this is one of those quick jumps from nothing to everythingatonce. after pitchfork this weekend, we went to see Mirah on tuesday, and the decemberists on wednesday.
Mirah's shows started late (10:45), and led off with slow songs from C'mon Miracle. We stuck around purely because we knew she couldn't not play Cold Cold Water, so we knew things had to pick up sooner or later. Boy did they. I always assumed songs like Mt. St. Helens and Cold Cold Water were mostly post production, and that the fantastic swells owed more to Phil Elvrum than to Mirah. While there's certainly more to the album versions, Mirah + drums (clive) + keyboard did amazing justice to the songs. I've seen 5 person bands struggle to get sound that big live. It was absolutely amazing, and well worth the sleepiness the next morning. from there, the show only got better. After a short break, clive and the keyboardist came back and did a cover of the Cherish Sisters' Do It To It. Clive got the audience to clap along at the end, and Mirah jumped back on stage to launch straight into The Garden, with everyone clapping through the whole song. I don't think there's any other way the song could have rocked out that much with such a tiny set up. From there, Clive showed off his human beatbox skillz as she launched into The Light as remixed on Joyride. who woulda thunk?
we were planning on checking out the decemberists with the grant park orchestra tonight, but since the wifest is getting on a plane at 5am tomorrow, we skipped it. good thing, too, as it's currently pouring.
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Hey there I was at Mirah as well. Sadly I didn’t get any good photos but I did take a spot of video. You can find my coverage here:
http://toomuchrock.com/shows/mirah.html
Last night the rain held off for Decemberists. I got there at 4pm and it was just oppressively hot. Right when Colin took the stage, it started sprinkling. No umbrellas, just happy concert-goers. It stopped rainy shortly — however on the train ride back home it started pouring and it was a giant thunderstorm by the time I got out at Belmont. But, yeah, it held off during the show — only providing a few “dramatic” (Colin’s word) flashes of lightning during the final encore of “The Mariner’s Revenge Song .”
Setlist:
The Crane Wife 1 & 2
The Infanta
We Both Go Down Together
The Bagman’s Gambit
Odalisque
The Perfect Crime #2
Los Angeles I’m Yours
The Tain
O Valencia!
I Was Meant for the Stage
16 Military Wives
The Mariner’s Revenge Song
(5 of the songs were performed solo — without the orch)
sounds awesome, i wish i’d been able to make it. thanks for the video link, i’ll check it out
The Decemberists were playing at Summer Stage in Central Park. Or rather, they did play. Last Monday. Was going to go, but my inner old man unleashed a furry of tiredness upon me.
I wish I had a Laz-e-boy that I could sleep in.
“inner old man”
i’ll have to start using that now. except it’s usually the wifest’s inner old woman when it comes to shows
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