- When: Dec. 3, 2011
- Where: The Central, Toronto ON
- Who with: Henry Adam Svec, Folklorist (w/WL Altman)
- Set List:
- Tortoise
- Dusty Bones
- Batman Theme*
- The Way It Goes
- People
- Song Written Upon Getting Cut By the Argos (CLF Sessions cover) w/Henry Adam Svec
- Stan & Georgie
- Jingle Bells, Batman Smells*
- Till the End of the Day (Kinks cover)*
- Young Enough
- Laura’s Song
- Southern Ontario
- Raise Your Dead
- She Said
- *First time
Years from now it won’t matter what songs we played at the 100 Days of Batman show last weekend, or even how hampered we were by technical difficulties for the first half of the set (check your cables, kids), because the above photo* will still exist in the ether of the internet as proof that we actually performed in full Batman & Robin costumes.
In fact, there was apparently some higher power at work (the spirit of Batman, maybe?) making sure that there was no further evidence, as BOTH video cameras we brought mysteriously didn’t capture a single shot and our audio recorder was never even turned on.
All told it was a fun, if sloppy, change of pace and we figured out the technical difficulties just in time to crank up the distortion for a rendition of The Kinks’ “Till the End of the Day” (using the latest of my Saturn electric guitars live for the first time…and promptly breaking a guitar cable at the end). Pulling out some Batman related tunes was also a hoot (we’ll probably record the three new songs listed to the left for a fun EP).
Henry Adam Svec and WL Altman put on a great opening set, as expected. I can never get enough of the subtle humour and great songwriting in Henry’s projects.