Odeon, Cleveland 27th June 1999
Set List
First Set
- The Surf Talks
- Fix Your Gaze
- Black and White
- Drive
- Unloved Children
- Love In Action
- Hammer in My Heart
- Hit Me Like A Train
- Trapped
- Worldwide Epiphany
Second Set
- I Saw the Light
- Influenza
- Can We Still Be Friends?
- It Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference
- Fidelity
- Never Never Land
- Love Is The Answer
- Born To Synthesize
- I’m So Proud
- Ooh Baby Baby
- I Want You
- Expresso
- America Drinks and Goes Home
- A Dream Goes On Forever
Show Review by Art Owen:
After queuing outside the hall in a thunderstorm (whilst listening to the soundcheck) we were allowed into an over-packed very dark hall ten minutes late but that’s where my complaints end as the band more than made up for our gripes.
The first set just gets better each night. They split the Utopia songs again with Hit Me Like A Train (with Kasim standing at the back for this one) and then Trapped rolls into Worldwide Epiphany. Loud crowd tonite.
Second set more relaxed with Officer Al (“Alfonese”) making a welcome re-appearance. Nobody knows what to make of America Drinks and Goes Home. A clever ad-lib (was it?) in Synthesized (?) as Todd recalled the last few shows Cincinnati, Columbus, Chicago (falling into a whole), Yankee Lake (so hot).
Cleveland again tomorrow ….