Can you believe New Found Glory has been around 20 years? Me neither, yes, it’s true that one band we all loved in High School is still going strong in 2017 and I saw first hand why they are the Kings of Pop Punk. Last Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights, New Found Glory played three sold out shows at Slim’s in San Francisco. New Found Glory are out celebrating their 20th anniversary as a band by playing all over the country and playing albums in their entirely from their catalog.
I went to New Found Glory’s first two nights at Slim’s and it was a fun trip down memory lane. New Found Glory has always been one of my favorite bands and like most people in attendance have been fans of them since I was in High School.
Along with New Found Glory’s 20th anniversary as a band, they are also promoting the release of their ninth studio album “Make Me Sick” which is out now through Hopeless Records.
New Found Glory sounded amazing and had so much energy on stage, everyone was running around all night long. Only downside from their performances is now that they are four piece (Guitarist Steve Klein left the band in 2013) when they play their older songs live, that were originally recorded with two guitars, the songs sound not as full as they once did.
Over the span of two nights I was able to hear New Found Glory’s first 4 albums in their entirely. These songs were the soundtrack to my High School and College years. The band sounds great. Good times.
Night number one New Found Glory performed their first album, “Nothing Gold Can Stay” (1999) and their third album “Sticks and Stones” (2002). I had so much fun hearing songs that I haven’t heard performed live before and songs that the band has never played live before.
Here is the setlist from New Found Glory’s performance from night one at Slim’s in San Francisco:
1. Understatement
2. Tell Tale Heart
3. Never Give Up
4. Winter of ’95
5. Something I Call Personality
6. The Great Houdini
7. 3rd and Long
8. Belated
9. The Goodbye Song
10. Never Sometimes
11. Sonny
12. The Blue Stare
13. Head On Collision
14. You’ve Got A Friend In Pennsylvania
15. Happy Being Miserable
16. It’s Been A Summer
17. Passing Time
18. Singled Out
19. Forget My Name
20. 2’s & 3’s
21. The Story So Far
22. Hit Or Miss
Encore:
23. Broken Sound
24. It Never Snows In Florida
25. My Friends Over You
Here are some videos Baby Huey filmed from night one.
Night number two New Found Glory performed their second album, “New Found Glory” (2000) and their fourth album “Catalyst” (2004).
Here is the setlist from New Found Glory’s performance from night two at Slim’s in San Francisco:
1. Better Off Dead
2. Truth Of My Youth
3. Sincerely Me
4. Who Am I
5. Black & Blue
6. Second To Last
7. At Least I’m Known For Something
8. Vegas
9. Sucker
10. Doubt Full
11. Failure’s Not Flattering
12. Your Biggest Mistake
13. Over The Head, Below The Knees
14. Boy Crazy
15. All About Her
16. No News Is Good News
17. Eyesore
18. This Disaster
19. I’d Kill To Fall Asleep
20. Dressed To Kill
21. Party On Apocalypse
22. I Don’t Wanna Know
23. Hit Or Miss
Encore:
24. Ending In Tragedy
25. Ballad For The Lost Romantics
26. Intro
27. All Downhill From Here
Here are some videos Baby Huey filmed from night two.
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Below are some photos I took at the show and posted on my Instagram page: www.instagram.com/babyhuey83
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