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[asyluman]

So which band's setlists have you gotten?

I just got one from Joe Jack Talcum tonight.

[Johnny C]

None!

Instead I will mention a pet peeve of mine: when a band plays the exact same setlist for the duration of its tour. Come on, guys. If you have more than one record under your belt then surely you have more than ten songs plus a cover of some artist from the early 80's back.

[Thrillho]

I have the setlist from my current band's first gig, my headlining slot at the acoustic charity night I organised, and the one from the last Nottingham Audiogene gig.

[Ernest]

None!

Instead I will mention a pet peeve of mine: when a band plays the exact same setlist for the duration of its tour. Come on, guys. If you have more than one record under your belt then surely you have more than ten songs plus a cover of some artist from the early 80's back.

To avoid this, my band started doing the setlist Fugazi style: having no setlist.

[TheFuriousWombat]

I got the setlist form this little Amiina show I went to in Philly. I also bought a copy of there ep there and they all signed it which was very cool. Although not a setlist, I did meet Matthew Cooper aka Eluvium at one of his shows, talked to him very briefly and got him to sign a copy of his new cd for me.

[Johnny C]

To avoid this, my band started doing the setlist Fugazi style: having no setlist.

Your band just won 10 points!

[ScrambledGregs]

To avoid this, my band started doing the setlist Fugazi style: having no setlist.

Your band just won 10 points!

I just want to point out that other bands have done the 'no setlist' thing before, and it's a fabulous idea. Especially if you never play the same setlist/show remotely the same from night to night, like, say, Phish did.

[Patrick]

I have had a list of songs I know how to play that I pick and choose from, and each choice will depend entirely on crowd response.

[KaosPilot]

managed to get the set lists from...team sleep, 65 daysofstatic x 3, and the blood brothers. i came close to getting a deftones setlist too, but i couldn't find the bouncer who kept it for me after the show (i had to leave the front) i'm sure i have more somewhere...but those are the ones pinned up on my wall. oh! a stapleton one too.

[Ernest]

To avoid this, my band started doing the setlist Fugazi style: having no setlist.

Your band just won 10 points!

I wish.  We didn't have the "Fugazi Vibe," if you will.  It didn't work that well because every time we'd finish a song, the bassist would be a complete dick and yell at me until I'd picked a new song, and he'd just make more of an ass of himself if I didn't pick one out in five seconds.  He didn't dare ask our guitarist because our guitarist just really didn't give a fuck what we played.  I'm kind of sore at my bassist, if you can tell.  My whole band really.  We broke up.  Whatev

[Patrick]

My first one broke up 'cause the guitarist refused to contribute anything to the writing process. It ruins the band vibe if it's only one dude.

[KharBevNor]

Man who gives a shit if a band is playing the same thing on every night of the tour? Surely that means fans get not to miss out on songs that they like, like people in every city get the same treatment. I would hate it if I saw a band and they just decided to skip doing my favourite song because they'd got bored of it. Like say Edge of Sanity decided to reform and tour, and I scrimped and saved and travelled to see them, and they were all 'Yeah, we got really bored of playing all our classics, we're basically just going to play stuff from our b-sides collection and demos. We need a change after playing the entirety of Crimson 1 and 2 two nights ago'. The only thing I hate with sets is when bands over-represent their new material.

[Johnny C]

The only thing I hate with sets is when bands over-represent their new material.

See and that is what a lot of bands in my experience do. I hear their setlist a couple nights in advance, express disappointment in that it's all new material except for a couple songs, then get to the show and find out the setlist is the same except they switch out one of their older songs for another older song. It's irritating.

[celticgeek]

I have the setlist from Loreena McKennitt's concert in Scottsdale Arizona on 05092007CE.

Super good concert.

[Ernest]

Man who gives a shit if a band is playing the same thing on every night of the tour?

Because that is boring, predictable, and just plain not fun.  Unless, of course, you don't know anything about the setlist beforehand.  It can still suck, though, because bands with the same setlist every night tend to over represent their new material.  Wait, wasn't that one of the things you were complaining about?

[KharBevNor]

Man, who looks up setlists before they go to a gig? And, if someone did look up the setlist before they went to a gig, wouldn't that be pointless if bands didn't play the same thing?

This just generally seems to be a massive non issue.

[Johnny C]

I don't go cruising for setlists. Thanks to this forum and the fact that I also know people who go to concerts in other locales I have heard a couple of advanced setlists, as well as the phrase "apparently they've just been playing the same set all tour."

The issue is essentially laziness.

[Ernest]

This just generally seems to be a massive non issue.

Say you see a band and then search for more concert vids on Youtube, only to find that they played the songs in the exact same order and introduced them the same way each time.  Just takes away some of the magic is all.