[ATTENDED: October 14, 2022] Mother Mother
Back in February (all of 8 months ago), I took my kids and one of their friends to see Mother Mother at TLA. We all loved it. The kids had a great time and I was really blown away by their show. They were supposed to play at The Foundry, which of course would have been neat, but they put on a BIG show and the TLA was the superior venue. TLA holds about 1,000 people (Foundry is 450). So I was really surprised to hear that they were coming back to Philly in 8 months to play the Fillmore (capacity 2,500).
And, as I say, it was PACKED. We were all very happy to have seen them at TLA where we were super close. But this show was also fun because the crowd was totally into it and the band seemed bigger and more intense.
Although the setlist was largely the same, the order of the songs was quite different. In fact, they opened with a song that last time was way near the bottom of the set. At TLA, Ryan said
they were going to play a song that they knew was weird when they recorded it. But they had to put it out there. And now, it sounds like the non-binary community has embraced “Verbatim” and made it their own.
They opened with “Verbatim” and the crowd went nuts. After a rollicking “O My Heart” (the album that their most popular song is on and which has been revitalized by TikTok), they played a couple of songs that they didn’t play last time. In all they played five different songs from the previous show (and didn’t play six songs that they played last time).
One of these new songs was “Creep” by Radiohead, which was a huge surprise. When we saw them last time, Molly Guldemond sang “Pure Love” a nearly a capella song that highlights her voice nicely. For this show, she did “Creep,” instead. The crowd really responded to it. The only problem for me was the guy right behind who wanted to prove that he knew all the words (like everyone else) by singing them very loudly in my ear. It was especially crappy because Molly has a great voice and really hit all the notes perfectly (this guy didn’t). (more…)