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Read: Tom Waits - Tom's Tales from Glitter and Doom

Glitter and Doom is the new live album from Tom Waits. However, it's not important for having all these live tunes on it (including one from Dublin in 2008), but for the fact that it has a disc of Tom Waits doing his own semi-comedy routine. It's amazing, and for now you can read a transcript of the full thing on his website. The album is released on November 24th, so you'll have to wait until then to hear it.

CD1:
01 Lucinda / Ain't Goin Down (Birmingham - 07/03/08)
02 Singapore (Edinburgh - 07/28/08)
03 Get Behind the Mule (Tulsa - 06/25/08)
04 Fannin Street (Knoxville - 06/29/08)
05 Dirt in the Ground (Milan - 07/19/08)
06 Such a Scream (Milan - 07/18/08)
07 Live Circus (Jacksonville - 07/01/08)
08 Goin' Out West (Tulsa - 06/25/08)
09 Falling Down (Paris - 07/25/08)
10 The Part You Throw Away (Edinburgh - 07/28/08)
11 Trampled Rose (Dublin - 08/01/08)
12 Metropolitan Glide (Knoxville - 6/29/08)
12 I'll Shoot the Moon (Paris - 07/24/08)
13 Green Grass (Edinburgh - 07/27/08)
14 Make It Rain (Atlanta - 07/05/08)
15 Story (Columbus - 06/28/08)
16 Lucky Day (Atlanta - 07/05/08)

CD2:
01 Tom Tales

Read it here:
http://www.tomwaits.com/albums/#/albums/album/33/Glitter_and_Doom_Live/

Click on "Disc 2" for the full transcript.

Watch the preview for the album:

Setlist: Tom Waits, The Ratcellar, Phoenix Park, Dublin, 1 August 2008

Don't know if Johnny Depp was at last night's show, but myself and the other half are going to visit all the Dublin hotels to try and stalk him out!

Lucinda
Raindogs/Russian Dance
Down in the hole
I'll shoot the moon
Other side of the world
Falling Down
Jesus' gonna be here
Tom Traubert's Blues
Heart of Saturday Night
Lost in the Harbor
House Where Nobody Lives
Innocent When you Dream
Hoist That Rag
Cemetery Polka
Green Grass
Long Way Home
Lie to Me
Blue Valentines
Trampled Rose
Eyeball Kid
Going Out West
God's Away on Business
Make it Rain
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16 Shells from a thirty-ought six
Heigh Ho
Dirt in the Ground
Metropolitan Glide
Lucky Day

Setlist: Tom Waits, Ratcellar, Phoenix Park, Dublin, 31 July 2008

Never mind Shane McGowan at The Ratcellar in the Phoenix Park for Tom Waits on Wednesday night, Thursday night had Edward Scissorhands himself, Johnny Depp. And if any of you got the Metro this morning (i.e. you didn't phone in sick after seeing Tom last night), you may have read that he is rumoured to play The Riddler in the next Batman film. How amazing would that be.

Thursday Set List:
Lucinda
Down in the hole
Come on up the house
The bottom of the world
Jockey full of bourbon
Chocolate Jesus
Misery is the river of the world
Picture in a frame
Tango till they're sore
Invitation to the blues
House where nobody lives
Innocent when you dream
Lie to me
Sixteen shells from a thirty-ought six
9th & Hennepin
Black market baby
Trampled rose
Hoist that rag
All the world is green
Hang down your head
Raindogs/Russian Dance
Make it rain
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Heart attack and vine
November
Hold on

Setlist: Tom Waits, The Ratcellar, Phoenix Park, 30 July 2008

Shane McGowan was in attendance for the first night of Tom Wait's trio of performances at The Ratcellar in the Phoenix Park last night. He was looking for a Guinness, but instead found a veteran artist at the top of his game.

Jim Carroll has a great review of last night's show here:
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/ontherecord/2008/07/31/a-night-out-with-crazy-ol-tom/
He lists ten interesting and funny aspects of the gig. The tenth is excellent:
"(10) The reason why the venue is called The Rat Cellar? The audience looked like drowned rats slinking away afterwards into the Dublin night as the rain came down in buckets"

Setlist:
Lucinda / Ain’t Goin’ Down to the Well
Raindogs
Falling Down
On the Other Side of the World
I’ll Shoot the Moon
Cemetery Polka
Get Behind the Mule
Cold Cold Ground
Singapore
Circus / Tabletop Joe
God’s Away on Business
Tom Traubert’s Blues
On the Nickel
Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minnneapolis
House Where Nobody Lives
Innocent When You Dream
Lie to Me
Hoist that Rag
Bottom of the World
Green Grass
Way Down in the Hole
Metropolitan Glide
Dirt in the Ground
Make it Rain
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Jesus Gonna Be Here
Eyeball Kid
Time

Stream: Tom Waits live in Atlanta

That's Atlanta, Georgia, not Atalanta, Italy. I always got them confused when I was a kid! And that's not even mentioning the lost city of Atlantis. Or the Atlantic Ocean. As you can guess, I was a huge fan of geography. A quiz genius I was. Now people (me included) rely on looking up whatever answers they don't know on their mobiles. Not really fair now is it? Is it, Tecwen Whittock?

Anyhow, to gear you up for Tom Waits' two shows at the Ratcellar in the Phoenix Park (not Phoenix, Arizona. Ah no, I won't do this joke again!) this week, you can stream Tom's show at the Fox Theater in Atlanta, from the 5th of July 2008. This will also satiate the appetites of those people who couldn't get tickets and aren't willing to pay over the top from some backstreet fiddler. And note, the second show is also the final show of his World Tour this year. Bound to be amazing.

The show is available for streaming on NPR's excellent website, here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92916923

with a Setlist of:
"Lucinda / Ain't Going Down to the Well"
"Down in the Hole"
"Falling Down"
"Chocolate Jesus"
"All the World Is Green"
"Cemetery Polka"
"Cause of It All"
"Till the Money Runs Out"
"Such a Scream"
"November"
"Hold On"
"Black Market Baby"
"9th and Hennepin"
"Lie to Me"
"Lucky Day"
"On the Nickel"
"Lost in the Harbor"
"Innocent When You Dream"
"Hoist That Rag"
"Make It Rain"
"Dirt in the Ground"
"Get Behind the Mule"
"Hang Down Your Head"
"Jesus Gonna Be Here"
"Singapore"
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"Eyeball Kid"
"Anywhere I Lay My Head"

Also, see Mixtape4Melfi for travel arrangements:
http://mixtape4melfi.blogspot.com/2008/07/tom-waits-phoenix-park-weds-thurs.html

Doors/Gates open at half six, with the show starting at eight each night.