the second annual philadelphia indie summit was almost a full day (it started at 4:00) and also featured black skylight, lee, jae-won, creeping weeds, walking distance, hilliard, adam arcuragi & royalty, grand fabric, one star hotel & goldenball. this was the first performance of both “butterfly” and “slide song”.

good intentions
st. nick
butterfly
slide song
you never seem to mind
humpty
starting now
monsters of rock
the first part (superchunk)
brand new love (sebadoh/superchunk)
we’ve been had (uncle tupelo)
love oven

a really fun show playing with buy star bombs and the suspicions (also featuring becker and ward).  mike decastro joined us to sing two guided by voices songs and about seven friends came onstage during the encore to help sing “web in front”. you can see the poster for this show here.

you never seem to mind
humpty
lifeboat
finders
geometric mean
rotten life
weekend politics
throwing things (superchunk)
path
starting now
good intentions
deep end
a salty salute (guided by voices) w/ mike decastro
motor away (guided by voices) w/ mike decastro
the waiting (tom petty & the heartbreakers)
helter skelter (beatles)

encore:
web in front (archers of loaf)

we headlined this show on our friend brian’s birthday. we took a lot of requests from him and others, hence all the cover songs. this is also the show that we took the between-song banter from that we included on pink pig stink.

humpty
geometric mean
pictures
deferent
rotten life
finders
good intentions
destination ursa major (superdrag)
sweet jane (velvet underground)
on a plain (nirvana)
me and sweet j
everything pales
become
you never seem to mind
web in front (archers of loaf)
driveway to driveway (superchunk)
where is my mind? (pixies)
tractor rape chain (guided by voices)
teenage fbi (guided by voices)

the first release show for the who’s not forgotten compilation cd. we learned an entire set of who songs which we preformed here and two weeks later at the khyber in philly.

anyway, anyhow, anywhere
so sad about us
a quick one, while he’s away
my wife
the kids are alright
pictures of lily
we’re not gonna take it
baba o’riley

show with the marts, late night television & the grand fabric. this was the first show that we played “humpty” and one of the few times that we’ve played “suzanne” live, which we later recorded for the about a girl compilation.

good intentions
deceived
you never seem to mind
humpty
pictures
starting now
lifeboat
undecidedly so
me and sweet j
suzanne (weezer)
geometric mean
monsters of rock

great show opening up for suffacox, the photon band and caterpillar.

monsters of rock
geometric mean
st. nick
weekend politics
starting now
me and sweet j
you never seem to mind
path
good intentions
a salty salute (guided by voices)
motor away (guided by voices)