Tonight I went to see The Fiery Furnaces with special guests Man Man. It was one of those concerts in a room with seats, like a theater-type room, so that felt a little awkward. The guy on one side of me was extremely white and seemed completely zoned out until The Fiery Furnaces came out. The guy on the other side of me smelled strongly of alchohol and kept leaving for long periods of time. Well, Man Man was amazing. They reminded me why I like this type of music (don't ask me what type that is, I'm just calling it "this type"). They all played some kind of percussion instrument, plus guitars and a keyboard, but the guitars were definately secondary to the drums and xylophones. It was such a lot of glorious noise. Interesting lyrics too. I didn't buy a Decemberists shirt for twenty-five dollars the other night, but I did buy a Man Man shirt tonight for ten bucks. It's brown and big and it says "Man Man" in pink curly letters on the front, and right in the middle it has a picture of a pig with its guts coming out. It's an ideal shirt.
Fiery Furnaces was (were?) not in their best form. Eleanor had a bad cold from being in Canada and she just seemed to be in such pain. The show got off to a rocky start, but they played some of their new stuff and that was great and then when they went back to the old stuff that went better, too. Their encores really seemed to be the best part of the show. They were actually cracking jokes by then. The last song was Don't Dance Her Down and some determined audience members decided to stay standing after the last ovation and have some fun with the song. It was a good ending.
Today was also my first day at my new job at the nearby public library. I think I'll like it there. The coffee flows like water and I get every Sunday off. It's like heaven.
Posted by linnea at October 13, 2005 12:17 AM