“We’re all holding up pretty good, huh?” asked Charlotte Caffey early into the Go-Go’s’ performance Wednesday night at the Roxy, where the full, founding fivesome was playing a public show together for the first time in more than seven years.
It was unclear whether the guitarist/keyboardist was just referring to the band members, now mostly in their late 60s, or to the more collective us, which included a good amount of O.G. fans, on down to some Go-curious attendees four decades their junior.
They didn’t have such laudatory words for everyone who came to mind topically this week. Valentine played in front of an amp with the emblem “FUK DJT” prominently displayed on it, and at the end of the show, at walk-off time, Wiedlin closed things out by declaring, “Fuck Trump!” Schock, last off the stage, retook the microphone to add: “Fuck him real hard.”
Though the setlist didn’t reveal any new Go-Go’s compositions (they didn’t revive “Club Zero,” the pretty good new song they wrote and performed for their 2020 Showtime documentary), there was one fresh interpolation. “We Got the Beat” turned, for half a minute or so, into Chappell Roan’s “Hot to Go,” complete with Wiedlin encouraging the familiar Roan hand gestures on the right side of the stage, a perfectly fine substitute in this case for the pony or watusi.
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