THE LAMBCHOP SHOWS ARCHIVE

This page will become the repository for show reviews, set lists, and a general history of the band.

As with much of this site, it is a work in progress and if there are any shows you know of that are missing, or if you have set lists or paraphenalia related to the shows, please email me and let me know. Thanks.

2002

THE KURT WAGNER TRIO:

The trio includes Tony Crow, Marky Nevers, and Kurt Wagner.

January 25 2002 Berlin / BKA Zelt im Foyer
February 02 2002 Stockholm / Södrateatern Cafe
February 06 2002 Vienna / B72
February 08 2002 Rome / Big Mama

February 22 2002
Giant Sand and Friends featuring Kurt Wagner, Vic Chesnutt, and Evan Dando
7 and 9:30 at Joe's Pub NYC

LAMBCHOP IN THE US 2002:

A total of about 8 players will tour the US, including Kurt Wagner, Tony Crow, Mark Nevers, William Tyler, Matt Swanson, and others.
David Kilgour opened on all dates except March 22.

Feb 28 2002 Atlanta Echo Lounge POSTER
March 1 2002 Carrboro, NC Cat's Cradle (also with Portastatic)
March 2 2002 Washington, DC Black Cat (also with Portastatic)
March 4 2002 Philadelphia, PA North Star Bar
March 5 2002 New York, NY Knitting Factory
March 6 2002 Somerville, MA 608
March 7 2002 Toronto, ONT Lee's Palace
March 8 2002 Detroit, MI Detroit Contemporary Art Institute
March 9 2002 Chicago, IL the Abbey
March 10 2002 Minneapolis, MN 400 Bar
March 13 2002 Seattle, WA Crocodile Cafe SHOW REVIEW
March 14 2002 Portland, OR Dome at St. John's
March 16 2002 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
March 17 2002 Los Angeles, CA Knitting Factory SHOW REVIEW
set list: the daily growl/the new cobweb summer//my blue wave/i can hardly spell my name/flick//the old matchbook trick/you masculine you/caterpillar/???/nashville parent/d. scott parsley/bugs/is a woman/the puppy and the leaf/tallyho (with david kilgour)
March 18 2002 Los Angeles, CA KCRW
March 22 2002 Nashville, TN Belcourt Theatre (likely full Lambchop ensemble present)

LAMBCHOP IN EUROPE 2002:

European dates will consist of about 10 players including the ones listed on above US dates.
April 04 2002 Lisbon, Portugal The Garage
April 05 2002 San Sebastian,Spain Teatro Principal
April 06 2002 E-Barcelona, Casino de L'Allianca
April 07 2002 Bordeaux, France Theatre Barbey
April 08 2002 Milan Teatro Ciack
April 09 2002 Bologna, Italy Estragon
April 11 2002 Fribourg, Switzerland FRI-SON
April 12 2002 Paris, France Le Cabaret Sauvages SHOW REVIEW
April 13 2002 F-Bourges, Palais d'Auron, Printemps de Bourges
April 14 2002 B-Brussels, Ancienne Belgique, " Domino " festival
April 15 2002 Duisberg, Germany Hundertmeister
April 16 2002 D-Mainz, Frankfurter Hof
set list:The Daily Growl /The New Cobweb Summer /My Blue Wave /I Can Hardly Spell My Name /The Old Gold Shoe /Flick /The Old Matchbook Trick /You Masculine You /(Tony Crow Joke) /The Gusher /(?)/ Caterpillar/ Poor Bastard /D.Scott Parsley /Bugs /Is A Woman/ Encore: Theone /(Tony Crow Joke) /Betweemus /The Puppy & The Leaf
April 17 2002 Heidelberg, Germany Karlstorbahnhof
April 18 2002 Munchen, Germany Amerika-Haus
April 19 2002 A-Wien, Szene note: recorded in its entirety for local station FM4.
set list: The Daily Growl/The New Cobweb Summer/My blue wave/I can hardly spell my name/Flick/The old matchbook trick/The Distance from Her to There/You Masculine You/Caterpillar/The Gusher/The Book I Haven't Read (Fearless)/Betweemus/D Scott Parsley/Bugs/Is it a woman/The Puppy and the Leaf/This Corrossion
April 20 2002 D-Schorndorf, Manufaktur
April 21 2002 D-Dresden, Parkhotel Weisser Hirsch
April 23 2002 Berlin, Germany Passionskirche
April 24 2002 Arhus, Denmark Vox Hall
April 25 2002 Oslo, Norway Rockefeller
set list: The Daily Growl/The New Cobweb Summer/My Blue Wave/The Saturday Option/Flick/The Old Matchbox Trick/You Masculine You/The Gusher/The Butcher Boy/The Old Gold Shoe/Betweemus/D. Scott Parsley/Bugs/Is A Woman/The Puppy And the Leaf/This Corrosion
April 26 2002 Bergen, Norway Logen
April 28 2002 Stockholm, Sweden Sšdrateatern
April 29 2002 Hamburg, Germany Fabrik
April 30 2002 Amersterdam, NL Paradiso
May 01 2002 Portsmouth, UK Wedgwood Halls
May 02 2002 Gloucester, UK Guildhall
set list:The Daily Growl/The New CobwebSummer/My Blue Wave/The Old Gold Shoe/Flick/The Old Matchbook Trick/You Masculine You/Caterpillar/The Distance From Her To There/The Butcher Boy/UTI/Betweemus/Bugs/Is A Woman/The Man Who Loved Beer/We Shall Not Be Overwhelmed/The Puppy And The Leaf
May 03 2002 Coventry, UK Warwick Arts 7:30 (02476 524 524) £15
May 04 2002 Manchester, UK Bridgewater Hall 7:30 (0161 907 9000 / 0845 345 0009) £15
May 06 2002 Milton Keynes, UK Stables Theatre (01908 280800) £17.50
May 07 2002 London, UK Royal Albert Hall (020 7580 8212) £15-20
May 08 2002 Brighton, UK Theatre Royal (01273 709 709) £15
May 09 2002 Cambridge, UK Corn Exchange 7:30 (01223 357 851) £15
May 10 2002 York, UK Opera House 7:30 (01904 671818 / 01159 129000) £15
May 11 2002 Glasgow, UK Old Fruitmarket (0141 287 5511) £15
May 12 2002 Leicester, UK De Montfort Hall (0116 233 3111) £15
May 14 2002 Newcastle, UK Opera House 7:30 (0191 232 0899) £15
May 15 2002 Belfast, IRL Empire Music Hall (04890 249276) £14.50
May 16 2002 Dublin, IRL Olympia Theatre (+353 1 ) 677 1020 £32E / £30E / £28E
May 18 2002 Athens, Greece Gagarin 205

LAMBCHOP RETURNS TO EUROPE 2002:
June 27 2002 CH-Zürich, Rote Fabrik open air am See
June 28 2002 Ulm, Ulmer Zelt-Festival
June 29 2002 B-Rock Werchter, Festival
June 30 2002 Oldenburg, Kultursommer
July 02 2002 Köln, Kantine
July 03 2002 Würselen/Aachen, Burg Wilhelmstein open air
July 04 2002 NL-Groningen, Swinging Groningen (Festival)
July 05 2002 UK-Bristol, Colston Hall
July 06 2002 UK-Southampton, The Big Chill (Festival)
July 07 2002 UK-Leeds, Variete
July 09 2002 Freiburg, Internationales Zelt-Musik-Festival
July 10 2002 CH-Montreux, Jazz-Festival Miles Davis Hall
July 11 2002 Nürnberg, K4
July 12 2002 Karlsruhe, Zeltival (Tollhaus)
July 13 2002 Kassel, documenta-Zelt-Festival
July 14 2002 Bielefeld, PC69
July 16 2002 IRL-Galway, Arts Festival
July 17 2002 IRL-Donegal, Earagail Arts Festival
July 18 2002 IRL-Cork, Opera House Nürnberg, K4
July 12 2002 Karlsruhe, Zeltival (Tollhaus)
July 13 2002 Kassel, documenta-Zelt-Festival
July 14 2002 Bielefeld, PC69
July 16 2002 IRL-Galway, Arts Festival
July 17 2002 IRL-Donegal, Earagail Arts Festival
July 18 2002 IRL-Cork, Opera House

July 20 2002 Brooklyn NY Prospect Park

LAMBCHOP 2002 EUROPEAN TOUR #3:

September 16 2002 Frankfurt »Künstlerhaus Mousonturm« / D
September 17 2002 Berlin »Schiller Theater« / D
September 18 2002 Düsseldorf »Zakk« / D
September 19 2002 Utrecht »Tivoli« / NL
September 20 2002 Brussels »Cirque Royal (with Lee Hazlewood)« / B
September 21 2002 Rennes »Air Libre« / F
September 22 2002 Tourcoing »Le Grand Mix« / F
September 23 2002 Paris »La Cigale« / F
September 24 2002 Copenhagen »Pumpehuset« / DK
September 25 2002 Malmö »KB« / S
September 26 2002 Oslo »Rockefeller« / N
September 27 2002 Trondheim »Studentersamfundet« / N

2001

December 10 2001 Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ
Hanakuhpalooza festival opening for Yo La Tengo

Kurt Wagner Trio in Norway (with Marky Nevers and Tony Crow)

December 3 2001 So What!, Oslo, Norway
set list: the daily growl/the new cobweb summer/you masculine you/my blue wave/nashville parent/flick/caterpillar/autumn's vicar/gloria leonard/the old match book trick/greyline in heaven/is a woman/the man who loved beer/up with people
December 4 2001 So What!, Oslo, Norway
set list: i'm a stranger here/d. scott parsley/bugs/??/the distance from her to there/??/??/i can hardly spell my name/soaky in the pooper/hey, where's your girl/??/bon soir, bon soir/flub/is a woman/backstreet girl/theone/up with people

November 2001
Slow Bar, Nashville TN
Available in RealAudio at link above.

July 5 2001 Colston Hall, Bristol, UK
July 6 2001 Apollo, Manchester, UK
July 7 2001 T In The Park (Festival), Scotland, UK
July 8 2001 Midsummer Sundae (Festival), De Montfort Hall, Leicester, UK
July 9 2001 Somerset House, London, UK

2000

Kurt Wagner solo:
December 3 2000 Birmingham, Ronnie Scotts
December 4 2000 Bristol, Fiddlers
December 5 2000 Manchester, University
December 7 2000 Glasgow, the Arches
December 8 2000 Liverpool, Masque Theatre
December 9 2000 Sheffield, Silverdale School
December 10 2000 London, Bloomsbury
December 11 2000 Brighton, Duke Of York
December 12 2000 Dublin, Vicar Street

November 30 2000
BBC RADIO 1 broadcasts CITY SLANG with Lambchop, Howe Gelb, and Calexico

November 11 2000
Kurt Wagner, Paul Burch, and Tom House are featured on Songwriter Sessions on Nashville's WPLN, 90.3FM. It's an hour long program featuring their performances and work.

October 21 2000
CMJ Festival Merge Showcase
with Paul Burch, Sharkquest, Portastatic, Matt Suggs, and Lambchop
SHOW REVIEW

September 23 2000 Royal Festival Hall, London, England
September 24 2000 Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Ireland

September 9 2000
To help Kim Webber
Sebastian's, Murfreesboro, TN

August 5 2000
Benicassim Festival, Spain

July 8 2000
Quart Festival, Kristians, Norway

May 11 2000 Paris: La Boule Noire
May 13 2000 London: City Slang Festival, Queen Elizabeth Hall
May 14 2000 Berlin: Grand Slang!, Dresdner Bahnhof
May 15 2000 Kopenhagen: Lille Vega
May 16 2000 Brussels: Botanique
May 17 2000 Amsterdam: Paradiso
May 18 2000 Hamburg: Fabrik
May 19 2000 Frankfurt: Festsaal Universität
May 20 2000 Wien: Szene

February 24 2000 Chapel Hill/Carrboro, NC, Cat's Cradle
February 25 2000 Washington, D.C., 9:30 Club
February 26 2000 Philadelphia, TLA
February 27 2000 NYC, Maxwell's
February 28 2000 Cambridge, MA, Somerville Theatre
February 29 2000 NYC, Town Hall
March 2 2000 Toronto, Phoenix Concert Theatre
March 3 2000 Detroit, Majestic Theatre
March 4 2000 Chicago, Metro
March 7 2000 Seattle, King Cat Theatre
March 8 2000 Portland, Alladin Theatre
March 10 2000 San Francisco, Great American Music Hall
March 11 2000 San Francisco (2 Shows), Great American Music Hall
March 12 2000 San Francisco, Great American Music Hall
March 13 2000 L.A., El Rey Theatre
March 27 2000 Nashville, Belcourt Theater
set list: if I could touch the hem of his garment (paul niehaus solo)/the butcher boy/the old gold shoe/gimme little sign/nashville parent/grumpus/up with people/love TKO/(encore)Theone

1999

August 29 1999
NPR's "Anthem" - (Broadcast on Sept. 18th, 19th)

July 24 1999
Cat's Cradle, Chapel Hill, NC
for part of the Merge Records 10th Anniversary Celebration "M10K" July 22 - 24

July 15 1999
The Sutler, Nashville, TN
With our labelmates Shark Quest.

May 21 1999
Cheekwood, Nashville, TN
For the opening of Concept Metro: Installations by Nashville's Artists

May 1 1999
Nashville River Stages, Nashville, TN

April 24 1999
Sewanee University of the South, Sewanee, TN

February 26 1999
The Exit-In in Nashville.
Josh Rouse/Lambchop/Vic Chesnutt with Lambchop

January 16 1999
The Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, CA.
Calexico/Lambchop

January 15 1999
The Troubadour in Los Angeles, CA
Calexico/Lambchop

January 9 1999
The Bowery Ballroom in New York, NY
Lambchop/Vic Chesnutt with Lambchop
SHOW REVIEWS: ONE TWO

January 8 1999
Late Night with CONAN O'BRIEN in NYC
Vic Chesnutt with Lambchop backing.

1998

December 18 1998
The Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, GA
Lambchop/Vic Chesnutt with Lambchop
FLYER
SHOW REVIEW
set list: a reading of James Agee, the Petrified Florist, Been Lonely for so long, What Else Could it Be, Up With People, Miss Prissy, Your Fucking Sunny Day, The Book I Haven't Read, The Saturday Option, Christmastime Is Here, and Gimme Your Love (love song).

December 5 1998
Tower Records in Nashville, TN

November 15 1998
Lambchop as Vic Chesnutt's backup band on PBS' Sessions at West 54th (initial broadcast ).
SHOW REVIEW

November 6 1998
Thread Waxing Space NYC
on Merge Night for the CMJ MusicFest with Shark Quest, The Ladybug Transistor, the Magnetic Fields, and Versus.
SHOW REVIEW

Europe Tour October 1998
(with Vic Chesnutt and Calexico)

October 1 1998-- Garage; Bergen, Norway
October 2 1998-- Gamla; Oslo, Norway
October 3 1998-- Nova; Stockholm, Sweden
October 4 1998-- Lille Vega; Copenhagen, Denmark
October 5 1998-- Fabrik; Hamburg, Germany
October 6 1998-- Passionskirche; Berlin, Germany
October 7 1998-- Frankfurter Hof; Mainz, Germany
October 8 1998-- Muffathalle; Munich, Germany
October 9 1998-- Szene Wien; Vienna, Austria
October 10 1998-- FRI-SON; Fribourg, Switzerland FLYER
October 11 1998-- Rote Fabirk; Zurich, Switzerland
October 12 1998-- French TV show Nulle Part Ailleurs on Canal+.
October 13 1998-- New Morning; Paris, France
October 14 1998-- The Electric Ballroom; London, England
October 16 1998-- Crossing Border Festival; Den Haag, Netherlands
October 17 1998-- Burgerhaus Kalk; Cologne, Germany
October 18 1998-- Crossing Border Festival; Gent, Belgium

May 24 1998
The Sutler
The first ever meeting of Lambchop and Calexico. Lambchop opened and then backed up Burns and Convertino for several songs at the end of the night.

May 16 1998
5-Star Thirft Store
CYOD, Lambchop, Paul Burch & BR549, Cherry Blossoms, David Cloud & the Gospel of Power

January 30 1998
Lucy's Record Shop
Lambchop, Lambchop with Vic Chesnutt, Paul Burch, Cyod, Toenut
The second-to-last show at Lucy's.

1997

October 2 1997
VPRO Crossing Border Festival

1996

December 11 1996
L'Inrockutible, France

April 17 1996
La Laiterie in Strasbourg, France

January 1 1996
Lucy's Record Shop, Nashville
with Low

1995

May 19 1995
Tramps in NY, NY

May 12 1995
Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, NC

1994

November 4 1994
Lucy's Record Shop, Nashville
with Doo Rag/Brown Towel
FLYER

March 25 1994
Lucy's Record Shop, Nashville
with Papas Fritas

1993

June 30 1993
Lucy's Record Shop, Nashville
with Unrest
FLYER

May 1 1993
Barrister's, Memphis
FLYER