After having to reschedule twice due to Covid, indie rock greats Guided by Voices finally got to play NYC's Irving Plaza on Friday night, one of two rescheduled Northeast shows this past weekend. (They played Boston on Saturday night.) Having released seven albums since their last NYC show (Industry City in 2019) -- including the just-out Crystal Nuns Cathedral -- and with no opening band, Robert Pollard and crew made up for lost time by delivering a marathon three-hour, 55 song set full of new songs and tons of classics, including "A Game of Pricks," "Shocker in Gloomtown," "Teenage FBI," "Hot Freaks," "I Am a Scientist," "Glad Girls" and more. Lots more, obviously.
Check out pics from the show by Ellen Qbertplaya, including one of the setlist, and fan-shot video from the Irving Plaza show, below.
Boston's Royale got almost as long of a show on Saturday -- 50 songs -- and you can check out the setlist below for that, too.
GBV will be back on the road later this month, with dates around Boise's Treefort Music Festival. All dates are listed below.
SETLIST: Guided by Voices @ Irving Plaza 3/4/2022 Everybody Thinks I'm a Raincloud (When I'm Not Looking) Re-Develop Spanish Coin A Salty Salute Haircut Sphinx Man Called Blunder Excited Ones Cut-Out Witch Unfun Glitz Climbing A Ramp Dance of Gurus The Disconnected Citizen Crash at Lake Placebo King 007 Motor Away Moses on a Snail My (Limited) Engagement Never Mind the List Trust Them Now Volcano Jane of the Waking Universe Mr Child Tractor Rape Chain Amusement Park Is Over Eyes of Your Doctor The Batman Sees the Ball Stops To Keep an Area Never Abandon Ship The Very Second Yours to Keep Echos Myron Free Agents Rally Boys Mad River Man My Kind of Soldier The Best of Jill Hives People Need Holes Twilight Campfighter Crystal Nuns Cathedral Time Without Looking Your Name Is Wild Love Is Stronger Than Witchcraft I Am a Scientist Game of Pricks Non-Absorbing
Encore: Shocker in Gloomtown Smothered in Hugs Chasing Heather Crazy Closer You Are Hot Freaks Back to the Lake The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory Teenage FBI Glad Girls
SETLIST: Guided by Voices @ Royale 3/5/2022 (via) The Very Second Never Mind the List Everybody Thinks I'm a Raincloud (When I'm Not Looking) Re-Develop Haircut Sphinx Man Called Blunder Dance of Gurus The Disconnected Citizen Cut-Out Witch Excited Ones Spanish Coin A Salty Salute Unfun Glitz Climbing A Ramp Mr Child Mad River Man Motor Away Stops To Keep an Area Tractor Rape Chain Volcano Crash at Lake Placebo I Am a Tree Jane of the Waking Universe Trust Them Now Amusement Park Is Over Chasing Heather Crazy The Batman Sees the Ball Never Abandon Ship Moses on a Snail Rally Boys Shocker in Gloomtown Crystal Nuns Cathedral Twilight Campfighter Time Without Looking Back to the Lake Your Name Is Wild The Best of Jill Hives Love Is Stronger Than Witchcraft (Robert Pollard song) Smothered in Hugs I Am a Scientist Game of Pricks Non-Absorbing
Encore: My (Limited) Engagement My Kind of Soldier Yours to Keep Echos Myron The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory Teenage FBI Glad Girls
Guided by Voices - 2022 Tour Dates Fri 3/18 Majestic Theater Madison, WI Sat 3/19 Fine Line Music Cafe Minneapolis, MN Wed 3/23 Treefort Music Festival Boise, ID Thu 3/24 Treefort Music Festival Boise, ID Sat 3/26 Neumos Seattle, WA Sun 3/27 Revolution Hall Portland, OR Tue 3/29 Great American Music Hall San Francisco, CA Wed 3/30 The Catalyst Santa Cruz, CA Fri 4/1 Teragram Los Angeles, CA Sat 4/2 Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown, CA Fri 4/29 Cat’s Cradle Carrboro, NC Sat 4/30 Shaky Knees Festival Atlanta, GA Sat 5/14 Hi-Fi Annex Indianapolis, IN Fri 6/17 Ardmore Music Hall Philadelphia, PA Sat 6/18 9:30 Club Washington, DC Sat 7/9 Slowdown Omaha, NE