Dying Cab For Cutie carried out a headline present at London’s Royal Albert Corridor final night time (Wednesday March 29) – joking that they need to be “sponsored by Boots” having spent the weekend battling sickness. Try images, footage and the setlist from the present under.
Final week noticed the band kick off their UK tour in help of their acclaimed 2022 album ‘Asphalt Meadows’, earlier than being pressured to tug a run of exhibits on account of frontman Ben Gibbard being struck down by sickness. After returning to the stage to carry out in Brighton and London’s Roundhouse, the US indie veterans performed one other cease on the capital at Royal Albert Corridor.
At one level within the present, Gibbard paused to make mild of his latest plight with unwell well being whereas travelling across the UK.
“You understand how you’ll see exhibits like ‘Jack Daniels presents Mötley Crüe’ or ‘Budweiser presents The Nationwide?’” he began. “OK, perhaps not that final one – however after these previous few weeks we’ve had, I really feel like we ought to be sponsored by Boots.”
Honouring the chain of chemists, he continued: “You guys don’t understand how fortunate you may have it. You’ve bought a sequence of shops the place individuals actually know their stuff and what medication it’s best to have.”
Dying Cab For Cutie on the Royal Albert Corridor tonight
You realize bands have been round for a very long time once they shout out “Boots, the chemist” for “actually realizing their stuff.” Nice to see them reside. pic.twitter.com/vKR9BWv9Po
— Paul Townley (@prtownley) March 29, 2023
In addition to repeatedly paying tribute to help act Gradual Pulp, Gibbard typically famous the sense of event in enjoying the long-lasting Royal Albert Corridor. “Generally we are saying ‘we’re comfortable to be right here’ and we’re not,” he advised the viewers. “Tonight, we’re genuinely comfortable to be right here.”
He would later hail the gig as “not only a band spotlight” however “a life spotlight”.
With a set that leaned closely on well-received cuts from final 12 months’s ‘Asphalt Meadows’, different highlights included a full crowd sing-along to Gibbard performing ‘I Will Observe You Into the Darkish’ solo and acoustic, together with renditions of fan favourites ‘The New 12 months’, ‘I Will Possess Your Coronary heart’, ‘The New 12 months’, ‘The Sound of Settling’, ‘Soul Meets Physique’ and ‘Transatlanticism’.
Dying Cab For Cutie performed:
‘I Don’t Know How I Survive’
‘Roman Candles’
‘The New 12 months’
‘Cath…’
‘A Film Script Ending’
‘Right here to Perpetually’
‘Black Solar’
‘Northern Lights’
‘I Miss Strangers’
‘Crooked Enamel’
‘Rand McNally’
‘I Will Observe You Into the Darkish’ (Gibbard, solo acoustic)
‘I Will Possess Your Coronary heart’
‘Your Coronary heart Is an Empty Room’
‘Asphalt Meadows’
‘We Regarded Like Giants’
‘The Sound of Settling’
‘The Ghosts of Beverly Drive’
‘Foxglove By means of the Clearcut’
Encore:
‘Brothers on a Resort Mattress’
‘Pepper’
‘Soul Meets Physique’
‘Transatlanticism’
Later this 12 months, the band can be hitting the highway within the US for a double headline tour with Gibbard’s different outfit The Postal Service, celebrating 20 years of their cult basic ‘Give Up’ whereas DCFC will mark 20 years of their 2003 breakthrough album ‘Transatlanticism’ – with each data being performed in full every night time.
When NME just lately requested if the joint tour would hit different territories such because the UK or Europe, Gibbard replied: “We have now restricted time for a lot of causes. Jenny Lewis [The Postal Service bandmate] has music popping out sooner or later and might want to tour, and members of the band would in all probability like to keep up relationships with their youngsters and spouses.
“There’s simply not sufficient time to take a world victory lap – however by no means say by no means.”