Wednesday, Jun 21, 2023

Wednesday

Rat Saw God

Also on the bill: Tenci

Date: Wednesday, Jun 21, 2023
Show time: 8:00 PM
Venue: The Sinclair
City: Cambridge, MA
Tickets: 2
Seating: General Admission
Face value: $16.00
Sold by: AXS

Venue not specified in confirmation email (sold via Bowery Boston / boweryboston.com). Venue was missing from the AXS receipt; John placed it at the Sinclair, and setlist.fm confirms Wednesday played there this night on the Rat Saw God tour. 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.

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What they played

Hot Rotten Grass Smell
Cody's Only
Twin Plagues
Turkey Vultures
Formula One
Chosen to Deserve
She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinking Doubles) Gary Stewart cover
Bath County
What’s So Funny
How Can You Live If You Can't Love How Can You If You Do
One More Last One
Quarry
Gary's
The Burned Down Dairy Queen
Got Shocked
Fate Is...
Bull Believer

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

What Tenci played

Be
No Wings
Earthquake
Two Cups
Blue Spring
Sharp Wheel
Swallow Me Whole, Blue
Sour Cherries

8 songs, from setlist.fm.

The moment

Rat Saw God was two months old and Wednesday were the indie rock story of 2023 — Karly Hartzman's Asheville crew, fusing shoegaze roar to country steel and gas-station-parking-lot detail, with MJ Lenderman still riding shotgun on guitar. The Sinclair run caught the band at the exact moment the acclaim outgrew the rooms. John came back for them twice more within eighteen months, and Lenderman's solo ascent threads through this same archive — this is where that whole Asheville web enters.

From the time

Rat Saw God Wikipedia
“The 2023 breakout — Southern-gothic shoegaze and the year’s most acclaimed rock record.”

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