Cloaca Melodia

Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ........ setlist: set 1: Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl The Cars She Used to Drive Acid Bird Somewhere Apart Another Bubble The Man With the Lightbulb Head Wax Doll Sleeping With Your Devil Mask A Globe of Frogs set 2: Superman Oceanside Chinese Bones Freeze Ride The Ruling Class Lysander Unsettled Balloon Man I'm Only You Kingdom of Love ( source )

Beacon Theater, 74th & Broadway, New York, NY sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show -- coming soon!

The Marquee, New York, NY...... sorry, I haven't yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!   my ticket from the show

The Marquee, New York, NY.... Yet another band that was woefully unprepared for the Google era (just try searching for "Something Happens"!). Tickets were $13.50/advance, $15/door.  The Irish band was touring in support of their latest album  Stuck Together With God's Glue . I remember the band giving a shout-out to Long Island radio station WDRE and getting a big reaction from the crowd. Everybody sang along when they played "Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, (Petrol)" from their latest album.    

The Marquee, New York, NY..... This was one of the loudest concerts I ever attended. My ears were ringing for a full three days afterwards. Soul Aslym setlist: Spinnin' Be On Your Way Cartoon Little Too Clean Easy Street Nice Guys (Don't Get Paid) Something Out Of Nothing Veil Of Tears To Sir With Love Marionette All The King's Friends Grounded Sometime To Return Gullible's Travels Made To Be Broken Medley Closer To The Stars Freaks Do Anything You Wanna Do

Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ..... A solo set.  setlist: Oceanside Surgery Clean Steve Winchester So You Think You're in Love If We Had a Baby Somewhere Apart One Long Pair of Eyes St. Petersburg A Globe of Frogs I Often Dream of Trains Beautiful Girl encore: Linctus House My Favourite Buildings I Got a Message For You ( source )

Chameleon Bar, New York, NY this is not the correct date for this show.

The Ritz, New York, NY sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

The Marquee, New York, NY Baerwald performed this show with the wrist of his strumming hand in a cast. post continues.... I was working occasionally at his label, A&M, at the time (from where I got the tickets), so I sidled up to one of the label's publicists and asked what happened to his wrist. "I know," she shouted back at me over the music, "he won't tell us."   

The Ritz, New York, NY.... Karl Wallinger is fascinating to watch on stage. He's a left-handed guitarist, but like Hendrix, he plays a right-hand guitar. So all of his chords are backwards. On top of that, he normally strummed with a pick but he used fingers only for solos. Each time he went into a solo, he had an eye-catching way of tossing aside his pick to the stage floor to play with his fingertips.   I was there with my friend Tim, and he bade me goodbye to catch a train back to Jersey during the encore break. Just as he was exiting the building, World Party returned to the stage with Sinead O'Connor in tow to lend her voice to a few numbers. World Party was originally scheduled to open for  her summer 1990 tour (including when I saw her at Jones Beach ), but World Party ended up not being the opening act. Instead, that gig went to Sinead's boyfriend Hugh Harris. (Harris was described in the press as "her new man" or "reported paramour.") It seeme...

The Ritz, New York, NY I was at the concert with my college friend Tim. We were both big Billy Bragg fans, so we really enjoyed the show; particularly so, as this was my first time seeing him live. When he came out by himself and performed "The Milkman of Human Kindness," I was stuck by how much intensity he could deliver, just him and his electric guitar. And when he sang the refrain line -- "I am the milkman of human kindness, I will leave an extra pint!" -- he would kick a leg backwards as he ended it, as if using the motion to put extra force into his singing. Tim was living in Jersey, so he decided to leave during the encore break. However, as soon as he began making his way towards the door, a member of the stage crew started setting up additional microphones. Since the concert had been entirely Billy solo (with occasional 2nd guitar contributed by Billy's friend Wiggy), I quickly realized that Something Was Up. I scanned the crowd of people leaving t...

Lonestar Roadhouse, New York, NY...... I was then working in the mailroom for Blues Traveler's record label, so I got a free ticket to the show. I loved the song "But Anyway" from their then-new debut album, and I was excited to check them out live. Plus, the show (or part of it, at any rate) was going to be broadcast live on NYC's big mainstream rock station, WNEW. I had spent time in high school and during breaks in college listening to live concert broadcasts from WNEW, so I found it very cool to be a part of the in-person audience for one. The performance was everything I had hoped it would be. Ever have that experience in a concert when the music swoops you up and takes you away momentarily and you get that feeling in the pit of your stomach like you're on a roller coaster? I'll never forget one of those moments at this show, during one of the extended jams. Everything just came together perfectly, both musically and the physical intensity of the ampl...

Jones Beach, Wantaugh, NY I had been a fan of Sinéad since she burst onto the international music stage with her 1987 debut The Lion and the Cobra . In fact, by mid-1990, I was consumed with trying to meet her. At the time she was in the U.S. making promotional appearances for her second album, the exquisite I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got , I was working in the mailroom at A&M Records, and I pestered a number of co-workers who promoted music to radio stations, MTV, and the media to get in to some sort of press event--or anything--in which I might be able to say hello to Ms. O'Connor. Nobody could, or would, assist me. And to make matters worse I was then living in New York and handing over nearly all of my paycheck to my landlord, so I couldn't even afford a ticket to see one of her August amphitheater performances in the metropolitan area, at Long Island's Jones Beach or at the Garden State Arts Center in New Jersey. My pestering of co-workers did pay off, ho...

Beacon Theater, 74th & Broadway, New York, NY Friend and ex-college roommate Glenn had a pair of tickets to the show and offered me one. She was absolutely terrific, doing band and solo versions of her songs and pieces. post continues.... Some of the memories of the show now mingle with what I recall from her great concert film Home of the Brave (my VHS copy of which was bizarrely, and humorously, screwed up at the factory to contain a show by comedian Louie Anderson), although I'm fairly confident that neither Adrian Belew nor William Burrough were present this night at the Beacon. I do distinctly recall a piece that Laurie performed using three microphones; one she used for her normal voice, one was for her classic pitched-up-with-a-harmonizer voice, and the third had a chorus vocal effect. It was wondrous to watch her, all by herself on stage, trade vocals as different people and be her own backup singers on the chorus. I must admit, I was also excited to go to my fi...

The Cat Club, New York, NY.... My college radio crony Brother Mike moved to New York City around the same time that I returned from college to my parents' New Jersey house. I would sometimes hang out with Brother Mike, then as well as later after I moved into Manhattan, and it was never a dull moment. Like the time we were bar-hopping in Alphabet City and he decided to conduct an ad hoc interview with a crackhead in Tompkins Square Park, or when a homeless lady with mental problems started chasing him on the sidewalk outside of the Limelight. We went to see this massively crunchy southern-rock band after having a few drinks and, uh, whatnot. I barely remember the show, except that it was big and loud. And the the guitarists and the bass player started doing the classic southern rock move of bouncing their guitar necks in unison, I nearly choked I started laughing so hard. Later, when I heard some of their recorded music, I shrugged and thought, "Eh--it's not the same....