Monday, Oct 30, 2006
The Hold Steady
With Sean Na Na
Also on the bill: The Big Sleep
- Date
- Monday, Oct 30, 2006
- Show time
- 8:00 PM
- Venue
- Middle East Downstairs
- City
- Cambridge, MA
- Seating
- General Admission
- Face value
- $12.00
- Sold by
- Ticketmaster
18 & over, positive ID required. Also on the bill, recovered from setlist.fm's record of who played this room that night. setlist.fm stores no running order, so the slot each act played is unknown.
What they played
- Stuck Between Stations
- Certain Songs
- The Swish
- Chips Ahoy!
- Cattle and the Creeping Things
- Party Pit
- Massive Nights
- Girls Like Status
- You Can Make Him Like You
- Don't Let Me Explode
- Stevie Nix
- Hot Soft Light
- Your Little Hoodrat Friend
- Southtown Girls
Encore
- Same Kooks
- Killer Parties
16 songs, from setlist.fm. Contributed by whoever was standing there taking notes.
The moment
Boys and Girls in America was four weeks old and pulling the best reviews of 2006 — the album that took the Hold Steady from critics' secret to 'the best bar band in America' being said without irony. Twelve dollars, 18-plus, the Middle East basement, the night before Halloween. This is the first of John's Hold Steady shows, and the smallest room he'd ever get them in: eight years later it was a House of Blues co-headline with Deer Tick, and the Sinclair after that.
From the time
- Boys and Girls in America
“The 2006 breakout — Craig Finn's dense bar-napkin narratives welded to the biggest riffs the band ever cut.”
The stub
