Tour filming

The European shows were filmed, probably not for a live dvd, but rather for ,,personal use''.

officialtomwaits.com down

officialtomwaits.com, which previously hosted the Tom Waits Digest, now redirects automatically to anti.com, Waits' label.


UPDATE: The redirect does not seem to work anymore, the site looks to be completely down.

Real Gone tour 2004 dates and set lists

Click on the show dates to go to original posts, with all the visitor's comments.

Vancouver, Orpheum Theater, 15 Oct., 2004
Jockey Full of Bourbon
Make It Rain
Heartattack & Vine
All Stripped Down
Top of the Hill
Sins of My Father
Hoist That Rag
Temptation
Dead and Lovely
Table Top Joe
Part You Throw Away
Metropolitan Glide
How's It Gonna End
Hang Down Your Head
Day After Tomorrow
Murder in the Red Barn
Kommeniezuspadt
House Where Nobody Lives (on piano)
Some Lucky Day (on piano)
16 Shells

Vancouver, Commodore Ballroom, 16 Oct., 2004
Make It Rain
Don't Go Into That Barn
All Stripped Down
Heartattack and Vine
Hoist That Rag
Sins Of My Father
Table Top Joe
Temptation
Dead and Lovely
Kommeniezuspadt
Jockey Full Of Bourbon
Get Behind the Mule
Metropolitan Glide
Day After Tomorrow
Shake It
Invitation to the Blues
Misery is the River of the World
House Where Nobody Lives
Lucky Day

Seattle, Paramount Theatre, 18 Oct., 2004
Make It Rain
Don't Go Into That Barn
Temptation
Baby Gonna Leave Me
Hoist That Rag
Sins Of My Father
Earth Died Screaming
Table Top Joe
November
The Part You Throw Away
Dead and Lovely
Kommienezuspadt
Metropolitan Glide
Murder In The Red Barn
Day After Tomorrow
Shake It
Top Of The Hill
Hang Down Your Head
House Where Nobody Lives

Antwerp, Bourla, 13 Nov., 2004
Make It Rain
Don’t Go Into That Barn
Walk Away
Lost At The Bottom Of The World
Hoist That Rag
Sins Of My Father (with a little excerpt from the gospel Wade in the Water)
(Story of Johnny Eck) Tabletop Joe
Dead And Lovely
God’s Away On Business
November
Kommeniezuspadt
Jockey Full Of Bourbon
Murder In The Red Barn
Trampled Rose
Metropolitan Glide
Day After Tomorrow
Shake It
Singapore
Alice second encore

Berlin, Theater des Westens, 15 Nov., 2004
Make it rain
Don´t go into that barn
Lost at the bottom of the world
Hoist that rag
The sins of the father
Top of the hill (with a little snippet of Mungo Jerry's in the Summertime)
Trampled rose
All the world is green
Misery´s the river of the world
God's away on Business
Alice
Table top joe
Metropolitan Glide
Get behind the mule
Day after Tomorrow
Shake It
Johnsburg, Illinois
Lost in the harbour
Lucky Day
Jockey full of bourbon

Berlin, Theater des Westens, 16 Nov., 2004
Make it rain
Don´t go into that barn
Walk away
Hoist that rag
Sins of the father
Way down in the hole
All the world is green
God´s away on buisness
November
Misery's the river of the world
Alice
Table top joe
Murder in the red barn (soft blues verision)
Day after tomorrow
Shake it
Metropolitan glide
Get behind the mule
Trampled rose
Invitation to the blues
House where nobody lives

Berlin, Theater des Westens, 17 Nov., 2004
Make it rain
Don´t go into that barn
Hoist that rag
Sins of the father
Earth died screaming (on harmonium)
Reeperbahn (on harmonium)
The part you throw away
Alice
God´s away on business (on harmonium)
Diamond in your mind (on harmonium)
Metropolitan glide (with CR Avery)
Heartattack and vine (with CR Avery)
Walk away
Day after tomorrow
Shake it
Come on up to the house (on harmonium)
Trampled rose
November
Get behind the mule (with CR Avery)
Lucky day (on harmonium)

Amsterdam, Carré, 19 Nov., 2004
Make it rain
Don't go into that barn
Lost at the bottom of the world
Hoist that rag
Sins of the father
Straight to the top
Reeperbahn
God is away on business
Alice
November
Misery is the river of the world
Come on up to the house
Metropolitan glide
Walk Away
Day after tomorrow
Shake it
Invitation to the blues
Johnsburg, Illinois
House where nobody lives

Amsterdam, Carré, 20 Nov., 2004
Make It Rain
Don't Go Into That Barn
Trampled rose
Hoist That Rag
Sins Of My Father
God Is Away On Business
Reeperbahn
Alice
November
Dead and lovely
I'll shoot the moon
Metropolitan Glide
Hold on
Walk away
Day after tomorrow
Shake It

First encore:
Come On Up To The House
Picture in a frame
Lucky Day

Second encore:
Murder in the red barn

Amsterdam, Carré, 21 Nov., 2004
Hoist that rag
Make it rain
Jockey full of bourbon
Don't go into that barn
Sins of the father
Straight to the top (rhumba & vegas version)
God's away on bunesiness
Misery is the river of the world
Alice
November
Eyeball kid
Walk away
Metropolitan glide
What's he building
Shake it
16 shells
Trampled rose
House where nobody lives
Lucky day

London, Carling Apollo, 23 Nov., 2004
Hoist that rag (with Tom's son)
Make it rain
Jockey full of Bourbon
Don't go into the barn
The sins of my father (with Wade in the water)
Eyeball kid (with harmonium)
Straight to the top (Vegas / Rhumba medley)
Alice
God's away on business (harmonium)
November (harmonium)
Fish and bird (harmonium & Ribot on cornet)
Baby gonna leave me
Murder in the red barn
The day after tomorrow
Shake it (With Tom's son)
Trampled rose
Invitation to the blues (piano)
Johnsburg, Illinois (piano)
Come on up to the house (piano)
The house where nobody lives (piano)

London set list

Set list for the Hammersmith Apollo (23 November):


Hoist the rag (with Tom's?)
Make it rain
Jockey full of Bourbon
Don't go into the barn
The sins of my father (with Wade in the water)
Eyeball kid (with harmonium)
Straight to the top (Vegas / Rhumba medley)
Alice
God's away on business (harmonium)
November (harmonium)
Fish and bird (harmonium & Ribot on cornet)
Baby gonna leave me
Murder in the red barn
The day after tomorrow
Shake it (With Tom's son ?)

Trampled rose
Invitation to the blues (piano)
Johnsburg, Illinois (piano)
Come on up to the house (piano)
The house where nobody lives (piano)

Thanks to x.

Amsterdam setlist (#3)

The set list for the third and last Amsterdam show (November 21):

Hoist that rag
Make it rain
Jockey full of bourbon
Don't go into that barn
Sins of the father
Straight to the top (rhumba & vegas version)
God's away on bunesiness
Misery is the river of the world
Alice
November
Eyeball kid
Walk away
Metropolitan glide
What's he building
Shake it
16 shells
Trampled rose
House where nobody lives
Lucky day

 
Thanks to Frans

Amsterdam setlist (#2)

The set list for the second Amsterdam show (November 20):

Make It Rain
Don't Go Into That Barn
Trampled rose
Hoist That Rag
Sins Of My Father
God Is Away On Business
Reeperbahn
Alice
November
Dead and lovely
I'll shoot the moon
Metropolitan Glide
Hold on
Walk away
Day after tomorrow
Shake It

First encore:
Come On Up To The House
Picture in a frame
Lucky Day

Second encore:
Murder in the red barn



This one should be pretty accurate, thanks to Helen. Again, a boy on percussion for Hoist that rag, presumably Tom's son Sullivan.

As always, one address for additions or corrections.

Amsterdam setlist (#1)

The updated setlist for the first Amsterdam show (November 19).

Make it rain
Don't go into that barn
Lost at the bottom of the world
Hoist that rag
Sins of the father
Straight to the top
Reeperbahn
God is away on business
Alice
November
Misery is the river of the world
Come on up to the house
Metropolitan glide
Walk Away
Day after tomorrow
Shake it
Invitation to the blues
Johnsburg, Illinois
House where nobody lives

Initially, it was reported they played Take It With Me, but apparently they didn't. If you've got any info on the concert, you can mail me.



(thanks to Richard, Shane, Nol and a bunch of others)

Berlin set list (#3)

I've got an update for the set list for the third Berlin show (November 17).

During Hoist that rag, a kid (11-12 years old?) was playing percussion with Brain. CR Avery joined the band on stage for some beatboxin' and he played harp on Heartattack and vine.

Make it rain
Don´t go into that barn
Hoist that rag
Sins of the father
Earth died screaming (on harmonium)
Reeperbahn (on harmonium)
The part you throw away
Alice
God´s away on business (on harmonium)
Diamond in your mind (on harmonium)
Metropolitan glide (with CR Avery)
Heartattack and vine (with CR Avery)
Walk away
Day after tomorrow
Shake it

First encore:
Come on up to the house (on harmonium)
Trampled rose
November

Second encore:
Get behind the mule (with CR Avery)
Lucky day (on harmonium)



Thanks to Sylvain, Reiner and Manfred.
You can mail me corrections.


UPDATE (December 17): Initially, I posted Tom played no piano, but listening to the recordings of this night, that obviously seems wrong. Thanks to Do for pointing that out.

# 1.000

For the first time, this weblog has reached over a thousand page views in one single day. If you were here at 20:16 (GMT+1) and if you came through Eclipse Networking Ltd. in the UK, you were # 1.000. Buy yourself a drink.

We finished the day at 1.248 pageviews.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed - there's plenty of you. Buy yourself a drink as well.

Adieu Radical Wacko

Nathan has decided to close down his excellent Tom Waits weblog Time Waits For No One. I would like to thank him for all his good work and I hope to see him over here from time to time.

Berlin setlist (#2)

The set list for the second Berlin show (November 16):

Make it rain
Don´t go into that barn
Walk away
Hoist that rag
Sins of the father
Way down in the hole
All the world is green
God´s away on buisness
November
Misery's the river of the world
Alice
Table top joe
Murder in the red barn (soft blues verision)
Day after tomorrow
Shake it

First encore:
Metropolitan glide
Get behind the mule
Trampled rose

Second encore (on piano):
Invitation to the blues
House where nobody lives



During Don´t go into that barn and Metropolitan glide, CR Avery, a beatbox poet musician from Vancouver did some beatboxin' and some harmonica playing.

A big thank you to John Murphy La Vecchia Via Solitaria and Helen for the info on the Berlin shows.

Antwerp webcast

Tonight, at midnight EST until 3 a.m. EST (7 a.m. GMT until 10 a.m. GMT) the Tom Waits World of Adventure show on krankit.com will be playing cuts from the show in Antwerp plus some other rarities and Tom influenced songs.

Berlin setlist (#1)

The set list for the first Berlin show (November 15):

Make it rain
Don´t go into that barn
Lost at the bottom of the world
Hoist that rag
The sins of the father
Top of the hill (with a little snippet of Mungo Jerry's in the Summertime)
Trampled rose
All the world is green
Misery´s the river of the world
God's away on Business
Alice
Table top joe
Metropolitan Glide
Get behind the mule
Day after Tomorrow
Shake It

First encore (all on piano):
Johnsburg, Illinois
Lost in the harbour
Lucky Day

Second encore:
Jockey full of bourbon

Live album?

Latest rumour: according to a spokes person from Epitaph Belgium, there's a distinct possibility there might be released a live album or dvd - based on the current tour - someday.

No further confirmation yet...

Bourla set list

Here's the setlist for the Antwerp show, or what I can remember of it;

Make It Rain
Don’t Go Into That Barn
Walk Away
Lost At The Bottom Of The World (*)
Hoist That Rag
Sins Of My Father (with a little excerpt from the gospel Wade in the Water)
(Story of Johnny Eck) Tabletop Joe
Dead And Lovely
God’s Away On Business
November
Kommeniezuspadt
Jockey Full Of Bourbon
Murder In The Red Barn
Trampled Rose
Metropolitan Glide
Day After Tomorrow
Shake It

First encore:
Singapore

Second encore:
Alice second encore

(*) A new song, recorded for the Jack Cahill & David Eberhardt's documentary "Long Gone"

Apparently many famous faces (well, at least in Flanders) In the audience; Tom Lenaerts, Herman Schuermans, Gilda De Bal, Guy Polspoel, Anton Corbijn, Jan Decleir, Dirk Tuypens, Michael Pas and Jari Demeulemeester.

No merchandise was sold. The Bourla people did sell some cd's and a vinyl record of 'Real Gone', which came with some free posters. If any one has a spare one, don't hesistate to contact me

Thanks to several dogs

Willie Nelson covers Picture in a Frame

Willie Nelson covers Picture in a Frame on his latest album It Always Will Be. Amazon.com has a clip of it.

Waits film festival

This might be interesting for those in the Saint Louis area: Euclid Records stages An Evening With Tom Waits today (6-9 p.m.) with a screening of Big Time and Fishing with John. Euclid Records  601 East Lockwood  St. Louis, Missouri 63119 is the place to be.

Bourla vouchers

Some information for those who managed to book a Bourla ticket: the vouchers are arriving.