Date:    Mon, 17 Mar 1997 20:24:54 -0500
From:    Andi <ablipman@SAS.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: IG at Hofstra

I thought it was time for me to post a little review of the Hofstra show.
I would have posted last night, but I was so tired by the time I got home.
I'll try not to repeat what other people have said.  It was great to meet
listees both at Jen's little list party & waiting in line.  It was my
second IG show, & I thought it was AMAZING!!!  It was so much better than
the first show I saw b/c I knew all the new songs this time & b/c I was so
close up.  Seeing A&E from the front row definitely made waiting all day in
the cold weather well worth it.  And b/c I was so close up, I didn't notice
anyone talking during the new songs like I did at my first concert.  Of
course the girl screaming near me was annoying, but overall, everyone
around me was pretty respectful.  Amy made eye contact w/ me & I swear she
smiled right at me which was so cool!  The Chronicle, Hofstra's newspaper
said that they sold out the show, clearing nearly 4000 tickets.  The last
time they sold out a show was in 1985.  There's also a great picture of A&E
in The Chronicle.  I was in the bathroom when the posters were passed out,
so I was really sad that I didn't get one.  But before the show, I asked a
nice Public Safety guy if there were any left.  He checked & came back &
said there weren't any left, but then he brought me one during the show!
Everyone was just too nice!

Veronica wrote:

<<Andi can verify all of this for me since she was the lucky one who managed
to get one of the set-lists (that was the last thing I saw before I left
the very hot gym-- WOO-HOO, Andi!  You go, girl!) :>>

Yeah, that was such a highlight of the night for me!  I think Sully told
this security guy to pass it back to me b/c I was jumping & calling her
name.  Everyone else said it was b/c she thought I was cute.  Who knows? :)
Jen also managed to snag a setlist, but hers was a little crumpled...she
said she liked it that way though!

Here's what my setlist says:

 1. Shame on You
 2. It's Alright
 3. Reunion
 4. 10,000 Wars
 5. Pushin the Needle [I wonder where the "g" went!]
 6. Get Out the Map
 7. Shed Your Skin
 8. Everything in Its Own [picture of a little clock]
 9. Land of Canaan
10. Galileo
11. Scooter Boys
12. Leeds                a
13. Don't Give that Girl Gun [the "a" is above the "Gun"]
14. Cara Mia
15. Chickenman
16. Prince of Darkness

1. Chiapas Bound
2. Our Purpose Here [the Ferron song]
3. Closer to Fine

It also tells the key A&E play in, sometimes the instrument (if it's not
acoustic guitar, I guess), & how the lights should be (up, ballad, spooky,
Spanish, country up, Gabriel up, Patti Smith up, stormy sky, sad, big,
long).  I'm sad that "alright" is still spelled incorrectly, but oh well.
I usually like E's songs better, but A's new ones really rock.  I love
Scooter Boys, & Chiapas Bound is so powerful.  I too am really sad that it
won't be on SotS.  Also, it seemed like A was looking for E to come out &
sing on the end of CB like she did at MHC, but she didn't, which made the
song even sadder than it already was.  But she did say that it was a love
song.

Andrew wrote:

<<A fan gave Emily a beer funnel (bong) which was addressed to "the ultimate
frat girl" or something of that nature...emily loved it...>>

I think it said "To Emily 'The original frat girl'" on one side and
"Hofstra 3/16/97" on the other.  Emily really seemed to like it
though...she said it was the best gift she'd ever gotten or something.  But
I think the people who gave it to her should post about it!

Audery wrote:

<<Back to the good stuff...Jen Lucero is a BADASS....I'll be indebted to her
for a looong time...the woman *knows* how to do a concert the right way.>>

I completely agree here.  Jen managed to get us there early enough for an
AMAZING spot, keep us relatively warm, & entertain us w/ stories, & I will
love her forever for it.  Jen deserves a fan club for all she did for us!

Deb wrote show:

<<Amy looked so sweet!!  Red jeans, Lower East Side
Needle Exchange t-shirt and some red polka-dotted shirt over it; Emily,
overalls and a turtleneck and bball hat. >>

I find it interesting that A&E wore similar outfits at Hofstra & MHC.  A
wore the Lower East Side Needle Exchange t-shirt both times, & E wore what
looks like the same overalls & hat.  (I wasn't at MHC, but I saw pictures
from it.)

Overall, the concert was so cool, & I can't wait to get the boot!

:)

Andi

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                                Andrea Lipman
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