Saturday saw the return of the Deal sisters and their band the Breeders, playing the San Fran Bath House like they did in early 2003. This time, they are here supporting their new album, Mountain Battles, and also seem to be the hottest ticket in town after their Auckland show had to be moved to a larger venue and the Welli gig selling out with about a week to go.
I arrived too late for the support act, not sure who they were so I'm not sure if I missed out on anything special.
Shortly after 10pm, The Breeders hit the stage to a fairly rapturous applause. For the slightly oldish (ie, those of us who were fans in the 90s), it was 1995 all over again. I was very happy when Huffer from their 2002 album Title TK got an airing 2 songs in. Divine Hammer was also delivered very early in the set. As well as plugging the new album, The Breeders played a large chunk of their first two albums Pod and Last Splash, tho not enough from Title TK for my liking (I only recognised one song, the previously mentioned Huffer, tho there may have been more). Apart from too few Title TK tunes, my only other complaint was that they didn't play German Studies or Istanbul from the new album. Mind you, that is only a minor quibble, as we got great versions of Walk It Off and Overglazed, which Kim pre-faced by telling us how when they opened their Cochella set with Overglazed, they fucked it up. They played it pretty damn good this time.
Biggest cheer of the night was received for Cannonball, no shock there really.
Then after what seem too soon, but in reality was about an hour and a half, The Breeders departed the stage for good. One of the best gigs of the year so far.
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