!)

animal hospital

ba-na-nas

free kickass cupcakes from 9-10pm!

@ the middle east upstairs

tuesday, august 19th

(and every tuesday this month)

neil cleary's 'doozy'

a guest-packed 4-show residency

@ the lizard lounge

wednesday, august 20th

human league, belinda carlisle, abc,

flock of seagulls, naked eyes

@ the bank of america pavilion

thursday, august 21st

yndi halda

caspian

irepress

@ tt the bears

friday, august 22nd

obits (ex-hot snakes/rftc)

@ the middle east

saturday, august 23rd

amo joy!

franklin bruno

(from nothing painted blue)

one happy island (ep release!)

@ the lily pad

saturday, august 23rd

newbury comics / unnatural axe

30th anniversary bash

the meatmen, queers, nasties,

unnatural axe, sleazies

@ the middle east down

tuesday, august 26th

the final installment of...

neil cleary's 'doozy'

a guest-packed august residency

@ the lizard lounge

wednesday, august 27th

liz phair performing

'exile in guyville'

@ the paradise

wednesday, august 27th

xiu xiu

prurient

@ the paradise

monday, september 1st

the juan maclean

@ the middle east downstairs

friday, september 5th

silver jews

@ the middle east downstairs

saturday, september 6th

my morning jacket

@ the bank of america pavilion

sunday, september 7th

ryan adams & the cardinals

@ the bank of america pavilion

tuesday, september 9th

paul weller

@ the berklee performance center

saturday, september 13th

wfnx disorientation 2008

the kooks, flogging molly,

alkaline trio, rogue wave,

and more to be announced

@ bank of america pavilion

monday, september 15th

james

@ the paradise

tuesday, september 16th

a place to bury strangers

@ the paradise

thursday, september 18th

the walkmen

@ the middle east downstairs

friday, september 19th

sigur ros

@ the bank of america pavilion

friday, september 19th to

sunday, september 21st

all tomorrow's parties

with my bloody valentine, low

built to spill, mogwai, shellac,

polvo, yo la tengo, lilys, autolux

dinosaur jr, mercury rev, & more

@ the catskills in nyc

monday, september 22nd

mogwai

fuck buttons

@ the wilbur theatre

tuesday, september 23rd

writer dennis lehane

(release day for 'the given day')

@ the coolidge corner theatre

wednesday, september 24th

low

@ the museum of fine arts boston

saturday, september 27th

built to spill

performing 'perfect from now on'

dinosaur jr.

meat puppets

@ the orpheum

sunday, september 28th

the bird and the bee

willoughby

@ great scott

thursday, september 30th

boston spaceships

(gbv's robert pollard)

big dipper

@ the paradise

sunday, october 5th

pinback

@ the paradise

monday, october 6th

the wedding present

@ the middle east downstairs

monday, october 6th

stereolab

monade

@ the paradise

wednesday, october 8th

wire

@ the middle east downstairs

sunday, october 12th

the residents

@ showcase live, foxboro

sunday, october 12th

the notwist

@ the roxy

tuesday, october 14th

cold war kids

@ the paradise

friday, october 17th

jonathan richman

with drummer tommy larkin

@ the somerville theatre

saturday, october 18th

ra ra riot

walter meego

the morning benders

@ the middle east

tuesday & wednesday

october 21st & 22nd

billy bragg

@ the somerville theatre

wednesday, october 22nd

lyle lovett & john hiatt

(acoustic, on stage together)

@ the orpheum

thursday, october 30th

of montreal

@ the orpheum

saturday, november 1st

henry rollins (spoken word)

@ the orpheum

monday, november 3rd

coldplay

@ the td banknorth garden

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Monday, March 13, 2006

Mp3s: The Wedding Present in Cambridge, MA

This past Tuesday, David Gedge and his Wedding Present came back to the Boston area for the second time since the release of their latest album, Take Fountain, and they used the return to dig even deeper into the Weddoes/Cinerama catalog. Less recent songs, and more old faves they didn't play back in April '05. They touched on all six of their proper albums, and dropped in the occasional single-only track and Cinerama song. It was a real treat for a fan of Gedge's entire songwriting career, and especially for one like me, who fell in love with 'em during the Bizarro/Seamonsters-era. Having seen them live a half dozen times (including as Cinerama), this one ranks nearly at the top.

~~Here's~~ Here was a recording of the set, which doesn't sound quite as good as some of the shows I normally share, but is still well worth a download. Blame the acoustics at the good ol' Middle East Down...

The Wedding Present

Live at the Middle East
Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

(note: files removed on 6/5/2006)

1. Corduroy / Sucker
2. Blue Eyes
3. Always The Quiet One
4. Apres Ski
5. Go Out and Get Em Boy
6. Don't Talk Just Kiss
7. Loveslave
8. A Million Miles
9. Suck
10. I Am From Further North Than You
11. Come Play With Me
12. It's Not You It's Me
13. Crushed
14. Falling
15. 2, 3, Go
16. Click Click
17. Ringway to Seatac
18. Brassneck
19. Nobody's Twisting Your Arm
20. Heather

For those keeping score, 'Go Out And Get 'Em Boy' was their first single, and can be found on the Tommy singles collection. There were two songs from George Best, their debut, and three each from Bizarro and Seamonsters. Three songs can be found on the Hit Parade 1 singles collection (including 'Falling', the Twin Peaks theme), and 'Loveslave' is on Hit Parade 2. One song each from Watusi (the excellent 'Click Click', which I've always wanted to see live) and the Mini EP. One song from Saturnalia, and three from Take Fountain. As for Cinerama songs, we got 'Apres Ski' off of Disco Volante, along with 'It's Not You, It's Me', which was Cinerama's latest (last?) official single. Like I said, they touched on an awful lot of releases.

The setlist hasn't varied much (if at all) during this tour, and familiars will know that they don't take requests or do encores. Not sure I'll ever get used to walking into a club and seeing one of my musical heros standing by himself behind the merch table, answering questions and taking cash. Sure does attract the fans, though, and you gotta wonder how much his presence there boosts sales. Me? I picked up the Cinerama tour DVD and a set of Weddoes postcards, the only two things on display I didn't yet have.

Kyle over at Information Leafblower saw them a couple days before me down in D.C., and he's got some more words and pictures for ya. And just a few days after me, Frank Chromewaves caught them up in Toronto, so behold his words and pictures as well. Frank saved me the trouble of describing the Weddoes lineup changes, but I will add that I thought the two new guys were ace, even going so far as to say the drummer was the best I've seen backup Gedge in years.

For some video action (of marginal quality, but still), someone shared up the band performing 'Falling' at Neumos in Seattle last month, and another fan has a clip of them doing 'Ringway to Seatac' in Chapel Hill last week (follow link to the forum, where you'll find a link to the video).

On an entirely unrelated note, you may have noticed that I've been conspicuously absent from the 'Nac for a few weeks... I won't bore you with the many reasons why, but I'll sum it up with 'life changes' and leave it there, at least until my next giganto-post. Hopefully I'll get to that in the next day or two, but regardless, Boston-area readers should stop by here tomorrow when I'll start a contest to give away a couple of tickets to see a certain nostalgic new-wave-pop band on their farewell tour...

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