*** EV Tour - New York 2 Fanviews Here 06/22/11 ***

SVRDhand13

EEEDEC04 wrote:

How sweet was/is Immortality by EV solo? Jesus.

Band version is better, but solo is very good too.

DarthSpacegrass

Songs 19-24 = insane

Thank you Ed Norton for learning to play Guaranteed.

Single Ticketmaster seat center right side aisle - 2nd row from rail, lower balcony.

I can't wait for Philly.

Also, nice little talk about how it just isn't cool to shout things at the stage.

AK182319

My 90th show overall, 12th solo Ed show and was there last night so have some perspective when i say the show was INCREDIBLE. Ed was very chatty. told story behind how he wrote Unthought Known. Immortality sounded incredible, Ed Norton did not. Though was very cool to see him on stage. One of the Olsen girls was there both nights. Seen her at a few NYC PJ shows over the years. Respek. Clearly bothered by Clarence's passing as he's mentioned at both shows and in Hartford when the Big Man passed. I'm from Freehold, so I'm in grief like Ed, but the music coming from it and the story about Bruce reacting to Ed making a Ukelele album saying, "it takes balls" was hillarious. his story last night about Clarence's White Suit glowing and then long road was powerful. Ed slowed down Lukin. Heard it like that twice before. Really gorgeous when slow. Porch was great tonigth, but insane last night. after having heard some of the new songs 3x live they are really starting to click for me and the fans and they really are beautiful songs. While into the wild featured a ukele as well, those songs are so dark compared to these which are all about love happiness. nice contrast.

Also nice to see is Ed's guitar skills. they have gotten so much better over the past 20 years. he had true mastery of it tonight in all forms. McCready would be proud.

Last nigth the crowd stood for 2-3 songs total. tonight the crowd was on their feet 3/4 of the show. much more energy in the bldg. ed was feeling it and was apparently pretty banged up but he truly sounded great.

Overall and awesome show. Looking forward to Benaroya and PJ20.

KathyDTFT

Argh I would have given anything to see Ed/Glen on this amazing song! Falling Slowly is lovely, and Glen Hansard is a genius, as is Ed for having him...if you want to know more about Glen, I've posted a wee bit intro to him on Two Feet Thick. Can't wait to see these phenomenal men for myself soon...hitting all the Cali shows.

http://www.twofeetthick.com/2011/06/get ... ick-intro/

Thanks!
Kathy D
TwoFeetThick.com

Suziemay

F**king mindblowing. So many highlights! Ed was definitely telling more stories, he kept having to "digress" and I was like, please don't!!

"Uke's got balls!" was so cute! My memory is going to fail me, but I believe he had started talking about Springsteen hearing about Ed's uke album and then he thanks the crowd for our support for the album, mentioning that it got to #4 on the Billboard charts and the only reason that pleases him is it shows that the uke's got balls! And then he kinda makes the uke dance around on his lap, like the uke was thanking us.

Then the part about having bad hearing and how he doesn't hear anything the crowd yells and segways into thanking the crowd for being "good" which to me implies that yesterday's crowd was really as noisy as I thought it was!! He said it's one thing to pay a bunch of money to come yell at a stranger, it's an entirely different thing for the neighbour who doesn't have any say in this said noisy person yelling.

Oh, so last night he said he would have "climbed the fuck" out of the Beacon. Well, tonight he described in gory detail how he would have actually executed on this.

There were a few more stories that I'm not going to be able to describe in detail (writing Unthought Known in NYC after the 2nd United Palace show in his hotel room, Mike McCready wearing ear plugs because he plays the guitar so loud - I think that was part of the hard of hearing story...)

And then there were the songs! Highlights for me were Off He Goes, Longing to Belong (FINALLY!), Immortality, Guaranteed with Ed Norton (hey, Ed and Ed! I just got that ), backing Glen Hansard on Falling Slowly (this was pretty spectacular - I would give my first born and throw in some diapers for a recording of this!!) and Open All Night with Danny Clinch. Ed Norton was so cute, he seemed a little nervous or unsure about his abilities and the crowd cheered him on.

Glen's set was pretty amazing too, and he got into some story-telling of his own (about getting phone calls from Ed)

It's going to take awhile to wipe this smile off my face!

RYEzupSF

metsfan wrote:

son of a bitch



next time i won't miss an ed nyc show. this almost makes me wanna see him this tour somehow.

Come to Oakland.

This show blows my mind.

oceans18

DarthSpacegrass wrote:

Songs 19-24 = insane

You mean 7-24!? (even 1-26) This seemed great, they all do, can't wait for my trip to Chicago.

chimpat

I sat at home last night so bummed I was missing the show....

.... tonight made up for everything. "Off He Goes", top 3 PJ songs in my book, has Eddie ever sung it solo? Show was amazing, "Falling Slowly" w.Glen, so awesome.

Just a top notch show, crowd was great, had a blast.

Dillsnufus

this was my only ed solo show this time around and 10c gave me great seats. row H ORCH . thank you 10c. the crows was eh. some real douches at these shows. including two people taking a handicapped spot. the person left for a couple min and they swarmed in.

EdsonNascimento

Wow

dimitrispearljam

wow!!!what a setlist!!!!!!!Satellite!!!!!!whooohoo!!!!how was it guys??????
Adam,Cole must be so happy!!!!!

and thanks for all

melbourneflower

KathyDTFT wrote:

Argh I would have given anything to see Ed/Glen on this amazing song! Falling Slowly is lovely, and Glen Hansard is a genius, as is Ed for having him...if you want to know more about Glen, I've posted a wee bit intro to him on Two Feet Thick. Can't wait to see these phenomenal men for myself soon...hitting all the Cali shows.

http://www.twofeetthick.com/2011/06/get ... ick-intro/

Thanks!
Kathy D
TwoFeetThick.com

Kathy - it was AMAZING - two of my all time favourite performers dishing out something really special.

My trip from London was worth it just to hear this song.

Fantastic crowd tonight at the Beacon - Ed was in great voice and gave us a night to remember forever.

Ed was also in true rambler form tonight - one of my favourite musings was Ed giving out statistics about college athletes testing positive for cannabis three times more than previously - he said he might now watch college sport

Thank you to both Ed and Glen for a truly magical night of music in the Big Apple.

Katyz

Another brilliant night!!! (The other one for me was Hartford) It was great for many reasons....the story telling, the amazing setlist, the voice (how I love that voice), the guests, etc. I was in the orch....row P but there was a LOT of movement back there and it was annoying. However, I was very glad to hear Long Nights again, and the story about how Ed wrote Unthought Known was wonderful.

BUT the best for me was I grew balls...just like the uke, and decided to head off into the VIP party after the show. I have no idea what possessed me, but I was on my own and saw where the VIP guests were going. A great guy nearby told be to just do it...he had to give me several more words of encouragement, then he took my playbill so I wouldn't look like a tourist and off I went, with a small group!!!!!

So my night ended backstage...meeting a variety of people, Glen hung out there too and we talked for a bit. Ed did not appear at the party but I think I was the last guest to leave...having chatted with some of Ed's crew. Then Ed came out and greeted people so I got to see him before leaving...I didn't want to miss the train and have to camp out in Grand Central!!! He had definitely been partying and was friendly. He thanked the crowd for their support with a little speech and shook a few hands....not mine as I couldn't get right to the front having been backstage all that time and others had camped out since the show ended. Got to say hello and thank him though Now I'm staying up as I have to get up for work in an hour and a half anyway...so worth it

rafie

That is an AMAZING set list!!!!!! I can't wait until the bootlegs start showing up...

allstar340

I'll start off by saying that the crowd tonight was a million times better than the first night, although there were still the occasional 'thieves of silence'. Glen started the show off right with a similar set to what he's done, but seeing him play Say It To Me Now was really cool since it's one of my favorites by him. The fact that he unplugged himself and sang it without amplification just proves how great of a musician he is.

I think tonight's setlist while a little short was definitely the best of the tour so far. He started off strong with Can't Keep and it was really awesome to not only get to see the debut of Longing to Belong (which sounded great) but the debut of Satellite for this tour as well. I was shocked that he played Off He Goes as it's one of my favorites and it went over really well with the crowd. Having seen Lukin II at MSG II last year, it was cool to hear what me and my friends are calling Lukin III because the lyrics were severely altered (everything but the chorus was changed). Immortality was also a nice surprise to see, and being a big Hansard fan I really loved Falling Slowly. It's gonna be hard to top this setlist in my opinion.

The stories he told tonight were time consuming but excellent and they really made the show better and captivated everyone. The story he told of Bruce saying that he had "a lot of balls" for releasing an all ukulele song album was hilarious.

Me and my friends waited outside again tonight and it was a really awesome experience. Glen came out and was really nice and polite and stayed around for a while chatting, signing and taking pictures. He's really a great guy, and everyone should definitely get there early to see him. Eddie came out and saw me and my friends and so "Oh what a crew" and shook our hands and talked to us for a bit, which completely made my night. My friend asked him about the new alternate lyrics to Lukin and Eddie said "I don't even know" which is pretty funny. He really made sure tonight to make sure everyone was able to talk to him and shake hands. I still can't believe I met him, it was really a surreal experience.

Altogether the best night of my life so far easily.

Brain of W.M.A

The best night of my life. Glen Hansard was a FANTASTIC opening act. Played really well and even had the balls to unplug and play in front of a crowd that was rowdy last night. Thankfully everyone was respectful and let him play.
Eddie was fantastic obviously. Longing to belong and satellite first time on tour. Off he goes was really well and the crowd was signing along. He decided to throw together some new lyrics for lukin which was great (Asked him about it after the show and his response to the lyrics were "Yea i didnt even know what that was about" and laughed, classic e.V) threw a curve ball with bringing ed norton to play guaranteed, while ed wasn't as musically talented as eddie it was different and still very good. Hard sun was unbelievably electric, the whole beacon was on their feet singing along, and me, allstar340, The_Giant_Midget, and another friend had a great bonding moment during hard sun.
Afterwords the same group dashed out to get a good spot to meet the legend himself. After standing near a really weird guy that was there since 6 pm to meet Glen Hansard and was trying to get us to sing along to hard sun, Glen finally came out and shook our hands and was overall a really nice guy. Then after an hour or so eddie came out and immediately came up to me and the group and said "wow what a crew", we thanked him and i asked him about the lukin lyrics. I'm still in shock of meeting him. greatest night of my life

Brain of W.M.A

Also the guy asking about bootlegs was really annoying

booksandjealousy

"the uke's got balls."

okay, who's making the t-shirts?

camaros

it was nice....

VinylGirl

Thanks to S0nic reducer for the ticket!!

Great show!! The setlist was great, but I would say that about any songs he chose to play .
Although a few songs shorter than Hartford, I enjoyed his stories more tonight, especially
the one about the origin of "Unthought". I love that shit!
When Ed announces a special guest and he's playing NYC, I'm thinking, anyone can walk out on stage.
But ED NORTON?! Whoa?! He did great, held his own, and like someone already said, looked so cute up there.
Crowd was very respectful, couple of shouters, but hey, nothing like Hartford.

Great, Great Night! Wish there were more, gotta wait until Labor Day....but that will be worth it!

Thank again for the ticket John, it was nice meeting you.