The first of Death Cab for Cutie‘s three NYC Plans 20th anniversary shows fell on the date of the band’s first-ever NYC show, 26 years ago at Mercury Lounge. “Never in my wildest imaginations, I’m sure anybody’s imaginations up here, did we ever think that so many years later, all of you’d be here in this beautiful room,” Ben Gibbard told the Brooklyn Paramount crowd on Friday night (8/8), before launching into Something About Airplanes track “Your Bruise.”
These NYC shows are at the end of their short tour celebrating two decades of their monumental major label debut, and between the first and second nights, they headed to NJ to open for My Chemical Romance at MetLife Stadium. Some of that night’s setlist formed the backbone of the second part of Death Cab’s Friday and Sunday night shows at the considerably more intimate Brooklyn Paramount, and after playing Plans in full on both nights, they also worked in a few more older cuts: Friday night got The Photo Album‘s “A Movie Script Ending,” and Sunday night got that album’s “We Laugh Indoors,” We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes‘ “Title Track,” and The Forbidden Love EP‘s “Photobooth.” See the setlists for nights one and two below.
The American Analog Set are opening all three Brooklyn Paramount shows, and Friday’s show was their first NYC show in 20 years and their set was heavy on Know By Heart and Promise of Love. See pictures from Saturday of both bands by Ben Stas below, along with the setlists and attendee-taken video.
Death Cab’s Plans run wraps up Tuesday (8/12) at Brooklyn Paramount.
The American Analog Set (photo by Ben Stas)
The American Analog Set (photo by Ben Stas)
The American Analog Set (photo by Ben Stas)
The American Analog Set (photo by Ben Stas)
The American Analog Set (photo by Ben Stas)
The American Analog Set (photo by Ben Stas)
The American Analog Set (photo by Ben Stas)
The American Analog Set (photo by Ben Stas)
The American Analog Set (photo by Ben Stas)
The American Analog Set (photo by Ben Stas)
The American Analog Set (photo by Ben Stas)
The American Analog Set (photo by Ben Stas)
The American Analog Set (photo by Ben Stas)
The American Analog Set (photo by Ben Stas)
The American Analog Set (photo by Ben Stas)
The American Analog Set (photo by Ben Stas)
The American Analog Set (photo by Ben Stas)
The American Analog Set (photo by Ben Stas)
Death Cab For Cutie (photo by Ben Stas)
Death Cab For Cutie (photo by Ben Stas)
Death Cab For Cutie (photo by Ben Stas)
Death Cab For Cutie (photo by Ben Stas)
Death Cab For Cutie (photo by Ben Stas)
Death Cab For Cutie (photo by Ben Stas)
Death Cab For Cutie (photo by Ben Stas)
Death Cab For Cutie (photo by Ben Stas)
Death Cab For Cutie (photo by Ben Stas)
Death Cab For Cutie (photo by Ben Stas)
Death Cab For Cutie (photo by Ben Stas)
Death Cab For Cutie (photo by Ben Stas)
Death Cab For Cutie (photo by Ben Stas)
Death Cab For Cutie (photo by Ben Stas)
Death Cab For Cutie (photo by Ben Stas)
Death Cab For Cutie (photo by Ben Stas)
Death Cab For Cutie (Ben Stas)
SETLIST: DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE @ BROOKLYN PARAMOUNT, 8/10/2025 (via)
Marching Bands of Manhattan
Soul Meets Body
Summer Skin
Different Names for the Same Thing
I Will Follow You Into the Dark
Your Heart Is an Empty Room
Someday You Will Be Loved
Crooked Teeth
What Sarah Said
Brothers on a Hotel Bed
Stable Song
I Will Possess Your Heart
The New Year
We Laugh Indoors
No Sunlight
The Ghosts of Beverly Drive
Photobooth
Cath…
Here to Forever
Encore:
Title Track
Tiny Vessels
Transatlanticism
SETLIST: DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE @ BROOKLYN PARAMOUNT, 8/8/2025 (via)
Marching Bands of Manhattan
Soul Meets Body
Summer Skin
Different Names for the Same Thing
I Will Follow You Into the Dark
Your Heart Is an Empty Room
Someday You Will Be Loved
Crooked Teeth
What Sarah Said
Brothers on a Hotel Bed
Stable Song
I Will Possess Your Heart
Roman Candles
The Ghosts of Beverly Drive
Black Sun
You Are a Tourist
Cath…
Here to Forever
Foxglove Through the Clearcut
Encore:
Your Bruise
A Movie Script Ending
Bixby Canyon Bridge
SETLIST: THE AMERICAN ANALOG SET @ BROOKLYN PARAMOUNT, 8/10/2025 (via)
Weather Report
Million Young
Magnificent Seventies
Punk as Fuck
The Only One
The Hatist (“Big Breakfast” written on setlist)
Come Home Baby Julie, Come Home
Play Video
I Must Soon Quit the Scene (“Vibeline” written on setlist)
On My Way
SETLIST: THE AMERICAN ANALOG SET @ BROOKLYN PARAMOUNT, 8/8/2025 (via)
Weather Report
Million Young
Magnificent Seventies
Punk as Fuck
The Only One
The Hatist
Come Home Baby Julie, Come Home
I Must Soon Quit the Scene
On My Way