Kevin Devine, The Miniature Tigers, Brian Bonz @ HOB San Diego 5/16/09
The set list in order was:
1. Cotton crush
2. Carnival
3. Another bag of bones
4. No time flat
5. You're trailing yourself
6. Go haunt someone else
7. Hand of God
8. Murphy's song
9. The longer that I'm out here
10. Buried by the buzz
11. I could be with anyone
12. Yr husband
13. Tomorrow is just too late
14. Brooklyn boy
15. Ballgame
16. You are the daybreak
17. Just stay
18. Brother's blood
I am in love with downtown San Diego. It reminds me a lot of NYC, a cleaner safer NYC haha. Every time I go I hear an internal voice telling me that I am somewhere I could settle. I guess that is why I did not mind driving around endlessly trying to find reasonably priced parking. Raquel and I eventually settled on a place about 3 blocks away for $10 (hey, don't judge me alright, we are in tough economic times, I do what I can ha). Raquel was more excited than I was since she had missed the Kevin Devine/Jesse Lacey/ Brian Bonz tour last year. This show was incredible. It was very small -a lot of older fans- Kevin said that he felt we were all just chillin' at his house and not at a show. Brian Bonz opened and I was very excited to see him and Mike play again. They played Kid Shit, Judy & the Alpha Queen, Dee the Dinosaur, Seafence and Superconnected, a Broken Social Scene cover. I got audio of it but I have to get around to uploading it. Those songs are not in order and that list is probably incomplete, my memory fails me at the worst times. I did not think to write down the set list until Kevin came on. :/ Miniature Tigers went on second. Their drummer had family in the crowd and they brought them all up at the end. I have to say they played a good show, but I was not really feeling their music. There seemed to be people in the crowd who did enjoy them. They reminded me of Weezer, a bad Weezer. To each their own, right? There was a prom going on across the street and Kevin kept making jokes about how he had seen a bunch of versions of himself. He was predicting their future outcomes, which was pretty funny. There was a little girl in the crowd that Kevin brought up to play the tambourine during one song, it was really cute. I was talking to Kevin about a possible release of Brother's Blood on vinyl. He told me that he actually is going to release it on vinyl (mid summer) and that the only reason it didn't come out when the album did was because of a miscommunication with the distributor. I bought the album because I hadn't and I bought the EP. I gave him a $20 and he forgot to give me $5 back and when I asked him for it he got so red as was I. I asked him to sign my album since I'm too self-conscious for pictures and he wrote "sorry I tried to rob you xo KD" so now I'll remember it forever haha. I bought the Brian Bonz album as well and told him that he played great, and I had purchased the EP at the Roxy last year and loved it. I told them both that we would be seeing them tomorrow and Brian told me to find him and said he would sign my album. Kevin said it was cool that we did "the double show thing." So he told us he'd see us tomorrow and we waved them goodbye. I love that they're so accessible. I'm not one to go all crazy over musicians but they seem really grounded, I appreciate that. Anyway on to the pictures: DISCLAIMER: I took these with my blackberry because HOB SD doesn't allow cameras. So excuse the poor quality, I tried.
