Iggy Pop & the Stooges played Music Hall of Williamsburg

“I am not exaggerating when I say that Iggy Pop’s udder was 6 inches from my mouth tonight. Thank god for corporate VIP shows that let me in.” –Klaus Kinski

“thank you upscale corporate New York assholes” –Iggy

The Stooges @ MHOW in Brooklyn – May 12, 2010 (iPhone pic by Ryan Muir)

Iggy Pop and the Stooges have public shows coming up that include NXNE in Toronto in June and ATP NY in the fall. Last night (5/12) they played a free, but invite-only show at Music Hall of Williamsburg (capacity around 600 lucky people) with the Virgins (who joined the Stooges on stage) and Free Energy.

Despite rumors that he was retiring, Iggy did stage dive. As you can tell from the above picture, Iggy also invited the crowd on the stage as usual, but during “Shake Appeal”. The band consisted of Mike Watt, Scott “Rock Action” Asheton, Steve McKay on sax, and guitarist James Williamson who took over for the deceased Ron Asheton. The crowd was not actually as upscale corporate as Iggy pointed out – there was a mix of everyone including old punks and models. Some young punk rockers spotted in the audience included Ed Droste from Grizzly Bear and members of Dirty Projectors. The venue was decked out with old rock n roll photos. There was a VIP area upstairs and open bar and food. Before the encore, Iggy made mention of the fact that it was cool that nobody had to pay to get in. Thanks PP for the report. The setlist and more below…

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SETLIST (via Klaus Kinski)

SET TIMES (via Klaus Kinski)

Stooges tour dates via Mike Watt

ig, scott asheton, steve mackay and james williamson
w/me trying my hardest on bass for them

friday, july 2
at the festival beauregard
herouville saint-clair, france

wednesday, july 7
at l’olympia
paris, france

friday, july 9
at the rock zottegem festival
zottegem, belgium

saturday, july 10
at the les deferlantes festival
argeles sur mer, france

monday, july 12
at the les nuits d’istres festival
istres, france

wednesday, july 14
at the les nuits de fourviere festival
lyon, france

friday, july 16
at the fiera della musica festival
azzano decimo, italy

sunday, july 18
at the colours of ostrava festival
ostrava, czech republic

tuesday, july 20
at the paleo festival
nyon, switzerland

sunday, august 1
at the sonisphere festival
knebworth, england

tuesday, august 3
at the glavclub
saint petersburg, russia

thursday, august 5
at the milk club
moscow, russia

saturday, august 7
at the sonisphere festival
stora skuggan, sweden

sunday, august 8
at the sonisphere festival
kirjurinluoto, finland

wednesday, august 11
at the oya festival
oslo, norway

saturday, august 14
at the pinkpop classic
megaland, netherlands

friday, september 3
at atp new york 2010
monticello, ny