Tom Tom Club finished a tour @ Brooklyn Bowl (pics & setlist)

October 18, 2010

Tom Tom Club is forever fresh.

They’ve been playing for 30 years, but the husband-and-wife team of Weymouth and Frantz have barely aged at all. If anything, their nimble fingers and legs put all of the younger musicians that I’ve seen lately to shame. This incarnation of the Tom Tom Club is made further complete with old friends, like Victoria Clamp, who added a lovely extra layer of vocals, and Bruce Martin, who juggled keyboard lines and tropical percussion with ease.

Here, everything shines with the passage of time. Their older songs, like “The Man With the Four-Way Hips,” sound like gritty photographs re-touched with the power of funk, while their newer songs, like “Punk Lolita,” have nostalgia written right into them (“this is about going to CBGB’s and seeing all the cute girls who would do anything for their guys”). -[The OC Weekly]

That’s a review from Tom Tom Club‘s appearance at The Echoplex on 10/10, which was six days before they ended their tour at Brooklyn Bowl. Pictures from the Brooklyn Bowl show, which was two days after a show at Santos Party House, are in this post. Ryan said the band helped him get excited about live music again, just in time for CMJ. Actually he couldn’t stop raving about the show that included some Talking Heads songs in the setlist.

Tom Tom Club were touring in support of a new double-disc live album Genius of Live, out now. The Brooklyn Bowl show was with opener Command V. More pictures from that show, with both setlists and some video, below…