8/12/09 - Uptown Bar - Minneapolis

Set:
| Found My Boogie | Poet (Who Didn't Know It) | I'm a Bad Mamma Jamma (Who Works at Wendy's) | M'Lady | Chosen Ones | Crossroads | Clone You | Pay the Toll to Ride the Junebug Flow | Jumpstart My Rocket |

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Tonight we played a rare mid-week show, supporting touring Canadian band, Violent Kin. It was the Uptown Bar, and it was Wednesday, baby! That being said, there was a pretty good crowd there considering it was Wednesday night. Enough to make it worthwhile, anyhow.

When we took stage, Anthony introduced us saying that at our last show we were compared to a cross-between Weezer and Frank Zappa (which is a true story - we were told that). He then went on to explain that he felt it was a bit in error. Anthony feels were are more like Hanson meets Rush. Regardless of which is correct, they're all big shoes to fill as I (tony) pointed out.

We had a good, solid set of bangers. Nothing crazy happened. There were a moments of dead air, but whaddaya gonna do. After "Clone You", Dustin treated the title of the song as an insult. Instead of saying "F___ you," he said, "Clone you!" Here's hoping that it catches on, because I quite like it, honestly.

I've been doing this thing lately in which I take a picture on my phone at some point in the show and upload it to popular social networking sites, MySpace, Twitter and Facebook. So those at home can get a real-time update. Whatever. I did that tonight. The picture appears here as well.

It was a fun show. It was a fairly uneventful show as far as Junebug shows go. We loaded in, played a show, loaded off, and enjoyed the other bands. Mission accomplished and accomplished well.

Post script: We had no way of knowing at the time, but this was the final show that Junebug played at the Uptown Bar in Minneapolis before its unfortunate closing in November of 2009. The Uptown gave us our first booked show in Minneapolis and they were always welcoming. Furthermore, they always recorded the shows at the sound board and made a CD available to us. We'll miss the place.