[DID NOT ATTEND: March 28, 2025] Ida / Tsunami
Back in the 90s I liked Tsunami. I was never a huge fan, but I liked them enough. Listening again, I maybe should have given them a better chance back then.
Here’s what philty mag said
“Daniel and I have a 23-year-old daughter, and her friends are interested in music from the ‘90s, and they’re like, ‘You’re parents are in Ida?! What?!’” says Elizabeth Mitchell of herself and husband Daniel Littleton, co-founders of 1990s indie rock legends Ida. This past weekend, Ida kicked off their first tour in more than a decade. The tour has them paired with longtime friends and fellow ‘90s legends Tsunami, who haven’t actually toured since 1998.
Ida and Tsunami are currently amidst the Coin Toss tour, which has the bands double-headlining, sharing equipment and van space, and determining each night’s set order by the flip of a coin. “I think it’s gonna have kind of a celebratory feel, more than just a two-band bill,” Mitchell tells me of the show, which will be at Underground Arts this Friday, March 28th. Tsunami co-founder Kristin Thomson chimes in: “I almost made a shirt that said, ‘Expect Whimsy!’”
Ida was based in NYC and Tsunami in DC. Tsunami’s own Simple Machines record label released Ida’s first three albums (1994’s Tales of Brave Ida, 1996’s I Know About You, and 1997’s Ten Small Paces) and the two acts regularly found themselves touring and collaborating together throughout the decade. “It will be a very Gen X time!” Thomson jokes of the Coin Toss tour.
Honestly it sounds like a great time, even if I wasn’t too familiar with their music anymore. But I had tickets to Ninja Sex Party that night and I wasn’t going to pass that up.
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