Bayside - There Are Worse Things Than Being Alive (April 5, 2024) • Page 11

It’s definitely limited. Portland is the same thing.

 

Decided to do VIP for night one. I’ll probably get my ticket for night 2 but want to wait for setlists before I commit. Back to back concert nights is rough for my old ass even if it’s a weekend lol

 

Well dang, wish I knew! Oh well, could just do em separate I guess

 

Picked up my tickets to both nights in SF. I'm really grateful for my good luck that planted the two nights during my Summer Break from work. I haven't been this excited to see Bayside in a really long time.

 

Anthony is on IG Live right now and said each night will be 20-21 songs each night.

 

That’s great. Figured they would do longer sets with only one opener. The only band I’ve ever seen do small sets for these kinds of tours is The Used lol

 

He also said Guardrail is gonna be played for sure on the tour. He said he’s really excited to play Seeing Sound. Others that are in a maybe list are Boy and Stuttering, IIRC.

 

Damn, Guardrail!

 

He also said Choice Hops was on the list of songs being considered. Easily my favorite Bayside song of all-time and shockingly saw it live in 2016.

 

Boy is the most obvious of all time choice for shudder plays I would be mad if they didn’t

 

Going to the NYC shows. "Guardrail" and "Boy" will be much appreciated.

 

Oh yea, just remembered. He said the new Devotion and Desire is just an updated recording basically. It’s played like they do at a live show these days. It’ll sound better, but it’s the same song, no major departures.

 

Gonna be wild to see them not close with Devotion and Desire on the second night. I've seen the band 15+ times and they've closed with D&D every time outside of the acoustic tour and Anthony has repeatedly said they'll always close with it.

My guess is second night they close with Sick, Sick, Sick?

 

That would work for me.

 

That was one of the major selling points of going both nights for me. That second night is gonna be unlike any Bayside show I’ve ever been to

 

Totally! That’s part of why I’m kind of more excited for night 2.

 

I still don't expect too many surprises - for Night 2: The below songs are all in the KT/TWTTBA era that - according to setlist.fm are within the top 40 Bayside songs played live ever and all songs I have seen plenty of times live.

Sick, Sick, Sick
Already Gone
Pigsty
Prayers
Big Cheese
Stuttering
Mary
The Wrong Way
Killing Time
It Don't Exist
Mona Lisa
Go To Hell
Interobang
How to Ruin Everything
Seeing Sound
It's Not a Bad Little War
Numb
Strangest Faces
I've Been Dead All Day

I could see them adding Bury Me, Sinking & Swimming, The Devils or Pretty Vacant but I don't think they're going to pull out anything completely out of left field. I hope they do, but it probably wouldn't be more than 1 or 2 unusual selections.

 

They are purposefully going to play more deep cuts. While some of those songs will absolutely be played, I don’t think that’s the way they’re building the set.

 

Bayside rare cuts that I would like to see:

Night 1:
How to Fix Everything
If You're Bored
Kellum
Just Enough to Love You
We'll Be OK
Choice Hops
A Call to Arms
Roshambo
I Think I'll Be OK
Moceanu (I've somehow seen this at least 3x)

Night 2:
On Love, On Life
The Whitest Lie
Two Letters (have seen)
Not Fair
It Doesn't Make it True
WHITE FLAG

 

For those that tried to get 2-day tickets, you may want to check again. Cleveland was originally sold out of two-day tickets, but I just randomly checked and they're available again.

 

Toronto still has 2 day available as well

 

Ecstatic to be wrong about this, but Anthony confirmed in an IG video that they'll be doing 20 songs each night.

 

I am so fucking stoked for this

 

I wonder if they're going to keep things in rough chronological order, or if they'll mix everything up. When I saw the The Walking Wounded anniversary shows in 2017, they kept the album in order for one show but mixed things up for the one where they also played everything from Shudder. I kind of hope the albums from each album get grouped together to make it feel more like a "history of the band" set than a normal set that just happens to have songs from a few specific albums.

 

Anthony said that their focus will be on putting the songs in an order that feels right vs album order or anything like that.