really, it was hard to look at the rest of the band. it may have been just because i was standing right in front of him and because i love him so much, but it was just so interesting to watch him. alternating between pounding the keyboard violently and putting his head down and then looking up and flashing a moment of smile and sitting on his legs and then knocking over his stool and picking it back up again and doing all his crazy vocal riffs and occasionally letting it show that he was feeling feverish and staring out into the distance. i really did stare at him the whole time. i had my camera with me and was taking photos and realized that they were all of him. so i took a few of dan but mostly just pretended to look elsewhere because i could have sworn i got a "why is this girl taking so many pictures of me?" look. because i totally made eye contact several times. if only very briefly. but still. squuuueeeeeeeee! most of this paragraph is read in my head in a "betty-talking-about-a-cute-boy" voice. he really does have a heart-melting smile. katelyn agreed.
they played a lot of songs. spencer's setlist was right in front of me so i tried to read it but there were a lot of scribbles and abbreviations and things that didn't make sense. i wanted to have it so badly and i was totally the closest person to it so at the end of the night i was going to grab it while politely asking spencer. but about three or four songs from the end some annoying chatty bitches pushed me and snatched it and ran away. that was not cool.
the first new song they played was called "beyonce". i found that amusing. there was a good mix of songs from old-new-and-future. perhaps a few more from apologies than from mount zoomer, which i thoroughly approve of. they seem to have played 7 or 8 new songs, which according to various setlists from internet sources were called "beyonce", "tv night", "low rider", "fast ballad", "yulia", "golden/palm road","new new fast" and an untitled one in the encore that doesn't seem to have been played anywhere else yet unless i am not remembering correctly. i think it was the one in the encore that spencer started off with this spoken part that had very sunset rubdown-ish lyrics. i liked it a lot but i don't remember it. there was one song, however, that i had heard about and was looking forward to, but they didn't play, called "caveosapian". it was supposed to make people want to dance like this:
but then i found a recording of it from the halifax show and it is so good! i also liked the one called "tv night", which seems to be the closest to how i recall that spoken-beginning one but it was written early on the setlist and doesn't have that beginning part so it must be different. i hope that some people make recordings of later shows and put them online because i really want to sort this out in my brain. either way, the album is supposed to come out in june or july so i'll figure it out by then. the new songs in general seem to be a bit more divided into more sunset rudown and handsome furs-esque, their newer albums rather than older, which are a bit more accessible and therefore blend more easily? i don't know if that makes sense.
the photos i took turned out decently. i wanted to make a few 11x14 prints but they were blurry enough already so they're all 8x10. i regret not thinking ahead about friday and sunday being holidays and buying some faster film. ISO125 is not so great for shooting concerts. the opening band had their lights on pretty bright so i thought i'd be okay, but wolf parade does not like much light, apparently. i shot a roll of colour too, so when i get it back in a week or so (damn you sackville and your lack of photo processing other than the photography department) they will be posted. for about half the roll i stuck on my telephoto lens converter so i have some pretty sweet close-ups. let's hope they turn out.
the only things that could have made the night better (excepting the unrealistic like spencer inviting me home with him or it being a sunset rubdown show instead) were if i had some faster film and if spencer's facial mole was on the other side of his face. why did i not think ahead and position myself to the right? i suppose because then i wouldn't have been able to pretend to take pictures of dan while really taking pictures of spencer.
exploiting my photoshop skills for illustrative purposes, here is how these should have looked:
Haha, you 'shopped his mole on! XD sounds like a great show. I am glad you got to be so close to him. Next on your list should be brushing shoulders with Lee Pace!
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