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[ATTENDED: January 25, 2025] Soccer Mommy

I saw Soccer Mommy back in 2021 and was surprised that it sold out.  And this show, four years later, also sold out.

After seeing her last time I knew what was to expect.  The only bad part was that I didn’t know her new album that well.

Sophie Allison (who is Soccer Mommy) plays guitar and sings.  She has a standard four piece behind her–Rollum Haas: drums, Nick Widener: bass, Julian Powell: guitar and Rodrigo Avendano: guitar/keys.

As I said last time, the band is really good and they bring these songs to life live in a more powerful way than on the album.

The thing that most surprised me last time and surprised me this time is that she played her big hits pretty early in the set.  Last time, Circle the Drain was her big single and she played it second!  Well, she played it second this time as well.

And her song Driver, which is one of my favorite songs of 2024 she played third!  It sounded amazing–her voice is fantastic live.

Then after playing one more new song she played the other big song that she had out recently, Shotgun.  So that was the three biggest songs I know by her all done within the first five songs.

After that she played a bunch of songs from the new album. I didn’t know them very well, but they sounded great.  However, the show slowed down quite a bit during these songs as each one was more chill than the previous.

At some point Eagles fans started a chant (there are Eagles fans at Soccer Mommy shows?)  Sophie asked what that was all about and then said I don’t really care about football, which led to a huge cheer. 

For one of the songs, bass and drums left the stage for a quiet version of the song.  She did this last time too and that song was followed by a solo number.  There was no solo number for this show.  Rather she played two more songs from Color Theory and then ended the main set with Your Dog, a song I loved bac in 2021 and still do.

It’s interesting that her encore was so different from last time I saw her.  In fact, her encore was one new song and a song from her previous album.  She didn’t even play the song  that she ended her show with last time Scorpio Rising (I don’t know if that’s a fan favorite or anything).

The show was a little bit longer than I thought it was going to be.  Which was fine.

But I had arrived later than I wanted to (I wanted to buy tickets for Blondshell from the box office).  I ran to the box office after the show but they were closed.  And then I couldn’t even get back to try to get a picture of the setlist.  Boo.

Overall the show was good, not amazing.  Her voice is terrific, but I guess I should know her whole album better if I ever go see her again.  the only two songs from Evergreen that she didn’t play were Anchor and Evergreen.