elf power & vic

Elf Power & Vic Chesnutt performed at the Hi-Dive last night. I was kind of on the fence about this show for a while, mainly because I wasn't quite sure how the line-up would go. But then I scored some free tix so Steph & I headed to the show. Elf Power opened the show with a solid set of their own material, took a break, and then were joined onstage by Vic and played a set of material from their new collaborative album, Dark Developments - essentially Vic singing and Elf Power playing all the instruments (save for some of Vic's occasional guitar accompaniment). The material sounded pretty good live and Vic knew how to work the crowd. We were really there for the Elf Power bits and Vic's cranky yowling can get to be a bit much so we split during his solo encore. On the way out I bumped into Laura Carter who was notably absent from their set at P-Fork over the summer. She explained that her and Andy had just been given a house for $1 and it required quite a bit of fixing up so she had been busy with that. Like a dumbass, I forgot to ask where their new house was, but I can only assume it's in Athens...

Set 1 (Elf Power):
Owl Cut (White Flowers in the Sky)
Spiral Stairs
Quiver and Quake
Dream in Sound
Hole in My Shoe
The Demon's Daughter
The New Mythology
Paralyzed
Fried Out > The Everlasting Scream
Back to the Web
An Old Familiar Scene

Set 2 (Vic Chesnutt & Elf Power):
Mystery
Little Fucker
And How
Teddy Bear
We Are Mean
Stop the Horse
Bilocating Dog
Phil the Fiddler
Old Hotel
Independence Day

Encore (Vic Solo):
See You Around
Sleeping Man

You can hop on a SBD/AUD matrix torrent of the show over at COTapers.