Peter Bjorn and John with Andrew Bird Review - Milwaukee

I wasn't at this show, but my friend Lenny was, and he gave me the scoop via AIM tonight. Enjoy...

Me: hey

Lenny: hey

Me: so, tell me about the show last night

Lenny: k

Lenny: so the opening band, mcarthy trencheon or something like that, was pretty okay but i couldn't get into it. very country. they were introduced by a guy saying, "these guys are from omaha and they're friends of connor oberst. lots of slide guitar. songs about drinking and love.

Lenny: Andrew Bird played next

Lenny: and was fucking amazing

Lenny: oh and btw there was still that dumb construction, only this time i didn't get lucky so i was driving around for like 45 min. before i got there

Lenny: anyways, he had this thing set up, remember that big horn/gramophone looking thing he had? he had another one that like split into 2 horn/speaker things...and then it spun...and he played his looped violin through that and it had a surreal doppler effect. that was fucking awesome...it blew me away.

Me: whoa

Lenny: he played a few songs from eggs and few from armchair

Lenny: i wrote down the set list:

sovay
why
sparrows
some new song (self induced ritualistic torture(?))
he said he hated that name so he renamed it "Home of the water Jet Sellice"after Du Buque
Plasticities
Section 8 city (new?) i didn't recognize it
(some song i didn't recognize that he played with a stop motion video playing on the backdrop
the video was by Britta Johnson)
a nervous tick motion
...then he actually played an encore
which was Weather Systems, except it was totally reworked and slow and un recognizable but still neat

Lenny: then PB & J played and they were okay. they had really good showmanship, stepping to the edge of the stage and rocking and shit...but yeah, like i said on your facebook, it just made me wish they were the hives.

Lenny: i only liked Young Folks and then they played Teen Love (concretes cover) right after that, which i liked a lot. there were a lot of really young people there, getting really into it, and for some reason that kinda killed it for me.

Me: weird

Me: that seems odd

Lenny: but i still bopped my head

Lenny: oh! haha and some girl behind me asked me if i was at pitchfork

Me: haha

Lenny: and she recognized me because she was behind us at girl talk and i had my bag on again, so she recognized the bag

Me: haha, oh man

Me: i bet she hated you

Lenny: haha i know! I think she hated me more because i was like, yeah i didn't really like girl talk

Me: uh oh

Lenny: and she really loved it

Lenny: whatever

Lenny: oh and the crowd couldn't keep a beat worth shit. everytime pb&j wanted them to clap along they'd fuck it up after like 3 bars, and bjorn made fun of them for it.

Lenny: oh and then when i left it was a really terrible thunderstorm and i was lost for another half hour before i found the highway

Me: oh man

Me: that really sucks

Lenny: you should post this on your blog as a review for that show

Me: haha

Me: just copy and paste this conversation

Lenny: yes you should, haha

Lenny: it would be my first contribution to your blog