I spent my New Year’s Eve with Jeremy Enigk at Chop Suey. It was incredible. I went Saturday night as well (he played both the 30th and 31st), and while both nights featured the same set list for the majority of the show, it was a good mix of both new material from World Waits and older tunes from Return of the Frog Queen.

He played most of the set with a full band—Joe Skyward on bass, Josh Myers on keyboards, Kaanan Tupper on drums, and Billy Dolan on guitar (who was sporting some awesome white shows for Sunday’s show).

On Sunday night, New Year’s Eve, he went on just after midnight and began the New Year with “A New Beginning.” So perfect. He also played “Been Here Before,” “River to Sea,” “City Tonight,” “Cannons” (hooray!), “Damien Dreams” (complete with an apology/dedication to Damien Jurado, who was in the crowd Saturday evening), “Dare a Smile” (Saturday only), “Abegail Anne,” “Return of the Frog Queen,” “Lewis Hollow,” and “Carnival.”

For the encores each night, he mixed it up a little. He closed both nights with amazing performances of “Shade and the Black Hat,” which is one of my personal favorites. On Saturday, though, Jeremy coyly asked the crowd if they wanted to hear a Sunny Day Real Estate song. Of course everyone went apeshit. Someone even shouted “Get back together!” and I swear he grinned and quietly replied “Someday.” Anyway, then he grabbed his acoustic guitar and performed a solo version of “How it Feels to Be Something On.” I had goosebumps. It was incredible; I never saw Sunny Day Real Estate live. He also played “Ballroom Blitz” and “Explain” during the encores both nights. “Lizard” replaced “How it Feels” Sunday night.

Here’s a video from Sunday’s show. The song is called “Set it On Fire,” which is from the United States of Leland soundtrack. It gets really good at the end, the band goes off.

(Please forgive me for shooting the first 20 seconds of the song sideways. I stupidly thought that it was like a picture and you can just flip it later in Photoshop but DUH MEGAN, it’s a video. It doesn’t work like that. I catch on and correct the problem, though. Sorry I’m an idiot.)