Tanya at Fort Apache in Cambridge, MA May 1, 2001
Lisa Jay reports:
well it was for the most part a great evening at fort apache...got there early and staked out a spot near the stage....went to find the bathroom and promptly knocked on the door of a ?closet? and was made fun of by some mean man....fuzzy was first....i thought they were really good...i dont no any of there music but i may have to check them out some time soon....then tanya came out....looking lovely as ever....played mostly oldies...here is the setlist:
1. untogether
2. the bees
3. restless
4. mysteries of the unexplained
5. acrobat
6. the storm
7. i wanna be sedated
8. the wave
9. landspeed song
the cover of i wanna be sedated was pretty good if not a bit strange mostly becuase i no the blake babies have been doing it on their tour and juliana was backstage....it just struck me as odd....the sound in there was great and tanya sounded awesome....she seemed really happy to be playing live again....
then bill janowitz (sp?) came on....i dont relly like this guys music or his sweatiness but he was entertaining to watch...he had a lot of fans there and he really gets into his performance so i guess i got to respect that.... the juliana came on....meanwhile some guy kind of shoved his way up to the front between me and another guy that had been there since way before the beginning...as juliana started to play he put his head down on the floor of the stage and stayed like that for most of her performance....i thoguth he was a little far gone into the music but when he picked up his head and left i realized that he was not in fact into the music at all...in fact he had PUKED ALL OVER THE STAGE AND MY PANTS!!!!
i have to many a show and seen many a drunk or high or just plain obnoxious people but never before had someone puke so close to me and in fact as i found out later on me....it wasnt that bad (the puke on me that is...the puke everywhere else was really bad) i just dont enjoy having ANY puke on me even if it is a small bit...and i dont want to go any further into the puke story but lets suffice to say i wont be wearing those pants or boots anytime soon....besides the distracting pile of puke next to me, the distracting smell, and teh distracting gap in front of the stage where the pile was juliana was great....she played for a long time and did some new songs (i think) some may be just ones i cant remember the titles to....so i will put some lyrics and maybe someone can remember
1.???it starts "drinking alone again"??
2. hotels
3. baby gets high
4. waiting for heaven (is that the right title?)
5. somebody is waiting for me
6. saving myself
7. she introduced this song as a song from the hit musical annie "the sun will comeout tomorrow" i think that may have actually been the title of her song too
8. slow motion
9. ???table for one...table for two??
11. civil war
12. ??i think this is an old one..."selling out is not my thing....nothing=nothing"
13. for the encore she came out and said shes not a spontaneous person and hadnt prepared anythign so she would sing the annie song and proceeded to sing a little of the sun will come out tomrorrow from annie...and then said she coudlnt remember the rest and left....
it was definatly an interesting night....great performances defiantly..did anyone tape it????? i will post pictures in a couple days :-)
~*~lisa~*~
Steve writes:
Wow! Tanya was SO AWESOME last night! Many, many exclamation points!
The word, my friends, was "masterful." When we saw her at the Kendall Cafe, she sounded great, but she looked really scared and tentative and like she just wanted to get through the songs as she'd rehearsed them. Last night she was at the top of her game, bantering with the audience, dancing around the notes, just looking and sounding really, really great.
She played a few new songs, including the one that may be called The Storm, and one that she told us the name of but I don't remember it, and one that she said was called The Wave, with "the Fuzzy girls" singing backup, and it ended with a longish, rich, intricate harmony-n-counterpoint three-part wordless vocal bit of such surpassing beauty that it brought tears to my eyes. Actual literal moisture literally welling in my actual eyes. As others have mentioned, she played Untogether and I Wanna Be Sedated, which works surprisingly well as a melancholy ballady singalong, considering. From Lovesongs for Underdogs, she played (hmm, let's see) Acrobat (always a huge crowd pleaser), and Mysteries of the Unexplained (a favorite of mine), and as a surprise encore (That was me that yelled "Encore! Encore!") Land Speed Song, which oh my god.
That's not exactly a set list, but it's the songs that I remember her playing. I find that writing down setlists, which I've tried in the past, distracts me from the show itself.
After Bill Janovitz' set, we were leaving, being Juliana Hatfield non-fans, and we saw Tanya in the outer room. She seemed to recognize us (Okay, or else she pretended to recognize us for some sort of smarmy show biz reasons, I suppose we can't rule out, but if so it was awfully convincing, and also completely extraneous, as there's no way we would have *expected* her to recognize us, and usually people who are good enough liars to be that convincing also know not to lie so completely unnecessarily, so cynical as I am, I choose to believe that she actually recognized us, and be still my heart.) from the Kendall Cafe show, and she was REALLY sweet, and she said that her new album will probably be out in September. (Of course, things get delayed and pushed back and such all the time, but at least there's no "I heard it from someone whose roommate works with..." here; I heard it from Tanya.)
A great, great show. Hi Brad! Hi Amie! Hi everybody that I love today, which is everybody.
steve,
walking, as it were, on sunshine