Of Montreal play the Showbox Sodo next Wednesday and it will, without a doubt, be one of the most fantastic displays of live entertainment you witness this year.

Eric Grandy saw the band perform last month in New York, a kick off to their tour, and here's just a small excerpt of the spectacle he witnessed:

Midway through Of Montreal's show last Friday night at New York City's Roseland Ballroom, bandleader Kevin Barnes—wearing gold-lamé hot pants, makeup, and (naturally) nothing else—rode out onstage atop a live horse, singing into a microphone in one hand and gently stroking the animal's white mane with the other. It wasn't the weirdest sight of the night—the whole show played out like one unbelievably surreal dream—but it was the most quietly stunning.

Elsewhere in the performance, Barnes appeared as an electric-blue mariachi with a pink sombrero strapped to his back; as a red-robed pope enthroned with a sexy nun lying at his feet; as a Voltron-like being with a giant head and limbs operated by invisible black-clad figures, in a pair of roller skates the size of bumper cars with an oversized blue-sequin fanny pack to match; as a centaur with working hind legs provided by someone in the modified ass section of a two-man horse costume; and as a ghost or mummy covered in white shaving cream. He emerged from a curtained box carried by four lumpy, golden, doughboyish bearers. He was entertained by a sword dancer in an inflated polka-dotted garbage bag wielding what looked like giant crab legs. He was begged for (but decided to deny) clemency by a prisoner in an animal mask. He was hung and sang while dangling from his noose. He rose again from a white coffin. He shot glitter out of a spotlight-shining cannon.

Does that sound like something you want to see? Of course it does. If you want to see Of Montreal for FREE next Wednesday, e-mail your first and last name to lineout@thestranger.com. Put Of Montreal in the subject line, so I know what tickets your entering for.

A winner will be chosen at random at 5 pm tonight. TONIGHT. So enter now!

Update: A winner has been selected. Congratulations, Julissa! For all of you who didn't win, I'm sorry. You can still buy tickets to the show via Ticketmaster.

Now here's another taste of what to expect from the band next week: