The Feelies played two nights at Brooklyn Made (pics, setlist, video)

The Feelies play NYC and the Northeast pretty regularly -- once or twice a year -- but they don't really tour. With members spread out around the country, they'll reconvene to play a weekend's worth of shows, which are almost always on the East Coast. Their shows always get a lot of fans flying in from out of town, and bassist Brenda Sauter noted on Friday night, their first of two consecutive shows at Brooklyn Made, that people had come in from The Netherlands, Sweden and the UK for these dates. Their shows always feel like a special club and don't really attract casual fans. Everybody there is in it for the long haul.

Long haul is really appropriate terminology, as their shows are marathon length, with breaks between two main sets and then multiple, cover-filled encores. All in all, Friday's show was around three-and-a-half hours, and Saturday looked the same. The Feelies build steam through their two sets, saving the more manic songs and crazy rhythms (courtesy percussionist Dave Weckerman) for the second set, and frontman Glenn Mercer still jumps around like it's 1982 and rips ragged leads, like on "Away."