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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

New Year's on the Island!

By Matt Perkins, 3:40 PM

We had a fantastic time at Cedar Hall this New Year's Eve. Thanks to everyone who came out in the snow in support of a good cause. We played a lot of music that night; see for yourself:

Set 1:

50 Mission Cap
Looking for a Place to Happen
She Didn't Know
Ahead by a Century
Poets
Darkest One
Thugs
Gift Shop
Impossibilium
When the Weight Comes Down
Fully Completely
Grace Too

Set 2:

Twist My Arm
Gus the Polar Bear from Central Park
It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken
Vaccination Scar
700 ft. Ceiling
Vapour Trails
So Hard Done By
Lonely End of the Rink
Boots or Hearts
Born in the Water
Every Time You Go
The Wherewithal

Set 3:

(Improvised instrumental version of Auld Lang Syne)
Courage
Silver Jet
Lionized
Bobcaygeon
Springtime in Vienna
Locked in the Trunk of a Car
Nautical Disaster
Blow at High Dough
At the 100th Meridian
Music at Work
New Orleans is Sinking
Three Pistols

Encore:

An Inch an Hour
Wheat Kings
Cordelia
Little Bones

We set up three cameras and filmed the entire show. Here is the first video to come out of that; one of our favorites from World Container, "Lonely End of the Rink":