the last show of this mini "tour"...
Setlist:
Carousel (with Just A Friend intro)
Hands on Me
Tall Tales for Spring
House of Seven Swords
Take it Easy
Willows
White Houses
Get Good
Young Heart
Matter of Time
In Our Time
Unlock the Lock
I Don't Want to Be a Bride
Marching Line
A Thousand Miles
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Home
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I got the set list and it looks like she opted out of doing "Hear the Bells" as a 2nd encore song.
So this venue was really a good one, very nice inside (because it is still so new)
One of those sit down at tables and order food before the show shows where you pray that the annoying people who get there late and order food and eat WHILE MUSIC IS PLAYING don't annoy you too much,
but alas IDIOT waitresses had to come up and talk to the people sitting next to you during 2 songs.
I cannot understand why they think that is ok and why they couldn't wait. Anywho, a minor thing and probably my only complaint the whole night.
But the show was absolutely AMAZING!!
I'll go through it piece by piece as best as I can remember
Carousel (with Just A Friend intro) (On Grand Piano) -- my first time hearing this with this new intro, btw I was actually lucky enough to get there early enough to hear like half of the sound check, where I heard them practice this intro, Matter of Time, and uhhh... I don't remember, some other song that she did play tonight, no big deal... Anywho, it was a nice new intro, though I must say I think Learning to Fly fits better with the song, I'm sure Just A Friend works better lyrically for Vanessa and better fits into the theme of Carousel for her. This was a Vanessa-only, Piano-Vocal version, as she did in the last show I went to in Delaware. The claps were awkward as always as only a few people did them. but of course I did, and I'm sure she appreciated them, though I was unable to see her face from where I was sitting whenever she played on the grand piano. I was front row mind you, it was just a bad angle, I saw her feet clearly though.
Hands on Me (On Grand Piano) -- She introduced Skye, song was beautiful as always, she changed it up at the end and extended a "see" at the end of a "and all the constellations shine down for us to"
Tall Tales for Spring -- interesting story about how she was with her brother in Egypt with her cousins (who are Egyptians, them being there for a wedding) having an in-depth convo with them about life and the grand scheme of things and how the chaos of everything relates to their family which led her to read up about Stephen Hawking.
House of Seven Swords -- same intro about her brother going through a different part of his life what with graduating college, mentioning herself that she hasn't graduated college.
Take it Easy -- stage guy ran up to duct tape down her pedal that she mentioned she hoped didn't move while playing in her heels before the last song. Connected to a
billion stars, not a million. I remember this from the last show I was at, too. Awesome song
Skye was fantastic in this as well, loved it.
Willows -- did this REALLY cool extra long intro, where skye was like recording loops for his pedals for the rest of the song, but it sounded awesome as an intro. This song is awesome
White Houses -- same intro about male lacross teams knowing the song. Lovely as always.
Get Good -- Intro about her friend who was having relationship issues, who this time she named out as being "Kat". She forgot the first line, but remembered right away and played the rest of the song normally on the omnichord. Back-up vocals by Skye.
Young Heart -- With husband John, he mentioned how last time they played it, V told him he was playing it too fast, it was cute haha. But omg, this is becoming one of my favorite songs, it was performed perfectly, in which I said "Perfect!" after it was done, and I think she heard me, as she repeated "perfect" to John, also very cute haha. ughhh I love this song so much.
Matter of Time -- With John, she stood up to sing this song, it was cute. lovely song.
In Our Time -- With John, John introduced this song, talking about his parents and how he's surprised they're still together, mentioned a joke about "Our Time" being a christian dating website. Performed perfectly, of course. and During the last show I was at, it looked to me like john was missing a tooth, which I thought was how he could whistle so well, but after seeing pictures and looking closer, his tooth is still there, it's just all silver or something :-P not that it matters at all, just something I thought I would mention.
Unlock the Lock -- explained about how this song was written about a year after rabbits on the run while she was on a vacation with her family to Arizona at the dude ranch. The ranch didn't have TV, but had satellite radio and she listening to it and it was like bob dylan radio show and this one show had a theme of "locks and keys" and all the songs played had to do with it, and it inspired her to write this song. She kinda forgot the intro piano but quickly remembered and played this song perfectly, very lovely. Skye was awesome in this song as well!
I Don't Want to Be a Bride -- beautiful as always with the same intro about how she actually went against this and got married and wore white, making a joke about how it's ok if you find the right kind of dress lol. then went on a tangent about how she'll sign stuff afterwards and the dog/horse shirt. Skye added backup vocals, as usual.
The Marching Line -- very lovely, glad she played it
A Thousand Miles -- a nice performance as always
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Home (On Grand Piano) -- Vanessa played this BARE FOOT, LOL! She also forgot the words after "Some people live in a house on a hill", but the audience reminded her and she went on to play it fantastically and flawlessly including the extended outro, which was beautiful! (though she did out-out of another line right before "they search for the color you can never quite see" due to probably forgetting it, no big deal though)
Vanessa came out at the merch table after the show and did signings. she signed my setlist (which Phil got for me btw, Thank you again!!) Me & Nicole assured her that we really didn't care about the length of the Delaware show and I expressly thanked her for that 3-song ep and complimented her on such a well done performance tonight.
She seemed happy tonight, it was a very good show. She didn't do pictures with anyone as far as I noticed, the staff told us all in line that she was only doing signings and no pictures.
Skye and John weren't at the merch counter unfortunately.
overall it was a pleasant show, I was very happy with it
and it was nice meeting another nessaholic for the first time, oddly enough I sat next to Phil (pswik91).
