What better way to wrap up Christmas weekend than a sold out show at the 9:30 Club featuring the one and only Clutch? Sell out might be an understatement for this show at the 9:30 Club was bursting at the seams with fans. The guys are out on a short five day run to close out what has been a very successful year for the band. Having released “Psychic Warfare” in October on their own label Weathermaker Music and watching it climb to #1 on the both Billboard’s US Top Hard Rock Albums, and the US Top Rock Albums, as well as #2 on the US Independent Albums charts.
The five day run has VALKYRIE and CROBOT featured as the support acts. I spoke with Jake Figueroa of Crobot outside the venue before the show and he stated the band hopes to have a new album out by mid-2016, but fans didn’t have to wait that long as the band played several new songs during their 45 minute set. Look for the guys to hit the studio in early 2016 and to continue touring thru out the coming year.
I’ve seen Clutch play many times at several different venues and festivals, but there’s nothing quite like seeing Neil and the guys take the stage of the 9:30 Club. The 9:30 Club has always been a special venue for Clutch so it was no surprise that they chose this night to film footage for an upcoming documentary. The seventeen song setlist weighed heavily on the new album with eight songs coming from “Psyschic Warfare”.
Several of the upcoming five shows have already sold out and tickets for the remaining shows are going fast. Clutch will kick off 2016 with a string of shows in Australia and will play part on The Worlds Loudest Month’s festivals in May.
Setlist for the night
“X-Ray Visions”
“Firebirds”
“Crucial Velocity”
“The Dragonfly”
“Quick Death In Texas”
“The Face”
“Noble Savage”
“Your Love Is Incarceration”
“Sucker For The Witch”
“Our Lady Of Electric Light”
“Behold The Colossus”
“Earthrocker”
“D.C. Sound Attack”
“Decapitation Blues”
“Son Of Virginia”
“The Soapmakers”
“The Mob Goes Wild”
