the National played NYU, playing Columbia w/ Grizzy Bear

incredible show.

damn i wish my school could get a show like that.

I'm pretty sure these shows are for Columbia Students only ?

COLUMBIA CONCERTS PRESENTS
THE NATIONAL
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS GRIZZLY BEAR
APRIL 21, 2008, 8PM (DOORS)
ROONE AUDITORIUM, LERNER HALL (ENTER ON BROADWAY)
TICKETS: $5

STUDENT AND GENERAL PUBLIC ON-SALE INFORMATION SHORTLY

http://ems.ais.columbia.edu/VirtualEMSEnterprise/BookingDetails.aspx?data=xHa2hY5x%2fQpr5BWOKlTW82LAUKhSJDc2rWKxDbeHdlg%3d

Why are the National supporting neighborhood destroying institutions like NYU and Columbia?

Because the "school of hard knocks" doesn't pay that well

ok i was at this show - and in person, it did NOT look that cool. Unless you think overly-lit homecoming dances look cool. That's like some sort of magic fantasy camera that makes lame things look incredibly awesome.

^^i go to shows that look cool.

Or a very talented photographer. Go and take a look at some of Bao's other work. I'm sure he has nice equipment, but the man has a lot of talent.

Thanks for the kind words, nyctaper.

I traded my two magic beans for that camera so it better make lame things look incredible.

anon 3:24pm

maybe things look different from the other side of the stage?

here's my take on it:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jberg/sets/72157604011957391/

Anyone with a digital camera and license to get up close can take those pictures. Don't want to be a hater, but there is not much to it.

I seriously hate NYU and all the fake rich hipster wannabe's that go there. screw them. I can understand the National wanting to reach a larger audience, but in this instance they officially sold out, even though their music is great.

^^ you are a moron.

yes anyone who goes to college is a trust fund neighborhood destroying hipster wannabe. uhhhh

go back to your hole dipshit, and think of some more baseless overgeneralized dipshit comments.

Whoa didn't know that Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mohamed ElBaradei was a fake rich hipster wannabe.

The National "sold out"?

They played a cheap show for ostensibly poor college kids. If you went to college you might have had that opportunity as well.

NYU kids got to see two great bands (nat'l + phosphorescent) for a five bucks. Cheers to them. I wish I had been able to get a ticket...

"I can understand the National wanting to reach a larger audience, but in this instance they officially sold out, even though their music is great."

So charging 5 bucks for a show at a non-profit educational institution is selling out?

Screw other people. Listen to music because you and only you like it. F*ck the haters who think every band sold out. Death2NYU just hates NYU cause he or she didnt get in, and hates the National cause he or she found out about them too late.

for the love of god focus that cam pls, k thanks!

i love that Matt has the first couple of words from the lyrics of every song on the set list...will he need a teleprompter in a few years?

all the people pissed off by my earlier comments are just defensive because they feel guilty about their trust-fund, neighborhood destroying, $40k educational experience at an absolutely shite school that seriously destroyed the East Village and many other neighborhoods. The National are great regardless of the show.

am i the only person on the planet that doesn't like the national?

I can't get over their name, which seems to indicate a sort of grandiose blandness.

And don't you mean Grizzly?

Death2NYU, not everyone in NYU is a trust fund baby. Get over yourself. The school gives out a lot of finical aid and helps a lot of underrepresented minorities. They have helped give a substantial amount of money, revenue, and highly qualified educated graduates back to a struggling neighborhood. If you think NYU is solely responsible for the demise of the Easy Village, then you are highly misinformed and frankly, miseducated.

OH and I did not attend or am I affiliated with NYU

Oh, one other thing, Death2NYU, I would love to see what your beef with Bellevue hospital and the plethora of other Medical Centers that NYU has in lower income communities. And how NTU has helped give medical care to countless number of people in need of medical care.

I don't know, I saw them play at Florida State last September and it was pretty good. and lord knows we're not rich kids.

"i love that Matt has the first couple of words from the lyrics of every song on the set list...will he need a teleprompter in a few years?"

I found that he had the lyrics on there funny too. perhaps he gets nervous?

@ CU Concerts...Does this mean this show is also opened to the public?

oh yea nyu totally ruined williamsburg too, right?

what a joke

Tickets for all Columbia student events are sold online through ovationtix, linked from the CUarts.com website. I'd keep checking that for ticketing information.

Also, the annual WBAR Barnard College Radio outdoor end-of-semester show is that Friday (4/25). The bands that I've heard tossed around aren't terribly inspiring yet, but it's usually a fun show and it'll likely get a write-up on here.

NYU is an effing joke. anyone who defends it is a freaking yuppie suburban moron who probably grew up in Jersey.

growing up in jersey was amazing.

youre all idiots

"I can understand the National wanting to reach a larger audience, but in this instance they officially sold out, even though their music is great."

tons of bands play the college circuit when they're on a break from tour. it's ridiculously easy money and the kids appreciate it. the bands are probably making more money from a one-off college show than an average night on tour so why complain?

i know someone at my college who books shows and bands demand so much money for college shows:

spoon= 25 G
Of Monreal=40 G
cold war kids=25G

@anon112. That's a very far stretch. Spoon asked for only 7500. And Cold War Kids was 2500 (both were in 07)

the only thing i would pay the cold war kids 25g for would be to never play a single note again.

and believe me, the offer is real, i have the dough, I go to NYU.

wish my school booked bands that were good :[

Death2NYU is clearly deficient, that much is given, but his most egregious and baseless statement was "The National are great regardless of the show."

That is simply not true. Part of my college education consisted in honing the ability to discern fuckin' rad musical acts from bland prissy pseudo rock n roll.

the national are like interpol minus the complete mastery of their schtick, which was what made interpol likable in the first place.

super blah.

any updates on ticket info?

so this show isn't happening then is it?

why do u say that?