Alex Wong: The Man, The Myth, The Duizendpoot

[Michele]

Alex has launched his site for the solo project. Includes a link to pre-order with extra goodies, and tour dates.

July 17 at 6:00 pm Stageit show for people who pre-order
July 18 at 7:00 pm Rockwood Music Hall (Stage 2) New York, NY
July 19 at 8:00 pm Club Passim Cambridge, MA
July 23 at 8:00 pm Jammin' Java Vienna, VA
July 24 at 8:00 pm The Grape Room Philadelphia, PA
July 25 at 8:00 pm The Night Cat Easton, MD
July 27 at 9:00 pm Cat's Cradle Carrboro, NC
July 28 at 7:00 pm Private House Concert Hendersonville, NC
July 29 at 8:00 pm Smith's Olde Bar Atlanta, GA
September 8 at 9:00 pm Cafe Du Nord San Francisco, CA

There's also a teaser up for the "Oceanside" video.

[aaparallel]

If you haven't, pre-order Alex Wong/A City On a Lake's album! If you do by the 15th, you'll get the digital album 2 days before the official release on the 17th!

[Michele]

A City On A Lake's show from Club Passim on Thursday will be streamed live on Concert Window.

[Michele]

Happy album release day (on the east coast)! If you didn't pre-order, you can download the album from iTunes or amazon shortly. It has been a long wait, but I really think Alex sounds like Alex on this release. There's quite a range of sonic styles to hear and cozy up to on this album, and there's even more to discover when comparing them to the live versions.

Some reading material:
A Songwriter's Story with A City On A Lake: "Always Something Better"
No Depression review
402 Productions review

Also want to sneak in one more tour date from his message for the people who pre-ordered: July 30 at 8:00 pm 12th and Porter Nashville, TN

[Michele]

Stageit album release show for preorderers from Angelhouse Studios:
Always Something Better
Never Look Back
Twenty Faces
The Fighter
Patiently
first concert: The Grateful Dead
Oceanside
Are You Listening

[Michele]

Club Passim show and webcast!
Always Something Better
Twenty Faces
Brooklyn Blurs
Patiently
Same Old Things
Oceanside
The Fighter
Never Look Back
Are You Listening

Make It Home
Help Is On The Way

[aaparallel]

The music video for Alex Wong/A City On A Lake's "Oceanside" is finally here! Stunning.

[Fred]

July 18 Rockwood show:

Always something better
Twenty faces
Brooklyn blurs
Patiently
The same old things
Ocean side
The fighter
Never look back
Are you listening
Encore:
Make it home
Help is on the way

Performing:
Alex Wong, keyboard, guitar, vocal
Ximena Sariñana, keyboard, vocal
Ward Williams, cello, guitar
Kevin Rice, drums

Notes: Kat Goldman, opener

[Michele]

July 18 Rockwood show:

Yay, another setlist! Hope you liked the show and the album, Fred.

I have other setlists from the May California shows to post, didn't do that previously since the album tracklist wasn't out yet...here's San Francisco:

Always Something Better
Brooklyn Blurs
Twenty Faces
Same Old Things
Patiently
The Fighter
Never Look Back
Oceanside (with Megan Slankard)
Are You Listening

In The Creases
Don't Be Afraid
A Girl Like You (with Devon from The Animators carrying his daughter)
Fake Plastic Trees (tease)
Make It Home

I was on a plane flying home while this show was going on and couldn't get an earlier flight, so I'm very grateful to rainingvodka for enabling me to experience it time-shifted. I did make it to the Los Angeles show afterward, but my setlist is at home, so I'll post it later. I also hope to post some vids from that show at some point.

I'm posting now, instead of with the LA setlist later, since Alex has a radio interview later today. Listen online to WGMU at 8pm Eastern/5 Pacific.

[Steve]

Sorry - I didn't keep a setlist at the July 28 house concert in Hendersonville, NC. I was enjoying the music too much to think about it! They (Alex, Ximena and Kevin) started with "Brooklyn Blurs", and played much of the new disc as well as "In The Creases", "Make It Home" and "Here We Are" and perhaps some others.

"Here We Are" was fun, because Alex said he had pretty much wiped the entire "A Song in a Day" day from his memory when they were done. But the person who hosted the house concert requested it, so the three of them went to YouTube to remember it and wrote down the lyrics to sing from. It came off well, even so, and he said they'd probably start playing it again.

The strangest thing for me was being the only one in the audience (including the hosts) who had ever seen Alex before, and although I haven't seen Ximena, I do have some of her music in my online song rotation as I'm a Mexican Pop fan, as well. And I guess it was a triple play, as far as being familiar with the musicians, as Kevn mentioned he'd been the drummer the night before in Oregon for a group in front of thousands of screaming girls, but he didn't mention which group. I checked later, and it ws the girl who plays iCarly on the Disney Channel. If you've been around tween/teen girls the past few years, you know her. I know of a couple, and they're much more jealous of my seeing him than either Alex or Ximena, even if he isn't on the show!

Another thing that was different about this concert, other than the amazing potluck dinner with everybody before and dessert halfway through, was that the host wanted it to be something of a production workshop, too, so they were answering questions between every song. Alex said he would probably get mixed up at the Atlanta concert the next night and end some songs with, "Any Questions?"!

[Michele]

"Here We Are" was fun, because Alex said he had pretty much wiped the entire "A Song in a Day" day from his memory when they were done. But the person who hosted the house concert requested it, so the three of them went to YouTube to remember it and wrote down the lyrics to sing from. It came off well, even so, and he said they'd probably start playing it again.

Yay! I will have to remember to request that one in September. I also want to hear "We Will Surrender" as it seems to be the only one he hasn't played live yet, but I'm guessing it's tricky to pull off.

The strangest thing for me was being the only one in the audience (including the hosts) who had ever seen Alex before,

Heh. So glad you could go, and that the host could get a bunch of newbies to go. Speaking of NC audience, I also need to give a shoutout to wolding, who was in chat for the Passim webcast.

and although I haven't seen Ximena, I do have some of her music in my online song rotation as I'm a Mexican Pop fan, as well. And I guess it was a triple play, as far as being familiar with the musicians, as Kevn mentioned he'd been the drummer the night before in Oregon for a group in front of thousands of screaming girls, but he didn't mention which group. I checked later, and it ws the girl who plays iCarly on the Disney Channel. If you've been around tween/teen girls the past few years, you know her. I know of a couple, and they're much more jealous of my seeing him than either Alex or Ximena, even if he isn't on the show!

Superduperfan in the house! I saw Kevin's posts about Portland, and now I can't believe he flew back to get back on Alex's tour. I hadn't looked at her schedule, but figured he was staying on for her. That's awesome for Miranda Cosgrove fans to keep track of her touring bandmates, and bodes well for the next generation.

Another thing that was different about this concert, other than the amazing potluck dinner with everybody before and dessert halfway through, was that the host wanted it to be something of a production workshop, too, so they were answering questions between every song. Alex said he would probably get mixed up at the Atlanta concert the next night and end some songs with, "Any Questions?"!

You got the whole kit and caboodle for this show. Very happy for you! Thanks for posting about it!

[Michele]

Los Angeles:
Always Something Better (with Paul Freeman)
Brooklyn Blurs
Twenty Faces (with Mariana Bell)
Same Old Things (with Mariana Bell)
Patiently
Oceanside (with Kyler England)
Are You Listening

[Ang Mo]

I would like to hear Alex cover this song by Lee Hazlewood http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNoZzQySiCQ&feature=related I think he would do a great version of this one. This is an incredibly well written song. Very powerful.

[Erik]

Mission Coffees & More, Fremont CA solo show
01 Dec 2012

Always Something Better
Make It Home
Motion Sickness (with half of the audience doing one backing vocal part "nananana nananana na" and the other half doing another "ohohoh oh oh oh" for a portion of the song)
Don't Be Afraid
Girl #3
The Fighter
Patiently
Good to Be Here
In the Creases
The Drive
Are You Listening

SHORT SET BREAK

Brooklyn Blurs
A Girl Like You
Words Fail
Help is On the Way

[aaparallel]

Thanks for the setlist! Looks like it was a great show. Would have loved to hear Alex's solo versions of the Animators songs.