I am a fangirl for Au Revoir Simone
Last night was pretty sublime. I have been waiting forever to see Au Revoir Simone! I was sitting at a desk doing data entry at Scottish Power in Glasgow in '05 when I first listened to The Swish Blog's mix featuring their 'Through the Backyards'. Last year, they toured with We Are Scientists, but sadly didn't join the band to Portland.
Before they took the stage at Holocene, the venue played the awesomeness that is early Madonna and the band Saturday Looks Good to Me, who I describe as being what the Concretes are supposed to sound like.
In between the set change over good old trusty Rod Stewart made an appearance by means of 'Young Turks' song playing overhead. This resulted in inspiration enough for them to tackle the song mid-set-if only I had a recording! Perfect song for them! It was SO great! Apparently they'd already been working on it a bit in previous rehearsals, but hearing it last night before their set made them perform it. It's like the song was written for them to cover.
Au Revoir Simone played a longer than normal set due to the fact that one of the bands from the tour wasn't there. Over the course of 40 minutes, they played 'Sad Song' as well as 'Fallen Snow' which they announced as being their current single and said it was about falling in love in the winter.
They turned up the bass for my personal favorite 'Stay Golden'. Over the course of the past three days, the song has racked up 131 plays in my itunes. After 'Stay Golden', they went straight into 'Through the Backyards', during which they left their respective keyboards and joined at one in the center.
They then played 'Lark' which was the dancey-est track of the night. So great! And it went on for awhile, which got more and more people dancing as it went on. Don't get me wrong-a full on dance floor didn't appear, but it got a lot of people active in the front-they really brought it down.
They closed with a song that they described as being their "prog-rock song."
And the night ended with the one with glasses literally kicking off an audience member who was grabbing her legs, for which she profusely apologized into the mic as they said their goodbyes.
They're going to France next.
They'll be back on a North American tour in May and June. Check them out then! I know I will.
'Stay Golden' Au Revoir Simone MP3
Au Revoir Simone myspace
Listen to the songs, cruise the tour dates, befriend
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