So I ended up selling the Pavement/Sonic Youth tix for $75. They were $110 Face Value Tickets ($130 after all the ticketmaster fees) so I was hoping for more. I could have probably gotten more if I'd held out and been more of a stickler but I didn't want to put anymore time into it or risk not getting anything.
I made a good pick going to Cale though.
I thought it was a pretty great show, especially the first half and the encores.
Here's the set list for anyone interested (read: Todd):
First half:
Child's Christmas in Wales
Hanky Panky Nohow
Endless Plain of Fortune
Andalucia
Paris 1919
Graham Greene
Half Past France
Antarctica Starts Here
Macbeth
Intermission:
Hello There
Heartbreak Hotel
Ghost Story (with Mark Lanegan)
Ship of Fools (with Ben Gibbard)
Gideon's Bible (with Ben Gibbard)
Win a Few (with Mark Lanegan)
Whaddya Mean
Catastrophic
Secret Corrida
Hedda Gabler
Encores:
Gun/Pablo Picasso
Chorale
And here's a
review from the LA Weekly. I seemed to like it more than the reviewer. It was pretty amusing watching the orchestra stuck up there on stage while Cale and the rest of the band were jamming in the encore.
Sounds like a great show. I would think that the orchestra would be kicked off stage for that "Gun/Pablo Picasso" and maybe for "Heartbreak Hotel", too. How did they make that work with those nasty, nasty-sounding songs?
<------- Jealous.
