keep the focus off me and make it stay there
Listening to Kevin Devine's music on your own while sitting in your room with your headphones on or your speakers blaring is an entirely different experience from listening to Kevin Devine's music live as he stands on a stage in front of you holding his guitar.
I've always heard people say things like this about his performances, but you don't get it until you experience it.
It was honestly unlike any show I've ever been to. Maybe I haven't been to enough indie shows of artists I really love, but this was just something else. He's captivating on stage, and there's something almost magical about his performance. He also really connects with the audience and his banter is great.
There's a lot more I could say on the subject but the right words just aren't coming to me right now, so I'll just sit here and enjoy the warm feeling in my stomach left over from the show.
But it was incredible. Easily my favourite show of... ever? I don't know. I love Brand New and all, but damn, they got nothing on KD's stage presence. He just really knows how to work the stage and make the show really intimate and personal, in both senses of the word.
But hays, I got a poster:
I jokingly told him to cross out Bowery Ballroom at the bottom and put Mod Club, and, after asking me if I actually wanted him to, he did haha. I felt a pang of guilt afterwards since apparently Bowery was such an epic show and I dun mean no disrespect but hey, now it's personalized. I also like the Swedish influence of the dots above the O and U.
I talked to him a bit later during Matt Pryor's set as well, after I bummed $5 off Lisa to buy a Just Stay 7", and told him that if he set up a street team, we would promote the shit out of his next show. And to come back real soon because it's been too long prior to this.
He's such a great guy.
OH RITE. Setlist, possibly not in order:
(lol I'm having trouble remembering what he opened with)
You'll Only End Up Joining Them
Yr Damned Ol' Dad
All of Everything, Erased
No Time Flat
after which he said thank you and stepped back from the mic for a moment, and I guess Mod Club thought he was done, so they turned the intermission music back on and dimmed the lights. He looked confused for a moment, then shrugged and said, "I guess that's it," and put his guitar back into the case and left the stage. The whole crowd started freaking out, and a moment later Matt Pryor ran onto the stage and told the tech guy at the side that he wasn't done. Kevin came back on laughing, which makes me wonder if he was actually annoyed/upset or if he was just acting. Whatevs. He made a joke about how he thought he was in Texas for a moment and that they decided to shut him down after that last song, and then with a "well, I guess I'll strike while the iron's hot," comment, went into:
Another Bag of Bones
Just Stay (with the extra verse)
Brooklyn Boy (a partial cover of AA Bondy's "Black Rain, Black Rain" also came in somewhere around here but I don't remember the exact placement)
You're My Incentive
Cotton Crush
I think I'm missing something.
He finished with a cover of All Apologies in honour of his dad. It was really, really touching and I once again, just like I did when I first started listening to his music, marvelled at his ability to be able to cut himself open on a stage like that and pour his heart out to a group of strangers.
Looking over the setlist now I realize how short it actually was, but at the time I don't think I noticed it at all - I was so in the moment and loving every second. I wish he'd been headlining - I really do not care for Matt Pryor. He declined a few shouted requests on the grounds that it wasn't "his show - well, it's everybody show..."
He needs to come back again, like really soon. He said that he probably will in the near future (aka. not in another year and a half) but then again, MO said they'd come back in February and I guess Andy meant 2009 because it definitely didn't happen in 2008. Haha I'm not bitter, I'm jus saying.
Such a great night. This is what all shows need to be like.
I've always heard people say things like this about his performances, but you don't get it until you experience it.
It was honestly unlike any show I've ever been to. Maybe I haven't been to enough indie shows of artists I really love, but this was just something else. He's captivating on stage, and there's something almost magical about his performance. He also really connects with the audience and his banter is great.
There's a lot more I could say on the subject but the right words just aren't coming to me right now, so I'll just sit here and enjoy the warm feeling in my stomach left over from the show.
But it was incredible. Easily my favourite show of... ever? I don't know. I love Brand New and all, but damn, they got nothing on KD's stage presence. He just really knows how to work the stage and make the show really intimate and personal, in both senses of the word.
But hays, I got a poster:
I jokingly told him to cross out Bowery Ballroom at the bottom and put Mod Club, and, after asking me if I actually wanted him to, he did haha. I felt a pang of guilt afterwards since apparently Bowery was such an epic show and I dun mean no disrespect but hey, now it's personalized. I also like the Swedish influence of the dots above the O and U.
I talked to him a bit later during Matt Pryor's set as well, after I bummed $5 off Lisa to buy a Just Stay 7", and told him that if he set up a street team, we would promote the shit out of his next show. And to come back real soon because it's been too long prior to this.
He's such a great guy.
OH RITE. Setlist, possibly not in order:
(lol I'm having trouble remembering what he opened with)
You'll Only End Up Joining Them
Yr Damned Ol' Dad
All of Everything, Erased
No Time Flat
after which he said thank you and stepped back from the mic for a moment, and I guess Mod Club thought he was done, so they turned the intermission music back on and dimmed the lights. He looked confused for a moment, then shrugged and said, "I guess that's it," and put his guitar back into the case and left the stage. The whole crowd started freaking out, and a moment later Matt Pryor ran onto the stage and told the tech guy at the side that he wasn't done. Kevin came back on laughing, which makes me wonder if he was actually annoyed/upset or if he was just acting. Whatevs. He made a joke about how he thought he was in Texas for a moment and that they decided to shut him down after that last song, and then with a "well, I guess I'll strike while the iron's hot," comment, went into:
Another Bag of Bones
Just Stay (with the extra verse)
Brooklyn Boy (a partial cover of AA Bondy's "Black Rain, Black Rain" also came in somewhere around here but I don't remember the exact placement)
You're My Incentive
Cotton Crush
I think I'm missing something.
He finished with a cover of All Apologies in honour of his dad. It was really, really touching and I once again, just like I did when I first started listening to his music, marvelled at his ability to be able to cut himself open on a stage like that and pour his heart out to a group of strangers.
Looking over the setlist now I realize how short it actually was, but at the time I don't think I noticed it at all - I was so in the moment and loving every second. I wish he'd been headlining - I really do not care for Matt Pryor. He declined a few shouted requests on the grounds that it wasn't "his show - well, it's everybody show..."
He needs to come back again, like really soon. He said that he probably will in the near future (aka. not in another year and a half) but then again, MO said they'd come back in February and I guess Andy meant 2009 because it definitely didn't happen in 2008. Haha I'm not bitter, I'm jus saying.
Such a great night. This is what all shows need to be like.