What is this site?

This site was made for day 4 of Weird Web October, the theme being “lists”.

It is a recreation of setlists taken from gigs/concerts by Australian band Hey Geronimo, undeniably one of the more underrated bands from the city of Brisbane. I became a friend of the band after being a concert photographer and enjoying their music and shows. Hey Geronimo seem like your usual indie pop-rock artist, inspired by classic Beatles and alternative rock such as Weezer, until you realise that their songs are like colourful cereal box vibes with undertones of dystopia.

The setlists were taken from a photograph that I took ten years ago in 2014. It is not my entire collection of setlists from the band, and I don’t recall why I took the photo, but it may likely have been to capture how many I had already collected at that point in time.

For other fans of the band, the setlists are nostalgic—the Dan Kelly Song (along with other songs) was deleted from the internet by the band; Trim Your Wings was a piece written by ex-guitarist Ross (which I wish had made it onto an album, or even a studio recording); and Dreamboat Jack—inviting girls to “shake their hands if you want to go out with the drummer in the band”—is a HG classic.

I barely remember what Little Green Bag was. Songs like Lazer Gun Show and Finale were ones we’d later see on the band’s debut album Crashing Into the Sun in 2016. Wonderful covers made their way onto sets, including Weezer’s Buddy Holly and The Beatles’ Paperback Writer, but Talking Heads’ Burning Down The House was a fantastic cover that was played at almost every show.