Well, this one should be a very interesting list! One, many are traveling to DC for this show and DC already is a Kris stronghold. Your very own KAL is DC-based! (I'll be at the show!) Two, the area is under a hurricane watch, although fortunately, as of tonight, the worst will be occurring on Monday. You'll notice I put the local subway and weather guy on it. And three, Kris gave the New York crowd a bunch of surprises last night (including the debut of Wipe it Away from Brand New Shoes)! So who knows what we are in store for!?
The list tonight will be facilitated by @Altrus01 and thank you very much to her for the help!
Kris performs twice at Joe's Pub tonight to sold out crowds for both shows! Luckily for us, the first show will be livestreamed! Go here to access it. Note: To watch, you will need to create an account with livestream.com; you can log into it with Facebook or an email. I'd suggest doing this before the show starts.
We'll just have one list tonight, since a few people who are great tweeters are going to both shows! Plus people will tweet media before and after both shows. So one list it is!
Tonight, Kris begins a four-day, five-show swing through the East Coast. Fans are very excited! This show will be the smallest of the five, but we have some excellent tweeters and video-takers on this list! Quality, not quantity, sometimes is best!
Every Thursday, we take a look back at Kris in videos, and this week it's a special one! It's the third anniversary of the Kris Allen Band's first performance as a group!
Their first gig as a band? The Miami Dolphins Tailgate performance on October 25, 2009 - a five song peek into all the musical enjoyment we would come to expect from them!
After Dark
Texas A&M
College Station, TX
8 PM Central
Tonight Kris repeats his After Dark show at Texas A&M in College Station, TX. The college students loved him in Oklahoma State at this event; expect the same here! If tweeting, use hashtag #AfterDarkTAMU.
Concert
One World Theatre
Austin, TX
October 22, 2012
Kris continues his Fall 2012 tour in Austin, TX tonight. Last night, we were treated to a new cover of the River by Garth Brooks, as well as the return of Before We Come Undone and Loves Me Not. What surprises do we have in store tonight?
Today's list is one of our little ones to see if we can get any info about a private event that Kris will perform at (along with Haley Reinhart). The occasion is the opening of Villa St. Juliette, a winery co-owned by Nigel Lythgoe and Ken Warwick. It is private and invitation-only, so we may not get many tweets, but Nigel, Kris and Haley are on the list, along with a winery and a winery association that tweeted about the opening. We'll see how it goes!
The more interesting story may be how Nigel intends to get Kris from Houston to Paso Robles, CA and back to Dallas within two days.
Tonight, Kris plays a free show to help open the new Tanger Outlets shopping center in Texas City, TX (near Houston and Galveston). His past two Tanger shows attracted large crowds and had great lists; expect the same tonight!
Every Thursday we go back in time Kris-wise and remember past shows and interviews!
Today we go back two years to one of the first shows in the Fall 2010 tour with Lifehouse and Alyssa Bernal (Remember "Cali, Cali, Cali"?) As the middle act, Kris did an eight song set that included some KATA classics and some covers, including the set-closing "Come Together."
So here's her video of Come Together from the October 17, 2010 show at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City. It's a little sound-muddled (all of the videos from that show are, must have been the sound system), but she was in the front row for one of Kris' first forays into the crowd during Come Together. Also epic Krale around 2:22.
Tonight Kris joins an epic lineup of musicians (with perhaps, just maybe, a very special rumored guest to boot) in an annual fundraiser to benefit Little Kids Rock, a music education charity Kris supports. You may recall he did this event two years ago:
This year, for the 10th anniversary, the benefit is bigger and honors E Street Band guitarist, actor, and Underground Garage host Steven Van Zandt. The amazing lineup of special guests includes the great Elvis Costello, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Members of the E Street Band Max Weinberg and Jake Clemons, Southside Johnny, Darlene Love, Dion, Gary US Bonds, Ruben Blades, Michael Des Barres, Michael Johns from Season 7 of Idol and Kris! If you think KAL (a huge Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band fan since childhood for those who did not know) is going to be fangirling, you think correctly!
The Event! Kris' Set List (with Backing Band): Solo: The Time of Your Life (Cover - Steven Van Zandt) - PREMIERE With Other Artists on Program: I Don't Want to Go Home (Cover - Southside Johnny and the Asbury Dukes, written by Steven Van Zandt) - PREMIERE Complete Set List via WCBS-FM and Backstreets.com:
Daddy's Little Girl - [Original song by Alia Baez (Little Kids Rock student) with Jake Clemons] [Video] [Video]
Black Magic Widow (Cover - Santana) - [Little Kids Rock students] [Video]
I Wish (Cover - Stevie Wonder) - [Little Kids Rock students] [Video]
One Love (Cover - Bob Marley) - [Little Kids Rock Students] [Video]
Among the Believers [Darlene Love] [Video - includes interview]
Special note: With so many artists, I'm bound to miss a video or a link! Please forward any corrections, omissions etc. to me on Twitter @KrisAllenLists or to krinjalists@gmail.com. Related Links:
Every Thursday, we take a fun look back at a Kris video of yore!
This week we are going back to his October 15, 2009, visit to Seton Hall HS in the Cincinnati area. This produced an epic, epic, did I say epic, video of Kris covering Britney Spears' Hit Me One More Time, with help from the girls of Seton Hall. Sadly, when I went to fetch that video for this post, I discovered the person who put it up on You Tube closed their account and took it down. :(
But, luckily, radio station Q102 of Cincinnati posted this awesome video for all of us - includes the Britney song, Live Like We're Dying, Kris playing viola, Kris singing Happy Birthday and much screaming. Enjoy!
Every Thursday we take a look back at a Kris video!
On October 7, 2010, the CW hit The Vampire Diaries aired an episode which included this moody scene and hopefully someone who watches TVD will explain in the comments what was happening! It's very intense, so of course the intense Kris tune I Need to Know fit perfectly as background music!
Faith/We Are Young/Some Nights (Cover - Faith/George Michael and We Are Young/Some Nights/fun. mash-up) [Video] [Video] [Video] [Video - partial] [mp3]
