Sleater-Kinney Concert Review Archive / 2001-2006

LeBurger has photos in this Flickr set.

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je_duncan has a bunch of shots from Sundown In The City.

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By Garrett Schure

I especially enjoyed the Dead Meadow set before their home audience. There was good energy for them. Their stuff is really groove danceable, maybe especially that first number. It’s the one regret of my seaboard tour, not getting my feet off the floor enough for them.

But No Looking Back! This show was fast and fierce right from the start. They came out cooking. The vocals were spat out and clipped and shouted. The guitar playing was jagged and stabbing. The pace was pushed.

Carrie and Corin seemed in real agreement about what the mood was. More hard than angry, maybe a “I’m not going to take shit from anyone” feeling. Or maybe just a recognition this is the last show before a bit of a break, and a desire to go out fast and blazing.

They’ve played a number of different songs third after Fox and Wilderness; a fast and pounding version of Step Aside cemented the mood.

It put an interesting spin on Sympathy: the kick-ass rock ‘n roll component of the song won out over the bluesy soulfulness.

I loved the intro to What’s Mine Is Yours. A slow simple muscular sliding riff, then some repeated ringing noise, then a bit of feedback before launching into the song. I also loved the change of Let’s Call It Love into Entertain. Carrie’s guitar subtly shifted, and Janet’s drums subtly shifted, in a way that was especially cool and smooth this time. When you first recognize Entertain, you realize Hey, it’s been as much Entertain as Let’sCall It Love for quite a few bars now.

At the end of Entertain, and Carrie has been doing this all along, the guitar strap gets flung off just before the last note, and she’s practically walking off the stage guitar in hand: the last thing you hear is a kind of throttled squelched chord she gets out of the hand she’s carrying the thing off with. It’s a
commanding way to end the show.

One More Hour to start the encore. Mother straight into Dig Me Out to end it.

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Setlist:

The Fox
Wilderness
YNRNRF
Combat Rock
Burn Don’t Freeze
Rollercoaster
Was it a Lie?
Everything
What’s Mine is Yours
Modern Girl
Jumpers
Let’s Call it Love
Entertain
–
Little Babies
Start Together
Oh!
–
Call the Doctor
Words & Guitar

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One Louder has some pics and a full review. Excerpted below:

There’s a real divide between S-K’s old and new sounds, and it’s difficult to reconcile the two on stage. It might be why a ragged “Light Rail Coyote” didn’t come together till near its end, and why “One More Hour” sounded rough. That’s not to say the old tunes should be off limits – “Sympathy” and “Dig Me Out” were two of the night’s best songs – but I think the band is still figuring out how to strike the best sonic balance. And I’m more than happy to hang on for the ride. I expect big things from Sleater-Kinney shows, and this one delivered as usual.

Setlist
The Fox
Wilderness

One More Hour
Rollercoaster
Light Rail Coyote
Modern Girl
Sympathy
Everything
What’s Mine Is Yours
Steep Air
Far Away

Jumpers
Let’s Call It Love -> Entertain
–
Oh!
I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
Step Aside
Words + Guitar
Mother (Danzig) -> Dig Me Out

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More Sushiesque photos on Flicker.

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By Garrett via Sleater-Kinney.net

This was Sleater-Kinney’s first show in Burlington. Corin said it’s a pretty cool club we’ve got. Carefully disguised as a strip mall. She wouldn’t know that the club recently moved, and that the old place was not just behind the mall, but in it.

Local favoritism maybe, but it was a better show than Montreal. An enthusiastic audience, and the kids were dancing. Not everyone, not half of everyone, not even a third or a quarter of everyone, but enough. Especially towards the end. I think there was a localized lessening of the force of gravity somewhere around Rollercoaster. Corin felt it: she hopped more than I’ve ever seen, especially Let’s Call It Love.

Sympathy got a big audience reaction. That’s one powerful song.

I’m still liking Everything.

Bright Lights Tonight in the encore.

Carrie gave w+g an intro. I wouldn’t know what I’m talking about, but discordant doublestop pulloffs, then ringing tones, or somesuch. I’d say her vocals were mixed a bit low, except it’s probably just my blasted eardrums.

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By Joel via Words+Guitar

setlist for show in Burlington VT, 21 June 05:

FOX
WILDERNESS
YOUTH DECAY
COMBAT ROCK

ROLLERCOASTER
MODERN GIRL
SYMPATHY
EVERYTHING
WHAT’S MINE IS YOURS
GET UP
JUMPERS
LET’S CALL IT LOVE
NIGHTLIGHT

ENTERTAIN

..encore..

OH!
1 BEAT
cover*
WORDS AND GUITAR

*I don’t know the cover song, but it was the one they played on the

first night of the two Los Angeles shows (8 June I think)

The HIGHER GROUNDS in Burlington was a great place to see the kinney.
Somewhat smaller club, Xavier says it looks like the Showbox in
Seattle. It wasn’t very crowded, and there was no line before the
show. Getting front-and-center was almost too easy. By the time Dead
Meadow started, the place was nearly full, but not too crowded.
People still had room to move around freely, and we were even able to
leave our first-row spots and then get them back. The crowd

participation was more enthusiastic then some sk shows I’ve seen, but
not nearly as wild as the LA shows. Mostly bobbing and cheering.. no
moshing or crowd surfing like in LA.

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Garrett via Sleater-Kinney.net

Dead Meadow had what was called “band problems,” and was cancelled. So Janet showed up on stage suddenly to announce that the opening band would be Sleater-Kinney karaoke. This was fun. The best was two women who did YNRNRF with “You wanna party with the lights on/Come on I like it dark” alternation and finger pointing.

After the karaoke, there must have been some disappointment when Carrie said they’d be back in half an hour, so she said “OK, maybe fifteen minutes. We do need some time to get ready. We have to put our wigs on and stuff.”

Entertain was different than the album, less dance single, more lead-in to Let’s Call it Love. Get Up was given an angry edge.

I liked Everything, and the pairing of it with Rollercoaster. They came around sounding 1967. The guitar sounds were heaven, 1967. Let’s Call it Love had some sixties-hommage riffage in it. Like something awfully close to Communications Breakdown for a bit.

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Punk Rock Parody has pictures, a review and this setlist over at the Hot Rock Livejournal Community.

the fox
wilderness
turn it on
combat rock
rollercoaster
modern girl
sympathy
what’s yours is mine
everything

light-rail coyote
jumpers
let’s call it love
night light
entertain
-encore-
oh!
i want to see the bright lights tonight (richard + linda thompson cover)
i wanna be yr joey ramone

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