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Siren Festival – Coney Island, NY
July 20th, 2002
The Aladdin Theater – Portland, OR
July 17th, 2002
By Janice Ordal-Odrane
Sleater-Kinney played a really cool show last night. It was a benefit for the Rock N Roll Camp for Girls taking place in Portland, OR for this entire week. They said they were really inspired by all teaching at the camp over the last few days and Carrie said it was somewhat of a “life changing experience”. Because of their experience, this show was going to be a retrospective of sorts of all S-K’s albums. They would do songs from all their albums in chronological order. Carrie said it was like a VH-1 Storytellers.
This made it a really fun show. I didn’t expect this at all. I knew they were playing a lot of new material lately, so that’s what I thought they’d do.
They played How to Play Dead and, I think, Sold Out from the first album. They introduced these songs by saying that they had just started their band and were pen pals w/someone from Australia. She said if they came over to Aus she would play songs on their album. They went over and wrote a bunch of songs and played a bunch. After the first song, they had to adjust a couple things and took a second to go into the next. Carrie said that this is about how are shows were back then too.
Then they played Call the Dr. from the next album. Before I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone, I think it was Corin who said that this was about the time that we decided we could both sing the songs (Janet added: at the same time).
Then they played One More Hour and Not What You Want from Dig Me Out. They mentioned that Janet joined them on this album and that added a lot for the band.
From The Hot Rock, they played The Hot Rock and The End of You. Carrie said that the first albums were written really quickly, but this one was a little more introspective and they took more time. They were stepping back, because their band was becoming it’s own entity and ppl were expecting certain things from them.
From AHOTBO, they played Ballad of a Ladyman and I can’t remember what else. During these two songs, someone from the audience asked them why they played music. Corin responded with something about it being for power and love of music more than anything else.
The rest of the set was new stuff – Combat Rock and about 4 others. I think Sympathy might have been one of them, but I don’t know the new album. There was that cowbell one that had some wah wah and the first line is Knockin’ on my door…that’s a really rockin’ song. There were definitely a couple with some classic 60′s-70′s rock sound to ‘em. I’m excited about this album.
The encores were The Professional, Yr No Rock N Roll Fun, and Dig Me Out.
What a fun, fun show. I’m glad they did it that way – I think it was a once in a lifetime thing.
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Capitol Hill Block Party – Seattle, WA
July 13th, 2002
