Noble Beast

[ALady]

Bit of a yeowch review from the Chicago Reader:

http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/sharpdarts/090122/

And second Chicago show added, April 9!

[BH]

Letterman tommorow night!  (Tuesday, 1-27)

[tomEisenbraun]

Letterman tommorow night!  (Tuesday, 1-27)

dude, it took me FOREVER to figure out who you were!

[BH]

Letterman tommorow night!  (Tuesday, 1-27)

dude, it took me FOREVER to figure out who you were!

;D  Tom, I've had the same picture for 3 years.   ;)

[kydiddle]

I agree with everyone and everything said about this album. It's beautiful...just...stunning.

I went to Philly last night to see him and was blown away. He even said he was performing with a low-grade fever and he did look a little drained, but it didn't come through in his performance. The Noble Beast songs sounded great...hell, everything sounded great.

Amazing musician.

[ALady]

Oooh, lucky!  Setlist?  

[kydiddle]

Oooh, lucky!  Setlist?  

Lord. Let's test my memory here. This is approximately the order. Only one encore song and that was Why? I think I'm forgetting one. I would make an awesome journalist.

Fitz and the Dizzyspells
Masterswarm
Nomenclature
Anonanimal
Fake Palindromes
Imitosis
Tables and Chairs
Not a Robot, But a Ghost
Oh No
Tenuousness
Natural Disaster
On Ho (thrown in at some point...)
Souverian

Why?

[ALady]

Impressive!  And a nice setlist, too...  

[kydiddle]

Impressive!  And a nice setlist, too...  

Yeah. I thought my report was pretty lame for such a fantastic show. I need the skill and talent of Ms. Yvon when it comes to concert recaps. :)

Are you going to see him on this tour? You better.

[BH]

Wow, thanks for the review!   That setlist is heavy on the Noble Beast!  I like that.  I can't wait until March.

[tomEisenbraun]

did anonanimal properly explode your brain?

[kydiddle]

did anonanimal properly explode your brain?

I was wondering what happened there...  ;)

He really is fantastic live and was still tinkering with the Noble Beast songs. The intro to Fitz and Dizzyspells was beautiful. He was sort of improv-ing with the end of Masterswarm and they stopped abruptly and no one clapped and he said 'Oh, that's it' and everyone erupted. He laughed and said, 'Yeah, we're still working some of these out.'

He's so relaxed and I love that he doesn't take himself too seriously since he should, because he's brilliant. Before Fake Palindromes he paused to rosin his bow saying he needed some traction for the next song. Of course, you can imagine the motion of up down up down he was making with his hand. This guy in the crowd yelled out, 'YEAH BABY!' and Andrew wiggled his eyebrows and said, 'ohhh, yeeeeeah...' while stroking the bow.

Very nice.

[tomEisenbraun]

did anonanimal properly explode your brain?

I was wondering what happened there...  ;)

He really is fantastic live and was still tinkering with the Noble Beast songs. The intro to Fitz and Dizzyspells was beautiful. He was sort of improv-ing with the end of Masterswarm and they stopped abruptly and no one clapped and he said 'Oh, that's it' and everyone erupted. He laughed and said, 'Yeah, we're still working some of these out.'

He's so relaxed and I love that he doesn't take himself too seriously since he should, because he's brilliant. Before Fake Palindromes he paused to rosin his bow saying he needed some traction for the next song. Of course, you can imagine the motion of up down up down he was making with his hand. This guy in the crowd yelled out, 'YEAH BABY!' and Andrew wiggled his eyebrows and said, 'ohhh, yeeeeeah...' while stroking the bow.

Very nice.

YEEESSSS!!! God, I love his live shows! Cannot wait til next week!

Holy crap, I remember seeing him two years ago in support of Armchairs, and they played Plasticties and the end was the most gorgeous thing of all time. Everything faded out but a loop that Andrew was running through the spinning speaker, which he then faded out so that all there was left to hear was the sound of the speaker throwing wind against the microphone. It was dead silent for a full twenty seconds. I think everyone just realized they'd been a part of a spiritual experience right there. I can't explain it any other way than that. It was a serious moment of musical spirituality, where what was happening onstage overtook the performers and the audience and transcended that boundary of making music and pushed into some sort of enraptured homage to what holds this world together. I have never experienced an entire room rendered silent by the power of a performance like that, almost as if everyone within earshot actually became a part of that song, that moment, that transcendence. Thank God it was taped.

http://ia340931.us.archive.org/3/items/abird2007-04-16.cmc4.flacf/abird2007-04-16t11-plasticities_vbr.mp3

And the Chicago Reader called him too emotionless.

[BH]

Don't forget tonight is Letterman.

[ALady]

Impressive!  And a nice setlist, too...  

Yeah. I thought my report was pretty lame for such a fantastic show. I need the skill and talent of Ms. Yvon when it comes to concert recaps. :)

Are you going to see him on this tour? You better.

I am, yeah...I have 3rd row for his April 10th show at the opera house here (eek, eek, eeeeeek!) and will be trying for tickets to the April 9th show this weekend.

[kydiddle]

did anonanimal properly explode your brain?

I was wondering what happened there...  ;)

He really is fantastic live and was still tinkering with the Noble Beast songs. The intro to Fitz and Dizzyspells was beautiful. He was sort of improv-ing with the end of Masterswarm and they stopped abruptly and no one clapped and he said 'Oh, that's it' and everyone erupted. He laughed and said, 'Yeah, we're still working some of these out.'

He's so relaxed and I love that he doesn't take himself too seriously since he should, because he's brilliant. Before Fake Palindromes he paused to rosin his bow saying he needed some traction for the next song. Of course, you can imagine the motion of up down up down he was making with his hand. This guy in the crowd yelled out, 'YEAH BABY!' and Andrew wiggled his eyebrows and said, 'ohhh, yeeeeeah...' while stroking the bow.

Very nice.

YEEESSSS!!! God, I love his live shows! Cannot wait til next week!

Holy crap, I remember seeing him two years ago in support of Armchairs, and they played Plasticties and the end was the most gorgeous thing of all time. Everything faded out but a loop that Andrew was running through the spinning speaker, which he then faded out so that all there was left to hear was the sound of the speaker throwing wind against the microphone. It was dead silent for a full twenty seconds. I think everyone just realized they'd been a part of a spiritual experience right there. I can't explain it any other way than that. It was a serious moment of musical spirituality, where what was happening onstage overtook the performers and the audience and transcended that boundary of making music and pushed into some sort of enraptured homage to what holds this world together. I have never experienced an entire room rendered silent by the power of a performance like that, almost as if everyone within earshot actually became a part of that song, that moment, that transcendence. Thank God it was taped.

http://ia340931.us.archive.org/3/items/abird2007-04-16.cmc4.flacf/abird2007-04-16t11-plasticities_vbr.mp3

And the Chicago Reader called him too emotionless.

Thanks for that link.

Emotionless?? Oh my GOD. What is wrong with people? It's like they don't quite know how to feel.

I am, yeah...I have 3rd row for his April 10th show at the opera house here (eek, eek, eeeeeek!) and will be trying for tickets to the April 9th show this weekend.

Yay! Awesome -- i hope you get tickets. I read they added another show after the first one sold out.

Now I'm off to drink some caffeine and stay up late for Letterman. Thanks for the reminder BH.

[red]

that letterman performance just blew my mind.  i'll be picking up this album very soon.

[tomEisenbraun]

that letterman performance just blew my mind.  i'll be picking up this album very soon.

Get on it, man!

[red]

Get on it, man!

friday!  

andrew should collaborate with owen pallett - http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=7rjr5TJH2oI

[ALady]

Noble Beast tour poster.  Love when Diana Sudyka does his posters.