Cloaca Melodia

My life in concerts, by Mike Sauter.

12/18/2026

My Life in Concerts: The Blog (explanation)

Here's the brief how-to. Click on the post header (where it says "My Life in Concerts: The Blog (explanation)" above) or the date link at the bottom of this entry to read background and more detailed info.

There are 3 main ways to use this blog. (1) Browse. The archives, the monthly list at left, are months in which I attended a concert. You can click on these links to browse around and read about shows I've attended.

(2) Search. Type in an artist or venue name in the search box (in the upper left) and click the "search blog" button next to it to see a list of shows or entries which mention that name.

(3) Labels. Each entry is tagged with artist name, venue name, city of show, and two-letter state code (NY, PA, etc.). You can type in the URL http://cloaca-melodia.blogspot.com/search/label/[label name] to see a list of entries tagged with that label. Replace [label name] with whatever you want to check out (minus the []). For example, if you want to see all the Red Hot Chili Peppers shows I've seen, use as the URL:
http://cloaca-melodia.blogspot.com/search/label/Red Hot Chili Peppers
Spaces are acceptable and proper capitalization is required (e.g., you must use "Red Hot Chili Peppers" and not "red hot chili peppers" or "NY" and not "ny").

And be sure to post comments/memories if you attended any of the same shows as me!

Questions? See email address at left.

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A few years ago, I started working on a list of all the concerts I've ever attended. Then I started adding setlists or other info where available. And then it occurred to me to put it all in blog form, backdating the entries to the actual performance date. For a long time, Blogger only let one backdate to 1990, but now any date is fair game so I can go all the way back to my first concert experiences in 1985.

I began the project by getting out all of my ticket stubs, but I've also gone to huge number of shows where I've been on the guest list and never had a hard ticket. A number of these took place before the rise of the Web, so I'm having a devil of a time tracking down specific date info for them. In the early stages of this blog, I simply left these shows out but that doesn't provide a full picture of some of the artists I've seen. Plus there are some undated shows I really want to write about. Therefore, I finally decided to give rough approximate dates for a number of shows and try to correct them later (all inexact dates will be noted as such in the show's full entry.

6/07/2024

Modest Mouse/Cat Power

Stage AE, Pittsburgh, PA

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A very pleasant night. About a quarter of the dudes in attendance had the exact same look: bushy beards, glasses, trucker hat.


Modest Mouse setlist:

  • Heart Cooks Brain
  • What People Are Made Of
  • Spitting Venom
  • Out of Gas
  • The Stars Are Projectors
  • Third Side of the Moon
  • Fuck Your Acid Trip
  • Wooden Soldiers
  • King Rat
  • [unknown, possibly new song]
  • Satin in a Coffin
  • The World at Large
  • Float On
  • Teeth Like God's Shoeshine
  • Satellite Skin
  • Fire It Up

[verrry long encore break]

  • Cowboy Dan
  • A Forest
  • Ocean Breathes Salty
  • Black Cadillacs
  • Night on the Sun

Cat Power setlist:

  • Say/Great Expectations
  • (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
  • Good Woman
  • Unhate
  • Manhattan
  • White Mustang
  • Cross Bones Style/Nude as the News
  • Metal Heart
  • The Greatest
  • The Moon
  • Wanderer
  • Sea of Love
  • It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
  • Mr. Tambourine Man

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5/28/2023

Lovejoy/Crywank/Spilly Cave

Royal Oak Theater, Detroit, MI 

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This show was a lot of fun. We were watching from the Projection Room of this former movie theater, which has been converted to a VIP experience (and highly recommended!). Lovejoy was great. Spilly Cave was very good (they should be ready to break out after they get a few more years under their belt). Crywank was entertaining but not essential.


Lovejoy setlist:

  • Call Me What You Like
  • Taunt
  • Consequences
  • Model Buses
  • Warsaw
  • Cause for Concern
  • It's Golden Hour Somewhere
  • Perfume
  • Sex Sells
  • Scum
  • One Day
  • The Fall

[encore break]

  • Portrait of a Blank Slate
  • Concrete

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9/10/2022

Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band

PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh, PA  

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This show was originally scheduled for 6/28/2022, then postponed to June 2022, then postponed to this date. It was the longest duration between scheduled date and actual date in my experience, and 1,021 days from ticket purchase to show date.

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6/24/2017

Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, Marcus King Band, The Buckle Downs

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6/16/2017

Nicole Atkins, Bindley Hardware Co.

South Park Amphitheater, South Park Township, PA Quite a lovely night of music. Although it had rained several times earlier in the day, the skies had cleared and conditions were perfect for some outdoor music. Nicole had visited WYEP earlier that day, and we had a fun time on the air.

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Her performance at South Park was terrific, and the band she is touring with is top-notch.

Nicole and the band had worked up a cover of Bowie's "Moonage Daydream" after I told her that the day of her Pittsburgh visit was the 45th anniversary of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, and she gave me a shout-out from the stage when introducing the song.

(After the show, she told me that the band was going to keep it in their setlist for the following night at the Mountain Jam festival. I told her she should keep it the repertoire for her entire tour, since they totally nail it, but since she has a month-long break before her next concert, I don't even know if she'll be heading out with the same group of musicians.)

Nicole Atkins setlist:
  1. Cry Cry Cry
  2. Maybe Tonight
  3. A Little Crazy
  4. Listen Up
  5. Goodnight Rhonda Lee
  6. Brooklyn's On Fire
  7. Sleepwalking
  8. A Night of Serious Drinking
  9. Girl, You Look Amazing
  10. Who Killed the Moonlight?
  11. Darkness Falls So Quiet
  12. Brokedown Luck
  13. Moonage Daydream (David Bowie cover)
  14. The Way It Is
  15. Say Goodbye to Santa Fe
    (encore break)
  16. Love Surreal

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6/07/2017

U2

Heinz Field, Pittsburgh, PA  


I've seen U2 about a half-dozen times, and this night was the most remarkable of all of them.

It's not that it was the best performance I've ever seen the band give -- I'd probably give that to either the 1985 show or their Zoo TV concert -- but it was the first and only time I've ever met a band member. It was actually 3/4 of the group.

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I met up with someone from U2's record label prior to the concert and he gave me a lanyard and told me to go to the Club Level of Heinz Field for a little pre-show party they were calling "The Desert Lounge." He hinted that there was a chance of meeting one of more members of the band, but, you know, no promises. I've been through that song-and-dance before and I mentally put the odds of something like that occurring at 10%. The Lumineers were the opening act and I have seen them yet, so at 7:17p I put the question out to Facebook:


Everybody was pretty unambiguous - wait to see what would happen. So I did. And as I followed-up on Facebook to friends, 
I along with a half-dozen others got to go to a deep backstage room and preview 4 tracks from the next U2 album. At the end of the first one Bono wandered in. He then set up the 2nd song with a backstory, and while he was doing that, The Edge came in. They said they were working on tracks earlier today, so they were very excited about them and seemed to want reaction. So we all listened to one called "Summer of Love" and Bono would occasionally start singing along with his recorded self. Then he made Edge sing along to his harmony parts. Someone showed up to tell Bono and The Edge they had to go, so Bono set up another song and they left while we were listening to it. But Adam moseyed in during the song. He plopped himself down on a couch and held court, professorially, about music and radio for a short while. Then picked a 4th song for us to listen to and said goodbye.

Quite amazing.
No pictures, unfortunately, but a great experience. And what a great concert, as well. There are not many shows you can see that will have an opening seven-song sequence as strong as this one.

U2 setlist:

  • Sunday Bloody Sunday
  • New Year's Day
  • Bad
  • Pride (In the Name of Love)
  • Where the Streets Have No Name
  • I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
  • With or Without You
  • Bullet the Blue Sky
  • Running to Stand Still
  • Red Hill Mining Town
  • In God's Country
  • Trip Through Your Wires
  • One Tree Hill
  • Exit
  • Mothers of the Disappeared
(encore break)
  • Miss Sarajevo
  • Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
  • One
  • Beautiful Day
  • Elevation
  • The Little Things That Give You Away

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6/06/2017

Michael Kiwanuka

Point State Park, Pittsburgh, PA  

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5/19/2017

Paul Shaffer & the World's Most Dangerous Band, ALA.NI, Lo Moon, The Dream Syndicate, Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm

World Cafe Life, Philadelphia, PA  

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5/18/2017

Nancy & Beth, The Pixies, Mondo Cozmo, Laura Marling, The Mavericks, Real Estate, Gov’t Mule, Ron Gallo

World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA

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5/17/2017

Ani DiFranco, Bash & Pop, Blondie, Greg Graffin

World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA  

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4/14/2017

The Psychedelic Furs, Robyn Hitchcock

Mr. Smalls, Millvale, PA  

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Richard Butler of the Furs:


Robyn Hitchcock:



Psychedelic Furs setlist (according to this source):

  1. Dumb Waiters
  2. Heartbeat
  3. The Ghost In You
  4. So Run Down
  5. Heaven
  6. No Tears
  7. Believe
  8. Alice's House
  9. Love My Way
  10. Angels Don't Cry
  11. All of the Law
  12. Mr. Jones
  13. All That Money Wants
  14. House
  15. Pretty in Pink(encore break)
  16. President Gas
  17. Heartbreak Beat




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7/29/2016

The Record Company, Brooke Annibale

Schenley Plaza, Pittsburgh, PA  

Part of WYEP's Final Fridays series.
 
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7/19/2016

Paul McCartney

HersheyPark Stadium, Hershey, PA  

A great show. Gorgeous night. It's not only always great to see McCartney live, but it was my daughter's first big concert.

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setlist (according to this source):

  1. A Hard Days Night
  2. Save Us
  3. Can't Buy Me Love
  4. Letting Go
  5. Temporary Secretary
  6. Let Me Roll It
  7. I've Got A Feeling
  8. My Valentine
  9. Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five
  10. Here, There And Everywhere
  11. Maybe I’m Amazed
  12. We Can Work It Out
  13. In Spite Of All The Danger
  14. You Won't See Me
  15. Love Me Do
  16. And I Love Her
  17. Blackbird
  18. Here Today
  19. Queenie Eye
  20. New
  21. Fool On The Hill
  22. Lady Madonna
  23. Four Five Seconds
  24. Eleanor Rigby
  25. Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite!
  26. Something
  27. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
  28. Band On The Run
  29. Back In The U.S.S.R.
  30. Let It Be
  31. Live And Let Die
  32. Hey Jude(encore break)
  33. Yesterday
  34. Hi, Hi, Hi
  35. Birthday
  36. Golden Slumbers

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7/14/2016

Fitz & the Tantrums

Stage AE, Pittsburgh, PA  

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6/25/2016

Lucius, Boy & Bear, Margaret Glaspy

Schenley Plaza, Pittsburgh, PA  

WYEP's Summer Music Festival.

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Lucius setlist:
  1. Madness
  2. Tempest
  3. Nothing Ordinary
  4. Almost Makes Me Wish for Rain
  5. Turn It Around
  6. Go Home
  7. Don't Just Sit There
  8. Dusty Trails
  9. Born Again Teen
  10. You Were on My Mind
  11. Two of Us on the Run
  12. How Loud Your Heart Gets
  13. Something About You
  14. Better Look Back
  15. Genevieve (encore break)
  16. Can't Help Falling In Love

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6/12/2016

Lake Street Dive

Point State Park, Pittsburgh, PA  

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setlist (according to this source):
  1. Godawful Things
  2. I Don't Care About You
  3. Side Pony
  4. Stop Your Crying
  5. Clear a Space
  6. Better Than
  7. Hell Yeah
  8. Saving All My Sinning
  9. Spectacular Failure
  10. Close to Me
  11. Lola
  12. Mistakes
  13. Got Me Fooled
  14. Elijah
  15. So Long
  16. You Go Down Smooth
  17. Bad Self Portraits
  18. Seventeen
  19. Call Off Your Dogs(encore break)
  20. Bohemian Rhapsody


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6/08/2016

Peter Wolf

Point State Park, Pittsburgh, PA  

A very special show. Peter had visited WYEP prior that afternoon and sat in as a guest DJ. I had chatted with him briefly at the station and told him I would see him prior to his Arts Festival performance, as I was scheduled to do stage announcements beforehand. I got there with my daughter (who adores the song "Love Stinks") and while we were biding our time backstage, someone came over to me and told me that Peter wanted to speak with me. So we went onto his band's tour bus.

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Peter wanted to pick my brain about his promotion plan for his album, so he had someone there give my daughter a tour of the tour bus. I gave him whatever info I could, made some suggestions, and we talked about the state of radio and where his music fits in to the current radio landscape. we wrapped up as both my kid's tour was over and the rest of the band piled in. They asked my daughter what her favorite music was and she said The Beatles, so they all started singing "Yellow Submarine" songs.

We said goodbye and left the tour bus, and my daughter thought that was just about the coolest experience she ever had. She subsequently wanted to live on her own tour bus. I made sure to explain to her that this was a very unusual experience we just had and this doesn't happen all the time to her daddy.

She also got to make her stage debut while I was introducing the band.


The show itself was a lot of fun.

setlist (according to this source):

  1. Wastin' Time
  2. It Was Always So Easy (To Find an Unhappy Woman)
  3. Nothing But the Wheel
  4. Cry One More Time
  5. Peace of Mind
  6. Love Stinks
  7. Tragedy
  8. Homework
  9. I Don't Wanna Know
  10. Give It to Me
  11. If You Wanna Be With Somebody (encore break)
  12. I Need You Tonight
  13. Must of Got Lost 
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6/03/2016

Michael Franti & Spearhead

Point State Park, Pittsburgh, PA  

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5/20/2016

Corrine Bailey Rae, Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle, Band of Horses, Low Cut Connie, Soul Asylum

World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA  

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5/19/2016

The Zombies, Billy Bragg & Joe Henry, The Head & The Heart

World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA  

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5/18/2016

The Jayhawks, Hayes Carll, Bonnie Raitt, Kurt Vile

World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA  

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10/27/2015

Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band

Heinz Hall, Pittsburgh, PA

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6/27/2015

Martin Sexton, The Lone Bellow, Kopecky, Brightside

Schenley Plaza, Pittsburgh, PA  

WYEP's Summer Music Festival.

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8/29/2014

Simone Felice, Tom Brosseau

Schenley Plaza, Pittsburgh, PA  

Part of WYEP's Final Fridays series.

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7/22/2014

Matthew Sweet, Tommy Keene

Club Cafe, Pittsburgh, PA

I was so excited to see this show. It was good to Sweet again, but I was very glad to finally see Tommy Keene live.

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I had been a fan of Keene's since my college radio days. The Washington, DC, native put out a few independent EPs which got some attention from my (and many) college radio outlet(s) and the music press. His Byrds-esque jangle-pop sound was emerging as a popular force in the music underground (especially from bands emerging from below the Mason-Dixon line).

I almost didn't get to see him, since when the show was announced I already had unbreakable plans to see Natalie Merchant the same night. The Natalie show ended up getting cancelled, however.

Here's a couple of videos (not by me) of Sweet's performance.

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6/28/2014

Sam Roberts Band, Valerie June, Elizabeth & The Catapult, the Red Western

Schenley Plaza, Pittsburgh, PA  

The WYEP Summer Music Festival. Great show. Threat of a thunderstorm delayed Valerie June set for a long time.
 
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6/15/2014

Jake Bugg

Point State Park, Pittsburgh, PA  

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setlist (according to this source):

  1. There's a Beast and We All Feed It
  2. Trouble Town
  3. Seen It All
  4. Me and You
  5. Storm Passes Away
  6. Two Fingers
  7. Messed Up Kids
  8. Ballad of Mr Jones
  9. Saffron
  10. Broken
  11. Simple Pleasures
  12. Green Man
  13. Kingpin
  14. Taste It
  15. Slumville Sunrise
  16. Hercules
  17. What Doesn't Kill You
  18. A Song About Love
  19. My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)
  20. Lightning Bolt

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6/12/2014

Smithereens

Point State Park, Pittsburgh, PA  

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I wrote the next days that "The band sounds great, and a good time was had by all!" Setlist for the concert at the Three Rivers Arts Festival:


1. Behind the Wall of Sleep
2. Top of the Pops
3. Sorry
4. War for My Mind
5. Miles From Nowhere
6. Yesterday's Girl
7. Blues Before and After
8. Room Without a View
9. Drown in My Own Tears
10. Green Thoughts
11. House We Used to Live In/Sparks (The Who)
12. Please Please Me
13. It's Only Love
14. Blue Period
15. Especially For You
16. Time and Time Again
17. Blood and Roses
18. A Girl Like You (with snippets of Free's "All Right Now," Get Together by The Youngbloods, and The Who's "Behind Blue Eyes")

 

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9/27/2013

Diego Garcia, The Harlan Twins

Schenley Plaza, Pittsburgh, PA  

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8/07/2013

The Black Crowes, Tedeschi Trucks Band

Stage AE, Pittsburgh, PA

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Black Crowes setlist (from this source):

  1. Jealous Again
  2. Thick N' Thin
  3. Hotel Illness
  4. High Head Blues
  5. How Much for Your Wings?
  6. Bring On, Bring On
  7. Soul Singing
  8. Wiser Time
  9. She Talks to Angels
  10. Thorn in My Pride
  11. Sting Me
  12. Remedy
  13. Hard to Handle
  14. Hush
    (encore break)
  15. Show Me
  16. Turn On Your Love Light 


 Tedeschi Trucks Band setlist (from this source):

  1. Made Up Mind
  2. Do I Look Worried
  3. Get What You Deserve
  4. It's So Heavy
  5. Part of Me
  6. Midnight in Harlem
  7. Nobody's Free
  8. Angel From Montgomery
  9. Sugaree
  10. Misunderstood
  11. Bound for Glory
  12. The Storm

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7/26/2013

Brett Dennen, Goldspot

Schenley Plaza, Pittsburgh, PA

Part of WYEP's Final Fridays series.

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6/12/2013

Glen Hansard, Mark Dignam

Point State Park, Pittsburgh, PA  

It was part of the Three Rivers Arts Festival. Great weather, and terrific performances.

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setlist (according to this source):

  1. The Storm, It's Coming
  2. Maybe Not Tonight
  3. Talking With the Wolves
  4. Love Don't Leave Me Waiting
  5. Philander
  6. Low Rising
  7. When Your Mind's Made Up
  8. Bird of Sorrow
  9. Leave
  10. In These Arms
  11. Astral Weeks
  12. High Hope
  13. Fitzcarraldo
  14. This Gift
    (encore break)
  15. Say It to Me Now
  16. Gold
  17. O Sleep (with Lisa Hannigan)
  18. Falling Slowly (with Lisa Hannigan)
  19. Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (with Mark Dignam)
  20. Her Mercy
  21. Baby Don't You Do It
  22. The Auld Triangle (with Lisa Hannigan & Mark Dignam)

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6/07/2013

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

Point State Park, Pittsburgh, PA

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According to an internet source, here was the setlist:

  1. 40 Day Dream
  2. That's What's Up
  3. Man On Fire
  4. Janglin'
  5. Million Years
  6. Carries On
  7. Fiya Wata
  8. I Don't Wanna Pray
  9. Truth
  10. Up From Below
  11. If You Wanna
  12. Child
  13. Jade
  14. Mayla
  15. Better Days
  16. Home
  17. Om Nashi Me

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5/17/2013

Fabulous Thunderbirds, Bobby Long, The Lone Bellow, Kopecky Family Band, The Olms

World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA  

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5/16/2013

Josh Ritter, Mavis Staples, Tom Jones, David Wax Museum, Robert Randolph, Foxygen

World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA  

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5/15/2013

Sam Beam, Steve Martin & Edie Brickell, Tom Tom Club, Phoenix, Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside

World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA  

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6/22/2012

Dr. Dog, Great Lake Swimmers, Sharon Van Etten, Donora

Schenley Plaza, Pittsburgh, PA

It was the WYEP Summer Music Festival.

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5/20/2012

Glen Campbell

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  1. Gentle on My Mind
  2. Galveston
  3. By the Time I Get to Phoenix
  4. Try a Little Kindness
  5. Where's the Playground Susie?
  6. Didn't We
  7. I Can't Stop Loving You
  8. True Grit
  9. Lovesick Blues
  10. Dueling Banjos
  11. Hey Little One
  12. Any Trouble
  13. She Thinks I Still Care
  14. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  15. Wichita Lineman
  16. Rhinestone Cowboy

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  17. Southern Nights
  18. A Better Place

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5/18/2012

Brandi Carlile, Norah Jones, Willie Nelson, The Walkmen, Nada Surf, J.C. Brooks & the Uptown Sound

World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA  

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5/17/2012

Joseph Arthur, Citizen Cope, J.D. McPherson, Father John Misty, Beth Orton, The War on Drugs, Polica

World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA

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5/16/2012

Grace Potter & The Nocturnals

World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA  

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7/29/2011

Sean Rowe

Schenley Plaza, Pittsburgh, PA

Sean is a singer/songwriter from the Albany, NY, area with a deep, rumbly voice that needs its own ZIP code.

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He did a bunch of great songs from his first nationally distributed album, Magic, including "Jonathan." He also did a cover of Leonard Cohen's "Chelsea Hotel," Richard Thompson's "1952 Vincent Black Lightning," and a Tom Waits song for his encore.

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7/26/2011

U2/Interpol

Heinz Field, Pittsburgh, PA

My fifth time seeing U2. It was a very enjoyable show, although if I had to rank them, it might be last. At best, tied for fourth.

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The show started off great, with four songs from Achtung Baby and the concert had a terrific final third. Somewhere in the middle it the set list was a tad soft, although I'm not sure exactly why.

The set was interesting to look at at first, but not although that great in enhancing the show (unlike, say, the Zoo TV tour staging).

Bono's voice definitely couldn't hit all of the high notes of old, although he pulled off the Pavarotti part in "Miss Sarajevo" quite gracefully.

Setlist:


  1. Even Better Than the Real Thing
  2. The Fly
  3. Mysterious Ways
  4. Until the End of the World
  5. I Will Follow
  6. Get On Your Boots
  7. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
  8. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
  9. Beautiful Day
  10. Elevation
  11. Pride (In the Name of Love)
  12. Miss Sarajevo
  13. Zooropa
  14. City of Blinding Lights
  15. Vertigo
  16. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
  17. Sunday Bloody Sunday
  18. Scarlet
  19. Walk On
  20. One
  21. Hallelujah/Where The Streets Have No Name
  22. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
  23. With Or Without You
  24. Moment of Surrender
  25. Bad



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6/24/2011

Fitz and the Tantrums, Eli "Paperboy" Reed, Jukebox the Ghost, Big Hurry

Schenley Plaza, Pittsburgh, PA

It was the WYEP Summer Music Festival.  

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6/07/2011

Jonathan Richman

point State Park, Pittsburgh, PA It was part of the Three Rivers Arts Festival. post continues.... sorry, I haven't yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

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5/27/2011

The Avett Brothers/Nicole Atkins

Stage AE Outdoors, Pittsburgh, PApost continues....sorry, I haven't yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

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4/21/2011

The Decemberists

Benedum Center, Pittsburgh, PApost continues....sorry, I haven't yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

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3/08/2011

Jonathan Richman

Mr. Smalls, Millvale, PA

Marking the 6th time I've seen Jonathan live, it was perhaps the 2nd or maybe 3rd best performance.



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Here's the set list, as I recorded it:

1. No One Was Like Vermeer
2. This Romance Will Be Different For Me
3. O Moon, Queen of the Night On Earth
4. I Was the One She Came For
5. Bohemia
6. Dancing in the Lesbian Bar
7. Old World
8. Because Her Beauty is Raw and Wild
8. Let Her Go into the Darkness
9. Keith Richards
10. Here It Is (Leonard Cohen cover)
11. These Bodies That Came to Cavort
12. We'll Be the Noise, We'll Be the Scandal
13. Sa Voix M'Atisse
14. Her Love Is From Somewhere Else
15. ?
16. When We Refuse to Suffer
17. My Baby Love Love Loves Me
18. My Affected Accent
19. You Must Ask the Heart

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1/28/2011

John Hiatt & Lyle Lovett

Carnegie Music Hall, Pittsburgh, PA

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