{"id":486,"date":"2009-12-04T17:28:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T01:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doublehalo.com\/blog\/?p=486"},"modified":"2010-01-03T17:41:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T01:41:02","slug":"the-wrens-20th-anniversary-shows-maxwells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doublehalo.com\/blog\/?p=486","title":{"rendered":"The Wrens 20th Anniversary shows @ Maxwell&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"The Wrens\" src=\"http:\/\/doublehalo.com\/blogmedia\/2009\/12\/wrens1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"247\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"The Wrens\" src=\"http:\/\/doublehalo.com\/blogmedia\/2009\/12\/wrens2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"216\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The most anticipated shows for me (and the rest of the world) was <strong>The Wrens<\/strong> playing 3 shows to celebrate their 20th year anniversary. They consisted of the an all-request show, the album <em>The Meadowlands<\/em> in full, and a final set composing only new songs.<\/p>\n<p>The early set the second night consisted of the album <em>Meadowlands<\/em> from front to back to a perfect sold out crowd. Between songs they would tell stories of the band and their long history together. I hoped for a &#8220;do-over&#8221; when they accidentally switched the order of 2 songs, <em>Ex-Girl Collection before Boys, You Won&#8217;t.<\/em> I think it was the second time in history they played <em>Ex-Girl Collection<\/em> probably due to its difficulty playing a 12 string guitar live. The set was flawless and incredible hearing it all in a live setting with great fans. For the end they let the crowd join them onstage to share the energy of that night.<\/p>\n<p>I was very eager to hear new songs from the late set but they only played 3 new ones. They played all the hits from their albums and played an equally dynamic set. Although sloppy at points you could tell they were having a blast onstage and the crowd reacted positively. They seemed more relaxed and funny this time around and even played &#8220;Freebird&#8221; when someone inevitable and idiotically requested it. Tonight was one of the best nights in 09 and a clear reminder that Wrens can still put on one of the most exciting live shows you&#8217;ll ever go to. Hopefully we won&#8217;t have to wait for another decade for a show.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doublehalo.com\/pictures2009\/wrens3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures from the show<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wrens.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/wrens.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most anticipated shows for me (and the rest of the world) was The Wrens playing 3 shows to celebrate their 20th year anniversary. They consisted of the an all-request show, the album The Meadowlands in full, and a final set composing only new songs. The early set the second night consisted of the album &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doublehalo.com\/blog\/?p=486\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Wrens 20th Anniversary shows @ Maxwell&#8217;s&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublehalo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublehalo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublehalo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublehalo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublehalo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/doublehalo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/doublehalo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublehalo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublehalo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublehalo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}