By Deborah Karen Watt
Just back from a lovely weekend in the Pacific NW..
Please _somebody_ say they taped the Saturday show, and that incredible encore. My recorder, which was working fine when I left, arrived dead to Seattle :( , and now seems to be working again..
These were the last nights of the first leg of the tour. Apparently, the band had some sort of issues getting to Seattle, involving losing their van, crew, and gear, and a long cab ride to the airport. They didn’t give more details…anybody know more?
The Quails are still great. I liked Shannon Wright, but I thought either the lights needed to be brighter or that I needed a chair for her set. She has a very intense voice and presence, often barely contained by the stage. Oh, and there was one strange/cool part where she came over to the edge of the stage and was playing guitar right in front of this guy. His face came to right below her guitar, and after a few seconds he started to move closer to her crotch. She kneed him away from her, powerfully, and some other women in the audience made a few comments at him. Then she said something to him that sounded like “why are you talking?” and went back to the main stage and the guitar. Does anybody have a different interpretation of this?
The setlist follows. It was all of 1BT except Prisstina (has anybody heard this lately?), with some of the standard oldies, plus “Stay Where you Are”.
The show seemed pretty tight to me, though the band seemed to be doing less smiling than I remembered seeing in Denver. Carrie in particular seemed to be doing a lot of singing through clenched/bared teeth, looking upward, and shaking her head slightly. Seemed to me to be singing from an angry place, but who knows..
Corin messed up the verses in “Combat Rock.” She skipped the middle verse and sang the last one (”past becomes the future”) twice. Nobody seemed to notice or comment.
At one point Corin commented on some posters that were being sold at the club: “just when you think maybe the world is ready for you, gets your music, and is ready for a 3-dimensional women’s rock band, I walk into the club and they are selling posters with my face on Angelina Jolie’s body with size-DD tits….We are also selling posters that have my real body, which I happen to like..” (paraphrase)
They played “Promised Land” because this was the “mature” audience (21+) of the tour. Afterwards, we got a pop quiz to see if we knew who it was by. (I passed thanks to the help of this list..) Carrie said her dad, if he was in the audience, would know it, because she stole the record from him years back.
After the show I was hanging around and noticed a well-dressed gentleman looking (I thought) a bit confused walking across the floor. Carrie came out and gave him a big hug, along with a younger grrl, then they all went backstage. Father and sister, I pressumed? I felt intrusive watching, but I was hoping she would come back out to talk to the fans.
Fashion report: Janet, black on black, with a black belt. Corin, white/black sleeveless with a paisley design on the chest, skirt, knee-high boots. Carrie, blue/white stripped sleeveless, dark blue jeans slightly flared, black square-toed dress shoes.
Setlist
1BT
Oh!
Far Away
All Hands
O2
Remainder
Burn, Don’t Freeze
YNRNRF
Combat Rock
CTD
Light Rail
Stay Where you Are
Funeral Song
W&G
Hollywood
Sympathy
End of You
Step Aside
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Promised Land
Turn it on w/extended jam ending
DMO
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<2nd Encore, baby!>
Good Things
Little Babies