For years, the North Carolina indie rock greats Wednesday's greatest nemesis in the acronymic realm of SEO and DSPs has been Wednesday, the Netflix series starring Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams. So it's only fitting that for their hometown Halloween show, they dressed up as the Addams Family. A special Halloween show billed as Wednesday Presents: Mr.
Rat's Haunted Corn Maze took place Saturday night at the Orange Peel in Wednesday's hometown of Asheville. For the occasion, Karly Hartzman dressed as Pugsley, Alan Miller was Uncle Fester, Xandy Chelmis went as Gomez, Jake "Spyder" Pugh was Morticia, and Ethan Baechtold dressed up as Cousin Itt. The setlist was peppered with covers for the occasion.
Wednesday opened with Deftones' "Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away)." A few songs later, they did 'Til Tuesday's "Voices Carry." Later came Unwound's "Corpse Pose" and Lucinda Williams' "Lonely Girls," then Hartzman's dad, George, joined on guitar for Jane's Addiction's "Jane Says." A late stretch of four straight covers began with Flyleaf's "I'm So Sick," followed by the Cranberries' "Linger" with Tanner York. (Wednesday previously covered "Linger" on Halloween way back in 2019.) York stuck around for Big Star's "September Gurls," which also featured the show's opening act, Snail Mail's Lindsey Jordan. Then came a cover so intrinsic to Wednesday's ethos that it feels like an original at this point, Gary Stewart's "She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinking Doubles)." All that, plus a bunch of classic Wednesday songs? Sounds like an amazing night in the American South.
Check out footage from the show plus the full setlist below. SETLIST:"Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away)""Hot Rotten Grass Smell""Candy Breath""Voices Carry""Fate Is...""Twin Plagues""Corpse Pose""Pick Up That Knife""Lonely Girls""Jane Says" (with George Hartzman)"Coyote""I'm So Sick""Linger" (with Tanner York)"September Gurls" (with Tanner York and Lindsey Jordan of Snail Mail)"She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinking Doubles)""Townies""Wasp"ENCORE:"Elderberry Wine"
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