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Yeah Yeah Yeahs played Santos Party House (pics & setlist), playing Letterman & Fallon b4 Coachella
photos by Natasha Ryan
Yeah Yeahs Yeahs scheduled a secret show on short notice on Easter (4/12). People didn't know about it. People weren't sure if they'd be able to get in. And people were out of town or with relatives that night. That's probably why the line wasn't too nuts. It didn't even get crowded until halfway through opener Freshkills' set. Yeah Yeah Yeahs went on at 11...
"The show was easier to get into than anyone thought. As I noted several times above, there were tickets at the door. Called the santos line that morning, not the prerecorded message, but the direct line and they confirmed it. I got there around 5:30 and waited in line in the cold. If I got there at 7:00, it would have been fine. It was pretty secret for a secret show." [Ashok]The 13-song setlist included "Zero" and "Maps" (the two songs they played on Saturday Night Live the night before), and "Human Fly" - a Cramps cover (probably in tribute to Lux Interior - RIP). Look for video of the show to surface later. Full setlist below.
Yeah Yeahs Yeahs' next proper show (that we know about) will happen at Coachella on April 19th (the Santos show was probably a warm-up for that). Before that, the band's media blitz continues will appearances on both The Late Show with David Letterman (April 14) and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (April 15). More pictures from Santos below...
Freshkills...
Yeah Yeah Yeahs...
Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Santos Party House (setlist)
Heads Will Roll
Black Tongue
Human Fly (Cramps cover)
Phenomena
Dull Life
gold lion
Art Star
skeletons
Hysteric
Down Boy
Zero
Maps
Y Control
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Posted on April 13, 2009 9:33 AM
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apparently yeah yeah yeahs is the only music news that happened this weekend.
Posted by Anonymous | April 13, 2009 9:45 AM
is a show really a "secret show" when it's blabbed about on the internet for a few days prior? whatever happened to actual secret shows?
Posted by Anonymous | April 13, 2009 9:58 AM
or, just maybe, people just didn't want to go?
that reason sounds fairly possible, no?
Posted by sasso | April 13, 2009 10:01 AM
whats up with the green day show?
Posted by Anonymous | April 13, 2009 10:04 AM
They should have made it a "pay people to see it" show.
that should be the new thing.
Posted by Anonymous | April 13, 2009 10:08 AM
"or, just maybe, people just didn't want to go?
that reason sounds fairly possible, no?"
That doesn't change the fact that Santos is a very small venue for this band to play a one-off show at.
Posted by Anonymous | April 13, 2009 10:11 AM
I'm at the show right now!
That first secret show was just a cover up for the real secret show . . . which is going on right now! Last night's show was not, I repeat not, the real secret show. Today's show is the real secret secret show.
So go tell everyone (I'm looking at you Brooklyn Vegan)before it's over! Now shhhhhhush, it's a secret.
this message was sent via flag semaphore
Posted by A. Non E. Mouse | April 13, 2009 10:19 AM
^^^The jokes wearing a little thin A. Non
Posted by blackhat | April 13, 2009 11:16 AM
I hope they do Soft Shock and Kiss Kiss at Coachella.
Posted by Anonymous | April 13, 2009 11:21 AM
Dear Blackhat,
This is no joke!
But it is a secret.
Don't tell anyone.
Not even your mom!
But especially not Brooklyn Vegan.
B.V. cannot keep a secret.
Shhhhh,
A. Non E. Mouse
Posted by A. Non E. Mouse | April 13, 2009 11:21 AM
Since when do they have a bass player?
Posted by Anonymous | April 13, 2009 11:27 AM
Interpol is playing a secret show at Glasslands tonight. You heard it here first.
Posted by Anonymous | April 13, 2009 11:33 AM
Interpol IS playing Glasslands tonight
Posted by Anonymous | April 13, 2009 11:43 AM
Karen's chin - always flattering from below.
Posted by Anonymous | April 13, 2009 11:49 AM
I just drove by Glasslands. There are at least 30 or 40 people already lined up. Anyone have any idea on ticket prices?
Posted by Anonymous | April 13, 2009 11:52 AM
This band is still relevant?
Posted by Anonymous | April 13, 2009 11:53 AM
NATUREBOY JIM KELLY @GLASSLANDS TUES. HIS VERSION OF MAPS BETTER THAN ORIGINAL....REALLY!
Posted by Anonymous | April 13, 2009 12:02 PM
Maybe there were tickets available because it was EASTER! Believe it or not, some hipsters spend this day with their families. Even though they will have to go a day without soy and indian take out.
Posted by Anonymous | April 13, 2009 12:07 PM
name one relevant band that's doing something these days....
Posted by Anonymous | April 13, 2009 12:19 PM
and maybe it was so easy to get into was because it was Easter Sunday? i know for many of us who were away traveling to visit with our families it was a near impossibility to make the show. i guarantee that had this show been tonight, it would be tons more crowded.
Posted by Anonymous | April 13, 2009 12:29 PM
ahh, 12.07 and i had the same thought... didn't refresh before submitting my comment. but yes, "hipsters" do celebrate Easter!
Posted by Anon 12.29 | April 13, 2009 12:30 PM
Haha....some of you guys are such dicks.
Posted by Jesus | April 13, 2009 12:55 PM
distracted by easter egg and afikomen hunts i'm pissed I missed this!!
Posted by Big Perm | April 13, 2009 12:59 PM
new blog - beachgoth.wordpress.com
got some pics
Posted by Anonymous | April 13, 2009 1:04 PM
bunch of heathens. playing this show on sat i would think for a catholic would be like for a jew to play a show on passover. just crazy.
Posted by Anonymous | April 13, 2009 1:12 PM
what time did daft punk go on?
Posted by Anonymous | April 13, 2009 1:33 PM
LUUUUX!
not just a great gesture, but a great fucking sound, and the new songs mostly kill live.
after "Y Control" they also did "Turn Into," "Date With The Night" "Modern Romance."
Posted by Anonymous | April 13, 2009 1:38 PM
Lovely. the encore selections, I mean.
Posted by Anonymous | April 13, 2009 1:43 PM
Dear beachgoth,
This is your THIRD post mentioning your own blog's recollection of last evening. Enough already. We get the picture.
signed,
Get A Life
Posted by Anonymous | April 13, 2009 2:32 PM
I have never seen fresh kills before and I need to say the YYY's taste in other bands is just amazing.
Posted by andrew B. | April 13, 2009 2:51 PM
I'm unique. I have a blog. Check it out.
beachgoth.wordpress.com
Posted by beachgoth | April 13, 2009 3:14 PM
its better than half of the bullshit and negative banter that is posted on this blog
Posted by beachgoth | April 13, 2009 3:20 PM
i love that real new yorkers were actually able to get into this show...not the shitty faux new yorkers who grace us with their absence every holiday. ah, loverly.
Posted by Anonymous | April 13, 2009 3:29 PM
More bands should have shows on major holidays. Definitely cuts down on the riff-raff scenesters.
Posted by Anonymous | April 13, 2009 4:33 PM
IT WASN'T A SECRET SHOW. IT WAS A PRIVATE SHOW. EVERYONE STFU.
Posted by Anonymous | April 13, 2009 4:43 PM
Yeah everyone shut it. It was a private show. Stop being jerks, they're a great band. And the Fresh kills were awesome, never heard of them before now.
Posted by Anonymous | April 13, 2009 6:12 PM
AMAZING SHOW!!!!
MORE YYYS, PLEAS3
Posted by Ceos | April 13, 2009 11:06 PM
Freshkills sounded like a bad Bauhaus cover band.
Posted by Anonymous | April 13, 2009 11:40 PM
TO THE HELLS!
Posted by zincink | April 14, 2009 5:59 AM
"More bands should have shows on major holidays. Definitely cuts down on the riff-raff scenesters."
How does having a show on a major holiday cut down on scenesters?
I missed out on the show because it was Easter. I am an NYC native, not some transient transplant from the midwest. Too bad the YYYs will not play again in NYC until very late in 2009, perhaps 2010.
Posted by Anonymous | April 14, 2009 9:36 AM
^
knowing an exception to a statistical piece of data does not, by itself, cancel out said data.
please go back to school and take a Logic 101 refresher course before you end up saying anything else foolish & easily mockable.
Posted by Anonymous | April 14, 2009 9:45 AM
9:45 he's not exception, there's many people out here who are not going out during the holy weak, especially when your talking about the holiest 3 days in our religion.
but I forgive you because you don't know what the fuck you're talking about, to paraphrase Jesus...
Posted by Anonymous | April 14, 2009 11:00 AM
f*ck easter. it's a bullsh*t religious holiday
Posted by Anonymous | April 14, 2009 11:00 AM
sorry about the typo, "holy week", but you made me so angry I almost broke the keyboard.
Posted by Anonymous | April 14, 2009 11:03 AM
you people need refresher courses in statistics & logic.
Posted by Anonymous | April 14, 2009 11:08 AM
Note to the religious folks:
Life goes on without you. Quit your whining.
Posted by Anonymous | April 14, 2009 11:13 AM
Ditto 11:13.
Posted by Anonymous | April 14, 2009 12:13 PM
I swear one of the new YYYS hits is basically "This is not a love song" by Public Image limited. But then "Gold Lion" is No New Tale To Tell by Love and Rockets. Duh!
Posted by Anonymous | April 14, 2009 2:38 PM
She's such a great dancer
\poser with those pouty moves.
Narcissist YES YES Yes. Care to see talentless NYC brand image makers strutting "art" originality with a vapid hollow sheen?
NO NO NO!
Posted by Anonymous | April 15, 2009 1:07 AM
setlist could be a little better or longer. where's date with the night/honeybear/ or pin ????? wtf those are the best.
Posted by Anonymous | May 1, 2009 5:25 AM