You know you're a good band, when you can do a spontaneous version of "Barracuda"

Last night was the long awaited New Pornographers concert. And despite months of myself self-hyping this event, it lived up to my expectations. I think I like them even more now. The highlight of the show was the second encore when one of the guitarists had a little equipment failure, so they started fooling around and ended up playing all these snippets of Heart songs, most of the time, not knowing the words or the music, but with such a sense of fun, and just pure enjoyment of playing music. It was wonderful. The other musical highlight moment for me was when they went into the "Bells go no no no" part of Testament to youth in verse which was just spine tingling. I'm now got a constant stream of NP songs going through my head. At least the songs can handle the mental repetition.

The opening band, the Organ, put on the best-girl-group-from-Vancouver-channeling-the-Smiths-aggressively-blase performance I'd ever seen. I tried to get Matt a copy of their EP, because it's totally up his alley musically, but they had all sold out. Look out for them, Matt, coming to a stereo near you.