2007-06-30 - 6:42 p.m.
On Wednesday, we saw Bishop Allen do a show here. They say Chicago is their favorite city to play and they’re gigging a few times to warm up for their upcoming tour in support of their soon-to-be-released album The Broken String. We got a ride from my friend who was the lead singer of Fat Day (and his wife), who indirectly inspired Bishop Allen to form.
It was, of course, a great show. They performed a few new songs we hadn’t heard before. Plus, apparently some of the songs on the new album are different versions of stuff from the 2006 EPs, so they did those (I wasn’t a big fan of their new, faster version of ‘The Same Fire’, but whatever). They also played ‘Charm School’, the title track from their first album, which we hadn’t heard live in a long time.
They unfortunately didn’t get to do an encore because it was an all-ages show, so the club had to close early. This was sad because they always play ‘Things Are What You Make of Them’ as their last song and we had made that our wedding song, switching from ‘Flight 180’ at the last minute. Nya pointed out that ‘Flight 180’ is a bit overly-dramatic and ‘Things’ is much more representative of our relationship.
We still played (and danced to) ‘Flight 180’ at the wedding and that actually ended up being Bishop Allen’s finale, so we did get to hear something wedding-related live. It made me feel really happy to see the band so soon after our wedding.
Speaking of the wedding, it’s about time to start recounting the events from that. I’ll start in the next entry. (Hopefully, I’ll have a new, functional guestbook too, cause I really like the feedback aspect of writing here…)
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