mewithoutYou - [untitled] e.p. & [Untitled] LP (2018) Album • Page 119

East Enders Wives is underrated. That's one of my all time favorites and I love that remix EP.

 

Really hope I get either [dormouse] or Michael at my show

 

On their A-B Live tour I was standing behind the sound booth and noticed the sound guy had this little bar menu looking sheet in his hand, and quickly realized it was the set list. Which surprised me cuz usually Ricky doodles the set list before every show.

I asked him for it and he just handed it over. Had it framed with the poster and vinyl from the tour, one of my proudest wall ornaments.

 

Link to the full pic?

 

I don't have a pic of all of it framed, and am not home at the moment, but here's the set list from my avatar.

 

I love those tears at the bottom.

 

Same. I love everything about it haha not sure why those 3 songs were underlined or the importance of them in the show, but it adds character I guess

 

So now I feel like sharing my greatest night ever for the first time haha

On 11/10/2007 mewithoutYou opened for Thrice and Brand New at the Dodge Theater in downtown Phoenix, which is a 5,000 seat venue and easily the largest non-festival show I've been to of theirs.

Me and my buddy were 19 at the time and had been obsessed with them since Foxes came out. Previously their Brother, Sister tour with Snake Cross Crown and Manchester Orchestra was the greatest thing I'd ever seen, so we wanted this to be even more epic and decided to drop acid for the show.

We bought normal, non-pit tickets so were stuck in assigned seating far as shit from stage, and mwY only played like 6 songs cuz they were opening. They were great, but it was kind of weird seeing such a short set from far away with stadium audio and a crowd that wasn't aware of them or there to see them.

We go outside the theater to smoke some cigs before Thrice comes on, and lo and behold, during our smoke on the sidewalk I see Aaron and Mike fly by on a bicycle taxi/carriage 5 feet from us. Aaron was playing his accordion and Mike had an acoustic guitar.

Tripping balls, I freaked out and noticed another bicycle taxi just sitting empty across the street. I sprinted to it, ate shit in the middle of the street, got up and saw hundreds of people also smoking laughing at me, but I didn't care. I waved my buddy over and hopped in the carriage and just pointed at Aaron and Mike's taxi pedaling away and exclaimed "FOLLOW THEM!" while pointing.

Our guy caught up to their carriage quick, and their cyclist slowed down so we could ride side by side. So for the next 45ish minutes, me and my buddy rode right next to Mike and Aaron playing acoustic covers of Beatles/Led Zeppelin/Rolling Stones/Pink Floyd songs while we rode around the streets of downtown Phoenix tripping our asses off.

When we finally looped back around toward the venue, Aaron and Mike had our cyclists pull off at an empty outdoor amphitheater in the middle of a park downtown. Me, my buddy, and the 2 dudes driving us around spent the next hour+ sitting there alone with them playing music for us. They asked for requests and between every song conversed with us for around 5 minutes about life, God, music, anything we wanted to talk about, almost a general Q&A.

When we finished we got ridden back to the venue and as we passed by the entire show had just ended, all the Brand New fans were pouring into the streets. We got dropped off at their bus (R.I.P.) and they invited us inside to have dinner with them. We politely declined (shouldn't have) and walked back to to my car in a state of pure bliss and shock.

Missing Thrice and Brand New perform never felt better. Still the greatest night of my life. Still have the (extremely faded) ticket stub.

 

I'm not sure there has ever been an album in my entire lifetime that I have listened to this much upon release. I. Can't. Stop.

 

step1: boil some water and rip up some sheets

 

holy moly that setlist is absolutely insane. all it needs is dormouse sighs.

whenever i fall in love with an album like this, i always have a favorite song, but i really dont know if i have one on this record. it's just top to bottom fantastic.

 

this is incredible - what songs did they play?? especially curious about the Pink Floyd ones!

 

wendy and betsy on the setlist is exciting

wanna see Aaron go ham af with that

 

Wish You Were Here is the one Pink Floyd song I remember vividly. Yesterday was the Beatles one that stood out, but the one I remember best was All of My Love by Zeppelin, Aaron nailed the sound of the synthesizer with his accordion.

 

1:05 and 1:50 of New Wine, New Skins, those deep beautiful notes as he's singing, "I'd like to write a sequel to 'The State that I am In.'"

My favorite moments on the record.

 

I still don’t know how my body doesn’t spontaneously combust every time the breakdown of new wine new skins hits

 

Honestly, I feel this way through the whole thing.

 

That setlist is unreal

 

alright who's hunting down the youtube vids

 

Wonder if they’ll switch up the set list every night as usual or whether they’ll be playing the same [untitled] songs.

 

I’m blessed that TWIABP is opening for mwY on my date

 

That would have me shaking in a taco bell parking lot tbh

 

I saw them co-headline in Manchester in 2016 and enjoyed mwY far more than TWIABP but a lot of people get a lot out of their live sets that just wasn't there for me. (plus Tyler will term-search on Twitter and respond to people who say stuff like this, big yikes)

 

jus chillin watching mewithoutyou and eating some cheesy g crunches