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Hotel Utah April 19, 2004 Review by Jake Thomas Britt Daniel playing a solo show at the ultra-tiny Hotel Utah? Man-oh-man, I was so there. The last time I was at this place was a number of years back, not long after I arrived on this side of the nation, to see Chris Mills perform for about 5 people and it was fantastic. I’d always meant to go back to the place, but rarely does it ever feature show I’m interested in; until recently anyways, since the Café du Nord crew has started handling the booking, things are looking up, way up. But on to Britt – it was just him and his guitar, electric, not acoustic, and a boom box with the microphone stuck to the speaker to provide the occasional beat. I was under the impression that the whole point of this solo mini-tour was so that he could try out some of his new songs on the road, but he only played a couple of unfamiliar tracks. For the most part it was a “Greatest Hits of Spoon” type of night, where the song selection pretty much mimicked nearly all of the songs I would include on a best of Spoon mix. I could prattle on and on about the different songs that he did, but all that really matters is that he played “Car Radio”, procuring a huge shit eating grin on my face. It was a great set; he came out and played a couple of final songs for the encore, one of which featured local it man and Rogue Waver Gram sauntering on stage to provide backing vocals to “Lines in the Suit”. The look of happiness on Gram’s face while he was up there pretty much summed up the experience for me as well – the whole show was just bliss. ©2004 playinginfog.com |