The Bowery Ballroom-NYC April 5th

[Tattooed Angels]

Nobody put a thread for NYC yet..

Is anyone from here going?

This is not the first time they are playing here. Played 2 nights in 2005 for HIPT.. Nice venue. Acoustic and sound is great..

[todddowney]

I haven't missed a show in NYC in many years. The whole ticket situation really turned me off, though. I may end up going anyway-haven't decided. However, I agree about the sound. Wonderful place to see a show.

[Tattooed Angels]

I haven't missed a show in NYC in many years. The whole ticket situation really turned me off, though. I may end up going anyway-haven't decided. However, I agree about the sound. Wonderful place to see a show.

haha. I said if I did not get a ticket for this show would be pretty damn funny. My own home town.(. Isee them all over the place.

The only NYC shows I missed since 1997 is the one they did with Creed/Oleander at Irving( 1999). It was the night before the Hammerstein show.It was a radio win show only. I also missed the Starland Ballroom(2009)
show cause I was in T.O. Saw them in Hartford the next night.

My friend got me a ticket in pre-sale. Funny thing is I told I should be able to get a ticket. She still got me one so I lucked out.

even funnier for me is this is the 5th OLP cd( out of last 6 I am not counting live or greatest hits) I saw them in concert day of or day or two after release. That is really a odd coincidence for me.

[rashondalb]

i would have loved to come to NY to see a show! what a trip!

[Tattooed Angels]

i would have loved to come to NY to see a show! what a trip!

next time and my friend has that tat( avatar) on her lower back. In b/w I believe

[unocrew224]

I'm going.. I recall the show there a few years back. Actually, I think I taped it.

Does anyone have an extra ticket for Bowery? I have mine, but we could use one more...

Thanks,
Gregg

[Tattooed Angels]

sometimes The Bowery releases tickets( only a handful though) day of the show. There are alot of scalpers, sellers outside all the time. Closer it gets to showtime, cheaper tickets become. There also may be people online with extras..

I am more concerned with the actual show. I saw Bush there last year. Sold out past capacity and no air on. It was so freaking hot and sticky in there. Then again I was up front and always crazy up there.. Even my friend said it was horrible. I hope it does not happen again with OLP.. I saw many show there and never was that bad.

[todddowney]

Any extras floating around? Anyone? Dreading a stubhub fleecing.

[todddowney]

[TwoTimes]

Yup, my wife and I.

[shadowraven]

I'm going.. I recall the show there a few years back. Actually, I think I taped it.

Does anyone have an extra ticket for Bowery? I have mine, but we could use one more...

Thanks,
Gregg

are you taping this time? I'll be taping Chicago.

[unocrew224]

Hi, I'm not sure if I will be taping tonight.. I'm sure someone else will.

Anyone need tickets? I def. have 1 and looks like my buddy has 2 (if he goes).

please email me if interested..

musicman224 @ gmail

[shadowraven]

remember, never assume someone else will tape Have fun either way!

[hollie1031]

I have a couple extras for tonight

email me, hollie1031@gmail.com

[faninor]

remember, never assume someone else will tape

Advice to live by! Since 2002 I've only been to 5 concerts where I did not record and nothing ever surfaced from 4 of them despite a couple being very popular acts and 1 being LMA-approved with a strong taper following.

[shadowraven]

^ Word!

Speaking of LMA, anyone think we can get OLP to agree to be on there?

[faninor]

I tweeted at Raine once asking if he's heard of the LMA but he probably didn't see it. I could see it being a possibility, since it just takes one email for them to opt-in. Maybe someone just needs to talk to them about it and answer any questions/concerns they might have (ie joining the LMA doesn't mean they need an open taping policy, they can specify whatever restrictions they want on what is or is not allowed, etc).

The band they're touring with now, The Pack AD, is on the LMA and (at least used to be) open taping.

[twiqz]

Set list?

[Gadmo]

Just got back from the show, and thought I'd post a review. Sorry, it's gonna be a long one.

All in all, it was a good show. Not one of their best, but not one of their worst either. I've now seen OLP 14 times, at least once every pass through NY (except for when they were promoting Happiness - I was out of state,) and I keep waiting for them to do to me what they did in April of '01 at Irving Plaza, when they were promoting Spiritual Machines. (I still remember the chills I got at that show.) I don't know if they ever will, but I'll keep coming back. On to my thoughts about tonight.

I'd had a rough idea what the setlist would be from the postings here on other threads, and truthfully wasn't looking forward to a third of the set being new songs, as I just wasn't as familiar with the newer material. Plus, I still remember those subpar HIPT shows at Bowery in '05 when they did 7 songs that the crowd didn't know (about half the set) and the crowd reacted accordingly. My gut reaction when I'd heard (and came to expect) that the first two songs were new ones was that I thought it was a mistake. Better to start the show with a bang - a high energy song that the crowd could get into right away. But, actually, starting with two new songs turned out not to be such a bad idea. It was as if OLP were opening for OLP, and we were getting an introduction to the night. The new songs were good, but they drew very little reaction from the crowd - a theme that, unfortunately, would carry on throughout the night. The third song was Clumsy, and the crowd finally woke up a little. Raine, acknowledged after the song, something to the effect of, 'Aah, there's the New York we know and love' but that New York would be sorely lacking for most of the show. After Clumsy, we got what I'd thought was always a live-favorite - OMA - a high energy, crowd-loves-it, moderate-sized hit (in the States, at least). I thought it was a little strange, but it seemed like a good portion of the crowd just wasn't into it. Sure, there were a good amount of people singing along and dancing to it, but not everyone - not like an OLP show should be, or how they used to be. (Am I pining too much for the days of yore?)

Superman's Dead was next, and the doubts I had about the crowd seemed to be incorrect. Everyone was into it, and the room's energy was high. But the disaster of the night came next. Raine announced they'd be playing some older tunes that they hadn't played in a while, and they busted out Birdman. My eyes widened. In my head, I freaked out a little bit and as they got into the song, I found myself with my eyes closed, a huge smile on my face and dancing wildly in my place, when all of the sudden, I realized something... I wasn't too hot. Temperature wise, I was actually quite comfortable. I opened my eyes to find a sea of people just standing there - very few singing along, even fewer dancing. Now, I was far enough back that I couldn't quite see the first five or six rows of people - maybe the experience up there was different. But from where I stood, people seemed to either not know the song or not care. To me, seeing that was like being punched in the stomach. The crowd's energy during Birdman may've been the saddest thing I've ever seen at an OLP show (save for the myriad of technical problems the boys had at those HIPT shows I mentioned earlier, and Raine's 'I almost killed a guy because a gun had an extra bullet' story, which he told at Bryant Park and The Elbow Room '95 and '97). Unfortunately, the next song was All My Friends - a great song, but not a song that's likely to return that high energy that is part of what makes OLP shows so great. Next we got Is Anybody Home (finally, the crowd shows signs of life) and Thief. Is it just me, or does anybody else play the game in their head during 'Is Anybody Home' where they ask themselves: will this crowd screw up the wasted tears/painted fear part? I know I do - I'm disappointed way too often, but maybe I'm a harsh judge - I'm sure that's not the kind of thing the band cares about. Thief was preceded by Raine talking about what the song was actually about - that, combined with the acoustic version we were hearing added a beauty that isn't on the album (granted, the song's great on the album - but this had a somber beauty to it that I remember thinking the largely unappreciative crowd didn't deserve.)

The next songs were all fine - Find Our Way, with the great intro everyone's been talking about, followed by Angels/Losing/Sleep, where the crowd started coming back a little (at least there was some energy during the chorus) and a nice little Naveed tease in the middle of the song. During Innocent, the crowd showed some more signs of life and the set ended with Heavyweight, which at least was able to sustain the momentum Innoncent built.

The guys came back for an encore: As Fast As You Can, Paper Moon and 4AM. Raine made the mistake of trying to do a little bit of a sing-a-long during Paper Moon. Sorry Raine, not with the crowd NY gave you tonight - not happening. Toward the end of Paper Moon, Raine climbed up on the balcony, reminiscent of past shows, when he's done similar things, although, usually during slightly heavier songs, ie, OMA. 4AM closed the encore and was finally the mix of vintage OLP and vintage OLP crowd that I'd wanted to see and hear all night. A great way to end the night. But, now the question - Starseed has been played at a few of the shows this tour, but not all of them. Would they not play it? Would they punish the city that (until tonight) had been so good to them? Well, if any crowd should be punished, it'd be this one I suppose, but alas, my fears were allayed when they came out for a second encore and I grew a smile ear to ear as they gave an extra long intro to Starseed and tore into it like it was '95 all over again.

All in all, this show was either the best mediocre show I've ever seen, or the most mediocre good show I've seen. The band was on tonight. They sounded great, and at least appeared to be having a good time. There are times when they seem to be going through the motions, but tonight wasn't one of them. Unfortunately, the crowd didn't give back to the band what the band gave to the crowd, and that's sad... and it makes me feel bad. '95 at Wetlands and '01 at Irving Plaza were not only the best OLP shows I've seen, but among the best shows I've seen from any band - shows where the band gets the crowd and the crowd gets the band and the world has this harmony about it - when everyone is as absorbed in the music as everyone else... a sort of ethereal experience that can't be duplicated. Tonight it didn't happen, but unlike in '05, tonight wasn't the band's fault. Tonight, it was the crowd's fault.

Setlist (I think it's correct, although, there may be a song or two out of order)
Allowance
Fire in the Henhouse
Clumsy
One Man Army
Superman's Dead
Birdman
All My Friends
Is Anybody Home
Thief (acoustic)
Find Our Way
Angels/Losing/Sleep (with Naveed tease)
Innocent
Heavyweight

Encore:
As Fast As You Can
Paper Moon
4 AM

2nd Encore:
Starseed

Edit: It's interesting to note that they seem to not be playing SOT on this tour... Not saying it's one of my favorite songs, but it's arguably their biggest hit. Seems like an odd choice to drop it... Just a thought.

[JabsTinyMusic]

Amazing, Amazing Show...
Too tired to write more, but I had to upload these before going to bed...
http://youtu.be/DLu5FG5CrS0 - Thief
http://youtu.be/C7r2IA_Yx7o - Birdman (should be live in a few min)

Similar setlist to the others posted... they played Thief, Birdman, All my friends and even came out for a 2nd encore and played Starseed. They did not play Julia , in repair or Naveed.
Raine was on fire...even climed up to the balcony ledge during paper moon.
I'll post pics and more video in the AM.