Okkervil River, a late review
Rebecca and I arrived in Nothampton around 8 pm, it was a cold night but that didn´t stop us from heading straight to Herrell´s to have a taste of the best Ice Cream you could ever imagine. Nor did it stop others, we had to wait in line for over 15 minutes.
We were at The Iron Horse at 9.20 the doors were supposed to be opened at 9.30. There was a long line both ways from the doors. One was for those who already had tickets the other one for those without. Just when we had taken our place in the line for ticket holders I looked back and saw a van with a trailer backing and having a hard time with it so I jokingly said to Rebecca that it must be the band arriving and maybe I should offer my help backing the car out. All of a sudden a door opens and Will Sheff walks out of the van. They had just arrived to the club. Shortly after that the people without tickets were told they couldn´t get in the gig was sold out.
The driver finally got the car out of there and drove it to the front door and the band started unloading the trailer. We had to wait out there until 10.30, then they let us in. I was really glad we stopped at the Haymarket for coffee on our way to the club.
A band called Elvis Perkins opened the show and did a good job. They´re energetic and have a fine collection of folky songs. The lyrics were sometimes pretty awkward to listen to and the singer sometimes sang with a fake Irish accent. Anyway they were fun and I suspect these guys could become much better as the years go by. I´m going to be keeping my eyes out for them in the future.
Finally the band everyone was waiting for came onstage and started with a powerful version of Down the River of Golden Dreams, way longer than the album version, which was followed with It Ends With a Fall. Then Will told us why they were so late. They had been playing in Buffalo, New York the night before and were snowed in there, it took them three hours to just to get from the venue they played there to their hotel room!
The show vent on and what we saw was a seasoned band in the heights of their career so far, full of power, selfeconfidence and energy. They did an almost unrecognizeable cover of Iggy Pop´s Some Weird Sin, I loved it as everyone else in the audience. Watching them play Latest Toughs was great, Zachary Thomas and the new guitar player, Brian Cassidy took turns on the tamborine. Zach did the subtle parts and Brian beat the hell out of it.
The Highlight of the show was For Real, everyone sang along, including me and Rebecca. The encore was four songs.
This concert was defenatly a top three concert for me my wife has never been to fond of them but really liked a few of their songs. She came out of there a fan, such is their live power. And this was for a mere $10 admission fee, which is just ridiculus for a band of their caliber. Hell, I´d pay a lot more to see them play.
We bought us 1 one Okkervil River T-shirt each and a copy of their new single, The President´s Dead, on vinyl and got it autographed by Brian, Zach (actually he put his Tag on it so I suppose he´s into graffiti) and Jonathan, sadly we missed the man himself.
Next time they´re in the area, we´re going again.
We were at The Iron Horse at 9.20 the doors were supposed to be opened at 9.30. There was a long line both ways from the doors. One was for those who already had tickets the other one for those without. Just when we had taken our place in the line for ticket holders I looked back and saw a van with a trailer backing and having a hard time with it so I jokingly said to Rebecca that it must be the band arriving and maybe I should offer my help backing the car out. All of a sudden a door opens and Will Sheff walks out of the van. They had just arrived to the club. Shortly after that the people without tickets were told they couldn´t get in the gig was sold out.
The driver finally got the car out of there and drove it to the front door and the band started unloading the trailer. We had to wait out there until 10.30, then they let us in. I was really glad we stopped at the Haymarket for coffee on our way to the club.
A band called Elvis Perkins opened the show and did a good job. They´re energetic and have a fine collection of folky songs. The lyrics were sometimes pretty awkward to listen to and the singer sometimes sang with a fake Irish accent. Anyway they were fun and I suspect these guys could become much better as the years go by. I´m going to be keeping my eyes out for them in the future.
Finally the band everyone was waiting for came onstage and started with a powerful version of Down the River of Golden Dreams, way longer than the album version, which was followed with It Ends With a Fall. Then Will told us why they were so late. They had been playing in Buffalo, New York the night before and were snowed in there, it took them three hours to just to get from the venue they played there to their hotel room!
The show vent on and what we saw was a seasoned band in the heights of their career so far, full of power, selfeconfidence and energy. They did an almost unrecognizeable cover of Iggy Pop´s Some Weird Sin, I loved it as everyone else in the audience. Watching them play Latest Toughs was great, Zachary Thomas and the new guitar player, Brian Cassidy took turns on the tamborine. Zach did the subtle parts and Brian beat the hell out of it.
The Highlight of the show was For Real, everyone sang along, including me and Rebecca. The encore was four songs.
This concert was defenatly a top three concert for me my wife has never been to fond of them but really liked a few of their songs. She came out of there a fan, such is their live power. And this was for a mere $10 admission fee, which is just ridiculus for a band of their caliber. Hell, I´d pay a lot more to see them play.
We bought us 1 one Okkervil River T-shirt each and a copy of their new single, The President´s Dead, on vinyl and got it autographed by Brian, Zach (actually he put his Tag on it so I suppose he´s into graffiti) and Jonathan, sadly we missed the man himself.
Next time they´re in the area, we´re going again.
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