By Alex
Well, I was in attendance at the Warsaw show in Brooklyn two nights ago, the last stop of the tour. S-K were great as usual — of their three New York City dates, I think it was second-best behind the second Irving Plaza show (although I didn’t see the NYU show so who knows, maybe that was super-awesome).
Lots of little funny stuff — during the extended Hollywood Ending Janet drum-solo, Carrie and Corin asked anyone who wanted to to come up on stage and dance. There were a bunch of kids near the front who went up, which was cute. When they came out for the encore, Janet was wearing a Halloween costume, which she describes is “supposed to be a werewolf, but it looks more like a friendly bear.” And she played drums while wearing the costume (which covered her head and shoulders, not whole self). Corin talked about seeing the Rolling Stones in Atlanta and made fun of Mick Jagger. Carrie was chatty and excited as usual. Fun level was high during the show, and it’s only surpassed by the show I mentioned before because then they were more “on,” in terms of hitting all their notes and all.
If ANYONE can tell me what the cover was during the encore (it was NOT Bruce Springsteen) and what the very last song was (after Dig Me Out), I would be most appreciative.
Don’t know when they’ll be touring again, but before this May when they first hit NYC in advance of One Beat, they hadn’t played in about 18 months. Hopefully it won’t be as long a wait again…don’t suppose anyone’s got Conan O’Brien tix this afternoon???
Hats off again to Sleater-Kinney. Another great tour for the world’s best rock and roll band.
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