Red Mosquito

Opening with Bman is a bold move.

01. Better Man
02. Low Light
03. Breath
04. Mind Your Manners
05. Save You
06. Quick Escape
07. In Hiding
08. Retrograde
09. Light Years
10. Even Flow
11. Unthought Known
12. Daughter
13. Superblood Wolfmoon
14. Given to Fly
15. Public Image
16. Once
17. Porch

18. I'm the Answer
19. Jeremy
20. Indifference
21. Alive
22. Rockin' in the Free World

Weird set, which seems par for the course for the band's higher profile shows for whatever reason.

It was good fun tonight and they really seemed to enjoy playing at a venue of that scale. Interesting set list and a few songs I didn’t expect to hear at what is essentially a festival (Low Light, In Hiding, Breath at #3) but the big hitters really landed. Once, Porch and Jeremy were excellent.

I’ve seen it mentioned on the threads for other shows on this tour that they’re starting to look and sound like age is catching up with them a bit. I’d agree with that as some songs sounded s bit sloppy and lacklustre. Breath and Save You were tuned down and really lose their momentum as a result. Ed has also stopped trying for some notes which is a shame.

On the whole, it was good fun and I’m just happy to have seen them again. Having been spoilt with c.35 song sets running for three hours, this direction of shorter shows is totally fine. Looking forward to tomorrow.

John McEnroe played on RITFW. Seriously.

ed loving that white button up.

Evvo wrote:I’ve seen it mentioned on the threads for other shows on this tour that they’re starting to look and sound like age is catching up with them a bit. I’d agree with that as some songs sounded s bit sloppy and lacklustre. Breath and Save You were tuned down and really lose their momentum as a result. Ed has also stopped trying for some notes which is a shame.

You're right, Breath is in a lower key - I don't think they've done that before:



I've been revisiting the US leg 1 shows with Matt in the last few weeks with thoughts of putting a mix together and I really noticed how age is catching up with Ed. Lots of times where he's deliberately encouraging the crowd take the difficult vocal parts, or where he seems a bit out of steam. Blanking on lyrics is a perennial complaint, but plenty of that too.

Birds in Hell wrote:

Evvo wrote:I’ve seen it mentioned on the threads for other shows on this tour that they’re starting to look and sound like age is catching up with them a bit. I’d agree with that as some songs sounded s bit sloppy and lacklustre. Breath and Save You were tuned down and really lose their momentum as a result. Ed has also stopped trying for some notes which is a shame.

You're right, Breath is in a lower key - I don't think they've done that before:



I've been revisiting the US leg 1 shows with Matt in the last few weeks with thoughts of putting a mix together and I really noticed how age is catching up with Ed. Lots of times where he's deliberately encouraging the crowd take the difficult vocal parts, or where he seems a bit out of steam. Blanking on lyrics is a perennial complaint, but plenty of that too.

He's making calculated choices for his current range. I thought he sounded great on some of those shows compared to the 2014-2018 tours. Less straining and more of a focus on phrasing things in a particular way.

I think it's safe to say that the shorter shows and constant talking are helping too.

tragabigzanda wrote:Good degree of novelty to that set, but lots of songs I’d personally be fine missing

The opening 5-6 songs are all over the place.

Nobody goes to a Pearl Jam show thinking 'I really hope they play a song by Pete Townshend's brother tonight!'

Birds in Hell wrote:Nobody goes to a Pearl Jam show thinking 'I really hope they play a song by Pete Townshend's brother tonight!'

Or see an old tennis player.

Birds in Hell wrote: 15. Public Imagine

That would be quite the mash-up.

Angus wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote: 15. Public Imagine

That would be quite the mash-up.

Ha, oops.

The first ten songs

Maybe a mod can swap the thread titles or merge the 2 London threads since the 7/8 show is being covered in the 7/9 thread?

daft twat wrote:Maybe a mod can swap the thread titles or merge the 2 London threads since the 7/8 show is being covered in the 7/9 thread?

Tbf to spenno, it was probably 7/9 locally when he made his post.

Birds in Hell wrote:

Evvo wrote:I’ve seen it mentioned on the threads for other shows on this tour that they’re starting to look and sound like age is catching up with them a bit. I’d agree with that as some songs sounded s bit sloppy and lacklustre. Breath and Save You were tuned down and really lose their momentum as a result. Ed has also stopped trying for some notes which is a shame.

You're right, Breath is in a lower key - I don't think they've done that before:



I've been revisiting the US leg 1 shows with Matt in the last few weeks with thoughts of putting a mix together and I really noticed how age is catching up with Ed. Lots of times where he's deliberately encouraging the crowd take the difficult vocal parts, or where he seems a bit out of steam. Blanking on lyrics is a perennial complaint, but plenty of that too.

covid really hits the elderly hard.

Thread integrity is all over the place, but here we go:

01. Corduroy
02. Small Town
03. Why Go
04. Deep
05. Wishlist
06. Garden
07. Throw Your Hatred Down
08. Do the Evolution
09. Animal
10. Dance of the Clairvoyants
11. Not for You
12. Rats
13. Faithfull
14. State of Love and Trust
15. Eruption
16. Black
17. Porch

18. River Cross
19. Leash
20. Alive
21. Yellow Ledbetter
22. Baba O'Riley

Hardly any repeats from the early show

That is a killer setlist.