Dismemberment Plan reunion at 9:30 Club: The live live review
0805: And here's that Dismemberment Plan setlist photo!
2335: Thanks for reading! On Monday we'll put together a live live review review for you. Also, as predicted, Godfrey has nabbed a setlist (she is a ninja when it comes to this and never fails); we'll post a photo.
2333: We are done, reports Kort. Band exits stage saying they hope they'll see people tomorrow night. Oh hell, I guess I'll go. (Even though I'm a Change man, myself!)
2329: Could they really be doing a Far East Movement cover, as Alex Baca suggests? Hard to peel the onion on Twitter sometimes.
2326: Kort: "Morrison threatns the last song card aain and thn asks if anyone wants to talk about relationship issues"
2325 HOLY COW LOOK AT ALL THESE PEOPLE ONSTAGE DURING "ICE OF BOSTON"
2322 TWITTER SILENCE BROKEN: They are playing "Do the Standing Still."
Also Mathis just explained emo to Cherkis: "of course it's uncool! This is a room full of dorks who still love the same music they listened to in the late '90s." Fischer tweets: "Dancing better than tweeting." I guess I'll dance a little, then.
2315 Kinda quiet on Twitter allofasudden. Show over? Beauty of "Spider in the Snow"'s lyrics shutting up all the smart alecks? I'm presuming Godfrey's phone has died, as she warned it would. Valiantly DMing around searching for clarity. #tbdnight
2313 "Spider in the Snow." Here's a picture of the reportedly nonconsensual groping from genius twitterer @brfreed.
2311 Kort says there were at least 100 people onstage during "Ice of Boston" but somebody, presumably security, cleared it quickly apres.
2309 People are groping Morrison, Kort reports. Anyone got a 20 on Mathis? @nici is surrounded by people in beards.
2307 Discussion of Cherkis' tweet raging through D.C. twittersphere. On the one hand, smacking him down for hatin'. On the other, discussing what other bands people'd like to see reunite. @DaveStroup suggests 9353. Cosign! Bruce Miles Hellington, you've sold at least two tickets already!
2306: TBD Night is probably off the air but we're still broadcasting. The missus just brought me a lovely cup of peppermint tea. It's not as good as the peppermint tea we get in the office, but what is?
2305: People are storming the stage, Kort reports. GOTTA BE "ICE OF BOSTON" TIME, YO.
2303: "Back and Forth" Could this be it? wonders Kort.
2301: OGLING UPDATE
Noted. Also, sleeves now rolled up! RT @akmattos: @sommermathis beginning to think slow unbuttoning was a theatrical ploy #dplan
2259: "Gyroscope"
2257: CROTCHETY OLD SO-AND-SO ALERT:
Fugazi reunites. I'd get the excitement. Sorry. But few of you live tweeters even lived here when Dplan was around.
2252: "You know who likes seeing you on the TV a lot? Your mother," says Morrison. "Your mother likes it a lot!" (I'm supposing here that he is not referring here to the band's Fallon appearance and not the rhythm section's interview on TBD TV on Friday, though who knows, maybe his mom has basic cable and enjoys keeping up on goings-on about town.)
2250: QUEEN REFERENCE FROM AGGREGATION EDITOR: "Without a guitar in his hands, Morrison tends to strut about. A little touch of Freddy Mercury actually," writes Kort. Pretty much only the journalists tweeting at this point. The real fans are too busy being awesome or being white, at least according to @Nici, who also aggregates for TBD: "So much whiteness. So much dancing at DPlan."
2246: "Time Bomb," "Memory Machine," "The Dismemberment Plan Gets Rich," "Girl O'Clock"
Not sure what the order of these is; will post scan of setlist that I'm sure Godfrey is gonna snag.
2241: A superior photo of the band from @dougorey.
2238: "Face of the Earth"
2235: DISMEMBERMENT PLAN HITS A THIRD RAIL. Morrison either makes a Fenty joke or hates on Fenty (unclear). This did not go over well. What do you expect at ground zero for myopic little twits, T-Mo?
2232: OGLING UPDATE
2231: Morrison is "rapping in tongues," says Fischer. Godfrey reports him saying: ""oh my face--u feel like the memorex man." This made her laugh, or at least type the sound of laughter.
2228: "What Do You Want Me to Say?" ALEX BACA tweets that she'd love a DVD of this show: "This would be awesome for everyone under 5'2" (me)." This brings me to a discussion of show etiquette: Tall people! It will not affect your view to let the shrimpy person behind you in front of you. In fact, it's a great conversation-starter! Be cool and give the little people a chance to see, too.
2225: "The Other Side," reports Kort. Surfy guitars, he says.
2224: VIDEO ALERT: Fischer says there are "multiple videographers" documenting this show. Perhaps for a DVD? he muses. I'm paraphrasing, but not much.
2219: WANNA LIGHT UP TWITTER? Spray silly string. Almost every journalist I know at the show has tweeted about the appearance of the stuff during "You Are Invited." I forbid anyone to craft a lede from this moment.
2217: It's a sing-along to "You Are Invited."
2215: "The main difference between last night's @thedplan show @BlackCatDC and tonight's show @930Club is that this room smells like food," writes Washington Post pop critic Chris Richards. Chris, I'm not there, but is it possible you're actually smelling CK One?
2215 IMPORTANT OGLING UPDATE
2214 IMPORTANT OGLING NEWS
Travis Morrison's decision wear a blazer/shirt combo buttoned all the way up a minor tragedy, lady #dplan fans agree. #tbdnight
2210 ANOTHER SCREAM: This time from Morrison, Kort reports, who got shouty in the middle of "The City."
2207 PRIMAL SCREAM ALERT! No, not the Scottish band (possibly the only '90s alt-rock band not reuniting this year, though I'm psyched at the possibility that this Dismemberment Plan reunion might coax Braid out of hiding). No, the scream, reports Godfrey, came from a woman on the balcony when Dismemberment Plan went into "The City."
2204: Morrison is making "bad remix jokes" reports Washington City Paper's arts editor, Jonathan L. Fischer. I'm not sure what point we're at--are they still playing "Ellen and Ben"? Reading this must be like watching a GameCast on ESPN.
2202: Playing "Ellen and Ben." Kort says the rhythm section gets to shine on this one.
2200: "Following Through" Godfrey notes this wasn't on the Black Cat or Galaxy Hut set lists. Godfrey impresses me with her preparation. "Finally some signs of life from you people!" Morrison says.
2157 A JUNK SCIENCE TWEET from @translucent_eye who says "I'm pretty sure that this crowd only know 2 dplan songs!" How many songs can they have played at this point? I think you need to gauge reactions to more songs, @translucent_eye!
2150 WE'RE OFF. Band opens with "A Life of Possibilities." Says Morrison at start: "Nine people in Poor but Sexy, 70 in Batala, we're just 4, but we'll do what we can." TBD aggregator Elliot Kort says he's been waiting for this moment since he was 16 when his older brother first played him Dismemberment Plan. Aww.
2147 PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER JAY WESTCOTT Tweets this photo of the crowd. Looks like every store in the region will be sold out of V-neck sweaters tomorrow. HEY NOW.
2143 GET READY: @sarahgodfrey just got a peek at the Dismemberment Plan setlist, she says, and "it's loooooong." Also sympathies to @phoebedoris, who says the guy in front of her is wearing "CK One." Punk rock has changed, man.
2141 TWITTER TIP: Never, as I did tonight, set up a Twitter search for "930" unless you want to read hundreds of tweets from people in your time zone TWEETING ABOUT WHAT TIME IT IS. Good gravy!
2136: SHEILA ALERT: Actually I have no idea what a Sheila is. In Australia it means woman, maybe? At the 9:30, according to Twitter user @mightytastie, it's a word to describe the audience: "hipsters not in attendence tonite," @mightytastie tweets. "#930 is more frat boy and Sheila... Oh the plaid!!!" You figure it out. My job is to retype tweets.
2128: Apologies for the slow service. My outdated laptop is wheezing under the load of a Web browser with two tabs open plus Tweetdeck. Working on improving bandwidth issues. In the meantime, enjoy this photo of Eric Axelson playing congas with Poor But Sexy.
UPDATE 21:14: TRAVIS MORRISON IS GETTING SCREWED. Or so he tweets. His opening bands have scared the pants off him.
Jesus now @poorbutsexydc killing it too were screwed man @thedplan
LET'S GO! Dismemberment Plan! Live, tonight, at 9:30 Club. Whether you're there, home wishing you'd been a little faster on the "buy" button, or just idly perusing Washington-region local news blogs in search of crowd-sourced narratives about rock shows, TBD has a blog post for you. Oh sure, you could click over to TBD Night for a running report on nightlife in the region, and that'd be fine. But if Dismemberment Plan's your game, keep it right here. If you wanna talk with me, Twitter symbol is above, or use the #930 or #dplan hashtags.




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