Concert review

[farwing]

So. On Sunday night twitch124 and I went to see Liam Finn and Eliza Jane at The Middle East. Liam and EJ were awesome and manic and hilarious. The opening bands...not so much.

Forest Fires- the music would have just been kind of boring 70s soft rock if not for the lead singer, who insisted on introducing his songs, thus revealing his status as a pretentious douchebag. twitch124 and I stayed up front for a few songs and then moved to the back of the room, the better to hear each other be judgmental bitches.

twitch124: "The douchebag scale is linear, not logarithmic. Don't break the douchebag scale!"

Pretentious Douchebag: "This song is called 'I Will Make You Love Me.'"
farwing: "No you won't."

Then Miracle Fortress arrived on the scene. Um. He was kind of hilarious is a New Wave "did I just time travel back to 1978?" kind of way. Lots of strobe, colored lights, and incomprehensible wailing vocals. It was very, very funny to me but I had consumed 1.5 gin and tonics by this point. twitch124 said that she figured his usual audience was all on E, because that would explain the strobe lights.

twitch124: "Oh my god its 1983. Oh, no. It stopped."

twitch124: "He's totally an act you need to see live and shit faced."

So then Liam and Eliza Jane got on stage and they were wonderful. I kind of didn't take good notes on the set list at first because I was being lazy but then they played Red Wine Bottle and I started taking notes:

Red Wine Bottle (This is a song from the 7 Worlds Collide: The Sun Came Out album, which you might know if you stalk all members of the Finn family like I do. It was wonderful to hear live.)

"Introducing Harry the Auto Harp" song (They are such goofballs!)

Helter Skelter. (Dude, that was awesome. Really, really awesome. After the song ended Liam was all "Er...what song do you play after Helter Skelter?")

Wise Man
Second Chance
Lead Balloon

"I'm more of a werewolf"

Cinnamon Girl (cover)
an old Betchadupa song
Honest Face
Fire in Your Belly