Saw the Polyphonic Spree in concert last night -- the show was fantastic. I had a smile plastered on my face the whole time. Total crowd sing-along mania: "HOLD ME NOW, DON'T START SHAKING!" The folks up front and center were mimicking every freaked-out move the choir made.
Jon Brion also played with the Spree the whole time. (This was at Bimbo's in San Francisco -- fairly small club, so it was great.) It was almost the exact same setlist they've been doing this whole tour (starting off with the harp solo, then into "We Sound Amazed," and barreling joyously into the set with a rapturous "Light and Day," including the same covers, Bowie's "Memory of a Free Festival," a little detour into Prince's "Let's Go Crazy," and the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" at the end). It's also apparently the last concert of the tour; Tim promised the show would be different next time around, and alluded to a summer release of new music.
(Alas, I missed Toshio Hirano, who the bartendress ("my boyfriend is half-Filipino") described as "this 70-year old Japanese guy who sang old cowboy songs and did the whole yodeling thing." But I did get to catch From Bubblegum To Sky, whose album I have to check out; they played perfect little scrappy pop songs.)
(Confidential to Boyong: just for you, I touched Ms. Orange's robe. They walked through the audience just before the encore and happened to take a path right in front of me.)
And one last cool thing: the whisper went through the crowd that a certain indie-rock goddess was in the audience, and sure enough, on my way to the bathroom, I saw Polly Jean Harvey...
Posted by the wily filipino at February 25, 2005 09:47 PMhahaha... hay naku, sunny, haven't you read enough gossip magazines to know how to do blind items properly... no names! what would my orange-robed maiden fair think if she ever read this? :)
Y'know, the first thing that came to my mind when I went to the concert was: "wow, this is just like being in my old charismatic youth group", though with less closing of eyes and more jumping around.
I wonder if they'll still have the Xmas show in Texas... tara, punta tayo!
Now playing: Peaches, "Lovertits"... I've never heard her before, and she reminds me of PJ Harvey with el cheapo drum programming.
Boyong: Are you nuts? That skank Peaches and my Polly Jean aren't even in the same league...
Didn't you see "Lost in Translation?" Her music is playing in the background at the strip bar scene.