Last night Amy brought her Diary of a Mod Housewife show to Joe's Pub
in New York City. The idea was simple: play the album as sequenced.
"Since Diary was a concept album, I thought it deserved a concept
show," explained Amy. Amy packed the place, as she usually does when
she plays in NYC.

After a brief (20 minute) set by Sue Garner and Angel Dean, Amy and
band immediately took the stage, only to find that there were some
technical difficulties. A five minute conference with the sound guy
ensued, and then, difficulties fixed, Amy launched into Time for Me
to Come Down, followed the rest of Diary.

The band this time consisted of James Mastro, formerly of The Bongos
and The Health and Happiness Show, on lead guitar, Tony Maimone on
bass, and Steve Goulding, formerly of The Rumour and The Mekons, on
drums. Amy was in good spirits and gave a high energy performance.
The band worked well, and I especially liked some of the parts that
James Mastro played. I had not seen him play with Amy before, as Amy
usually has Jon Graboff with her at her NYC shows. Sue and Angel also
provided the backing vocals for The Good Girls and Don't Break the Heart.

After Diary was over, Amy and the band did another half dozen songs,
namely, Rasputin, Finish What You Can't Start (which Amy stopped 3/4s
of the way though saying that she was tired of that song),Keep It to
Yourself, I Don't Wanna Talk About Love No More, Dancing with Joey
Ramone and All I Want. Amy introduced that last song saying that as a
result of Ronnie Spector recording it, she gave herself permission to
go to Peter Lugar's, a very well-known and pricey steak house in her
old neighborhood in Brooklyn. Sue and Angel joined to sing back up
here too, and Amy ended up with them, all three singing around the
same mike. You could clearly see the enjoyment on Amy's face on that
one. There was no encore as Joe's had another show booked after Amy.
So they turned up the lights and ushered everyone out of the place.

Amy is selling Diary of a Mod Housewife CDs at these shows and through
her website. She explained that this batch just showed up one day and
they miraculously had five bonus cuts on them. They also have some
additional liner notes written by Amy in 2006. Well worth it, I think.