Setlist: 2008-04-19 - Mercury Lounge; New York, NY

[galenas]

this setlist looks absolutely amazing on paper, but unfortunately was pretty disappointing last night. crowd energy was severely lacking.

BIG shout out to matty o for coming out early and supporting the other bands. much respect and appreciation.

HUGE things were planned with the original written setlist.

that upsets me immensely.

[Klout]

probably about as much as an OFF night as you can get.

you were missing the klout factor to kick it into over drive

surprising though with such a tight set list. was there sound/technical issues?

[galenas]

was there sound/technical issues?

no, sound at mercury lounge was amazing all night.


i don\'t know what it was, but they just failed to grab people after the mercury landing set.

[Ren]

maybe you\'ll get over that team in new york too....

slow merge....

[BennyBoomers]

I\'m confused, how did they break up Space City Affair the past 2 nights? no segues into either portion.  just confusing because without notation (beg, mid, end) one would think they played the beginning each time.

[Igziabeher]

space city affair is just a spacey jam, it doesn\'t have a specific beggining, middle or ending.

[Jim Cobb]

yeah the setlist had buquebus > scheme > SOS....

boo.

[ds673488]

did mercury landing tear the place up?

[obsession600]

I caught the second half of Mercury Landing. They were pretty good. I thought the lead guitar player was their weak point. His tone was out of place with a lot of the music and I thought his solos were uninspired. The facial contortions and bad dance moves also got tiresome. The band definitely has potential and the hometown crowd dug what they were doing and showed their support.

I was up front for the Breakfast show and enjoyed watching the new dynamics between the band members. There were some high moments when the band really came together and there were also some moments when things fell apart. Given time I think they can take this thing to another level.

Did anybody see the iguana wrestling?

[galenas]

did mercury landing tear the place up?

well, the place wasn\'t going completely apeshit, but it was very nicely crowded and people were digging it.

the brew was so tight. heady dance party at times.

wounded buffalo theory always impresses people, and last night was no exception. they rallied a great crowd to open the night. matt said he really like them. and you can\'t go wrong when you throw in some theatrical shenanigans.

The facial contortions and bad dance moves also got tiresome.

dude, my buddies were dying over this!!!

[Vassillios]

Slow Merge

[jocelyn]

Shame to hear the night wasn\'t what it could have been, especially with that nice all-originals setlist.

[peaches626]

I\'m confused, how did they break up Space City Affair the past 2 nights? no segues into either portion.  just confusing because without notation (beg, mid, end) one would think they played the beginning each time.

:sigh: biscuits kids think they wrote the rules to setlist writing/notation....

[ulee]

>>astro note: the moon was "in the void" from 5 pm to 5 am sat night<<  which sometimes correlates with this "neither here nor there" energy and things just not getting off the ground ::shrug::

[cosmoechuck]

probably about as much as an OFF night as you can get.

had its moments, but that\'s about it.

this show had enormous potential, and didn\'t even come close to being able to scratch the surface, unfortunately.

HUGE things were planned with the original written setlist.

the mercury lounge employs a bunch of people who hate their jobs and lives.

and i am SO over NYC. *meh*

that said, tonight should be something special.

was this the same thing that happened the last time they played the mercury lounge dave?  back on 12/28/06 i believe they played there with teh brew.  suppossed to be a 2 set show but due to the low turnout(prolly 50-60 people) i believe they were told they were done at like 1am so the bar could close since it wasnt packed.   or something like that.  i attended both this and the mike rocklin/jim loughlin gig down the street.  if i rememebr correctly the breakfast even came on earlier than they were supposed to that night as well cuz myself and some friends walked in halfway thru their set expecting to have only missed one song.  was very dissapointed when stevie said they were halfway thru and were only playing one set due to the poor turnout.  

as much as i hate missing breakfast shows(esp ones with queb) im very content with missing yet another 1-set breakfast show in NYC(i cant help but lol at the folks in the chase thread that thought i was clueless about them only playing one set).  

looks like i good show on paper but im very sad to hear it wasnt that good dave.  i dont think its NYC persay, maybe just specific venues in nYC.  all the knitting factory shows kick ass.  just that mercury lounge shows seem to be meh.