Flight Of The Conchords, Genesis Recreation Centre, Masterton, 31 March 2009

Fuckwits, munters and other assorted muppets often ask me "what's with the earplugs?". These are the same types who clearly don't go to a lot of shows and think that Kings of Leon were "like, the best thing e-ver" and, so, either don't have to worry too much about long-term hearing loss, or it doesn't matter as their brains aren't able to process what they hear anyway.

The last day of March saw my first earplug-less concert in a while, and what a show it was. Unfortunately, organisers requested no recordings, and I will be honouring that request. To make up for it, here are DetMackey & Friends singing A Kiss Is Not A Contract live on Radio NZ's Checkpoint that day, and on Morning Report the next day.

Best show of 2009.


01 banter 1
02 The Most Beautiful Girl (In The Room)
03 banter 2
04 Mutha'uckas
05 banter 3
06 Hurt Feelings
07 banter 4
08 Albi The Racist Dragon
09 banter 5
10 Robots
11 banter 6
12 Carol Brown
13 banter 7
14 Jenny
15 banter 8
16 You Don't Have To Be A Prostitute
17 Sugalumps
18 banter 9
19 I'm Not Crying
20 banter 10
21 Think About It
22 Bus Driver
23 banter 11
24 A Kiss Is Not A Contract
25 banter 12
26 We're Both In Love With A Sexy Lady
27 banter 13
28 Business Time
29 encore break
30 banter 14
31 Angels
32 banter 15
33 Bowie

DetMackey's secret identity revealed!

Here.

Kings of Leon, TSB Arena, Wellington, 27 March 2009

Would it be fair to call the Kings of Leon concert the worst concert of the year? No, it would not be fair. What would be fair is calling it the worst concert of the decade.

They did well to play a fair amount of songs from their quality first three albums, but everything on the new album is lacking anything resembling artistic talent and there was just too much from it. Kings of Leon also achieve the Tool award for playing a concert almost indistinguishable from the CD versions of their songs.

Excluding the pre-recorded intro and couple minute encore break, the Kings couldn't even muster 90 minutes.

They should have stuck with being U2's warm up act; U2 and the Kings deserve each other.


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01 intro
02 Closer
03 Crawl
04 Taper Jean Girl
05 My Party
06 King Of The Rodeo
07 California Waiting
08 Fans
09 Revelry
10 Milk
11 Red Morning Light
12 Four Kings
13 Wasted Time
14 Molly's Chambers
15 Sex On Fire
16 The Bucket
17 On Call
18 Use Somebody
19 Slow Night, SO Long
20 encore break
21 Knocked Up
21 Manhattan
22 Charmer

Supergroove, Homegrown 2009

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VMVL8K8H

01 Next Time
02 Don't Look Down
03 Your White Shirt
04 Diggin' (?)
05 Fade Away
06 Five Word Headline
07 You Gotta Know
08 new song 2 (?)
09 Bugs And Critters
10 Sitting Inside My Head
11 Can't Get Enough
12 Here Comes The Supergroove
13 harmonica solo
14 You Freak Me
15 Scorpio Girls

Kora, Homegrown 2009

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4JDMCJMG

01 new song 1 (?)
02 Skankenstein
03 The Delivery Man
04 new song 2 (?)
05 On My Mind (with Bodies, and Down The Road)
06 Pop Your Bubble
07 Skoolyard
08 Flow
09 Thunder, Lightning, Brimstone, Fire

Tiki Taane, Homegrown 2009

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ML7FM2EA

The Black Seeds, Homegrown 2009

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FPJOFIF1

Tahuna Breaks, Homegrown 2009

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=F6K018RK

Katchafire, Homegrown 2009

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7TFX8CUO

01 Who You With
02 Giddy Up
03 Meant To Be
04 Say What You're Thinking
05 This World
06 J Dubb
07 Love Letter
08 instumental
09 I And I
10 Doesn't Anybody
11 Seriously
12 Collie Herb Man
13 Colour My Life
14 Satisfy My Soul
15 percussion solo
16 Done Did It
17 Don't Worry 'Bout A Thing
18 Reggae Revival
19 encore break
20 Get Away

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