On Saturday night College Street Music Hall in New Haven, Connecticut hosted a the second of a pair of concerts by Twiddle. The Vermont-based quartet was without keyboardist Ryan “Norb” Dempsey who had been hospitalized due to an illness but were joined by a number of guests during their two set show, including members of Kung Fu, Cats Under The Stars, Teddy Midnight, The West End Blend and more.

Twiddle opened their first set Saturday with Adrian Tramontano adding percussion and the Kung Fu drummer stuck around for almost the entire duration of the two set show. Also on board for the “White Light” opener was keyboardist Josh Dobbs of Cats Under The Stars who also was on stage for most of the show. Another guest, Teddy Midnight guitarist Wiley Griffin came on for “Brick Of Barley.” Tramontano then took over the drum kit from Brook Jordan who moved down stage to handle vocals on “Second Wind.” The West End Blend horn section then helped out on Twiddle’s “Polluted Beauty” and the set closer “Lost In The Cold.”

The second set started with a trio of Jordan on guitar and vocals and Mihali Savoulidis on drums and bassist Zdenek Gubb performing “Dusk ’til Dawn.” Tramontano and Griffin then emerged for a performance of “Beethoven and Greene.” The second set drew to an end with a sequence featuring “Carte Candlestick” > “Jamflowman” and “Frankenfoote.” For the finale, Kung Fu’s Chris DeAngelis added a second bass to a take on “Latin Tang” that saw DeAngelis and Gubb dueling.

An audience-recording of the entire guest-filled Twiddle show from Saturday night was captured by Moricle, listen here:

Videos

[Dusk Til Dawn | Captured by supertrink]

[Second Wind | Captured by Bill Voight]

[Latin Tang | Captured by William Corcoran]

Setlist (via uTwiddle)

Set One: White Light, Brick Of Barley[1], Second Wind, Polluted Beauty[2], Lost In The Cold[2]

Set Two: Dusk ‘Til Dawn, Beethoven and Greene[1], Carter Candlestick > Jamflowman > Frankenfoote, Latin Tang[3]

Show Notes: This show was a part of the “Festively Plump” 2016 summer tour. The entire show featured Josh Dobbs (Cats Under The Stars) sitting in on keys for Ryan who did not play due to illness as well as Adrian Tramontano (Kung Fu) sitting in on auxilary drums. Aqueous opened the show.

[1] “Brick Of Barley” & “Beethoven and Greene” featured Wiley Griffin (Teddy Midnight) on guitar.

[2] “Polluted Beauty” & “Lost In The Cold” featured The West End Blend Horns.

[3] “Latin Tang” featured Chris DeAngelis (Kung Fu) on bass and featured a bass duel with Zdenek.