Gang of Four-Boston MA February 7, 2011

All photos by FreeEye2

Set List

You'll Never Pay For The Farm

Not Great Men

Ether

I Parade Myself

Paralysed

A Fruit Fly In The Beehive

Anthrax

What We All Want

I Party All the Time

Why Theory?

You Don't Have To Be Mad

We Live As We Dream, Alone

To Hell With Poverty!

Do As I Say

Encore 1

He'd Send In The Army

Natural's Not In It

Damaged Goods

Encore 2

Return The Gift

Another night out with FreeEye2, another great show. Links in set list go to YouTube postings of those songs from this show at The Paradise in Boston MA.

Picture 3 shows Jon King destroying their first pizza oven ever on stage during "He'd Send In the Army"

Picture 4 shows Hugo Burnham, ex-original drummer, who lives and teaches in the Boston area, sitting in with the band during "Natural's Not In It" and "Damaged Goods"

The night started out on a high note as we met at Pho Viet for Banh Mi. This was the first time FreeEye2 had ever had one.  He loved it (it is impossible not to).  It still rates as the standard in the Boston area for me. The 5.5B/6 rating still stands even though we ate about 6PM.  The bread was still perfect that late into the day.  I asked for hot and got plenty of jalapenos and a good squirt of sriracha.

I was first in line at the club and we got a great spot right in front of where Jon and Andy would end up playing on stage. The Paradise had put metal barriers up around the stage (are we in Cairo?), which were handy to push back against the crowd when the moshing got going.

Hollerado from Canada opened up. Nice guys with lots of familiar riffs, but everyone was there to see GoF.

Concert update: John Doe plays Passim in Cambridge MA on Sunday March 27, 2011. Jill Sobule is on also on the bill. Link here.

Concert Alert-Gang of Four

Sorry about the vintage video, but I figured you needed to get a bit of a history lesson...
And later...



I saw them for the first time with FreeEye2 (I didn't know J-Mar then and she has already said no to this show?!? "Gang of Who?") at what is now the House of Blues in Boston a couple of years back.  I believe it was their first reunion tour (drums still played by Hugo Burnham).  My most fond memory  of the show is them utterly destroying a  microwave oven with a wiffleball bat.  The show was one of my top ten ever.

This tour is supporting their new material (artwork above).  I heard a new track "Never Pay for the Farm" over at NPR's Son of the Day of all places and GoF sounds as great as ever.
Date is February 7, 2011
Venue is The Paradise in Boston.