Cursive Setlist

This House Alive
Big Bang
Gentleman Caller
The Cat & Mouse
Retreat!
A Red So Deep
The Sun & Moon
Driftwood: A Fairy Tale
We’re Going to Hell
The Martyr
Twin Dragon/Hello Skeleton
I Couldn’t Love You Anymore
The Recluse
Wowowow
Art is Hard
— Encore —
Dorothy at 40
Sink to the Beat
From the Hips
Eulogy For No Name

2012 Tour Dates

03/24/12 High Noon Saloon Madison, WI
03/25/12 Lincoln Hall Chicago, IL
03/26/12 High Dive Champaign, IL
03/27/12 Blind Pig Ann Arbor, MI
03/28/12 Mr. Smalls Theatre Pittsburgh, PA
03/29/12 Grog Shop Cleveland Heights, OH
03/30/12 Mohawk Place Buffalo, NY
03/31/12 Horseshoe Tavern Toronto, ON
04/02/12 Middle East Cambridge, MA
04/03/12 Bowery Ballroom New York, NY
04/04/12 Bowery Ballroom New York, NY
04/05/12 Union Transfer Philadelphia, PA
04/06/12 Black Cat Washington, DC
04/07/12 Kings Barcade Raleigh, NC
04/08/12 The Earl Atlanta, GA
04/09/12 Cafe Eleven St. Augustine, FL
04/10/12 The Social Orlando, FL
04/11/12 Club Downunder Tallahassee, FL
04/13/12 Fitzgerald’s Upstairs Houston, TX
04/14/12 The Mohawk Austin, TX
04/15/12 Trees Dallas, TX
04/17/12 Hi-Tone Cafe Memphis, TN
04/18/12 Cosmic Charlies Lexington, KY
04/20/12 Off Broadway Nightclub St Louis, MO
04/21/12 Mojo’s Columbia, MO

This technically isn’t a Flashback article, as it was originally published on Saturday, 24 March 2012, but, however, the Cursive at the 400 Bar article never transitioned over to the new blog, so I’ve gone through my archive backup and reformatted it for WordPress.

The following was the original written article:

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Cursive does it right, playing a good mix of old classics, along with some selected songs from their new album, I Am Gemini, at the 400 Bar, last night.

Conduits are a shoegaze band, also out of Omaha (the same city that Cursive is from). Both Conduits and Cymbals Eat Guitars had pretty short sets, possibly just around thirty minutes. They mostly did songs from their self-titled album, which just came out last Tuesday.

Some of the songs they played were “Top of the Hill”, “Last Dirge” and “Misery Train”.

I’ve seen Cymbals Eat Guitars before, they were just as loud then as they were last night. I have to say, I really dig singer Joseph D’Agostino’s awesome belt guitar strap.

I had a pretty hard time understanding D’Agostino’s vocals, which sounded really loud and screamy. The only song I know for certain they played was “Rifle Eyesight (Proper Name)” and “Plainclothes”, both from their new Barsuk album, Lenses Alien.

On contrast, I thought Cursive’s singer Tim Kasher vocals came through loud and clear. Throughout Cursive’s set, songs like “This House Alive”, “Big Bang”, “A Gentleman Caller”, “The Cat and Mouse”, etc., all blended together without any pause or breaks. I got the impression that they have all the songs in the same order, with the same formula. It wasn’t until later on their show that Kasher loosened up and mentioned how hot it was on stage (his shirt was soaked with sweat).

There were three songs for the encore; I believe they were “Dorthy at 40”, “Sink To The Beat” and “Eulogy For No Name”. Update, according to the internet, there were four songs on the encore.

Of course, all the fans sang along to the old songs, and it was good to see Cursive in top form last night.

Cursive is currently starting off on their two-month tour with Conduits and Cymbals Eat Guitars. I dub this the three “CCC” tour. Look for their new album, I Am Gemini, which is out now via Saddle Creek Records.