I Just Read About That…

[ATTENDED: October 6, 2024] Katie Malco

My daughter has become a huge fan of boygenius.  We didn’t get to see them (well, we saw them at a festival) so when Julien Baker announced that she was playing a few shows my daughter really wanted to go.  I’m loathe to go to NYC for shows these days because of the massive hassle, but I made an exception for this (especially since there were only shows in NYC).  It turned out we were able to get surprisingly cheap resale tickets (I can’t imagine why) for the Sunday night show (the middle of three).

We left absurdly early and traffic was a nightmare!  I assumed it wouldn’t be on a Sunday but I was wrong.  I had imagined that we would get into the city an hour before doors opened and grab a bite and then mosey into the show and be maybe close to the stage.  Instead, by the time we parked (if only I had remembered that street parking was free and ample on Sundays) and walked the several blocks to Webster Hall, we were stupidly late.

We had to stand almost as far back as was possible and we had missed all but one or two songs of the Katie Malco set.

Malco is a British musician who has performed with a lot of people that I like.  She opened a tour with SOAK last year but for whatever reason they never played on Philly even though they were supposed to.  

So I don’t really have much of a sense of Malco’s set.  My daughter ran downstairs to get merch and I was keeping an eye on our space.  I recall her voice being lovely, but I think her songs might be quite emotional (which I obviously didn’t notice).

Setlist suggests she played these four songs.  Although other shows on this tour suggest she played six songs with a couple of new ones in the mix as well.  She played the second group of songs at an other show in NYC, so I’m not sure what I actually saw.

1. Babette
2. Brooklyn
3. September
4. Good Life

1. Creatures
2. Fatal Attraction