The rumored Hold Steady shows had taken precedence as I approached what I considered my own personal birthday weekend. While that is somewhat selfish (and with apologies to Sizzla, Brandon So Hideous, and my cousin Tom) I rarely indulge in such things, so others of the prospectively offended demographic are invited to litigate acccordingly. As said weekend approached, I happened to realize that the good folk of Wussy were passing through for another one of what is becoming regular Cake Shop shows.I've spent a lot of time at Cake Shop in the last year or so and I can aver two things: they book good shows, and getting caught in the line of fire of their PA speakers is one of the harshest things I've ever encountered in a club. You have to work for it, but location is everything there. I arrived at the tail end of The Fervor and was pretty impressed. They got a little jammy, but the female who fronts the band (as well as playing keys) sure can sing. There is evidently a split with our Wussy heroes that sounds like it's well worth picking up.
Wussy were up in fairly short order and proceeded to throw down in their time-honored fashion. Chuck and Lisa are quite a couple, both visually and musically, and the chemistry seems to be working for the band. They've been breaking in a new drummer for a bit, but you wouldn't know it by listening. The gender change is a little more obvious, but it certainly hasn't impacted Wussy to the negative. They drew a decent crowd and got a couple encores, so it would appear that I'm not the only one in NYC beside Bob Christgau who is sweet on these kids. The set list is below. It, along with the photo above and the recording of the show you can get here were all stolen from the estimable nyctaper, whose site you should peruse early and often. Thanks and apologies to him. Once you get back from there, head on over to the Wussy web presence here and see if you're lucky enough to have the kids coming through your town soon.
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01 Funeral Dress [false start]
02 Funeral Dress
03 Happiness Bleeds
04 [banter]
05 Crooked
06 [banter]
07 Sun Giant Says Hey
08 Do Do Do Do
09 [banter]
10 Breakfast in Bed (Hinton/Fritts)
11 [banter/monitors]
12 Death By Misadventure
13 Muscle Cars
14 Airborne
15 Yellow Cotton Dress
16 Fly Fly Fly
17 Rigor Mortis
18 [encore break/banter]
19 Soak It Up
20 [banter]
21 Jonah
22 [banter]
23 Maglite
24 [second encore break]
25 Don't Leave Just Now
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