2021-08-06 - The Orange Peel - Asheville, NC

Setlist[]

Order	Song	Album
1	"Aulon Raid"	Songs for Pierre Chuvin
2	"The Destruction of the Kola Superdeep Borehole Tower"	Dark in Here
3	"You or Your Memory"	The Sunset Tree
4	"As Many Candles As Possible"	Getting Into Knives
5	"Sax Rohmer #1"	Heretic Pride
6	"Tidal Wave"	Getting Into Knives
7	"Never Quite Free"	All Eternals Deck
8	"Going to Alaska"	Taboo VI: The Homecoming
9	"Stack Em Up" (video)	unreleased
10	"Black Pear Tree"	Black Pear Tree
11	"Lizard Suit"	Dark in Here
12	"The Diaz Brothers"	Transcendental Youth
13	"Getting Into Knives"	Getting Into Knives
14	"Whole Wide World"	Sweden
15	"Broom People"	The Sunset Tree
16	"Amy AKA Spent Gladiator 1"	Transcendental Youth
17	"Heel Turn 2"	Beat the Champ
18	"Up the Wolves"	The Sunset Tree
19	"No Children" (video)	Tallahassee
20	"This Year"	The Sunset Tree
21	"Spent Gladiator 2"	Transcendental Youth

Songs 8 and 9 were played solo by John Darnielle.
Song 10 was played by John Darnielle and Matt Douglas.
The encore was songs 18 to 21.
No title was given for song 9 during the show.
This was the first in-person live show since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A few hours before the doors opened, John tweeted, "Feels very very good to start writing up a set list for the first time since February 2020"
That night, John tweeted, "To stand on stage and play for you tonight, Asheville, was to experience a homecoming we have yearned for — thank you, from all of us, for this special night"