What is the FIRST song in your gig setlist?

Dontgiveupyourdayjob

Just to bookend the other thread about final songs in your band's setlists, what are you guys usually opening with?

For us (Ruby And The Mystery Cats) it's Billy Lee Riley's Flying Saucer Rock n Roll.

RocknRollDave

Dance With Me Tonight - Olly Murs

Three reasons:
 It’s an upbeat song but inoffensive enough to ease a wedding crowd into the evening. Granny-friendly (the song, I mean, not the band…

It works as a subliminal message to get people onto the dancefloor.

 I sing and play guitar, and in this song the guitar parts are super simple, so I can settle my nerves by settling into the singing with an easy-playing-and-singing-at-the-same-time tune.

PolarityMan

Currently this:

nero1701

Mustang Sally

PolarityMan

nero1701 said:

Mustang Sally

pfft there's hardly *any* communist robot spies in that song! how can you expect people to get in the mood? 

Roland

The Power of Love - Huey Lewis and the News

Bellycaster

We do 90's Britpop, Indie Rock and some 2000's Indie Rock so we never really open with the same track, it varies quite a lot.

relic245

Last nite by the strokes.

ICBM

Stooges - TV Eye

Majorscale

Where The Streets Have No Name 

mudslide73

Hush - Deep Purple (with elements of Kula Shaker's version, just not as fast).

Wazmeister

Its Only Natural or Thats Entertainment 

CMW335

We used to open with Jet ‘Are You Gonna Be My Girl’

RocknRollDave

CMW335 said:

We used to open with Jet ‘Are You Gonna Be My Girl’

Sheesh, that’s a real belter for your vocalist! I’d blow my voice out if we started with that one.

Fez

If it is a full two set gig usually They call me the breeze or Help Me. 

ESBlonde

Often but not always:-
If you think you know how to love me - Smokie
starts with just acoustic guitar and voice before the bass and drums build, a great opener before letting rip later in the set.

Musicwolf

For the first set we seem to have settled on Don Henley's 'Boys of Summer'.  Second set it's 'Venus' by Shocking Blue.

Aeromike

Although we've yet to gig our new set list, we will be opening the first set with N.I.B and the 2nd with Surfin' with the alien. 

jasonbone75

Number of the beast - Maiden

chrisj1602

We’ve been opening with Sympathy for the Devil. It builds up nicely.

flying_pie

Currently it's a slightly grungier version of Have Love Will Travel by The Sonics. It's short and not that well known but still feels familiar.

Second set opens with Suffragette City