Sunny Day Real Estate Plays First Show in 12 Years at Spokane Club

Sunny Day Real Estate warmed up for its extremely anticipated reunion tour final evening (Sept. 10) with a short-notice present at the 250-capacity Big Dipper in Spokane, Wash. It was the band’s first efficiency since May 2010 and launched new bassist Chris Jordan from the Seattle band Spirit Award in addition to touring guitarist Greg Suran, who will share duties with Jason Narducy all through the autumn run.

“Hello, everyone. We are Sunny Day Real Estate,” frontman Jeremy Enigk stated matter-of-factly earlier than the group launched into “Seven,” the primary music from its legendary 1994 debut album Diary. “Is this for real?” a girl in the viewers yelled. “I think so,” Enigk replied. “I might be dreaming.”

The set record featured quite a lot of songs not carried out in the course of the group’s return to exercise in 2009 and 2010, which leaned closely on Diary and its 1995 self-titled follow-up (often known as The Pink Album). Instead, Sunny Day revived the title observe and 5 different songs from 1998’s How It Feels To Be Something On and 4 from its final album thus far, 2000’s The Rising Tide.

Also making its reside debut was “Lipton Witch,” the lone new music to floor from makes an attempt to report a brand new album in conjunction with the earlier reunion. It was launched in 2014 on a cut up single with Circa Survive.

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