Last Night If you wanted to see Of Montreal last night but couldn’t because it was sold out…
posted by on February 10 at 13:01 PM
…you missed nothing.
Except an amazingly bad show. The audience clearly wanted it to be great, and were trying to make the best of it. And there was a song or two that went over really well and got the crowd jumping. But there’d been a lotta hype—peddled by, uh, me (and others)—about how *insane* and *theatrical* this show was going to be, and it was neither insane nor particularly theatrical. It was hard to tell whether singer Kevin Barnes was not into it or if being not into it was his affect—either way, who wants to watch that? And it sounded insanely bad (as if the band were in the next room and we were hearing them through the wall—that muddy). And the much-talked-about projections were insanely dull (for the first six or so songs, the image projected up on the screens was the cover of their own album).
It was the kind of show that makes you realize how beautiful the Showbox is—the whole time you’re looking around trying to find anything else to concentrate on. As soon as we decided to leave, they trotted out the 10-foot-tall dress, which I’d heard about, and which inspired us to stay a little longer, but which turned out to be, well, a ladder, with Barnes kneeling on top, so he couldn’t move, while the ladder’s boxy shape poked through the long fabric. Then he got off the ladder and went on disaffectedly singing/wailing, and still they sounded like they were in the next room or we were underwater, and we left.
Anyone stay to the end? Did he climb into giant animal, as was promised weeks ago on Line Out?
I agree with this entire post. it was pretty boring/uneventful/unexciting.
I was surprised more people didn't dance for The Blow though.
Well, from where we stood in the back the sound was great, minus a few glitches....on the floor, the sound did kinda suck. As for the crowd, all we saw was dancing and alot of head nodding...the crowd seemed way into it from where we were.
Well, from where we stood in the back the sound was great, minus a few glitches....on the floor, the sound did kinda suck. As for the crowd, all we saw was dancing and alot of head nodding...the crowd seemed way into it from where we were.
The show might not have been great, but it was fun and a thousand miles from amazingly bad. Away from the bar among the sweaty mess of teenagers, no one seemed to care care about imperfect mixing because everyone was too busy being throwing themselves into a floor-shaking dance party.
No. they didn't climb into an animal or play the Outback Steakhouse theme song, but every third song was a bouncy hit. That's not such a bad average.
Man, you guys are really jaded! You can't even get into dancable, faggy, theatre pop. I would have thought that would be your thing. Oh well.
That show was fantastic. Me and everyone else within a 20 foot radius were dancing our asses off. Here's a hint on how to enjoy music shows (because they're inevitably sloppy in some way), have a few drinks before you get there, and then have a few more. Otherwise we all just end up judging each other, which is really depressing.
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