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2013 June 8th - Peter Cooper Village, New York City, NY

Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 7:38 am
by Monolith Maniac
June 8th, 2013

Peter Cooper Village
New York City, New York

Showtime: 8:30 PM

Re: 2013 June 8th - Peter Cooper Village, New York City, NY

Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 9:57 am
by TravisSaves
This website is claiming it's on Saturday, the 8th:
http://www.songkick.com/concerts/163798 ... esant-town

Re: 2013 June 8th - Peter Cooper Village, New York City, NY

Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:28 am
by Monolith Maniac
TravisSaves wrote:This website is claiming it's on Saturday, the 8th:
http://www.songkick.com/concerts/163798 ... esant-town

Thank you; updated.

(Don't know how I missed that; I had it written down on the shows page as the 8th though. :P )

Re: 2013 June 8th - Peter Cooper Village, New York City, NY

Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 8:54 am
by TravisSaves
Bummer! According to this, the NYC Soul Asylum show is only open to residents that live in that community:

http://stuytownreport.blogspot.com/2013 ... -ends.html

"On the TA Facebook, Edmund John Dunn has noted that the Soul Asylum concert is being advertised on the band's website without the notation that the concert is for PCVST residents and their guests."

Re: 2013 June 8th - Peter Cooper Village, New York City, NY

Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 6:19 pm
by ArmyKat
Brief summary of the show --
Brian, Rob and I made it to the PCV/Stuytown show yesterday. It will go down as one of the strangest SA shows I've been to. It's true that you needed to be a resident or a guest of a resident in order to get in; the complex brought extra security in due to residents' complaints over the past few years. I saw several people get turned away from the "Oval," though I think they were able to watch from outside it. The audience inside seemed to consist of just a couple of hardcore fans....and a variety of young families and elderly folks.

That said, it ended up being a great show. The band had a lot of energy despite the strange circumstances. Michael was back on drums and Dave made a lot of banter with the audience, even dancing to entertain a little girl at one point. He did have to edit a few things -- his typical "flipping the bird" gesture in Oxygen, the f-bomb in Take Manhattan -- for the audience.

The set list is below and Rob has some great photos to upload...

Set list -- Peter Cooper Village/Stuyvesant Town -- June 8th 2013

Shove
Misery
Lately
Oxygen
Marionette
Little Too Clean
Black Gold
Without a Trace
Take Manhattan
Gravity
Into the Light
Can't Even Tell
I Will Still Be Laughing
By The Way
Never Really Been
Runaway Train
Closer to the Stars
Just Like Anyone

__ (Chants of "one more song" from a very happy audience)____

Made to be Broken
April Fool

Re: 2013 June 8th - Peter Cooper Village, New York City, NY

Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 7:18 pm
by mystic_spiral_3
So were you guys guests of residents or did you just watch from outside the oval?

Re: 2013 June 8th - Peter Cooper Village, New York City, NY

Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 7:25 pm
by ArmyKat
mystic_spiral_3 wrote:So were you guys guests of residents or did you just watch from outside the oval?
My buddy lives there and got us in, so we were able to secure our rightful spot at the front. :)

Re: 2013 June 8th - Peter Cooper Village, New York City, NY

Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 7:53 pm
by Yaz McBoo
Oh yes, we got in the oval, and we got up front. A Soul Asylum show is srs bsns, and we take a back seat to no one.

Good review Carin, that sums it up. Yes, the people there were either 4 year old kids, 35 year old parents, or 75 year olds. The opening act was a local band named Skyfactor who performed original songs plus Billie Joel's You May Be Right. The lead singer lives in the Stuyvesant apts.

Dave told two jokes, the one about the antennae (the wedding was okay but the reception was awesome) and the other was "If a man had a uterus it would be called a duderus." He also made some attempts at jokes about the Oval and he dedicated a song to the Oval people, the triangle people, and the squares. Dave also kindly acknowledged the First Avenue t-shirt worn by some dude in the front row and a Minnesota North Stars ("Not the Texas North Stars") shirt worn by a woman also in the front.

Misery included the Silly Love Songs tag. Otherwise the set was all originals - seems like it has been a while since I've seen them do a show with no cover songs. They soundchecked Take Manhattan and I Did My Best.


The photos:

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A greeter/security type almost went through with our post-show request to secure one or two of these posters but his boss told him, over walkie-talkie loud enough that we could hear, not to do it because the sign boards "are a pain in the ass to put back together."


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View from outside the Oval during Soundcheck.


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View of the lawn from the stage - I think I took this just after the opening act performed. It got more full as SA came on stage.


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Kim King introducing Soul Asylum.


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Re: 2013 June 8th - Peter Cooper Village, New York City, NY

Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 8:32 pm
by ArmyKat
Yaz McBoo wrote: A Soul Asylum show is srs bsns, and we take a back seat to no one.
lolz! :lol:

Re: 2013 June 8th - Peter Cooper Village, New York City, NY

Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 8:39 pm
by Educatrix
On first reading the parameters regarding attendance, I thought the whole thing quite odd (still do, really. Not to mention, I wonder why they wouldn't book another local gig for Friday evening, or even last night). That said, it looks and sounds like it was a good time; glad y'all were able to see it!