Openers & Closers

Where songs land in the show — which ones open the night, close the main set, close the whole show, and turn up in the encore, plus how encore length has moved over time. The opener is the first song; the main-set closer is the last song before the encore; the show closer is the very last song of the night.

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Openers times opened
  1. 1 Handshake Drugs 22
  2. 2 Story to Tell 20
  3. 3 Wishful Thinking 4
  4. 4 Via Chicago 3
  5. 5 Airline To Heaven 1
  6. 6 Candyfloss 1
  7. 7 Christ For President 1
  8. 8 Either Way 1
  9. 9 I Am Trying To Break Your Heart 1
  10. 10 Red-Eyed And Blue 1
  11. 11 What Light 1
  12. 12 Whole Love 1
  13. 13 You Satellite 1
Main-Set Closers ended the main set
  1. 1 I'm The Man Who Loves You 31
  2. 2 Spiders (Kidsmoke) 13
  3. 3 Kingpin 4
  4. 4 U.S. Blues 3
  5. 5 A Shot In The Arm 1
  6. 6 All You Fascists 1
  7. 7 California Stars 1
  8. 8 Heavy Metal Drummer 1
  9. 9 I'm Always In Love 1
  10. 10 Outtasite (Outta Mind) 1
  11. 11 Walken 1
Show Closers ended the night
  1. 1 Outtasite (Outta Mind) 18
  2. 2 I Got You (At The End Of The Century) 17
  3. 3 U.S. Blues 10
  4. 4 Kingpin 3
  5. 5 Spiders (Kidsmoke) 3
  6. 6 California Stars 2
  7. 7 Casino Queen 1
  8. 8 Dreamer In My Dreams 1
  9. 9 Let's Not Get Carried Away 1
  10. 10 This Land Is Your Land 1
  11. 11 Walken 1
Encore Songs encore appearances
  1. 1 I Got You (At The End Of The Century) 40
  2. 2 Outtasite (Outta Mind) 19
  3. 3 Walken 18
  4. 4 The Late Greats 16
  5. 5 U.S. Blues 7
  6. 6 California Stars 5
  7. 7 Candyfloss 4
  8. 8 Falling Apart (Right Now) 3
  9. 9 Monday 3
  10. 10 Spiders (Kidsmoke) 3
  11. 11 Another Man's Done Gone 1
  12. 12 Box Full Of Letters 1
  13. 13 Casino Queen 1
  14. 14 Cortez the Killer 1
  15. 15 Dreamer In My Dreams 1
  16. 16 Handshake Drugs 1
  17. 17 Hate It Here 1
  18. 18 Heavy Metal Drummer 1
  19. 19 I Heard You Looking 1
  20. 20 I'm The Man Who Loves You 1
  21. 21 In The Street 1
  22. 22 Just A Kid 1
  23. 23 Kicking Television 1
  24. 24 Let's Not Get Carried Away 1
  25. 25 The Jolly Banker 1

Top 25 of 30 distinct songs

Encore length by year

YearEncoresAvg songs
2025172.9
2026322.8

Setlists here don’t carry explicit “encore” labels, so the encore is inferred from set breaks: it’s the run of shorter sets at the end of the night (each under half the length of the show’s longest set), which keeps a genuine second set from being counted as an encore. Shows where the setlist wasn’t split into sets contribute an opener and closers but no encore.