Titus Andronicus played a sweltering Shea Stadium in Brooklyn last night to celebrate, along with their "most elite fans," the kick-off of their new singles subscription service. Everyone at the show got a pair of 45's in a gatefold sleeve, featuring a re-mastered version of the band's original 2007 seven-inch along with a bonus disc containing material from the same 2005 sessions.
The early-ish set consisted of songs that the band have released as singles over the last seven years along with their backstories, some previews of what's to come with the new releases, and some covers ("Old Time Rock n Roll," "Brown Sugar," "Hot Pockets Theme"). It was a nice, relatively laid back evening for a Titus Andronicus show. The band members had friends and family in the audience. Even the moshers began to wilt in the heat after a while and took it pretty easy. I had on my Merge Records t-shirt; and, apparently, someone thought I was there on record company business instead of just covering the event for my worldwide media empire.
Wicked Kind -- the trio of Julian Varonesi (guitar / bass), Eric Harm (guitar / bass), and Davey Jones (drums) -- opened the evening. They'll have two songs on the next release in the singles series, a split seven-inch which is due on 8/25. Varonesi and Harm took their usual spots as the Titus Andronicus rhythm section for the main set, and Jones joined the band to play guitar on "Fatal Flaw" and drums on "The Dog."
Here are some highlights from Titus Andronicus's set. More at Flickr. Pics of Wicked Kind a little later.
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