For the second year in a row, Joe Peppercorn (The Whiles, Watershed) will perform the Beatles catalog in it’s entirety AND in chronological order. It’s a massive undertaking and, fortunately, Peppercorn will get by with a little help from his friends (Parker Paul, Jesse Cooper, David Murphy, Branden Barnett, Chris Bolognese). The show starts at 4:30pm this afternoon at KOBO and cover is $5.
Read (614)’s story about how this came to be and what Peppercorn has been doing to prepare for the big day.
Here are the set times for the individual albums. The 215-song set list is after the jump.
Please Please Me 4:30
With The Beatles 5:20
Hard Day’s Night 6:10
… Beatles For Sale 6:50
HELP 7:30 PM
Rubber Soul 8:10 PM
Revolver 8:50 PM
Sgt Pepper 9:30 PM
Magical Mystery Tour 10:15 PM
White Album 11:15 PM
Yellow Submarine 12:35 AM
Let it Be 12;50 AM
Abbey Road 1:35 AM
1 I Saw Her Standing There
2 Misery
3 Anna (Go To Him)
4 Chains
5 Boys
6 * Ask Me Why
7 * Please Please Me
8 Love Me Do
9 + P.S. I Love You
10 Baby It’s You
11 Do You Want To Know A Secret
12 A Taste Of Honey
13 There’s A Place
14 Twist And Shout
15 From Me To You
16 Thank You Girl
17 She Loves You
18 I’ll Get You
19 I Want To Hold Your Hand
20 This Boy
21 It Won’t Be Long
22 All I’ve Got To Do
23 All My Loving
24 Don’t Bother Me
25 Little Child
26 Till There Was You
27 Please Mister Postman
28 Roll Over Beethoven
29 Hold Me Tight
30 You Really Got A Hold On Me
31 I Wanna Be Your Man
32 Devil In Her Heart
33 Not A Second Time
34 Money (That’s What I Want)
35 Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand
36 Sie Liebt Dich
37 Long Tall Sally
38 I Call Your Name
39 Slow Down
40 Matchbox
41 * A Hard Day’s Night
42 I Should Have Known Better
43 If I Fell
44 # I’m Happy Just To Dance With You
45 And I Love Her
46 Tell Me Why
47 + Can’t Buy Me Love
48 Any Time At All
49 I’ll Cry Instead
50 * Things We Said Today
51 When I Get Home
52 + You Can’t Do That
53 I’ll Be Back
54 ‘ I Feel Fine
55 She’s A Woman
56 No Reply
57 I’m A Loser
58 Baby’s In Black
59 Rock And Roll Music
60 I’ll Follow The Sun
61 Mr. Moonlight
62 Kansas City/Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey
63 Eight Days A Week
64 Words Of Love
65 Honey Don’t
66 Every Little Thing
67 I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party
68 What You’re Doing
69 Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby
70 Yes It Is
71 Bad Boy
72 I’m Down
73 * Help!
74 The Night Before
75 You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away
76 I Need You
77 Another Girl
78 You’re Going To Lose That Girl
79 + Ticket To Ride
80 Act Naturally
81 It’s Only Love
82 You Like Me Too Much
83 Tell Me What You See
84 I’ve Just Seen A Face
85 Yesterday
86 Dizzy Miss Lizzy
87 We Can Work It Out
88 Day Tripper
89 Drive My Car
90 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
91 You Won’t See Me
92 Nowhere Man
93 Think For Yourself
94 The Word
95 Michelle
96 What Goes On
97 Girl
98 I’m Looking Through You
99 In My Life
100 Wait
101 If I Needed Someone
102 Run For Your Life
103 Paperback Writer
104 Rain
105 Taxman
106 * Eleanor Rigby
107 I’m Only Sleeping
108 Love You To
109 Here, There And Everywhere
110 +* Yellow Submarine
111 She Said She Said
112 Good Day Sunshine
113 And Your Bird Can Sing
114 For No One
115 Doctor Robert
116 I Want To Tell You
117 Got To Get You Into My Life
118 Tomorrow Never Knows
119 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
120 With A Little Help From My Friends
121 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
122 Getting Better
123 Fixing A Hole
124 She’s Leaving Home
125 Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!
126 Within You Without You
127 When I’m Sixty-Four
128 Lovely Rita
129 Good Morning Good Morning
130 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
131 A Day In The Life BRANDEN – GIB ACOUSTIC
132 Magical Mystery Tour BRANDEN – JAZZMASTER
133 The Fool On The Hill
134 Flying
135 Blue Jay Way
136 Your Mother Should Know
137 * I Am The Walrus
138 Hello, Goodbye
139 Strawberry Fields Forever
140 Penny Lane
141 Baby, You’re A Rich Man
142 All You Need Is Love
143 Lady Madonna
144 The Inner Light
145 Hey Jude
146 Revolution
147 Back In The U.S.S.R.
148 Dear Prudence
149 Glass Onion
150 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
151 Wild Honey Pie
152 The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
153 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
154 Happiness Is A Warm Gun
155 Martha My Dear
156 I’m So Tired
157 Blackbird
158 Piggies
159 Rocky Raccoon
160 Don’t Pass Me By
161 Why Don’t We Do It In The Road?
162 I Will
163 Julia
164 Birthday
165 Yer Blues
166 Mother Nature’s Son
167 Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
168 Sexy Sadie
169 Helter Skelter
170 Long, Long, Long
171 Revolution 1
172 Honey Pie
173 Savoy Truffle
174 Cry Baby Cry
175 Revolution 9
176 Good Night
177 Only A Northern Song
178 All Together Now
179 Hey Bulldog
180 It’s All Too Much
181 Get Back [Single Version]
182 Don’t Let Me Down
183 The Ballad Of John And Yoko
184 Old Brown Shoe
185 You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
186 Two Of Us
187 Dig A Pony
188 Across The Universe
189 I Me Mine
190 Dig It
191 Let It Be [Album Version]
192 Maggie Mae
193 I’ve Got A Feeling
194 One After 909
195 The Long And Winding Road
196 For You Blue
197 Get Back [Album Version]
198 * Come Together
199 * Something
200 Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
201 Oh! Darling
202 Octopus’s Garden
203 I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
204 Here Comes The Sun
205 Because
206 You Never Give Me Your Money
207 Sun King
208 Mean Mr. Mustard
209 Polythene Pam
210 She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
211 Golden Slumbers
212 Carry That Weight
213 The End
214 Her Majesty
215 Silly Love Songs
Not sure what brings J Robbins to Columbus for a Friday night Happy Hour show, but what a lucky score for KOBO. For indie rock geeks with their feet firmly planted in the ’90s (yes, I’m one of you!), this may be THE show of 2011. Robbins will be performing with cellist Gordon Withers and it’s not at all a stretch to think this will be a stripped-down (yet, somehow, at the same time, face-melting) tour of the singer/producer’s recorded history, from Jawbox to Burning Airlines to Office of Future Plans.
A few years ago, the boys in Miranda Sound employed the talents of Mr.Robbins to produce arguably their greatest album, 2006′s Western Reserve so it only makes sense that half of that now-defunct band (Dan Gerken and Sean Sefcik) have been tapped to warm up the crowd.
Doors at 6, Mir-half-a Sound (get it?) start around 7, J Robbins closing out the Happy Hour show starting around 8. $5 will gain you intimate access to what promises to be one of the best shows of the year.
There were a lot of tributes going on Friday night in honor of Halloween at various clubs around town. I found myself at Kobo where Alert New London was performing at The Strokes, Speed Governor was performing as Nirvana, The Moving Parts were performing as Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, and members of Bicentennial Bear, Miranda Sound and Kopaz were performing as Van Haken.
In case you missed it, Sammy Hagar and Gary Cherone both were in attendance (Hagar holding a sign throughout Van Haken’s set that said, “Play Poundcake”) and in a surprise move, David Lee Roth invited the two to join the band for “Everybody Wants Some”. Here’s the result of the first time ever that all 3 singers shared the same stage.
Friday was the last day of the amazing Music Week Columbus. This night I made it to all three venues to catch Audrey & Orwell, Maza Blaska and Moon High at Rumba, Phantods at Kobo and finally Town Monster at Rumba Cafe.
The second day of Music Week Columbus I mainly stuck around Kobo to check out The Saturday Giant, Way Yes, Sewing Machine War (Pittsburgh) and Karate Coyote.
Music Week Columbus is being hosted for three nights at three Old North bars, Ravari Room, Kobo and Rumba Cafe. Wednesday I hopped between Rumba and Kobo to check out Dave Buker & the Historians, Narrow & the Brights, Milano (Chicago), Ghost Shirt and Wet Darlings.
Music Week Columbus kicks off tonight, with a whole bunch of bands playing at Kobo, Ravari Room and Rumba Cafe. Thursday night at Kobo you can catch Youngstown’s Sewing Machine War, and Friday night at Rumba Fort Wilson Riot (above) of Minneapolis will headline.
Both bands stopped by Electraplay studios recently to record a live session, so here’s an in-studio preview of what to expect at their Music Week Columbus sets.
* 9:15 p.m. – Columbus Priority Mail – This one-man show features Andrew Choi singing lyrics out of a notebook over top jazzy/indie rock music he produced on his computer and loaded onto his iPod Nano. I caught CPM at the Green on the Green festival earlier this summer and found Choi’s music to be really unique and different than anything I’ve experienced live in quite a long time.
* 9:45 p.m. – Oswald and the Herringbones – I’m surprised OATH doesn’t have a Wikipedia entry. Part of the campus pop-rock scene of the mid-80s to early-90s, OATH went through two different lineups during their heyday, the constants being Tom Boyer and Neal Havener. When I joined The Lantern newspaper staff at OSU in 1991, Neal was the arts editor and most of the staff were regulars at the many OATH gigs at Ruby Tuesdays on Summit. The second lineup of the band (also featuring guitarist Andy Harrison and drummer Rick Ziliak) recorded a full-length album, Time Doesn’t Matter, in 1992 and played a less-than-legendary (ha!) show at CBGB in NYC to promote the release. I traveled along with the band and it was my first time (but not last) visiting the legendary club. If memory serves correct, OATH disbanded sometime around 1994 and if they have reunited with the Harrison/Ziliak lineup, it’s been far and few between. This will be the first time I’ve seen this lineup (Aaron Pauley of Unit One will be filling in for Andy Harrison) in probably 15 or so years.
* 10:45 p.m. – Bel Auburn – This Ashland band came to my attention in 2004 when they sent me a copy of their debut, Cathedrals. I was blown away by a band that sounded like they should be signed to a major label and on tour with Coldplay and/or Mute Math. As mature sounding as the debut was, Lullabies in A&C (download for free here), which followed two years later, was even more amazing. Those who caught the band’s rare Columbus shows always walked away as fans but caught between Columbus and Cleveland, the band never really had a “home” base with built-in crowds. For all intents and purposes, Bel Auburn went on hiatus in 2007 though they did play a one-off gig at Circus in 2009. This will be their first live appearance in over 2 years.
* 11:45 p.m. – The Honey’s – This is where the idea for the birthday show first started. I ran into Columbus ex-pat, and former Honey’s bassist Lisa Lorraine, at a show at Skully’s last summer and pitched the reunion idea to her thinking she’d say, “I live in California now and don’t think I can make it back to Columbus for a show.” Much to my surprise, she said, “If you can talk Justin, Jaime and Ben into it, I’m in.” I’ve lived in Columbus since 1989 and would say The Honey’s are in my top 3 favorite local bands of all time. With the band’s last show in 2005 (at the time they said it was their one-and-only reunion show), many of you newcomers to Columbus may have missed the band’s Donnas-meet-Skid-Row ’80s throwback sound. If so, as my present to you, download the band’s 2004 release, Hot Day in Heavenhere.
* 12:30 a.m. – Van Haken – There’s only one act I could think of to follow The Honey’s and that’s the Van Halen tribute band featuring members of Miranda Sound, Kopaz, Bicentennial Bear and Celebrity Pilots. This is pure David Lee Roth-era VH, none of that Sammy Hagar or Gary Cherone stuff mixed into the set (though I did ask if they’d be willing to consider it and was told “no way in hell”).
