Cake concert review

As long as I'm thinking about it, I should review the Cake show I saw in October. The show was on 17 October at the Vogue. The Vogue is a converted theater with an open floorplan and a balcony. It's a good live venue (and not a Clear Channel place) but unfortunately they do more dance club stuff than live music. But anyway.

I will have to write these interviews faster, because I can't remember anything about the opening act. All I can recall is that the bass was mixed too heavy, and the band wasn't particularly good or bad.

Cake put on a fine show. I would imagine that people either love or hate their live experience. As with The Weakerthans, there's not a lot of improvisation or variation from the album. On the other hand, John McCrea is all about interacting with the audience. Sometimes obsessively so. I find it to be fun and different; others might disagree.

They played a wide mix of their stuff, playing less of the new disc than I expected. But there's a lot of good songs there and it's good to hear the olders stuff as well. They opened with "It's Coming Down", McCrea mentioning that they opened with it their last time in Indy (a rainy night). Nothing hugely surprising but quite a bit of fun.

Bottom line: a very good show, as usual, and easily a band I would recommend seeing live. At least once.