NYC Show Obsessive

  Bill: Kula Shaker/The Mystery Lights/Dinowalrus Venue: Irving Plaza , 17 Irving Pl ., New York, NY Date: 9/22/25 Tickets: $47.50 (got free from DoNYC) 9:50pm Kula Shaker Active: 1993 (London, UK) Latest Release:   Natural Magick (Strange F.O.L.K., 2024) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube 8:40pm The Mystery Lights Active: 2008 (Brooklyn, NY via Salinas, CA) Latest Release: Before You Realize It b/w Cerebral Crack (Wick, 2025)  Purgatory (Wick, 2024) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic   7:50pm Dinowalrus Active: 2007 (Brooklyn, NY) Affiliated: Titus Andronicus Latest Release: " A Day Of Doing Nothing " (Dinowalrus, 2025), Complexion (Personal, 2014) Bandcamp Facebook Instgram Discogs Setlist Wiki YouTube Kula Shaker has been a bucket list band to see since I got their first CD on my old friends' recommendation.  I probably haven't heard it since 1996 but songs like "Hey Dude" and "...

  Bill: Pulp/Hamilton Leithauser Venue: Forest Hills Stadium , 1 Tennis Pl, Forest Hills , Queens, NY Date: 9/11/25 Price: $49+ (won tickets via OhMyRockness) 8:15pm Pulp Active: 1978 (Sheffield, UK) Latest Release: More. (Rough Trade, 2025) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube 7pm Hamilton Leithauser Active: 1996 (New York via Washington DC) Affiliated: The Walkmen Latest Release: This Side Of The Island (Glassnote, 2025) Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Although they did most of their significant albums (for me Different Class & This Is Hardcore, which encompassed almost half this show), Pulp are not yet a "nostalgia band."  They are touring on a new album, More.  Since I hadn't heard the album before the show, I'll have to say the ones I remembered were "Got To Have Love" and the show closer "A Sunset" mostly because it was the announced show closer. Pulp is one of those aut...