Get excited for these New Pornographers shows!

[Vas Deferens]

who is the cello/sax player....he is a beautiful man....... 

[oso]

who is the cello/sax player....he is a beautiful man....... 

Ben Kalb

[oso]

The full band from last night:

John Collins-- bass
Dan Bejar-- vocals, guitar
Kurt Dahle-- drums, backing vocals
Todd Fancey-- guitar, backing vocals
Kathryn Calder-- vocals, keyboards, accordion
Neko Case-- vocals, tambourine
Carl Newman-- vocals, guitar
Blaine Thurier-- keyboards, backing vocals, harmonica, melodica
Ben Kalb-- cello, saxophone

[Bags]

I was only there for NPs, and I enjoyed the show a lot -- when Neko is in good voice, it's the best the band can be (I've seen them without her -- not great, and I've seen them with her when she was sick -- also not great).

One nitpick -- they do too much bantering with the audience up front.  If they actually filled the time with a story or something, maybe.  But they have conversations with folks most people cannot hear; there's a lot of dead space.  By the end of the show it was driving me crazy (during a two hour show on a school night, that clock is tick tick ticking between songs), and I  think the reason I didn't stick around for the encore.  Alas, I love "Slow Descent..." but am still glad I got home 20 mintues earlier than if I'd stuck around.

[Vas Deferens]

here he is with Doogie Howser...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mockstar/570918508/

who is the cello/sax player....he is a beautiful man....... 

Ben Kalb

[Thousand Made-Up Loves]

I was only there for NPs, and I enjoyed the show a lot -- when Neko is in good voice, it's the best the band can be (I've seen them without her -- not great, and I've seen them with her when she was sick -- also not great).

One nitpick -- they do too much bantering with the audience up front.  If they actually filled the time with a story or something, maybe.  But they have conversations with folks most people cannot hear; there's a lot of dead space.  By the end of the show it was driving me crazy (during a two hour show on a school night, that clock is tick tick ticking between songs), and I  think the reason I didn't stick around for the encore.  Alas, I love "Slow Descent..." but am still glad I got home 20 mintues earlier than if I'd stuck around.

Yep, these mid-week shows need less banter and more songs.

[Driveway]

Isn't it unusual for Dan Bejar to tour with the band?  I love me some Destroyer...

[sweetcell]

One nitpick -- they do too much bantering with the audience up front. 

yeah, that is such an amateur move.  chatting with the front row = entertaining 5 people, boring/pissing off 1,195.

most painful thing is when the band asks the person in the crowd to repeat their comment/heckle.  then asks again.  and just one more time, please, couldn't quite make out what you said.  oh, ok, yeah.  thanks for that, giggle giggle.  anyways, this next song is called...

[James Ford]

The next song is called "I am a ginger dork who will never get 1/10 the pussy Mick Jagger gets."

One nitpick -- they do too much bantering with the audience up front. 

yeah, that is such an amateur move.  chatting with the front row = entertaining 5 people, boring/pissing off 1,195.

most painful thing is when the band asks the person in the crowd to repeat their comment/heckle.  then asks again.  and just one more time, please, couldn't quite make out what you said.  oh, ok, yeah.  thanks for that, giggle giggle.  anyways, this next song is called...

[azaghal1981]

Going tonight. Firebutt, get to a working phone and give me a call.

[Vas Deferens]

Don't know...seen him 3 times on three different tours.

Isn't it unusual for Dan Bejar to tour with the band?  I love me some Destroyer...

[Bags]

JF, apparently using the term "ginger" is racist.  That's what he said last night, in some of that annoying insider banter.

[Firebutt McGee]

That's funny, because the term "shemale" is offensive, and they sure didn't have a problem saying it ad nauseum last night. Haha, "shemale"! Ugh.

Also, yes, last night's show was not a Clutch show, but tonight's show...is also not going to be a Clutch show.

[azaghal1981]

Uh oh

Maybe our speculations a couple nights ago were accurate.

Or at least one of them.

P.S. You have a PM.

[Vas Deferens]

^ stop bugging him for his dildo, you have your own!