seeing John Maus tonight, on a whim, i dig some of his songs... but don't really know what they'd be like in a live setting. whatever, only 13 bucks. stoked.
I saw John Maus last Sunday the 11th, at Union Transfer in Philadelphia.
At first I didn't want to go, cause I figured he'd mostly be playing tracks from his most recent album, that I've only listened to twice.
But he actually had a really good, varied setlist, which mostly followed a chronological order. All the live-versions of the songs from his earlier albums, sounded even better than they did on the records. "Rights for Gays" was probably the crowd favorite/got the biggest reaction.
I think in the second half of the show, only two songs off the newest album even got played, and like four or five "Pitiless Censors" (prob my fav release of his) tracks got played, with the encore of the show being "Believer", which he performed amazingly well.