Nice surprise to see 'Tex-Mex' outfit Calexico turning up to play Warsaw on Independence Day in Poland.
First up, Guatemalan female singer Gaby Moreno did a handful of pleasant tunes and was joined on stage by Calexico to do a few more, including an excellent version of Ry Cooder's 'Across the Borderline':
And the Calexico set itself was excellent, mixing up songs that I'm familiar with from years ago, such as 'Crystal Frontier', 'Sunken Waltz', 'Quattro', and Love's 'Alone Again Or' (was blessed to have seen Arthur Lee do this a few times); and tunes that I've more recently become acquainted with like 'Bullets and Rocks', 'Tapping on the Line'; 'Moon Never Rises', and 'Falling from the Sky' (all incredibly beautiful):
Before last night, I'd only seen Calexico once, at Manchester Academy on the 'Feast of Wire' tour in the early 2000s (I got to know the band through listening to them doing 'Sessions' for the late great John Peel when I was living in bedsit land in Bury, Lancashire and Canterbury, Kent).
Nice backdrop as the well-appreciated two-hour Calexico set was drawing to a close last night:
And finally, the band about to take a bow at the end:
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