LOCATION: Bold Theater, Dayton, OH
LINEUP: Karin, Linford, Jack
REVIEW BY: megan linton
the show was held in the boll theater...it's a pretty new place...i could still smell the newness of the carpet out in the entryway...maybe it's just new carpet... who knows... anyway, the theater is quaint...seats under 500 i'm guessing... there was no opener...a pleasant change...unless it's peter mulvey...just the three-piece...no drums or bass...and no hammond or keyboards...linford played a big black grand and some guitar... karin arrived wearing a red skirt and a black top meshy thing that was reminiscent of what the lead singer from brownhouse had worn the night before...linford was clad in black...and jack was wearing some polyester looking blue and burgundy shirt... set list: latter days (piano intro; some different piano stuff at the end) etcetera whatever bothered (piano extro like the latter days piano intro) and can it be anyway little blue river faithfully dangerous show me green clouded swallowtail if nothing else fairpoint diary (karin remembered the words this time) lucy my love is a fever all i need is everything there wasn't an encore...they brought up the house lights right after they went off stage...and i heard karin remark to someone after the show that they brought them up too quick...the songs marked for encore escape me at the moment... it was a fairly uneventful show...they were very disconnected from the audience as opposed to the night before...warmed up a little about halfway through...but the silence between songs was very pregnant and uncomfortable...jack's guitar was way too high in the mix, in my opinion...sometimes you could hardly hear karin singing... i picked up linford and jack's setlists after the show...which was entertainment in and of itself...both were written on pieces of cardboard box...jack had written the names to several nonexistant songs after the encore songs, the names of which were wrought with references to human anatomy...it was quite humorous...then scrawled very large and defiantly, the words "Stolen from OTR" at the bottom of the list... i was glad to hear if nothing else...they didn't play it the night before and i've become addicted to the beatbox mix mp3...and like bruce, i'm more and more entranced with fairpoint diary... all in all, an ok show...not nearly the energy from the night before...i've seen the three-piece before, so i know it's not just lack of drums and bass dragging it down...things just didn't pop...although, it was nice to be warm and indoors...