My Bloody Valentine @ the Institute for Contemporary Arts (6.13.2008):
1. Intro
2. Only Shallow
3. You Never Should
4. Honey Power
5. Cigarette In Your Bed (aborted)
6. I Only Said
7. Cigarette In Your Bed
8. Thorn
9. Nothing Much to Lose
10. To Hear Knows When
11. When You Sleep
12. Slow
13. Blown a Wish
14. Soon
15. Feed Me With Your Kiss
16. Sueisfine
17. You Made Me Realize
I had already purchased tickets for ATP when the San Francisco show was announced. Ugh, I loathe the Concourse! Worst venue in town. I would have gladly signed up to see them a second time if they were playing someplace better. Oh well, ATP is drawing near... getting excited!
Great show much, much, much, more polished than the June ICA show in London. Even the more difficult songs like To Here Knows When, Thorn, & Soon didn't become buried in the mix of the instruments (then again I was about 10 from the front center stage)
Crowd was BORING! it was like a hoodie convention and people trying to show off their cool asian girlfriends. WTH happened! I remember when seeing shows in SF was fantastic the crowds were into it and we'd all jump around, instead people just stood there. Then to add insult to injury I head comments later like "I really like those new songs" WHAT NEW SONGS!!!?
Needless to say the venue was better than I expected and as far as 90s bands reuniting MBV are at the top of that pyramid with the Pixies. They sounded exceptional, and throughly on their game. Guess a lot of practice was done between June and September!