#last wave

Hope everyone had a happy Half-O-Ween yesterday.

Actually, I'm currently typing this on the Saturday after our show, since I'm gonna be very busy tomorrow (my family and I will be celebrating my younger brother's 18th birthday at a baseball game), so I'm typing this out in advance.

Since this is a holiday similar to Halloween, most of us were in costume (the horn section did not dress up):

Me - Liam Gallagher (dressed in the costume I wore for a Halloween concert in 2021)

Footi - Ghost

Chao - Vampire

Ash - Drawn-on mustache, just like Dan Miller many years ago.

Blip - Marty Beller

Vulk - Disk jockey

Glomp - Evil scientist

As mentioned back when the show's theme was announced, we played nearly every song off of TMBG's Haunted playlist in order (we didn't play Untitled because it's just a recording of some weird conversation between 2 people), as well as some extra stuff.

Due to the huge amount of songs, I will be re-blogging this in order to fit most of the songs into the tags.

But before we begin, here is a sort of key to explain certain things in the text below…

This means that I sang a song and no one else.

This means that Footi sang a song and no one else.

This means that I sang a song with Footi on backing vocals.

This means that I sang a song with Chao on backing vocals.

This means that Footi sang a song with me on backing vocals.

This means that Footi sang a song with Chao on backing vocals.

When “->” is shown right before a song’s name, it means that we went right into that song, with little to no banter.

Alright, here was the show's setlist (with some notes for a few songs):

1. Marty Beller Mask

Just like TMBG concerts, this song was performed in B Minor.

Despite the costume, Blip didn't actually wear a mask onstage.

If any song had a music video to go with it (like this one), it would be played from a projector onto a large screen.

2. Dead

3. Turn Around

First song of the show to feature our horn section: Koggpact on the trombone, Burnard on the saxophone, and Rocky on the trumpet.

4. Careful What You Pack

5. Now Is Strange

6. Where Your Eyes Don't Go

7. Lake Monsters

During the portions with no singing, I shouted out names of actual lake monsters of legend (including the ones from the song's music video).

8. When Will You Die

When mentioning the band names, I replaced "Marty" with "Whitney" as a reference to Marty Beller Mask.

9. Tesla

No, not the Tesla of modern times. The song is about the engineer Nikola Tesla, known for his work with alternating currents and X-rays.

10. I Lost Thursday

11. Hate The Villanelle

12. Hall Of Heads

13. Am I Awake?

For this song, we performed with a backing track so that the song's electronic instrumentation wasn't lost.

14. I'll Be Haunting You

("Detour" portion of the show, but also containing mostly creepy songs)

15. 25 O'Clock

Surprised this wasn't in the playlist, I think it'd fit perfectly.

16. -> (She Was A) Hotel Detective

W/ Chao on the saxophone.

17. Token Back to Brooklyn

W/ just Blip and Vulk playing instruments.

18. -> I'm All You Can Think About

(back to the songs included in the playlist)

19. Spines

W/ just Footi and Vulk playing instruments.

20. -> (She Thinks She's) Edith Head

Footi sang the high octave, while I sang the low octave.

21. Canada Haunts Me

Only backed by the horn section for this song.

22. -> The Spine Surfs Alone

23. Road Movie To Berlin

W/ Footi adding in the extra verse that was absent from the studio version.

24. Chess Piece Face

Only backed by the horn section for this song.

25. -> Skullivan

26. Last Wave

Footi sang lead for the "make out with a biplane" verse, due to my fragile vocals.

27. Dig My Grave

28. -> Rat Patrol

29. Havalina

Footi sang the "walking in the breeze" verse, due to my fragile vocals.

30. A Self Called Nowhere

31. My Evil Twin

32. The Fellowship Of Hell

For some reason, Footi changed the name of the baby of rock to "Paul" to better rhyme it with "all".

33. -> Mrs. Bluebeard

34. Whistling In The Dark

W/ Footi playing the chest-mounted bass drum.

Played in C Major, since we performed the song with our horn section.

35. Hypnotist of Ladies

Right before the song, Footi announced that our June 6th show at the Tabernacle in Atlanta will be an all ages show for families. That predictably got us some boos and jeers. Oh well.

(Encore #1)

36. Don't Let's Start

37. James K. Polk

38. Frankenstein

The reason for the lack of colored text here is because this is an instrumental song.

(Encore #2)

39. Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

Technically this was Footi on lead, with me on backing, but it could also be vice versa (you could go either way, really).

W/ an acoustic guitar intro by Ash.

40. They Got Lost

Technically we played the "medium version" of the song, but in this case it was what I like to call the "1999 variant" (I'll explain further sometime in the future).