The Hold Steady - Horseshoe Tavern setlist last night (12.13.14)

Ask Her For Adderall
Sequestered In Memphis
Rock Problems
Magazines
Navy Sheets
Continuous Thunder (Japandroids Cover)
Stuck Between Stations
The Swish
Chips Ahoy!
Lord, I'm Discouraged
Constructive Summer
Hot Soft Light
Don't Let It Bring You Down (Neil Young Cover)
Joke About Jamaica
Massive Nights
You Can Make Him Like You
Southtown Girls
Slapped Actress




encore:

Cuts Like A Knife (Bryan Adams Cover)
Young Lions (Constantines Cover)
Citrus
Your Little Hoodrat Friend
Stay Positive
How a Resurrection Really Feels
Killer Parties

The Hold Steady- Horseshoe Tavern setlist/ complete Boys and Girls in America (12.12.14)

The Hold Steady
Horseshoe Tavern 67th Birthday Celebration
12.12.14

On With The Business 
I Hope This Whole Thing Didn't Frighten You
Runner's High
The Only Thing
The Sweet Part of the City
Stuck Between Stations
Chips Ahoy!
Hot Soft Light
Same Kooks
First Night
Party Pit
You Can Make Him Like You
Massive Nights
Citrus
Chillout Tent
Southtown Girls
Girls Like Status


encore:

Young Lions (Constantines cover)
Constructive Summer
Sequestered in Memphis
Your Little Hoodrat Friend
Stay Positive
Killer Parties

The Hold Steady - Horseshoe Tavern setlist (12.11.14)

The Hold Steady
Horseshoe Tavern 67th Birthday Celebration
12.12.14

I Hope This Whole Thing Didn't Frighten You 
Big Cig
Wait Awhile
Spinners
The Ambassador
The Weekenders
Hornets! Hornets!
Cattle and the Creeping Things
Your Little Hoodrat Friend
Banging Camp
Charlemagne in Sweatpants
Stevie Nix
Multitude of Casualties
Don't Let Me Explode
Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night
Crucifixion Cruise
How a Resurrection Really Feels


encore:

Continuous Thunder (Japandroids cover)
Stuck Between Stations
Sequestered In Memphis
Massive Nights
Stay Positive

The Hold Steady - Horseshoe Tavern setlist (12.10.14)

The Hold Steady
Horseshoe Tavern 67th Birthday Celebration
12.10.14

I Hope This Whole Thing Didn't Frighten You
On With The Business
Big Cig
Rainbow (Saddle Shoes)
Spinners
The Ambassador
The Weekenders
Charlemagne In Sweatpants
Positive Jam
The Swish
Barfruit Blues
Most People are DJ's
Certain Songs
Knuckles
Hostile, Mass
Sketchy Metal
Sweet Payne
Killer Parties
encore: 

Don't Let It Bring You Down (Neil Young Cover)
Constructive Summer
Hot Soft Light
Chips Ahoy!
Stuck Between Stations
Stay Positive

The Hold Steady - 4 night residency Horseshoe Tavern (Dec.10-13)

photo Jake Senger

It's been an open question whether The Hold Steady were still a going live and recording concern after the departure of multi-instrumentalist (harpsichordist/ accordion etc.) Franz Nicolay in 2010.  Nicolay brought a depth of musicality to the group and was the perfect visual foil to Craig Finn's clever kid theatrics.  Though the departure was described as amicable by both sides (THS wanted to focus on THS and Nicolay wanted to focus on everything from Vaudevillian schtick to whatever else he keeps busy with these days).

2010's release Heaven Is Whenever was mostly filler nearly no killer.   The word is still out on 2014's White Teeth but nobody's sending them postcards.  Initially and now permanently Nicolay was replaced by (former Lucero guitarist Steve Selvidge).  In 2012-2013 the group was on hiatus recording only The Bear and the Maiden Fair for Game of Thrones.

At the time Nicolay left the band he viewed his work with The Hold Steady as a closed book, and likely still does. Notably of all the songs they played during their four night stand- including complete run throughs of their landmark albums Stay Positive and Boys and Girls In America as well as Canadian covers by Neil Young (Don't Let It Bring You Down) and the Constantines (Young Lions)- one of their greatest hoodrat tales One For The Cutters with its disctinctive harpsichord wail was suspiciously absent.

The Hold Steady setlist Cabaret Mile End, MTL (10.20.10)

Sweet Part of the City
You Can Make Him Like You
Hurricane J
The Swish
Rock and Roll Problems
Banging Camp
Chips Ahoy
Chicago
Sequestered In Memphis
Sweet Payne
Stevie Nix
You Gotta Dance
Ascension Blues
Stuck Between Stations
Lord I'm Discouraged
Magazines
Your Little Hoodrat Friend
Southtown
Weekenders
Slapped Actress

E:

Constructive Summer
Hot Soft Light
Girls Go For Status
Massive Nights