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September 28, 2006

Of Montreal/Jamie Lidell at Irving Plaza

I bailed on Joy to see the Raconteurs at Roseland this past Tuesday. All along I thought she got tickets to their Monday night show and being the DOY she is, she never remembers what date she gets the tickets for unless they are right in front of her. So I totally blame her for my double booking on Tuesday. I was super excited that Of Montreal was playing with Jamie Lidell. I love, love, love Of Montreal and haven't seen them since last August and I didn't go to their free show at the park this summer. And Jamie is always fun. So I rallied Pete to go and he actually got us in for free cuz it was a Wired event. Even better! So I bailed on Joy and Tammy was more than happy to take my place. As much as I know the Racs would put on a kick ass awesome rock show (which they did, I hear) I knew that OM and JL would be fun and they were!

Nate and Mari were also joining us and I met them at Sharaku for dinner, me and Yves favorite Japanese restaurant. Delicious as always.

I won't go into the details of the show but Of Montreal were super fun and played for a little bit over an hour. During the show, Kevin Barnes put on these really short shorts and there was a bit of S&M like play during one part. There was a stupid tall guy in front of me that thought dancing was swaying side to side with his hands in his pockets while his little pixie friend was jumping up and down. At least she was only bugging the person right behind her and not 3 people behind like the tall dork was. I swear I really wanted to smack him. They ended their set with The Party's Crashing Us and thankfully the dork was no longer right in front of me so I was both dancing to the song and for delight that I had an unobstructed view again.

Pete ended up leaving before Jamie came on because his friend was going through a break up. He's such a good friend. Shoot, I wouldn't be answering my phone during a concert!

Jamie came on around 11ish. He was fun as usual and as usual we had some idiots in front of us. A couple that seemed to be on a first date or something. They kept talking and kept creeping backwards which in turn made us move backwards so we ended up a few feet back than where we started. Nate and Mari only last about 30 minutes. They were super tired and Jamie's light show didn't really help. I stayed around for a little bit longer but left before midnight. I guess seeing him 3 times in a year might have been a little much. But I'm glad I got to see Of Montreal. Did I mention that I love them?

Posted by luluvision at September 28, 2006 09:16 PM

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