Matt Maltese at Fillmore (Oct 13, 2025)

Matt Maltese Setlist

Always Some MF
Buses Replace Trains
Curl Up and Die
Irony Would Have It
Everybody’s Just As Crazy As Me
Krystal
Madhouse.
When You Wash Your Hair
Studio 6
Jupiter
Intolewd
Arthouse Cinema
Pined For You My Whole Life
Happy Birthday
Like a Fish
As the World Caves In
Anytime, Anyplace, Anyhow
— Encore —
Cure For Emptiness
Everyone Adores You (at least I do)

It was a subdued Monday. Still, there were plenty of people in the Warehouse District that seems to add new stores, restaurants and condos every time I drive down Washington Avenue. Even The Fillmore still seems new even though it opened in 2020. It was mostly filled with fans who came early to secure a good spot in front of the stage or get their merch purchases out of the way for the line stretched the full length of the expansive room.

Cornelia Murr opened the early, all-age show. She was born in London, but spent most of her life living in different parts of the United States. Toggling between NYC and LA most of her musical career, she made a bold choice to move to Red Cloud, NE, to restore an old farm house. The geographic location of the small town being in the twenty miles from the center of the contiguous United States provided inspiration for her latest album Run to the Center, which she played from with songs like “How Do You Get By” and “Skylight.”

“There’s so much room on the stage,” Murr smiled. “I don’t know where to put myself.”

It did feel like her music, lush with a dream-pop sensibility and a whisper of a singing voice, would have been suited for a more intimate venue, but the audience was appreciative and gave her rousing applause between songs.

Between songs Murr’s voice was a hush. She even commented that she didn’t even know why she was whispering.

It probably had to do with being in the moment and creating a music experience for the audience, as she sang a new song “Gotta Give” and an old song “Tokyo Kyoto” which appears on her debut album Lake Tea of the Clouds.

Matt Maltese next took the stage and played a set of slow love ballads, or as When the Horn Blows writes, “Everything he does is heartfelt; from the tone of his voice to the way he writes songs, anything he does is rooted in love for love.”

Like Murr, Maltese was born in England to Canadian parents. He started writing his love ballads at age 14, using whatever money he earned to buy vinyl albums. His music sounds like a throwback to another era. He credits singer songwriters Paul Simon, Nina Simone and especially Leonard Cohen for providing his inspiration.

Maltese started his set with “Always Some MF” from his latest album Hers. For being his sixth album, it was his first time to the Twin Cities. He told a funny story about having inspiration on a flight, and how the woman sitting next to him had to listen to him sing into his phone about wanting to “Curl Up and Die.”

Like Murr, there was a lushness to the orchestration. Maltese’s voice also holds a plaintive longing that brings a sense of poignancy. I personally thought most of the crowd would have been young and female, but I was surprised that most were couples, couples who probably fell in love with the songs like “Everybody’s Just as Crazy as Me” and “As the World Caves In.”

Cornelia Murr came out to sing a couple of songs with Maltese like “Arthouse Cinema” an “Pined for You My Whole Life.” And then he sang his own version of “Happy Birthday” to Bren who had just turned seventeen. And to let you know where he stood on love, he finished the set with “Anytime, Anyplace, Anyhow.”