My Morning Jacket honored a wide range of influences and contemporaries in Mexico over the weekend during the band’s One Big Holiday getaway. Playing three concerts on the beach spread across four nights, My Morning Jacket loaded its middle show on Friday with a slew of cover debuts by Radiohead, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Pet Shop Boys, and Nirvana.
The band came charging out of the gate on Friday at the Hard Rock Hotel in Riviera Maya, opening with a run through “Run Thru”. The It Still Moves track segued into the first cover debut of the night, Radiohead’s “The National Anthem” ahead of a “Run Through” reprise for one continuous movement. Following classics “The Way That He Sings”, “First Light”, and the first “Come Closer” since 2012, MMJ let off another debut with “Turn Your Lights Down Low” by Bob Marley. My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James previously issued a cover of the track for the Valentine’s Day compilation album Sweetheart 2014.
After chugging through other originals “Off The Record”, “Touch Me I’m Going To Scream Pt. 1”, and the band’s debut of James’ solo track “Here In Spirit”, the MMJ played its first-ever live rendition of “West End Girls” by Pet Shop Boys. The band’s cover was previously released on the 2004 compilation Chapter 2: Learning: Early Recordings, B-Sides, Covers, Y Mas but had yet to make it to the stage.
The band’s final cover of the evening was perhaps its most potent. To close out the 18-song main set, My Morning Jacket debuted a cover of “All Apologies” by Nirvana on the 30th anniversary of singer-guitarist Kurt Cobain‘s suicide. A cacophony of pounding drums and shrieking guitars took the cover to its highest highs before James pulled it back down with the continuous drone of “All in all is all we are” to end the cover and the set. MMJ kept it original for the three-song encore, firing off “Feel You”, “Spring (Among the Living)”, and “Wordless Chorus”.
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The band returns to domestic stages on May 5th for a set at BeachLife Festival in California. For tickets and a full list of tour dates head here.
My Morning Jacket — “The National Anthem” (Radiohead) — 4/5/24
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My Morning Jacket — “All Apologies” (Nirvana) — 4/5/24
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My Morning Jacket — One Big Holiday — Riviera Maya, Mexico — 4/5/24 — Full Audio
Setlist: My Morning Jacket | One Big Holiday | Riviera Maya, Mexico | 4/5/24
Set: Run Thru > The National Anthem (Radiohead) [1] > Run Thru, The Way That He Sings, Outta My System, First Light, Evil Urges, Only Memories Remain, Come Closer [2], Golden, Turn Your Lights Down Low (Bob Marley & The Wailers) [1], Off the Record, Here in Spirit (Jim James) [1], Touch Me I’m Going to Scream Pt. 1 > Holdin On to Black Metal, West End Girls (Pet Shop Boys) [1] > Touch Me I’m Going to Scream Pt. 2, Dondante > All Apologies (Nirvana) [1]
Encore: Feel You, Spring (Among the Living), Wordless Chorus
[1] FTP
[2] LTP 8/12/12
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