Setlist from last night (21 June)

A big tribute episode to Sir Ray Davies, for his 80th birthday.

"Do It Again" - The Kinks
"Dear Prudence" - Siouxsie & the Banshees (by request)
"Creepy Jackalope Eye" - The Supersuckers
"Pardon Me" - Incubus (for guitarist Mike Einziger's birthday)

"Inwards" - Big Country (for drummer Mark Brzezicki's birthday)
"Life and How to Live It" - R.E.M.
"Rats in the Cellar" - Aerosmith (for drummer Joey Kramer's birthday)

"Till the End of the Day" - Big Star
"Victoria" - The Kooks
"Tired of Waiting for You" - Green Day
"Fancy" - Redd Kross
"A Well Respected Man" [live] - Cheap Trick

"David Watts" - The Jam
"Big Sky" - The Blue Aeroplanes
"I'm Not Like Everybody Else" - The Chocolate Watchband
"Who'll Be the Next in Line" [live] - Gary Myrick & the Figures

"Where Have All the Good Times Gone?" - David Bowie
"World Keeps Going 'Round" - The Smithereens
"Days" - Elvis Costello
"Stop Your Sobbing" - The Pretenders

"This Strange Effect" - Steve Wynn
"Waterloo Sunset" - The Fastbacks
"The Hard Way" - The Knack
"Gotta Get the First Plane Home" - The Young Fresh Fellows
"Better Things" - Fountains of Wayne

"Losing Touch" - The Killers (for singer Brandon Flowers' birthday)
"Back It Up" - Nils Lofgren (for Nils' birthday)
"Don't You Evah" - Spoon (by request)
"Never Let Me Down" - The Auto-No

"I Want You Back" - Hoodoo Gurus (by request)
"Rock of All Ages" - Badfinger (for guitarist Joey Molland's birthday)
"Bone Machine" - Pixies (by request)
"All Day and All of the Night" [live] - The Kinks

Creepy Jackalope Eye reminds me of the excellent Cortex Records samplers you sometimes got when purchasing certain CDs. On both occasions this happened, I ended up listening to the sampler more.

I was today years old when I learned Elvis Costello also has a cover of "Days." (The Kirsty MacColl cover has always been my go-to.)

It's on the soundtrack to Until the End of the World, a desert island disc for me.

It also ended up on Costello's Kojak Variety covers album, which I have never bothered owning a copy of.

> Creepy Jackalope Eye reminds me of the excellent Cortex Records
> samplers you sometimes got when purchasing certain CDs.
> On both occasions this happened, I ended up listening to the
> sampler more.

I actually wrote to my state congressman, back in the Nineties, encouraging him to submit a bill to adopt "Creepy Jackalope Eye" as the official rock song of Colorado. (I really wanted him to submit a bill to replace "Rocky Mountain High" entirely, but I figured he might balk at that.)

Fuck John Denver, and anything having anything to do with him. What's more truly Coloradan than the jackalope?