*jealous*

Hope you had as much fun as it seems!

If you've got more photos, you'd better post 'em. There wasn't a single second of this show that didn't deserve to be preserved for posterity...

eh, i was at this show, and have seen lsf numerous times over the years. you can tell the members of lsf are over it. they all don't have the love and energy they used to have. also its really annoying when the people who aren't in the band outnumber the band by 3x. 90% of the time a cameraman/friend was blocking the band and getting in the way, i know we all want to look cool and be onstage with one of the greatest bands, but we didn't pay to see you trying to be cool.

I was at this show as well and once again (this was my 2nd time seeing them though the last time was 3 years ago at Siren), I just don't get LSF. They're great to watch as Tim is such a crazy frontman, but the band and their music just seem like a backdrop for his crazy antics at the expense of the songs and the music.

Thunderbirds Are Now (admittedly the main reason I was there), on the other hand, were simply amazing. They played one of the best opening (or otherwise) sets I've seen by anyone in a while.

Agreed...TAN! stole the show. Rahim were also great.

I disagree completely. I thought the music was spectacular, better live than on record. I haven't danced this hard at a concert since LCD Soundsystem. The antics were funny, but they were only enhancing the show, not stealing it.

But seriously, can we talk about Fred Armisen? Holy shit was this guy awful. He was able to get through literally 1 of his bits, a stupid and insulting impersonation of a native american stand-up comic, before the crowd completely turned on him. He was finally booed off stage when he sang songs wearing a Sadam Hussein outfit. It was the one of the single most awful experiences I've ever had. Ever. I'm usually supportive of people in his position, but this was just inexcusably bad.

Armisen had an unforgiving slot: Who wanted to hear that at 12am on a Friday, between TAN! and LSV?

I loved LSV -- it was my first time -- though they're nothing like their CDs. Which is good: A live show is a show, a CD's a CD.

...and the camerafolk stayed out of the way after Tim told them to, which was only like 3 songs in.

I will be the lone supporter of Armisen. He is funny, but in a way that the drunk 20somethings just didn't get. So his projector didn't work. So what! He's supercreative, unlike the dolts who were there to chug rheingold and try to look williamsburgy.

We had a different opinion about the projector, too...

http://www.badmintonstamps.com/zarchive0508.html#59

Uh, if drunk 20-somethings don't get your material, then you shouldn't be performing at a rock concert. Go perform at a boat show. It's pretty simple, really.

more photos:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kathryn/sets/841087/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kathryn/sets/841078/

I didn't think much of Armisen's act, either, but I didn't think that he was awful. It was just bizarre. I couldn't tell if it was supposed to be funny on the surface or in an ironic, post-modern way where he was making fun of comedians who do lame Native American impressions and what not. Maybe that's the point, though. Either way, again "strange" or "bizarre" is the operative word here. And yeah, he was just annoying, especially since I was already tired and my feet hurt since I'd already seen Ted Leo earlier and it was already 12:30 AM or something like that at that point.

Fred wasn't funny at the Thermals show either... but was far more well-received then.

Les Savy Fav though... talk about a rabid crowd. (good thing)