Joni once told us, “You don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone.” That might explain the new slew of Sleater-Kinney fanatics these days. Olympia’s finest were in perfect form for their big Big Apple goodbye. “New York City! Thanks a lot for coming to the show,” Ms. Tucker called out, for the last the time, before launching into “The Drama You’ve Been Craving.” On a barely adorned stage, at the city’s most-maligned rock venue, the trio performed a marathon set for what will be one awesome live DVD. Fans of S-K’s blistering Woods (a swan song that’s “fucking supersonic,” according to PFork) were in for the biggest surprise: the girls performed every song from that album, save for “Steep Air.” Appropriately enough “Jumpers” had the whole Hall pogo’ing along with Carrie. Brooklyn trio Rogers Sisters got the night off to a smart start, with their playfully calculated garage rock; unfortunately, if you’re seeing tonight’s rescheduled DC show — global warming (or, as Stephen Colbert calls it, “summer”) shut down the 9:30 club on Tuesday — you don’t get an opening act. And while it will be sweaty, no one towels off more sexily than Corin Tucker. I can’t wait to see ‘em again tomorrow.
THE SETLIST
Start Together
The Fox
The Drama You’ve Been Craving
Wilderness
Jumpers
Light Rail Coyote
Night Light
Ironclad
Rollercoaster
Hot Rock
What’s Mine Is Yours
Youth Decay
Modern Girl
Let’s Call It Love
Entertain
Sympathy
Dig Me Out
ENCORE 1
Ballad of a Ladyman
Oh!
Call The Doctor
Get Up
Words + Guitar
ENCORE 2
Turn It On
One More Hour
Didn’t bother bringing my camera as I didn’t want to elbow the moist crowd for front-row vantage, but Dave snapped some beautiful pics:
See his gallery here.
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Their final NYC show evs and no “I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone”? Disappointing. Closing with “One More Hour”, though, is total best.
Best. show. EVER. Worth it for the encores alone. They were just incredible. It was quite hot in there though not nearly as sweltering as the Philly show. That shit was just inhumane.
Sleater Kinney isn’t from Olympia. They’re from Portland.
re: sleater-kinney from olympia vs. portland. wikipedia states:
“Sleater-Kinney (pronounced SLAYter KIN’ee) was an indie rock trio originally from Olympia, Washington influenced by the riot grrrl movement of the 1990s. Hailing from Portland, Oregon, the group’s name is derived from Sleater-Kinney Road in Lacey, Washington, the location of one of their early practice spaces.”
We have an opener tonight @ 9:30, according to 9:30.com: French Toast…
“You don’t what you got till it’s gone…”
I thought Cinderella told us that.
i thought it was India.Arie
They are making a dvd??
too damn pissed for words… had tixs for the DC show and had a perfect vantage point for the show (that is until we got the boot). tonight’s rescheduled time didn’t work out because I already took off two days for the DC show b/c of travel, etc. At least the Rogers Sister sounded great … even better than last when I saw them in Philly opening for JSBX.
FYI – if you have your DC tix you can get a refund if you postmark your letter by 8/4! Go to sleaterkinney.com for dets.
They were from Olympia. Then they moved to Portland.
my view from the balcony (where i was standing a couple feet away from tim robbins, who was as excited as i was, which is awesome):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Tr7-UeTmU
the quality isn’t exactly fantastic, but the RAWK translates anyway
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