Wild Flag may be a fairly new band (self-titled album just came out), but members Carrie Brownstein, Mary Timony, Rebecca Cole and Janet Weiss have been rocking in other solid bands, including Sleater-Kinney, Autoclave, and Helium. Drummer Weiss has also contributed to Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks and Bright Eyes’ albums. Put these four punk rock professionals together and it was pure magic for two sold out nights at the Troubadour. Eleanor Friedberger came on stage for the last songs of the night. Definitely one of the best shows of the year. Photos by Debi Del Grande
Setlist:
Black Tiles
Boom
Electric Band
Future Crimes
Glass Tambourine
Winter Pair
Nothing
Short Version
Something Came Over Me
Romance
Racehorse
Encore:
See No Evil
Beast of Burden w/Eleanor Friedberger
Do You Wanna Dance? w/Eleanor Friedberger
1 David Arnson // Nov 14, 2011 at 10:39 pm
I saw Wild Flag on the 1st night, and it was one of the best sets of live rock and roll I’ve seen for a while. I’m a huge Mary Timony fan, and in fact, half the reason I saw Sleater-Kinney’s last tour was because she was opening the show! And now they’re together, two mints in one, hip hip hooray! Both Timony and Brownstein seem to have excellent amounts of Tom Verlaine damage, and waddaya know, they even played Television’s ‘See No Evil’ in the encore! Carrie Brownstein is a complete ‘celebration of rock’ to watch, she dances and windmills her arms and is one of my fave guitarists to watch this past decade. She and Timony both come up with really great looping guitar lines to embellish each others songs with. Drummer Janet Weiss is solid and keyboardist Rebecca Cole holds down the bass and extra textures smoothly …as well as dancing on occasion! Loved the Wild Flag cd and the show was even better. Rocketh!
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