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the Femmes at the Zoo
Aug. 20th, 2004 07:30 pmCyn and I saw the Femmes play at the Milwaukee County Zoo tonight. Very cool. Due to parking hassles that we forgot to expect, we made it across the park to the stage only five minutes before the show started.
The opened with "Please do not Go." That was unexpected. They played a few songs that surprised me. This is the first time since Victor came back that they played any song from an album after Why do Birds Sing? They played "Color Me Once" (from The Crow soundtrack) and two songs from Freak Magnet, the title track, and "All I Want." It's good to see that they are expanding their repertoire. It was also cool to hear "Mother of a Girl". They played a song by their "one of our most favorite bands we toured with," the Pogues - "Dirty Old Town". They said in case anyone came to the wrong fest, when they should have been at Irish Fest.
The other songs played were: Blister, Kiss Off, Please do not go, Add it Up, Confessions (with The Horns of Dilemma), Prove My Love, Gone Daddy Gone, Good Feeling, Hallowed Ground, Black Girls (again with the horns), Jesus Walking on the Water, Country Death Song, I Held Her in My Arms (with some bad sound and bad sax), American Music, Out the Window, Gimme the Car, Waiting for the Bus. And when the little steam train went by, Gordon broke into a few lines of "Folsom Prison Blues" with the Zoo substituted for the prison.
Ritchie played his acoustic bass for the first half of the show, then switched between his two electrics for the rest. Except when he played the xylophone (and conch shell, and wooden box). He had worked up a new solo for... um... "Jesus Walking", I think. And dressed up another older solo during another song.
Gordon looked the same. Played the same. Same guitar. Same shirt, I think. He seemed to be having a good time. He was talkative, though. Told a few stories.
Victor was goofy, as usual. He didn't have his tranceophone - just the tom, snare and crash. You've seen that trick where a drummer will throw his stick in the air and catch it? Victor bounces his off the floor and catches it. At one point, he said a few words about the zoo and how lucky we are to have it. And then he said he had one tiny complaint. There were certain areas of the zoo that smelled "just a tiny bit poopy."
There were more people there than I expected. It wasn't packed, but it was a big lawn area. Quite a variety of ages of fans. A lot of teens (some of them drunk), and a few greying heads. There were more than a few small children. It didn't look like any of them were having a bad time, though.
I am disappointed not to have pictures to share. We didn't realize the camera battery was dead until we were ready to leave.
The opened with "Please do not Go." That was unexpected. They played a few songs that surprised me. This is the first time since Victor came back that they played any song from an album after Why do Birds Sing? They played "Color Me Once" (from The Crow soundtrack) and two songs from Freak Magnet, the title track, and "All I Want." It's good to see that they are expanding their repertoire. It was also cool to hear "Mother of a Girl". They played a song by their "one of our most favorite bands we toured with," the Pogues - "Dirty Old Town". They said in case anyone came to the wrong fest, when they should have been at Irish Fest.
The other songs played were: Blister, Kiss Off, Please do not go, Add it Up, Confessions (with The Horns of Dilemma), Prove My Love, Gone Daddy Gone, Good Feeling, Hallowed Ground, Black Girls (again with the horns), Jesus Walking on the Water, Country Death Song, I Held Her in My Arms (with some bad sound and bad sax), American Music, Out the Window, Gimme the Car, Waiting for the Bus. And when the little steam train went by, Gordon broke into a few lines of "Folsom Prison Blues" with the Zoo substituted for the prison.
Ritchie played his acoustic bass for the first half of the show, then switched between his two electrics for the rest. Except when he played the xylophone (and conch shell, and wooden box). He had worked up a new solo for... um... "Jesus Walking", I think. And dressed up another older solo during another song.
Gordon looked the same. Played the same. Same guitar. Same shirt, I think. He seemed to be having a good time. He was talkative, though. Told a few stories.
Victor was goofy, as usual. He didn't have his tranceophone - just the tom, snare and crash. You've seen that trick where a drummer will throw his stick in the air and catch it? Victor bounces his off the floor and catches it. At one point, he said a few words about the zoo and how lucky we are to have it. And then he said he had one tiny complaint. There were certain areas of the zoo that smelled "just a tiny bit poopy."
There were more people there than I expected. It wasn't packed, but it was a big lawn area. Quite a variety of ages of fans. A lot of teens (some of them drunk), and a few greying heads. There were more than a few small children. It didn't look like any of them were having a bad time, though.
I am disappointed not to have pictures to share. We didn't realize the camera battery was dead until we were ready to leave.
