Friday November 9 - The Tractor Tavern, Seattle, WA

Tipwires:

Break it all
Lesson pony
arm twister
monument
I don't care
zig zag
I hear this music
South Charleston Place
I was afraid
Dismantled
sold your guitar blues
grizzly bear
big electric light

Young Fresh Fellows:

Have Love Will Travel
Rock N Roll Pest Control
Suck Machine (new song?)
White Wine Saturday Morning (made up on the spot)
Universal Trendsetter
Guilty Ones (new song?)
Taco Wagon
Picture Book
Sitting On A Pitchfork
Sentimental Journey
Final Tractor (new song?)
Hang out Right
Why I Oughta
Sharing Patrol
I Got My Mojo Working
I Don't let the Little Things Get Me down
99 Girls
Shake Your Magazines (new song?)
When I'm Lonely Again
One day you die
My Friend Ringo

Encore:
She's a Mod - Done by the Tripwires
Backroom of the Bar
Ain't It Allright
Strychnine
How much about last night do you remember
she's a book


Saturday November 10 - The Towne Lounge, Portland, OR

Tripwires:
Friday
Lesson Pony
Arm Twister
Monument
South Charleston
Johnny Get Gone
I Don't Care
Never Ever
I Was Afraid
Ned Beatty
Dismantled
Sold Your Guitar Blues
Grizzly Bear
I Hear This Music
Zig Zag
Big Electric Light
Crawling From The Wreckage

Minus 5: (Not in order) (w/John on guitar, Jim "jimmy talent" Talstra on bass and Ezra Holbrook on the drums)
Dear Employer
Little Black Eff
Lonely Coffin
Out There On The Maroon
Albuquerque
The Night Chicago Died, Again
Twilight Ditillery (with John Wesley Harding)
Time Bomb High School
Teenage Idol
With A Gun
Aw Shit Man
You Don't Mean It
Strychnine
Mary Lou
Original Luke
I'm not bitter

encores:
Ghost Tarts
Cigarettes Cofffee and Booze
Sometimes good guys don't wear white (jim sangster on bass)
She Belongs to Me (with JWH)
Strychnine
Ballad of John & Yoko (with JWH)

Return of the Tripwires:
She's A Mod
Break it All
Have Love, Will Travel (with Michael Maker)

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin has a lot on his plate, what with his rush to alter existing media-ownership rules in favor of giant media conglomerates. He'll be in Seattle on Friday for the sixth and final public hearing on media ownership, which will examine the prudence of relaxing current stipulations. Jet lag is tough, but the crowd Martin will encounter here is likely to be even tougher.

The Seattle proceedings were announced at the last minute, giving citizens little time to prepare arguments. Many question whether Martin is sincere in his assessment of public opinion — which, when it comes to further media consolidation, is decidedly negative.

Scott McCaughey adds his many talents to the new Breakup Society album, "Nobody Likes A Winner". Scott does lead vocal on the track “By A Thread” and adds keys, guitar and harmonies to several other numbers.

The album will be released November 13 through Get Hip Records.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Nobody Likes A Winner
2. The World Will Change Our Love
3. How Failure Saved Me From Myself
4. Strictly Biological Heart
5. 13th Angry Man
6. This Little Tragedy
7. Another Candlelit Night
8. By A Thread
9. No One Wants To Be Remembered
10. Lower Expectations
11. The Day Before The First Day Of The Rest Of My Life
12. I Didn't Mean To Wreck Your Day
13. Forget The Past
14. This Doesn't Matter

On November 12th "Makes You Look Around", The Tripwires debut album will finally hit the shelfs of the music shops. (Though you can order your copy already Nov. 8th at www.paisleypop.com.)
The Tripwires is the new band of Minus 5 guitarist John Ramberg, formerly know of "The Model Rockets". Another famous face in the band is Jim Sangster, bass player from the Young Fresh Fellows. While his Brother Johnny plays guitar and Mark Pickerel keeps the beat steady on the drums.
The Tripwires will play two record release parties, one in Portland and one in Seattle along with the Fellows and The Minus 5.

The Tripwires:
Nov 9 - The Tractor Tavern, Seattle, WA (w/The Young Fresh Fellows)
Nov 10 - The Towne Lounge, Portland, OR (w/The Minus 5)

From "The Village Voice" interview with Steve Wynn

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And the recording project after that:
Steve Wynn: “I’m doing a baseball record. I’ve wanted to do this for a long time, a record entirely about baseball, touting specific players or incidents, things like that. I’ve been talking about this for a long time now, thinking of ways to do it, and I met up with Scott McCaughey from R.E.M., Young Fresh Fellows, the Minus Five. We met up about half a year ago and I told him about it and it turns out he’s as big a baseball fan as I am and he flipped out, so we’re going to get together, Scott and myself and Peter Buck and Linda (Miracle 3 drummer Pitmon), and do the record in December in Portland because Peter’s got a studio there. It’s pretty convenient. And again, we’re going to write a lot on our own before we get together and then collaborate once we’re there. I’ll probably come back from Slovenia and watch the World Series and write during the entire Series.”
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You can read the rest of the interview here.