On Monday night, Portland’s The Dandy Warhols stopped by the 9:30 Club for the second night of a small, 12 date, 25th Anniversary Tour of the US. The tour features support from New York’s The Vacant Lots, who play a good mix of the best and darkest parts of Suicide and Joy Division coupled with electronic sounds reminiscent of New Order, and the straightforward guitar based indie rock of Los Angeles based Cosmonauts. 

The Dandy Warhols have embarked on a short run of shows to celebrate 25 years as a band and are bookending the tour with Festival shows in Atlanta, Georgia and Napa, California. The tour runs through May 24th and ends at the 3 day Bottlerock Fest.

On Monday, they played a 19 song career spanning set including fan favorites “Bohemian Like You”, “STYGGO”, “Crack Cocaine Rager” and “Every Day Should Be a Holiday”, complete with a balloon drop. Keyboardist Zia McCabe recently told On Milwaukee’s Andy Tarnoff that it is nearly impossible to squeeze 25 years of material into their shows. “Every show there’s going to be somebody that says there’s a song that we really should have played, and they’re not wrong. We’ve been doing 90-minute sets for years now, and I’d say that we’re getting much closer to two hours just because it’s so hard to say no to the songs.”

Here are photos from Dandy Warhols performing at the 930 Club on Monday, May 6th. All photos copyright and courtesy of Shantel Mitchell Breen.