Albert Hammond Jr Setlist

Losing Touch
101
Born Slippy
Strange Tidings
Everyone Gets a Star
Razor’s Edge
GfC
Rude Customer
Carnal Cruise
In Transit
Touche
St. Justice
Power Hungry
Cooker Ship
Caught by My Shadow
Spooky Couch
Side Boob
— Encore —
Drunched In Crumbs
Blue Skies
Holiday

Albert Hammond Jr. is currently on tour in support of his latest Momentary Masters (Vagrant Records), stopping by the Turf Club in St Paul on Tuesday night.

New York’s Walking Shapes opened up the show with a 40-min set. The five-piece band, featuring singer/guitarist Nathaniel Hoho, guitarist (and sometime violinist) Jesse Kotansky, keys Jacob Generalli, bassist Dan Krysa, and drummer Christopher Heinz, played some selections from their debut album Taka Come On, including “Measure for Measure” (which Hoho said was a song about “Tacos”) and the highlight of their set: “(No) Feel Good”, which required the audience to help sing back “hey hey hey” and clapping and yelling.

Song not on their album was “Horse”, taken from their Mixtape (Volume 1) compilation album. As they started their song, Hoho paused for a second and said that their their van almost flipped over driving into St Paul… and then without a beat, continued on singing the song.

Walking Shapes’ album Taka Come On is out now, a deluxe edition was released earlier this year via No Shame Records.

As we have previously mentioned, if you love The Strokes, you’ll love Albert Hammond Jr., as their music and songwriting style is very similar. Personally, I feel the only difference is that Hammond Jr’s songs does not feature Julian Casablancas’ vocals.

Turnout to the show was incredibly good for a Tuesday, with most fans there on the strength of Hammond Jr’s solo material, not just his work with the Strokes. Not that anyone was expecting Hammond Jr. to play the classic Strokes songs, as he is known to keep the two projects separated. This was strictly an Albert Hammond Jr. show, not the Strokes.

I think the most interesting thing about Hammond Jr’s current band is that it featured guitarist/backup vocalist Hammarsing Kharhmar. Kharhmar is no stranger as singer and frontman of Mon Khmer, so he took charge, singing on songs like “101”.

Hammond Jr. played almost everything from his latest Momentary Masters, including his single “Born Slippy” and set closer, “Side Boob”.

Tour dates:

11/13/15 Nantes, France Stereolux
11/14/15 Lorient, France Various Venues
11/16/15 Oxford O2 Academy Oxford
11/17/15 Manchester Gorilla
11/19/15 Birmingham Hare & Hounds
11/20/15 Leicester O2 Academy
11/21/15 Glasgow Centre for Contemporary
11/23/15 Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
11/24/15 Bristol Bristol Fleece
11/25/15 London Islington Assembly Hall
11/26/15 Brighton Old Market Theatre
11/28/15 Tourcoing, France Le Grand Mix
11/29/15 Paris, France Le Trabendo
11/30/15 Brussels, Belgium Orangerie
12/02/15 Amsterdam, Netherlands Paradiso
12/03/15 Hamburg, Germany Nochtspeicher
12/04/15 Berlin, Germany Lido
12/06/15 Copenhagen, Denmark Amager Bio
12/07/15 Oslo, Norway John Dee
12/08/15 Stockholm, Sweden Debaser Medis
12/10/15 Helsinki, Finland Nosturi
02/16/16 Adelaide, Australia The Gov
02/17/16 Fortitude Valley Woolly Mammoth
02/19/16 Sydney, Australia Oxford Art Factory
02/21/16 Richmond, Australia Corner Hotel