Andrew Bird show

[garran]

Having now been twice to shows at the Media Club, I feel like I'm in a position to say that I do not like the venue. Tonight it was stiflingly hot and there wasn't really anywhere to sit and one couldn't see the stage for the crowd, and the place I eventually found that rectified the latter two problems was pretty uncomfortable. For some peculiar and heretofore unexamined reason, when I imagined this show in the time leading up to it, I always pictured it taking place at the Cultch; as a setting, that may have really felt a bit too domesticated for a concert like this one, but I would have been a lot more comfortable.

The performance itself was good. He varied his singing from the recorded versions a lot more than I'm used to, altering the whole rhythm of song-segments or rephrasing lyrics in apparently improvised ways. This was interesting but difficult to sing along to.

There seemed to be a really disproportionate number of rowdy drunk people on the buses tonight. They certainly weren't all at the concert; I wonder if something else was going on?

Comments

[beccadesse.livejournal.com]

At shows, I play the Rhodes (old-school electric piano (you probably already knew that)), and that's just because there are no pianos at any venues, and I sing. I get what you mean about keeping it interesting, like, I have a Jason Mraz live album and he changes stuff around for seemingly that same purpose. That's funny about making weird tic motions, but then again, I like to drum on my lap when we perform, and I don't play drums/know the first thing about anything like that, so it doesn't make a lot of sense for me to do it.

[garran.livejournal.com]

I should explain that Mr. Bird has a song called, "A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left". The song is awesome.


-Andy

[masamage.livejournal.com]

Maybe he was doing it to your left.