Teenage Fanclub Setlist

Start Again
Sometimes I Don’t Need to Believe in Anything
Verisimilitude
I Don’t Want Control of You
Don’t Look Back
Hold On
It’s All in My Mind
Thin Air
About You
The Darkest Part of the Night
I Need Direction
Your Love Is the Place Where I Come From
Ain’t That Enough
I’m In Love
Sparky’s Dream
The Concept
— Encore —
Star Sign
Can’t Feel My Soul
Everything Flows

Nineties band Teenage Fanclub (singer / guitarist Norman Blake, singer / guitarist Raymond McGinley, singer / bassist Gerard Love, drummer Francis MacDonald, and keys Dave McGowan) made a semi-rare appearance at Fine Line Music Café in Minneapolis last week, October 22nd.

Opening up the show was Sam Evian, according to Evian, their first Minneapolis appearance. Although based in New York, Evian is actually signed to Omaha’s Saddle Creek (famous for signing Bright Eyes). The label love Evian so much that they made the great drive from Nebraska to Minneapolis to see Evian play.

Evian, along with Austin Vaughn on drums (from Here We Go Magic), Michael Coleman on keys/guitarist, and Brian Betancourt on bass, played almost everything from their debut Premium album, including ‘Sleep Easy’.

The thing to know about Scottish band Teenage Fanclub is that they actually have three main singers and songwriters: Norman Blake, Raymond McGinley, and Gerard Love. That’s quite evident by the first three songs (‘Start Again’, ‘Sometimes I Don’t Need to Believe in Anything’, and ‘Verisimilitude’), which saw three different lead vocalist.

Since the new world tour is for Teenage Fanclub’s 11th album Here, they were obligated to play a few songs (‘Hold On’, ‘Thin Air’, ‘The Darkest Part of the Night’, and ‘I’m in Love’), but as you can see from their setlist, they played a lot of fan-favorites – including their biggest hit of the night ‘Sparky’s Dream’ from Grand Prix (1995) and set closer ‘The Concept’ from Bandwagonesque (1991).

It’s been a long time since Teenage Fanclub was last in town… so let’s hope to see them back in the city sooner than later.

Teenage Fanclub’s Here is out now on Merge Records.

Remaining tour dates:

Nov 15 Inverness, UK – Ironworks
Nov 16 Whitley Bay, UK – Playhouse
Nov 17 Sheffield, UK – Leadmill
Nov 18 Manchester, UK – Academy 2
Nov 20 Leeds, UK – University
Nov 21 Norwich, UK – Waterfront
Nov 22 London, UK – Electric Ballroom
Nov 23 Portsmouth, UK – Wedgewood Rooms
Nov 24 Brighton, UK – Concorde 2
Nov 26 Birmingham, UK – Institute
Nov 27 Cardiff, UK – Glee Club
Nov 28 Nottingham, UK – Rock City
Nov 29 Bristol, UK – Anson Rooms
Nov 30 Cambridge, UK – Junction
Dec 02 Dublin, IR – Academy
Dec 03 Glasgow, UK – Barrowland
Dec 04 Glasgow, UK – ABC