Get excited for these New Pornographers shows!

Bags wrote:
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.

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

Bags wrote:
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…

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

sweetcell wrote:

Bags wrote:
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…

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

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

Driveway wrote:
Isn't it unusual for Dan Bejar to tour with the band?  I love me some Destroyer…

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

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.

Uh oh

Maybe our speculations a couple nights ago were accurate.

Or at least one of them.

P.S. You have a PM.

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

sweet! glad to hear it was good. :) Friends were all wondering what the hell happened to me and why I wasnt there. theyre just happy someone else got to enjoy it.

Firebutt wrote:
Brooklyn setlist:

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-new-pornographers/2010/the-bell-house-brooklyn-ny-1bd41578.html

Kind of phenomenal! Get excited!

So, did that really happen, New Pornos?

Thank you!!!!

^^ "(AC) This is where it goes crazy with the set, …..we are in the Ahmad's world now….(Neko) it's the Ahmad show….."

Congrats….but I prefer Tuesday's setlist better…

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

i thought "ginger" was considered derogatory, at least in the UK, it's used to belittle anyone with red hair.  red haired people don't take to kindly to it's usage…

is calling someone ginger racist?


Err..and what race exactly is "Ginger…?"
Is blonde a "race" too then??! LOL…For God's Sake.
Anyway, the answer is no.


The funny thing about ginger people is that they are either really ugly or really good looking, there is no real inbetween. I think we all know which side A.E. Newman is on.

kosmo wrote:

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

i thought "ginger" was considered derogatory, at least in the UK, it's used to belittle anyone with red hair.  red haired people don't take to kindly to it's usage…

That was unreal.

The whole sequence of events.

Setlist banter was cut out of the stream! Lame move, NPR.