Persians 2003 Setlists

 

Mississippi University for Women (w/ Ingram Hill) - Columbus, MS 1/8/03: Tomorrow Wants to Extend / Swimming Herward / Breathing in Vain / Daguerreotype / Via the Migration / Life-Size Stencils / When I Grow Down / U.V.A. / Accidental Physics / Orange is for Eyebrows / Spasmatron / Mullet Boy Enumerates / Innard Yank

State Theatre 1/18/03: SET 1 - Mashed-Potato Sky (electric) / Innard Yank / Accidental Physics / Daguerreotype / Going Dutch Means Youre Ugly (electric) / When I Grow Down / viii / Goat is Got / Life-Size Stencils / Tomorrow Wants to Extend / Swimming Herward; SET 2 - Via the Migration / Spasmatron / Breathing in Vain / Arbor Day / U.V.A. / Mullet Boy Enumerates / The Front Steps in Summer (acoustic) / Beneficial Neglect / A Host in Heresy / Orange is for Eyebrows / Register 5 / Mashed-Potato Sky (acoustic)

Cotton District Arts Festival 4/26/03: Accidental Physics / Spasmatron / Breathing in Vain / Life-Size Stencils / U.V.A. / Tomorrow Wants to Extend / Daguerreotype / Jessie's Girl / Arbor Day / Swimming Herward / Beneficial Neglect / Mullet Boy Enumerates

JabberRock (John solo acoustic) 4/26/03: Mashed-Potato Sky / Life-Size Stencils / Going Dutch Means You're Ugly / Driftwood / The Front Steps in Summer

Mud Island - Memphis, TN 7/12/03: SET 1 - Swimming Herward / Spasmatron / Breathing in Vain / Daguerreotype / Accidental Physics / U.V.A.; SET 2 - Tomorrow Wants to Extend / Innard Yank / Mullet Boy Enumerates / Spasmatron / Beneficial Neglect

Hal & Mal's (w/Young Agent Jones & the John Black Attack) - Jackson, MS 8/16/03: Swimming Herward / Spasmatron / Breathing in Vain / Daguerreotype / Accidental Physics / U.V.A. / Innard Yank / Orange is for Eyebrows / Tomorrow Wants to Extend / Goat is Got / Hey, Johnny Park! [Foos] / Life-Size Stencils / Mullet Boy Enumerates / Beneficial Neglect / When I Grow Down [encore]

University Pub - Starkville, MS 9/4/03: SET 1 - Spasmatron / Breathing in Vain / Daguerreotype / Arbor Day / The Front Steps in Summer / Accidental Physics / When I Grow Down / UVA / viii / Swimming Herward / Hey, Johnny Park! (Foo Fighters) / Tomorrow Wants to Extend; SET 2 - Mashed-Potato Sky / Via the Migration / Innard Yank / Amy as a Stimulant / Going Dutch Means You're Ugly / Jessies Girl (Rick Springfield) / Mullet Boy Enumerates / Orange is for Eyebrows / Life-Size Stencils / Goat is Got / Register 5

The Garden (John solo acoustic) - Union Dawg House - Mississippi State University 9/23/03: Mashed-Potato Sky / The Front Steps in Summer / To Be an Expatriate / That Kind of Funny / Daguerreotype / I'm Allowed (Buffalo Tom) / Wheat in Wind / Going Dutch Means You're Ugly / Life-Size Stencils / Bricks Aspire

Rick's - Starkville, MS 10/8/03: - Swimming Herward / Spasmatron / The Front Steps in Summer / That Kind of Funny / Mashed-Potato Sky (electric) / Breathing in Vain / Via the Migration / Daguerreotype / Accidental Physics / When I Grow Down / UVA / viii / Swimming Herward / Hey, Johnny Park! (Foo Fighters) / Tomorrow Wants to Extend / Mashed-Potato Sky / Via the Migration / Innard Yank / Arbor Day / Orange is for Eyebrows / Tomorrow Wants to Extend / Goat is Got / Hey, Johnny Park! (Foo Fighters) / Life-Size Stencils / Mullet Boy Enumerates / Beneficial Neglect / Register 5

University Pub - Starkville, MS 10/29/03: SET 1 - Spasmatron / Breathing in Vain / Daguerreotype / Arbor Day / The Front Steps in Summer / Accidental Physics / When I Grow Down / UVA / viii / Swimming Herward / Hey, Johnny Park! (Foo Fighters) / That Kind of Funny / Tomorrow Wants to Extend; SET 2 - Mashed-Potato Sky / Innard Yank / I Have Followed You / Jessie's Girl (Rick Springfield) / Mullet Boy Enumerates / Life-Size Stencils / Goat is Got / Register 5

State Theatre (w/ the Puerto Rican Rum Drunks) - Starkville, MS 10/31/03: Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits (Magnetic Fields - John solo in a bunny suit) / Swimming Herward / Spasmatron / The Front Steps in Summer / Breathing in Vain / Daguerreotype / That Kind of Funny / Accidental Physics / UVA / Arbor Day / Jessie's Girl / Innard Yank / Tomorrow Wants to Extend / I Have Followed You / Mullet Boy Enumerates / Goat is Got / Beneficial Neglect / Register 5

Dave's Darkhorse Tavern - Starkville, MS 11/22/03 (no bass player - billed as "The Maroon and White Stripes): SET 1 - Daguerreotype / Spasmatron / Breathing in Vain / The Front Steps in Summer / Arbor Day / Accidental Physics / Life-Size Stencils / U.V.A. / Tomorrow Wants to Extend / Swimming Herward / Hey, Johnny Park!(Foo Fighters) / Me and My Kind / That Kind of Funny / Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana); SET 2 - The Hardest Button to Button (The White Stripes) / Jessie's Girl (Rick Springfield) / Via the Migration / Innard Yank / I Have Followed You / Going Dutch Means You're Ugly / Vienna (Billy Joel) / A Host in Heresy / Mullet Boy Enumerates / Orange is for Eyebrows / When I Grow Down / Jane Says (Jane's Addiction) / Register 5 / The Ocean (Led Zeppelin - mostly an instrumental)

NOTE: Somewhere in the above two sets we also played "No One Else" (Weezer), "Rock You Like a Hurricane" (The Scorpions), and "My Valuable Hunting Knife" (Guided by Voices), but I'm not sure where. - John