Rustic Overtones @ Northern Lights 12.31.07 Setlist:
Auld Lang Syne (Ryan @ 12:00)
Love Underground
Oxygen
The Letter
Hardest Way Possible
Man Without A Mouth
Troublesome
Rock Like War
Crash Landing
Dig
Carnival
C'mon
Gas On Skin
Iron Boots
SmoKashmir
Light At The End
Encore
Sector Z
Combustible
Notes: With As Fast As & Paranoid Social Club (not a typo!)
Performed in the order: AFA, PSC, Rustic
As Fast As set:
Open Letter to the Damned
Gretchen My Captain
Technicolor Dream
So Good (?)
Bird (?)
Lips (?)
Change (?)
Skin the Kat
Murderer's Tango (Murderous?)
Florida Sunshine
Unsure on some titles, a few songs were new, named according to a photo of the written setlist.
Paranoid Social Club set:
Save Me
Theme Song
Shot Down
Rhythm Is
She Gets Me High
Fuckin With My Head
Two Girls
Wasted
Some bonus commentary by Darek, copied from the message board:
Right up front, I thought AFA's set was the best of the night and that's not something I went in expecting at all. PSC and Rustic were awesome as always, but maybe it was not having seen an AFA show that made that stick out for me, I thought they killed it.
I thought all the sets were too short, but I'm spoiled and greedy.
AFA seemed to have a great time playing. Zak and Hache were really into it and Andrew was energetic, trying to get the crowd hyped. Spencer seemed a little tired but he was probably just pacing himself for what he called the "incestuous evening" ahead, and he did manage some excellent rafter swinging at the end of the set (check Jeff's pics for evidence, I managed to completely mess up all my pictures of it). The AFA set was short, but rocked, and they played a new tune or two which sounded great. I would have liked to hear more old stuff, but again that's just me.
PSC's set seemed a lot more chill than I'm used to. There really weren't many surprises and a few of the songs sounded really strange without the samples Marc would usually add. The crowd did make up for it by loudly singing the "what's the time? It's time to buy ale!" during Wasted. Overall they sounded good, but again, I think they were pacing themselves. The highlight for me was getting to hear Shotdown again, which I've only caught live a few times. I took a partial video you can check out here (as per-usual Darek video, the quality is not good).
Rustic came out after the countdown to the new year, and Ryan played a stellar version of Aud Lang Syne. I caught just the very end on video since I was busy with assorted revelry. Check it here. The band sounded great, and it was awesome to have the strings back, they really add a lot. I was bummed that the horns were tucked off in the corner in the dark, but they still did their thing. As was said, no real set list surprises except for The Letter, which I took a video of. It's the only one that actually sounds decent since it was pretty quiet. That's posted here. At one point the sound guy brought Dave's acoustic down to the front of the stage for him, I can only assume to play President, but Dave quickly shooed him away. The vibe wasn't right for it, but I would have still liked to hear it since I've managed to miss every show they've played it at.
I could have done completely without seeing Hache's naked ass again (for those of you who've seen many Rocktopus/AFA shows you know this wasn't an isolated event), and for some unknown reason I took a picture of it, so be aware that it's in the Rustic folder if you're checking them out at work. Overall, all the bands seemed really happy and excited to be playing the show together and the crowd was hyped, though as would be expected, pretty rough.