Zwan 2002-12-16

Setlist
Set: Encore One: Encore Two:
 * Jesus, I [Lyte]
 * God's Gonna Set This World on Fire
 * Lyric
 * Ride a Black Swan
 * For Your Love
 * Declarations of Faith
 * Settle Down
 * El Sol
 * Desire
 * Endless Summer
 * Of a Broken Heart
 * Honestly
 * A New Poetry
 * Cast a Stone
 * Love Lies in Ruin
 * Mary Star of the Sea

Banter
Jesus, I > God’s Gonna Set This World on Fire Lyric BC: Thank you! Thank you very much, thank you for coming tonight. We’ve got a long night of music prepared for you. Woo! This is a song called, uh, Ride a Black Swan. Ride a Black Swan For Your Love Declarations of Faith > Settle Down Sweeney: Woo!! BC: Alriiight. Heh. Thank you very much, thank you. Sweeney: This is a song that man is led to dance to. BC: (coughs) I love it when the kids throw like toys up with drugs inside. It’s very sweet of them. (coughs) We’d like to introduce the band because I can’t breathe and like to kill some time, so...(trails off laughing) Uh huh! On guitar, Dave Pajo (pronounced “Pa-hoe”). I know how to say your name, but...  Papa M, Papa M.  On the bass, Paz. Paz M, Paz M. On the constantly lead guitar, Mr. Matt Sweeney. And on the drums...(huge crowd cheer)...a heh heh, a man who needs no introduction. This is a little song we call El Sol. El Sol BC: Thank you. Like to play a song that we’ve never played live before. Hope you like it, it’s called Desire. Desire BC: Thank you. Endless Summer BC: (coughs) This next song features, uh, Paz on the violin (pronounced “vee-olin”). And on the Herlitzer organ, Dave Pajo (pronounced “Pa-joe”). This is a song called Of a Broken Heart. Of a Broken Heart Honestly A New Poetry BC: Thank you very much, thank you. [encore break] Cast a Stone BC: Thank you very much, thank you. That was a song called, uh, Cast a Stone. We - we didn’t keep that, uh, we took it off the album. That one’s not on the album. Once again, heh heh, all the best songs get left off the albums. Uh, this is another song we left off the album. Heh heh. Heh heh heh. This is a song called Love Lies in Ruin. Love Lies in Ruin BC: Thanks a lot. [encore break] Sweeney: On behalf of Zwan, we would like to say goodbye to Columbus’s finest band, the New Bomb Turks, who, uh, are no longer with us. Uh, always been a [unintelligible]. And we’d like to give a shoutout to Used Kids Records! BC: You’re such a fuckin’ indie suck up. It’s never gonna stop, is it? You’ve sold out now, Matt, you’re in this. Sweeney: Well, look, I could use the sellout to help out other people [unintelligible]. I’m gonna play it right now. Paz: (in Spanish) [unintelligible] muchas gracias perdoza y, con nosotros en Columbus. Yo quiero mucho! Viva [unintelligible]! BC: We’d now like to play for you as our last selection of the evening, the title track of our new album, Mary Star of the Sea. Mary Star of the Sea (BC right before coda begins: Thank you very much, we are Zwan.)