Friday, Nov 13, 2009

Neko Case

With Calexico

Date
Friday, Nov 13, 2009
Show time
8:00 PM
Venue
Calvin Theatre
City
Northampton, MA
Tickets
2
Seating
Balcony Standard (Row D, seats 17 & 19)
Face value
$32.50
Promoter
Iron Horse Entertainment Group
Sold by
Northampton Box Office

Only reserved-seat show in the set; all others are General Admission. Calexico opened, per John — Joey Burns and John Convertino played the support slot on this Middle Cyclone run, and press from the night confirms them in Northampton.

What they played

  1. Things That Scare Me
  2. Maybe Sparrow
  3. At Last
  4. People Got a Lotta Nerve
  5. Red Tide
  6. Don't Forget Me Harry Nilsson cover
  7. That Teenage Feeling
  8. This Tornado Loves You

Encore

  1. Vengeance Is Sleeping
  2. The Train From Kansas City The Shangri‐Las cover

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

The moment

Middle Cyclone had debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 that spring — a tornado-obsessed art-country record outselling pop, the unlikeliest chart story of 2009 — and Neko Case was touring it with Calexico opening, the Tucson band whose desert atmospherics had backed her own records for years. A theater in Northampton, the voice at full power, the collaborators sharing one bill: the night the archive's Neko and Calexico threads braid together.

From the time

The stub

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

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