-Last night marked CAROLINE BLUE’s first show in the Cortland, NY area at Malarkey’s Pub & Grub. Set to open for the band Knuckleburn, CB ended up being the headliner and gave a great show. LIVE PICS 2006-2010, as well as those on the FANS, FRIENDS & FREAKS page, are now up on the site. Check out WWJ’s show recap on the CAROLINE BLUE MY SPACE PAGE in the blog area under the show topic. Enjoy!
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WWJ Show Recap
CAROLINE BLUE Show-5/8/2009-Malarkey’s-Cortland, NY
Hiya!
-So here we are with our show recap at Malarkey’s in Cortland,NY. We’ve never really played in this area before (unless you count a Nikstock a few years ago, but that’s more south than here) and we were looking forward to breaking into a new area.
-After getting soaked by a sudden rainstorm right while getting out of work, I made my way to the show. While loading gear, I somehow injured my left hand while loading gear. It was aching on top of my hand near the middle/ring fingers and inside my forearm. I was concerned about it, but it didn’t really affect my playing this night-which was a relief.
-Malarkey’s is a smaller bar-nice place. Knuckle Burn was going on 1st and put on a good set. They’re heavier than we are-so it was a little surprising when they did “Rebel Yell” (Billy Idol), but they did a good job in covering it. They’re tight and we look forward to working w/ them in the future.
-After a change over, we hit the stage. Here’s the set list
-Nothing Will Satisfy You
Bad Girlfriend (Theory of a Deadman)
-Sober (Tool)
-Shout at the Devil (Motley Crue)
-Locked & Loaded (Halford)
-Living Dead Girl (Rob Zombie)
-Where the River Flows (Collective Soul)
-Pain
-For Whom The Bell Tolls (Metallica)
-Sex Type Thing (Stone Temple Pilots)
-Slave to the Hourglass
-Voodoo (Godsmack)
-Man in the Box (Alice in Chains)
-Welcome to the Fold (Filter)
-Out of My Life (I Want You)
-Paranoid (Black Sabbath)
-Wish (Nine Inch Nails)
-Mine,Mine,Mine
-You’ve Got Another Thing Comin (Judas Priest)
-Detroit Rock City (KISS)
-I’ve Seen The Light Tonight
-Seek & Destroy (Metallica)
-Dirty Deeds (AC/DC)
-Love Me or Leave Me
-Enter Sandman (Metallica)
-Ace of Spades (Motorhead)
-Overall, we did good. I think Joe didn’t have a monitor and me & Doc had to share one-course, it was on the side of my bad ear. Oh well. We also had a volume problem-but not that we were too loud. My guitar was too low-but part of that was cause I had to turn my cabinet towards Doc so the audience didn’t hear me as much. My amp was as high volume wise as it can go (at least till I get the cabinets that are made for the Fender Amphead I have). We had a few “hiccup” moments, but overall we did good. During “Voodoo” this old guy came up to me and started waving his hands like he was casting a spell on me 🙂 Too bad I didn’t have that necklace w/ the Wiccan symbol on this time. We made a bunch of new friends and even got a bonus w/ our pay! Signing body parts was a nice plus too 🙂
-Then we went to an after show part, which was fun. There was a photographer at the show named Chris Sanford who took some great shots of us performing. We’ll get those up as soon as I get all of them (I have some of them now) and I’m done re-sizing them. I have to admit, it felt a little strange to be at a party and hear CAROLINE BLUE music blasting in the background. One funny thing happened-the owner of the house has a little puppy. I was sitting on the couch and the puppy came up to me & started licking my hand (right where the injury was in fact)-for 15 minutes! I think I made a new friend 🙂 We were there late so we ended up staying overnight at Knuckle Burn’s drummer’s place-coincidentally, he & Joe look a lot alike when they’re playing. Joe managed to get a wine glass as a gift from the part. I think it was around 5 or 6 AM when all was said & done. We had a great time & look forward to playing in the Cortland area again in the future.
-Thanks to Leyda for setting this show up for us. Also thanks to both Malarkey’s & Knuckle Burn for letting us play there/with them. And thanks to all the people who were there and checked us out. We look forward to performing for you soon.