Thursday, Apr 17, 2014
The Hold Steady
With Deer Tick
- Date
- Thursday, Apr 17, 2014
- Venue
- House of Blues Boston
- City
- Boston, MA
- Went with
- Mickey
The 2014 co-headline tour — billed as The Hold Steady and Deer Tick, the two bands covered each other's songs all spring. Deer Tick played a full fifteen-song set first; the Hold Steady closed with twenty-four. Filed for years as a Deer Tick show with the Hold Steady merely 'also on the bill' — the running order, documented on setlist.fm and in the night's reviews, settles the billing. Still the second of John's two House of Blues Deer Tick nights; he did not attend their November 2023 return to the room. No ticket survives.
What they played
- Positive Jam
- I Hope This Whole Thing Didn't Frighten You
- Constructive Summer
- Hot Soft Light
- Wait a While
- The Weekenders
- Rock Problems
- Magazines
- Lord, I'm Discouraged
- You Can Make Him Like You
- Chips Ahoy!
- Stuck Between Stations
- The Swish
- Spinners
- The Ambassador
- Southtown Girls
- Hurricane J
- How a Resurrection Really Feels
Encore
- The Sweet Part of the City
- The Only Thing
- Your Little Hoodrat Friend
- Sequestered in Memphis
- Massive Nights
- Stay Positive
24 songs, from setlist.fm. Contributed by whoever was standing there taking notes.
What Deer Tick played
- The Curtain
- These Old Shoes
- The Dream's in the Ditch
- Baltimore Blues No. 1
- Mr. Sticks
- Twenty Miles
- In Our Time
- S.M.F.
- Hey Doll
- I Got a Rocket in My Pocket Jimmy Lloyd cover
- Pot of Gold
- Thyme
- The Rock
- Ashamed
- Let's All Go to the Bar
15 songs, from setlist.fm.
The moment
Opening night of the co-headline tour, three weeks after Teeth Dreams and ten years after Almost Killed Me — the Hold Steady entering their second decade by splitting the bill with the band that most obviously inherited their bar-band-with-literature gene. The two camps spent the spring covering each other's songs, and the House of Blues got the first night of the experiment: thirty-nine songs between them, no ballads wasted.
From the time
- The Hold Steady and Deer Tick cover each other
“The tourmates marked the run by trading songs — the document of what that April was like.”
The stub
No physical stub on file — this show was reconstructed from the
confirmation email. Drop a photo in public/stubs/ and add
"stubImage" to this show's record to attach one.