The reunited Violent Femmes — Gordon Gano, Victor DeLorenzo and Brian Ritchie — played their first show in five years Saturday at Coachella, performing its beloved 1983 debut album front-to-back. You can now watch the full 56-minute set via this capture of the festival’s webcast, which features the full performance of Violent Femmes plus three more songs.
The Femmes haven’t said how much touring they’ll be doing this year, but, so far, two more shows are confirmed following next week’s second Coachella set. See dates below.
Setlist: Violent Femmes, Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, Indio, Calif., 4/13/13
1. “Blister in the Sun”
2. “Kiss Off”
3. “Please Do Not Go”
4. “Add It Up”
5. “Confessions”
6. “Prove My Love”
7. “Promise”
8. “To the Kill”
9. “Gone Daddy Gone”
20. “Good Feeling”
21. “Gimme the Car”
22. “I Held Her in My Arms”
23. “American Music”
Violent Femmes tour dates:
April 20: Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, Indio, CA
May 9: Bottle Rock Festival, Napa, CA
June 26: Marcus Amphitheater, Milwaukee, WI
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Violent Femmes on Coachella reunion: ‘It will be a monstrous thing of beauty’
- Video: Ceremony covers Violent Femmes’ ‘Kiss Off’ for The A.V. Club
- Video: Dresden Dolls, Mick Harvey, Brian Ritchie perform Violent Femmes’ debut
- Brian Ritchie enlists The Dresden Dolls, Mick Harvey to perform Violent Femmes’ debut
- Midnight Oil, Violent Femmes members form instrumental surf-rock band The Break
video removed by user. Awesome.
This is sad for the fans going to the NY show!!!
Tuesday, July 16th, 2013 … 12:01am
PRESS RELEASE for IMMEDIATE RELEASE! … ( I request that you please print this in full )
Why the Summerfest show will be the last one I ever play with Violent Femmes by Victor DeLorenzo
It’s always hard to write a eulogy for a lost loved one. In this case, I sadly lament the loss of a dream and an ideal that was once Violent Femmes.
When I first heard the news about the possibility of the original Violent Femmes reuniting, I was excited that once again our group might be able to play music for the fans that love us and for the new fans that have never had the chance to see us create the music live. The only conditions that I had were that the 3 of us move forward to repair our relationships within the band, and that we would strive to attain a fair business agreement that would reflect a new way of handlingthe business that wouldn’t be “business as usual”. Sadly, my open-hearted approach to finding a way to move forward wasn’t shared by Violent Femmes. What was finally being offered to me was, “business as usual”, with a great deal of disrespect, dishonesty and greed.
After having found out that the Promoters of our recent concerts weren’t interested in booking our group unless it was, “the reunion of the original band”, I spoke to 2 of the biggest concert Promoters in the World that handled 2 of our shows, and they told me directly that this was true. So it confuses me that fans and the promoters see the value in presenting the original band, but not the band itself. I realize that I’m no longer part of the copyright after having given up my business interest in Violent Femmes years ago, but I will always be part of the birthright of Violent Femmes, for which I will always be very proud! I’m sorry and I apologize that the fans, promoters and agents won’t get to see the Violent Femmes show that was being offered and that people bought tickets to see…
As John Lennon once said, “the Dream is over” … In regards to my history with Violent Femmes, “the Dream never quite got there”.
So………
On the evening of June 26th, 2013 …. On the stage of the Marcus Amphitheater at Summerfest … I gave to the World my last performance with Violent Femmes … Milwaukee, … We were yours for the night, and now … FOREVER!
Sincerely and with warm regards, Victor Delirenzo