October 20 2008: Mirah, No Kids - Iron Horse, Northampton MA

I like it when musicians I used to see on a regular basis in Portland make it out to Northampton and I'm able to see them again. Mirah especially. Caitlin and I got some food first and made it to the Iron Horse just in time to get the last table upstairs. No Kids, who are from Vancouver BC, played first and sounded like they're from Vancouver.

And then Mirah came out by herself and opened with "We're Both So Sorry." Really nicely.

The bulk of her set was "C'mon Miracle" and "Advisory Committee" tunes. There were a couple that I didn't know, but I'm not sure if they're new tunes or tunes from that album about bugs she recently did. They certainly didn't sound like songs about bugs, but I guess they maybe could have been. I wouldn't know, cause I listened to that album once and then never bothered with it again. One of those new/maybe-not-new songs was the one that repeats "We'll Never Change" at the end that I think she's played the last three times I've seen her.

"Monument" and "Jeruselem" and "The Sun" and especially "Mt. St. Helens" were the highlights, along with "We're Both So Sorry." The encore was started out with "Cold Cold Water," which I really really tried to get into like I used to but I think I'm too used to it these days. It used to move the fuck out of me. Now it's just another comfortable song with some nice lines. Other song in the encore was "The Garden," which never does it for me live.

Always great to see Mirah though. Shame that Calvin Johnson can't be there singing along every time though.