By Deborah Karen Watt
[I know, I know. My posts are really long, but this is as much to share with you as a momento for me to remember details about the night.]
First the bad news: that guy who goes to SK shows to sexually assault women was there on Sunday. He was rubbing on one of the women in the audience, and she and her friends I guess called security in and had him detained. I’m not sure of the details and I didn’t notice it happening during the show, but she was obviously very upset by it.
Afterwards Corin and Janet were being super-nice, trying to comfort and support her. L, if you’re on this list, I hope you find the support you need to help you deal with this. Can’t the-powers-that-be keep this guy out? How shitty is that, for the band that wrote “#1 Must Have” to have a “fan” who does that to women at their own shows? Actually, they did play “#1″ this night, so I wonder if they already knew what had happened and chose that song.
I guess ladies who go to shows in the Seattle area need to stay aware that he is out there and keep themselves safe. Aargh.
On to the better news: the show was great, of course.
The last night of the first leg of the tour. This was the all-ages show, so overall the crowd was younger but smaller.
The band commented that Saturday’s 21+ crowd had been “rowdier” and though they hated to make the connection between alcohol and rowdiness… Next they played 1BT, “which you can’t dance to at all.”
Soon thereafter some dancing girls sidled in beside me and we helped to liven things up. When they came out for the encore, Carrie commented that we’d come around.
I thought they looked much happier on stage than the night before (which I kind of attributed to their prior transportation difficulties). During one song Carrie was looking into the back of the audience and smiling really big. When the song was over, she praised the dancing of Julie (presumably Butterfield) and Colleen
(presumably who does Quails merch). I guess they’ve got some moves!
Light-Rail was once again turned into a participatory song. They had Shannon Wright come back out to add some “dirty river”s and then the audience had a go at it.
Somebody threw some undies on stage, with something written on them. The band discussed this a bit “What does it say?” “I don’t know, I can’t read it from here” “I think it’s a hat” “Yeah, the new G-string kind of hat” “All we’ve gotten thrown at us this tour is underwear and dirty socks.”
I think O2 is a great first song, gets my blood flowing. Also, I love the new W&G, which goes from super-quiet to totally rocking.
I have a theory about Carrie’s new dance moves: it seems that on the older songs (eg during the encores) she pulls out a lot more of the jumps and kicks, I think because she used to sing less and had more time and freedom to roam from the mic. Corin did a bit of dancing, and during one of the older songs when everyone was jumping around, she did a kind of jogging-in-place move. It was cute, and definitely impressive in a skirt and with the big heels on her boots.
Fashion report: Janet, black. Corin, light sleeveless with a line of sparklies on the chest, jean skirt, boots. Carrie, brown velvet blazer (must have been hot!), blue jeans, black shoes.
I didn’t manage a setlist, but it started with O2, Oh!, Far Away, and included, again, all of 1BT except Prisstina. Also played were “Get Up,” “Youth Decay,” “#1,” “Turn it On,” DMO, W&G, “Joey”
The encore was “One More Hour,” “Professional”, CTD. No covers tonight.
Maybe..I’m a bit hazy on the details, but I’m not alone. Corin got confused on the encore and started playing CTD while everyone else was doing 1MH. She came back to the mic and very sheepishly said “oops, my bad.” So then Carrie mouthed the right song to her, trying to hide it from the audience. After that song, she and Janet conferred and she relayed “Professional” to Corin. At the Denver show, Corin was also confused about which encore songs they had decided on. Hmmm….
After the show I talked to the Quails a bit. It turns out that, surprise, they are not actually Ultimate players and the comment they made on stage about it was just a joke. Bummer. They are all really nice though.
Then I hung around a bit longer to see if I could fulfill my “lifelong dream” of meeting Carrie, my perennial favorite SKer. I’ve met Corin and Janet various times. It seems like they come out after shows more often than does Carrie, and like somebody mentioned, Corin is very gracious and says a sincere-sounding ‘thanks’ to whatever gushing comments people make.
So finally Carrie does come out, and I wait for her to finish talking to the friend she was with, then ask her to sign my setlist. She did, but she wasn’t particularly friendly about it. Which leads me to my question: Have other people met Carrie after a show where she was friendly and seemed into talking to fans? I wonder if it was just her mood that night, she’d hoped fans would have been gone by the time she came out, she was upset about the sexual assault
incident, any other reason..OR if she’s not as friendly as interviews would suggest. People (if anybody’s still reading this far), let’s hear your shiny, happy Carrie stories!
OK, that’s it for me until DC in a few weeks.
Benjamin Hopper sent in the setlist for this show:
Oxygen
Oh!
Far Away
Get Up
One Beat
Youth Decay
Remainder
#1 Must Have
Funeral Song
Turn It On
Combat Rock
YNRNRF
Light Rail Coyote
Hollywood Ending
Words And Guitar
Sympathy
Joey
Step Aside
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One More Hour
Professional
Call the Doctor