Wednesday, May 1, 2002
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
With Neko Case
- Date
- Wednesday, May 1, 2002
- Show time
- 8:00 PM
- Venue
- Orpheum Theatre
- City
- Boston, MA
- Seating
- Orchestra Left Center
- Face value
- $35.50
- Promoter
- MassConcerts Presents
- Sold by
- Ticketmaster
The stub prints the original date — WED OCT 3, 2001 — but the Bad Seeds postponed, and John finally saw the show on May 1, 2002, still at the Orpheum, on the U.S. leg of the No More Shall We Part tour. Neko Case opened, per John; Concert Archives corroborates it, listing her on the May 1, 2002 bill. The earliest Neko Case appearance in the archive. (eventDate is the honored 2002 date, not the 2001 date printed on the stub — do not "correct" it back to match the ticket.)
What they played
- As I Sat Sadly by Her Side
- Do You Love Me?
- Oh My Lord
- Lime Tree Arbour
- Red Right Hand
- Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow
- God Is in the House
- We Came Along This Road
- The Weeping Song
- Papa Won't Leave You, Henry
- Hallelujah
- The Mercy Seat
- Love Letter
Encore
- Into My Arms
- Saint Huck
- And No More Shall We Part
- Stagger Lee
17 songs, from setlist.fm. Contributed by whoever was standing there taking notes.
What Neko Case played
- Favorite
- Outro With Bees
- Twist the Knife Neko Case & Her Boyfriends cover
- Set Out Running Neko Case & Her Boyfriends cover
- Stinging Velvet
- Make Your Bed “This song’s about killing your boyfriend and his new girlfriend”
- Look for Me, I'll Be Around Sarah Vaughan cover
- Alone and Forsaken Hank Williams cover
- Blacklisted
- Thrice All American Neko Case & Her Boyfriends cover
- The Wayfaring Stranger [traditional] cover
- Lady Pilot
- Furnace Room Lullaby Neko Case & Her Boyfriends cover “This is a song about killing your boyfriend and stuffing his body in the furnace”
13 songs, from setlist.fm.
The moment
No More Shall We Part was the album of Nick Cave's great sobering — piano, hymns, Warren Ellis's violin moving toward the center of the Bad Seeds. John's stub is printed for Wednesday, October 3, 2001, the middle night of an absurd week — Wilco at the Orpheum on Tuesday, Ryan Adams's Gold tour at the Paradise on Friday — but the Bad Seeds postponed that autumn date, and the show didn't come until May 1, 2002. When it did it was the same seated hush, Neko Case opening, the No More Shall We Part tour reaching Boston seven months late.
From the time
- No More Shall We Part
“The stately 2001 return — Cave sober, the Bad Seeds at their most hushed and hymn-like.”
The stub
