The Wildhearts

First things first Rock city last night was awesome. To see them in the small room was amazing.

What are people's thoughts on the recent set lists though? Personally I'd love to see them mix it up a bit, there's always most of Earth Vs in there (7 last night). I thought their best tour was the one where the live album was recorded i.e. Girlfriend Clothes, Dangerlust, Turning American all in there.

Personally I'd love to see Miles away Girl (yes I know this is Earth vs but I have only ever seen them play it once), 2 Way Idiot Mirror, Just in Lust and its B-Sides, Fugazi and Channel Bop in there....or would this alienate some fans as these are a bit obscure?

Anyway, I"ll end on a positive - it was great to see 29X and Weekend back in there. And Destroy All Monsters was amazing live.

what was the set list last nigt?


was it identical to swindon?

With the exception of Someone Who Won't Let Me Go, yes.

I managed to buy 2 shirts, and proceed to lose one half way through, oh well they were cheap!

Can anyone remember the name of the label Superreal's album will be coming out on?

Mattie wrote:Can anyone remember the name of the label Superreal's album will be coming out on?

I believe it is coming out on Nicotine Records. I for one am looking forward to it.

The 'hearts were pretty special last night. One of their best ever IMO. Will write more when I have some time

The were bloody brillaint last night. Totally tight and on fine form.

What was best for me was that they played Rooting, Revolution will be Televised, The Hard Way and Destry all Monsters and they al (especially the last two) sounded brilliant.

The instrumental at the end fo Hard Way was my moment of the night...

Every time I hear Destroy All Monsters, it rises on my list of favorite Wildhearts tunes. I never thought in a million years it would make it to a set list. That's very, very exciting for me.

yeah we were lust saying 2day they seem 2 have played roughly the same songs the last 3 or 4 times we've seen 'em but other than that the notts gig woz an awesome nite i think ginge even enjoyed it by the big smile on his face at the end.shame it wasn't in the main room but with no publicity (bar this site an my space) wot d'u expect.

FF5M wrote:What are people's thoughts on the recent set lists though? Personally I'd love to see them mix it up a bit, there's always most of Earth Vs in there (7 last night). I thought their best tour was the one where the live album was recorded i.e. Girlfriend Clothes, Dangerlust, Turning American all in there.

I see your point, but any setlist with 15-20 songs from the bands catalouge would be a killer set. After releasing another superb album with lots of classic Wildhearts tunes this year, they´ve made the setlist-thing even harder for themself.

Of course I would love to see them play all the b-sides and "not-so-well-known" tracks from each album. But the band just have to put a bunch of their greatest material on the setlist, to show how good they sound at thier very best. Its important for picking up new fans. And a band usually would like to please all the fans, so they will play some greatest hist, some b-sides and some randomly tracks from their catalogue.

I think Wildhearts are among the best bands to play around with the setlists. It´s not like a KISS show where the setlist stays the same in 10 years.

When I saw Wildhearts at Koko earlier this year it was a fantastic show. But they only played 2 songs from the new album. Thats the only complain I had over the list. It was only my 5th show because I live in Norway, but the setlist have never been the same at the concerts I´ve been to. Now I´m going back to the Astoria gig and I know I will get a different setlist. Thats good enough for me,a nd it will make me a happy man.

did it clash with my toilet or ciggy break or was there still no The New Flesh?

FF5M wrote:What are people's thoughts on the recent set lists though? Personally I'd love to see them mix it up a bit, there's always most of Earth Vs in there (7 last night). I thought their best tour was the one where the live album was recorded i.e. Girlfriend Clothes, Dangerlust, Turning American all in there.

This wasn't a UK tour though. It was two warm-up gigs for the forthcoming US dates to get the setlist down.

I'd imagine, with one or two exceptions and the odd jigging of song order, what they played will be what the US guys will get - and the gist of that (whether people agree or not) will be mostly a 'greatest hits' set with some new ones thrown in.

Christmas, hopefully, will be a different story. With any luck, if they are over here recording - as someone suggested the other day after a chat with CJ - they might have time to rehearse some of the more obscure stuff that maybe Scott hasn't had time to learn yet.

nuno75 wrote:Every time I hear Destroy All Monsters, it rises on my list of favorite Wildhearts tunes. I never thought in a million years it would make it to a set list. That's very, very exciting for me.

That was definitely one of the high points for me. Brilliant to see/hear it in the set, and it went down really well. Plus Rock City didn't get set on fire by stray sparklers, which was a bonus

Shitsville
Vanilla Radio
TV Tan
Caffeine Bomb
OCD
Everlone
Revolution Will Be Televised
Suckerpunch
Sick Of Drugs
Destroy All Monsters
Nita Nitro
The Hard Way
Love Ya 'til I Don't
Rooting For The Bad Guy
Weekend
29x
Headfuck
I Wanna Go

that looks a pretty fucking good setlist to me and it is quite a bit different from the shows earlier in the year. six (or seven depending which gigs you went to) different songs is mixing up the setlist surely?