My what a blue shirt you have. My what blond hair you have. My what organic food you're holding. Wait! - you're not my grandma! You're Grizzly Bear!!!
Actually that's not how I approached them, but the result was still the same - it wasn't only regular shoppers at Whole Foods, but a band in disguise. Actually they weren't in disguise at all - they were just plain old Chris and Chris from favorite band Grizzly Bear.
It was sehr fun running into them only 20 minutes before their set opening for Feist and let me tell you, their last song was worth the ticket price alone, maybe because I only saw their last song due to photopass issues.
Of course they closed with 'On a Neck, on a Spit' - magic, pure magic I tell you!
And then, the unbelievable happened.
Where I work a guy occasionally walks by that resembles Grizzly Bear lead singer Ed Droste to a T. Every time he walks by I excitedly announce with glee to whoever is standing next to me, "It's Ed! It's Grizzly Bear! Oh my god - it's Ed from Grizzly Bear!"
Who was in the dimly lit audience that night? Why only fake-Ed!!! So I caught him with my camera:
He has since walked by several more times at work and uncomfortable smiles have been exchanged. How delightful. I think my fangirldom for him may scare him, but I can't help it. Previous to seeing them open for Feist, he had never seen them before so when he spied Ed onstage it was more than a little weird for him. Yes!!!!!!
So who else was in the audience? The drummer from Helio Sequence and also Spoon's Britt Daniel who was quite the social butterfly of the evening. He gave me his email - meticulously spelling and repeating it without prompt, but you know I totally disappeared for about a month so I have yet to send one over. I'll put that on my to-do list right now.
On a stage decorated by very little light, Feist semi-surprisingly brought her current single 'My Moon My Man' out of the gate pretty early on - 3rd or 4th song in.
She closed her set out with '1,2,3,4' and 'Mushaboom'.
A lot of people played a lot of musical chairs over the course of her fairly long set. I especially liked when she made her way over to the piano sans guitar to singalong to accompaniment.
I enjoyed when she led the audience in singing along and knowingly offended a large segment by commenting they were too old to be at a concert. Ha - saying so at a concert sponsored by KINK. Ha...
'Reprise' (Acoustic Version) Grizzly Bear MP3
'My Moon My Man' Feist MP3
BRITT DANIEL GAVE YOU HIS EMAIL ADDRESS AND YOU HAVEN'T CONTACTED HIM!??!!?!?!?
Posted by: your pal | July 24, 2007 at 06:15 AM