PHOTOS: MisterWives and Bishop Briggs shine bright at the Warfield

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MisterWives perform at The Warfield in San Francisco on October 11, 2023. Onome Uyovbievbo/STAFF.

SAN FRANCISCO — MisterWives and Bishop Briggs performed at the Warfield on Wednesday as their co-headlining Don’t Look Down tour winds down on the West Coast.

The New York pop band focused their set primarily on new album Nosebleeds. Vocalist Mandy Lee appears on a platform above bandmates Marc Campbell, William Hehir, Mike Murphy and Etienne Bowler as MisterWives kicked into “Out Of Your Mind,” which they followed immediately with “Dagger.”



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MisterWivesperform at The Warfield in San Francisco on October 11, 2023.

Lee climbed down from the platform danced while delivering her emphatic vocals. As always, she showed great stamina as she bounced to every song. The disco-themed “Rock Bottom,” from 2020’s Superbloom, was performed in a medley with 2022’s “Where Do We Go From Here?” Murphy left his keyboard to pick up a saxophone for a rousing solo while Lee and the rest of the band jammed along. Other older material included that album’s title track.

Lee promised to deliver “everything we have tonight” ahead of “All The Same,” “whywhywhy” and “Trip Around The Sun.” Acknowledging that Nosebleeds was a stark departure from MisterWives’ poppier older albums, Lee and the band moved on to more new tunes like “Too Late,” “Trigger Pull” and “Ultraviolet,” and later, “Flower Moon,” “Other Side,” “End of My Rope” and the title track.



Bishop Briggs, who turned out to be the winner of the FOX’s “The Masked Singer” last February, performed a 16-song set of her own. The singer was joined by a drummer and keyboardist, blazed her way through 2022 single “Art of Survival” before continuing with “Wild Horses,” from her 2018 debut, Church of Scars.

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Bishop Briggs performs at The Warfield in San Francisco on October 11, 2023.

Dancing and bopping to the beat while working the stage, she dedicated mid-tempo song “Baby” to her baby’s father and went on to “JEKYLL & HYDE” and “Baggage.”

Bishop Briggs sat down with her guitarist for an acoustic rendition of “The Way I Do.” She then dedicated her cover of Hozier’s “Church” (which she performed on “The Masked Singer”) to her late sister and manager, who passed away from ovarian cancer in 2021.

She capped off her set with rousing performances of some of her biggest hits like “Bad” and “River.”



“American Idol” alumna Natalie Jane opened show, capping the lineup of all female-fronted acts. The 19-year-old New Jersey native gave a bare bones performance that included a cover of Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” and her own song “AVA.”

— Mel Bowman

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