This is a quick reference page regarding Michael McDermott's 2007
tour dates. For full show reports by fans/attendees, go to
The Pauper's Sky discussion forum, from which these lists have been
compiled. (Note: An asterisk beside a song signifies it was played
on piano.)
Shows with review pages on artistinsane.com are marked
accordingly...just follow the links by these shows to check out photos,
commentary, etc.
To view prior/other years' setlists, click the applicable
link... Current Year 2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2000-2002
2009 Shows:
June 20 (Band --Naper Days, Naperville, IL)
(w-Heather, Nick and TJ)
Rehab + Great American Novel/Perfectly Imperfect/Spark /So Am I/Still
Ain't Over You Yet/A Wall I Must Climb/Arm Yourself/Hard to Break
(Heather on vocals)/Love Hurts (cover)/Summer Days/Fisherman's
Blues/Unemployed/Scars from Another Life/Junkie Girl/20 Miles South of
Nowhere/The National Anthem
June 20 (Band --BAM! Festival, Chicago, IL)
(w-Heather, Nick, TJ and Lance)
Rehab + Great American Novel/Perfectly Imperfect/Spark/So Am I/Still
Ain't Over You Yet/A Wall I Must Climb/Arm Yourself/Fisherman's Blues
(cover)/Summer Days/Hard to Break (Heather on vocals)/Love Hurts/Scars
from Another Life/Junkie Girl/20 Miles South of Nowhere
April 17 (Band -- Ballydoyle, Aurora, IL)
(w-Heather)
Hey La We're Gonna Get Married/Tread Lightly/So Hard to
Break(Heather)/Postcard Saturdays (Heather)/Love Hurts/Rehab + The Great
American Novel/Arm Yourself/So Am I/Still Ain't Over You Yet/Mess of
Things/Mississippi/A Wall I Must Climb/Perfectly Imperfect/Junkie
Girl/20 Miles South of Nowhere/Bad + I Shall Be Healed
April 30 (Acousitc -- Ferrara,
Italy)
(All songs Michael and Heather)
The Great American Novel/Hey La.We're gonna get married/Still ain't over
you yet/Broken (Michael solo)/The times are a-changing (Dylan
cover)/Hard to break (Heather on lead vocals)/In my time of dying/Arm
your self/Grace of God /So Am I/*Carry your cross/Love hurts (in the
middle of the crowd)/A Wall I Must Climb/(Encore) Tread Lightly/20 Miles
South of Nowhere
April 29 (Acousitc -- Pieve Di
Cento, Teatro Comunale, Italy
(All songs Michael and Heather)
Arm Yourself (w-In My Time of Dying intro/Great American Novel/I Wanna
Know Why/Pauper's Sky/Hey La We're Gonna Get Married/Tread Lightly/Hard
to Break (Heather on lead vocals)/Postcard Saturdays (Heather on lead
vocals, song from new Heather's cd, featuring a song co-written with
Michael called "Fallen")/A Wall I Must Climb/Love Hurts/Wounded (Michael
solo on piano)/Fisherman Blues/So Am I/Still Ain't Over You Yet/Where
the River Meets the Sea/20 miles south of Nowhere/(Encore) The River
(Springsteen cover - Fabio sharing vocals with Michael)/I Could Never
Take the Place of Your Man/(Encore 2) Carry your cross (Michael solo on
piano)(Encore 3) Number 49
April 28 (Acousitc -- Birimbo-Brienno,
Italy)
Hey La, We're Gonna Get Married/The Great American
Novel/In the Year It All Went Wrong/Postcard Saturdays (Heather Horton
song)/I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man (Prince cover)/Hard to
Break/Broken/Love Hurts (cover)/I Shall Be Healed/Wounded/In My Time of
Dying (traditional)/Arm Yourself/Tread Lightly/Still Ain't Over You
Yet/So Am I/What Am I To Do? - not sure about this title, co-written by
Heather and Michael/A Wall I Must Climb/Where the River Meets the Sea/20
Miles South of Nowhere/Room 411/The American In Me/Here Comes the Rain
Again (Eurythmics Cover)/A Million Tomorrows
April 17 (Band -- Ballydoyle, Aurora, IL)
(w Heather, Jon, Nick and TJ and Lance).
(SET ONE) Cal Sag Road Song (solo)/Hey La, We're Gonna Get Married/I
Could Never Take the Place of Your Man* [Prince cover]/Pauper's
Sky/Tread Lightly/Postcard Saturdays [Heather Horton]/Murder in the
First Degree/When Doves Cry [Prince cover]/So Am I/The Great American
Novel/Perfectly Imperfect/So Hard to Break (Heather on vocals)/I Wanna
Know Why/Still Ain't Over You Yet/Summer Days/(SET TWO) Bells/Bad [U2] +
I Shall Be Healed/Where the River Meets the Sea/Love Hurts (performed in
audience)/Arm Yourself/Spark/A Wall I Must Climb/Mississippi [Mike
Jordan cover]/Diamond Lake/Scars From Another Life/Junkie Girl/20 Miles
South of Nowhere
March 28 (Band -- This Must Be The Place, Lemont,
IL)
(w- Heather Horton, Nick Kitsos, TJ Pavletic)
The Great American Novel/I Wanna Know Why/Arm Yourself/Perfectly
Imperfect/Hard To Break (Heather)/So Am I/Still Ain't Over You Yet/Dream
Come True/A Wall I Must Climb/Diamond Lake/Scars From Another Life/Love
Hurts/Junkie Girl/20 Miles South of Nowhere/(Encore) Unemployed/Need
Some Surrender/Spark/Hellfire in the Holyland/Where the River Meets the
Sea
March 13 (Acoustic -- McAuliffe's Pub,
Racine, WI)
(Michael on guitar with TJ, Tom Mangione and Nez)
Hey La, We're Gonna Get Married/A Pair Of Brown Eyes (cover)/Into The
Mystic (cover)/Arm Yourself (w-In My Time of Dying intro)/Great American
Novel/Fisherman's Blues/Celtic Sea/So Am I/A Wall I Must Climb/Still
Ain't Over You Yet/Bad w-I Shall Be Healed/Perfectly Imperfect/Junkie
Girl/20 Miles South Of Nowhere/Unemployed/She's Gonna Kill Me/My Monkey
Is Gone
Feb. 27 (Band -- Metro, Chicago, IL)
(w/Heather, Nick, Lance, T.J., Jon)
The Great American Novel/I Wanna Know Why (dedicated to
Norm Van Lier and Johnny Red Kerr)/Arm Yourself/Perfectly Imperfect/So
Hard to Break (Heather on lead vocals)/So Am I/Still Ain't Over You
Yet/When Doves Cry/Mississippi (Mike Jordan cover)/A Wall I Must
Climb/Junkie Girl/20 Miles South of Nowhere/Scars from Another Life/I
Shall Be Healed/Unemployed
Feb. 6 (Band -- Ballydoyle, Downer's Grove, IL)
(w/Heather Horton, Nick Kitsos, Lance Northcutt, TJ
Pavletic and Jon Spiegel)
Set I
Cal-Sag Road Song (solo)/The Year It All Went Wrong (w/Heather)/ Bad
(U2) + I Shall Be Healed (w/Lance)/Celtic Sea (w/Heather)/*The American
In Me (solo)/The Ballad of Johnny Diversey (w/Lance)/Mess of Things
(w/Jon Spiegel and Nick Kitsos)/Mississippi (Mike Jordan) (w/Jon and
Nick)/Arm Yourself/Perfectly Imperfect/Spark
Set II
The Great American Novel/Diamond Lake/A Wall I Must Climb/Still Ain't
Over You Yet/*Hold Back a River/Unemployed/My Monkey Is Gone/So Am
I/*Scars From Another Life (w/Lance)/Junkie Girl/20 Miles South of
Nowhere/*No 49 (solo)
Jan. 9 (Acoustic -- Joe's Bar, Chicago, IL)
(w/Lance)
Broken (solo)/Arm Yourself/Unemployed/When Doves Cry
(began on guitar, moved to piano where a bit of Here Comes the Rain
Again was inserted before finishing)/*Wounded (solo)/The Great American
Novel (solo)/A Wall I Must Climb/Junkie Girl/(U2's Bad into) I Shall Be
Healed/20 miles South of Nowhere