Saturday, May 4, 2013

Johnny Marr

Date
Saturday, May 4, 2013
Show time
09:00 PM
Venue
Paradise Rock Club
City
Boston, MA
Tickets
3
Seating
GA
Sold by
Ticketmaster

3 tickets, $99.00 all-in ($33 each). John bought for himself, Dave, and Gary (per forwarded exchange with Dave Coleman).

What they played

  1. The Right Thing Right
  2. Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before The Smiths cover
  3. Upstarts
  4. Sun and Moon
  5. There Is a Light That Never Goes Out The Smiths cover
  6. Forbidden City Electronic cover
  7. London The Smiths cover
  8. Lockdown
  9. The Messenger
  10. Generate! Generate!
  11. Say Demesne
  12. Bigmouth Strikes Again The Smiths cover
  13. Word Starts Attack
  14. New Town Velocity
  15. Still Ill The Smiths cover
  16. I Want the Heartbeat

Encore

  1. I Fought the Law The Crickets cover
  2. Getting Away With It Electronic cover
  3. How Soon Is Now? The Smiths cover

19 songs, from setlist.fm. Contributed by whoever was standing there taking notes.

The moment

Twenty-six years after walking out of the Smiths at 23, Johnny Marr finally put his own name on an album — The Messenger, February 2013, the same month NME handed him its Godlike Genius award. The great sideman of his generation (The The, Electronic, Modest Mouse, the Cribs) stepped to the microphone at last, and the shows settled the one debt fans cared about: Smiths songs, sung by the man who wrote their music. Three tickets — John, Dave, and Gary — at the Paradise.

From the time

The stub

No physical stub on file — this show was reconstructed from the Ticketmaster confirmation email. Drop a photo in public/stubs/ and add "stubImage" to this show's record to attach one.