Pavement Ist Rad! Sept 9, 2010 Ogden Theater
Liz and I bought our Pavement tickets a long time ago when somebody thought that somehow they would sell out the 1st Bank Arena in Broomfield. Yeah right. Months later and the show got moved to a way better venue – The Ogden. The same place that Liz and I had seen Pavement multiple times in the 90s. Perfect. After dropping off our kids at some friends we rolled to the Ogden with our neighbors and got to the venue plenty early.Jenny and Johny were up first. Jenny Lewis is totally awesome, but Jenny and Johny aint so awesome. Decent background opener music, but nothing as good as Jenny’s solo stuff. Luckily they close with a Jenny Lewis song that totally killed it – The Next Messiah.
(sorry for the crappy cell phone photo)The show was sold out so there was lots of hype when Pavement came out. Looking about the same as they did back in the day they played for over two hours and pounded out a well rounded set from all their albums. By the end of the first song No Life Signed Her the show was already worth the $30. Here’s the whole setlist:
- ?
- No Life Singed Her
- Shady Lane
- Kennel District
- Summer Babe (Winter Version)
- Frontwards
- Starlings of the Slipstream
- Cut Your Hair
- Father To A Sister Of Thought
- In The Mouth A Desert
- Silence Kit
- Trigger Cut/Wounded-Kite at :17
- The Hexx
- Stereo
- Date w/Ikea
- Gold Soundz
- Spit On A Stranger
- Unfair
- ?
- Range Life
- Fight This Generation
- Two States
- Stop Breathing
- Encore:
- Lithium (Nirvana cover)
- Box Elder
- Fin
- Rattled By The Rush
- Our Singer
I stole this from setlist.fm and it seems accurate. The show seriously ruled. Everything about it was awesome. The lights were a nice touch. They played beyond all of our expectations. They were funny like they used to be, and they seemed to know how to play music better. Sorry you couldn’t make it Brian and sorry my reviews are so boring.