From The Jam, Blender Theater, Saturday, Feb 9
"The weak get crushed as the strong grow stronger...."
Anyone who's been reading my blog all week knows you ain't getting a critical review of last night's show by From the Jam. These guys brought home the goods Saturday night to a >>>thiscloseto<<< sold out show at NYC"s Blender Theater. The crowd, overwhelmingly male and over 30 (35? 40? 45?), brought their cheering voices for great songs from The Jam. Me? I sang along to every song. Twenty-five years after their last US tour, the band looked like they were having the night of their lives.
For some reason, I had a real bitch of a time with pictures tonight. I had great position up front, but the Blender Theater light show was in my lens all night long, throwing a hazy gauze over a lot of the shots. I kept fussing with different settings and more, hence the different looks. By Monday, there will be loads more better pictures than these up on the Interwebs.
The band was great, Foxton doing scissor kicks, Hastings slashing away at the chords, Buckler banging the beat and David Moore with lead guitar and organ flourishes. They played a brilliant setlist, loads of terrific songs from The Jam's back catalog, all done up with bagfuls of energy and punk rock gutfeel, including "Strangetown", "In the Crowd", "To Be Someone", "David Watts", The Who's "So Sad About Us", "Going Underground", "Ghosts" "Little Boy Soldiers" "When You're Young" "News of the World" (see the video below) and many more more...I'm sure someone will post a pic of the setlist soon enough.
All photos by Dfactor
Watch a video of "News of the World" (a little heavy on the bass):
Mo better pictures right here from EPS_Twain. I'm sure there will be hundreds more other pics by Monday.
1 comments:
Just googled "from the jam" to see who'd blogged this. I was there - just turned 40, if you must know - and I thought they were smashing. Hastings really is a great front-man. The energy was almost tangible. It was worth it alone just to hear them do "A Bomb in Wardour Street" with that vicious, strutting bassline. But "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight"was the clincher.
One can only assume they will come back to NYC, if only to entertain us expat Brits. With the response they got last night, they'd have to be insane not to.
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