by withahip » Fri Mar 14, 2008 6:15 am
A review:
THE BREEDERS 3/7 @ CLUB INFINITY
It took me about an hour in the middle of a blizzard to drive the twenty minutes it would normally take me to get to this show. The good thing was I missed the shitty local openers, bad thing was I missed the first song of The Breeders set. Anyway, first thing I check out, of course, is the state of Kim Deal...and I gotta say this is the first time I've ever seen her look old. Not that she looked bad, but she looked...old, like I said. She might've put on a few pounds, looked more unkempt than I've ever seen her...I might even go so far as to say Kelley looked better than her this time around. Which is harsh, because I usually hate Kelley Deal, but tonight I really enjoyed her for some reason. Anyway, Kim's voice still sounds as good as ever. It's what I hope angels sound like when I get to heaven. Her voice is of the most beautiful things I've ever heard. So they did the greatest hits package (I think it went Divine Hammer, Iris, Hellbound, I Just Wanna Get Along, Cannonball, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Safari, Don't Call Home, Roi, Drivin on 9, Saints, something like that...) a couple new ones off the new LP that were pretty good and post-punk sounding. They had a third guitar player for some songs, some redhead with dreads. At the very end, every one leaves the stage except Kelley and Kim and the bass player, and they do a little acoustic thing to end the set. Nice. For the encore they do Fortunately Gone then two I imagine are on the new record, one that Kim & Kelley sing in German (which was really good) and one torch-song-like thing Kelley sings in Spanish. That was it. Pretty amazing as always, that mexican rhythm section is tight as hell and the sisters still have it. Kelley actually looks great and I refuse to say anything else bad about Kim, because she sounded incredible. Entertaining between song banter as usual. This was actually the first show of their tour somehow, and they said they were trying out some things that might not stay in the set (they didn't seem to think they Spanish song went over well...)...well worth $20, I will say that.
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The set list there is just a touch off... they opened with a new track called or at least had the lyrics "I can feel it..." with Kim on keys... the 2nd track was Shocker In Gloomtown a sweet GBV cover... The rest gets a bit fuzzy but they mixed it up and played a bit of all the LP's, yet No Hellbound! I was surprised by that! They did do No Aloha, Iris, ... I would have liked more from Title TK but overall for the first show of their tour, they were tight and had fun... Kelley said "You guys will go out in anything!"... The new songs were quite good and my only complaint would be that the set seemed short at 120 Mins or less..