Modern Minstrels

Why You'd Want to Live Here

On Saturday Nick and I went up to the Warfield for a band I've been waiting a long time to see live, Death Cab for Cutie. I've mentioned them and Ben Gibbard here numerous times before. They were simply fantastic.

And stealing the list of songs they played (not in order) from NIck:

* Pictures In An Exhibition

* Title Track
* Employment Pages
* For What Reason
* Lowell, MA
* Company Calls

* Photobooth

* I Was A Kaleidoscope
* Styrofoam Plates
* A Movie Script Ending
* We Laugh Indoors

* The New Year
* Title And Registration
* Expo ‘86
* The Sound of Settling
* Tiny Vessels
* Transatlanticism

* This Temporary Life

The standout songs for me were Photobooth, Title Track, I Was a Kaleidoscope, A Movie Script Ending, The New Year, Title and Registration, and of course the closing with Tiny Vessels / Transatlanticism.

There's also a slight mishap to tell about this show. When we arrived, we went to the will call booth and Nick gave them his credit card and they said they couldn't find our tickets. So they called Ticketmaster, and apparently Nick had selected the print at home option. Fortunately though they wrote us up tickets. But here's the best part. By the time we found out about the show, only balcony seats were left, but the tickets they wrote up for us were GA tickets! Huzzah! So we ended up dead center of the tier above the pit, right at stage level. It couldn't have been more perfect than that

I also got a really cool DCFC shirt which I'll have to post a picture of at some point.

If you haven't checked out Death Cab yet, you really should. You don't know what you're missing. And if they're in your town, go see them live.