Cloaca Melodia

State Theater, New Brunswick, NJ sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

Irving Plaza, New York, NY My WHTG colleague Glenn Vistica urged me to come along to this show. I knew the New York alt-country band The Hangdogs (especially their song "Fools Rush In"), but neither of the other bands on the bill. But I figured, ok, why not? The Hangdogs were good, so my night was made. Then Whiskeytown came out on stage, with their sprawling richness of sound and entrancing melodies. The lineup of the band was then Ryan Adams and Ed Crawford on guitars, Caitlin Cary on fiddle, Jenni Snyder on bass, Skillet Gilmore on drums, and Mike Daly as the multi-instrumentalist. I didn't know it then, but the band's lineup was in a state of flux. Apart from Adams and Cary, the band members on their latest album Stranger's Almanac were no longer in the group; Adams and Cary had just done a few shows as an acoustic duo amidst rumors that the band was breaking up, and this concert was one of the first with the newly recruited players (I also didn't realiz...

Giants Stadium, E. Rutherford, NJ sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

Hammerstein Ballroom, New York, NY..... Oasis setlist: Be Here Now Stay Young Stand By Me Supersonic Some Might Say Roll With It D'You Know What I Mean Magic Pie Don't Look Back In Anger Don't Go Away Wonderwall Live Forever It's Gettin' Better (Man!!) Champagne Supernova Fade In-Out All Around The World Encore: Acquiesce external review: review by Peter Vamos for Jam! Showbiz >> In the intimate confines of the beautiful and ornate Hammerstein Ballroom in New York's Chelsea district, Oasis, the self-proclaimed "world's greatest band" arrived Tuesday night with only one goal in mind. To crank out their biggest and best tunes at such a volume that they crack the molded plaster lining the place. Playing the first of two nights in what will be their only headlining gigs in North America this year, the band thundered through most of their popular numbers, including Supersonic, Roll With It, Live Forever, Champagne Supernova and Wonderwall. Guitari...

Stone Pony, Asbury Park, NJ sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!