Dirty Projectors/tUnE-yArDs @ Bowery Ballroom, NYC 11/18/09

Jessica Amaya

Dirty Projectors

Not that Dirty Projectors' set of four shows at Bowery Ballroom and Music Hall Of Williamsburg this week needed any help selling out -- that was handily accomplished simply by releasing one of this year's best (and most misunderstood) albums -- but after NY Mag's attempt to survey the Brooklyn scene by crowning David Longstreth its king, and Solange's making an honest R&B track out of "Stillness Is The Move," your prospects at some Craigslist action got slightly more dire. The run kicked off last night at Bowery with support from ascendant BTW tUnE-yArDs, whose shift-key shenanigans are no longer keeping people from tuning in. Which is a very good thing.

Tonight and Saturday the scene shifts to Williamsburg for the MHOW shows before closing out with a return to Bowery on Sunday night. Check these shots of the bands plus early opener Glass Ghost by photographer Jessica Amaya, and here's a list of what Dirty Projectors performed:

DIRTY PROJECTORS SETLIST
01 "No Intention"
02 "Remade Horizon"
03 "Fluorescent Half Dome"
04 "Ascending Melody"
05 "Fucked For Life"
06 "Gimme Gimme Gimme"/"Thirsty And Miserable"
07 "Two Doves"
08 "Spray Paint"
09 "The Bride"
10 "Cannibal Resource"
11 "Temecula Sunrise"
12 "Stillness Is The Move"
13 "Useful Chamber"
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14 "When The World Comes To An End"
15 "Knotty Pine"

Posted at 3:29 PM by amrit in Concert, Photo
Tags: Dirty Projectors | Glass Ghost | tUnE-YaRdS

7 Comments

I really wish they would've played 'Fucked For Life' and 'Fluorescent Half Dome' at the Bottom Lounge in Chicago.

Also, it should be 'The Bride' not 'The Bridge'

Posted by: Hoot In My Hoot Hole at 11/19/09 5:13 PM  | Reply
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God that setlist looks fantastic. I wish I could have been there to see useful chamber.

If anyone couldn't snag tickets to these shows I suggest you make up for it by seeing the jazz tap dancer, Savion Glover with Jack Dejohnette at the Blue Note. That's what I'm doing.

Posted by: Vandermarker at 11/19/09 6:07 PM  | Reply
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Is this the same set list as the thoroughly fantastic Toronto show? So great to see these jams live.

Posted by: Mk Btt at 11/20/09 12:19 AM  | Reply
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I saw Tune Yards in chicago, they were excellent! How about some of that infinite hype machine moving from Animal Collective over to them for a month or so.

Posted by: keith at 11/20/09 9:08 AM  | Reply
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I concur. She put on a great show.

Posted by: steve  in reply to keith's comment at 11/20/09 12:03 PM  | Reply
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I'm on board the Tune Yards bandwagon. They blew my mind in Montreal and won over the whole crowd

Posted by: homelessdad  in reply to keith's comment at 11/20/09 1:13 PM  | Reply
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what time did the show get out?

Posted by: erin at 11/22/09 11:51 AM  | Reply
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