pics?

I saw a guy with microphones up in the balcony, so we may see another boot for this one.

All in all, not that great. The DJ between sets played better music. That opening act was a total joke - someone should have pulled the plug on her.

AC is hype-proof

that is a good loooking bunnysuit!

Can't believe the good reviews for the show. AC sucked both time I have seen them live, but maybe I should give them another shot. Too bad, the next show is at T5. Hopefully they will play another NYC show after that at a better venue.

wasn't the opening act Abby PORTNER? she's great

AC:Music = Webster:Words

I bet that dude in the bunny suit is great at shotgunning beers....

She wasn't great last night.

bunny suits are the new beards

heard of huge ticket scam for this show - see grand ballroom review posts

She is the sister of a member of Animal Collective

I hate to crap on an artist, but just wasn't feeing the constant crying baby samples in the opening act.

Nick Zinner was there also, grooving out
their new album is feedback heaven

ac was good but not great at bowery, better performance and sound at grand ballroom. and way to change up the set list from night to night

"bunny suits are the new beards"

change you can believe in!

Opening act was pure crap. (crying baby sample for like 10 minutes?? izawack!)

AC was sick!

Crowd was lively.

Smoking was quasi allowed...and appreciated.

Great show overall! [Big Perm]

Animal Collective DID NOT suck live, as Big Perm pointed out above...

-Do you know how to understand things that are coming out of Big Perm's mouth? Learn slang: sick = good

"ac was good but not great at bowery, better performance and sound at grand ballroom. and way to change up the set list from night to night"

....if you cannot hear the fact that the sound is 100x better at bowery, you shoulw have your ears cut off

sound wasn't too loud, mixed perfect
balcony had the best sound, no ear plugs needed :)

No "In the Flowers" was a bit ridiculous.

Don't mix family and work.

incredible night--- air was thick with pot smoke--- light show was great, encore was killer. AC is on top of their game---- anyone who was there was very lucky--- anyone hating wishes they were there.

1:49 - BV understands Big Perm perfectly.

to the first 1:49,

bv was saying that big perm pointed out that animal collective DO NOT suck live. so i think he understood the slang quite well

I thought I saw Nick Zinner, so I guess I did. And I definitely saw Chris Taylor from Grizzly Bear, because he is an otherworldly presence.

last night was stellar. only thing that would have made it better is if they played purple bottle.

I think Haley Joel Osment was there.

The drummer from Blonde Redhead was there as well.

why wasn't my earlier comment posted? I wrote that I had bootlegged the show and the songs were going to be available on my blog tonight... hrm. weird.

im pretty sure i saw jesus and the guy who played tom hanks when he was a kid in BIG doing lines in mens room. star studded evening indeed.

after seeing AC for the first time last night, i can now say it was well worth holding out & skipping all those webster hall shows in the past 5 years. also, it should really be mentioned that the crowd was fantastic. i'll will be sure to see them on their tour in the spring, but will certainly avoid T5 at all costs.

That was me alright!

show was amazing.
highlight was watching panda on drums during fireworks.
amazing.
nick zinner was there & rocking out really hard.

I SEE DEAD PEOPLE

"Learn slang: sick = good "

um, I knew exactly what Big Perm meant. I just didn't do the best job wording my sentence where I agreed with Big Perm

i saw obama there.

"Animal Collective DID NOT suck live, as Big Perm pointed out above..."

Clear to me.

in the audience:
members of:
Grizzly Bear
Chairlift
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yeasayer
Vampire Weekend
Interpol
Blonde Redhead

also:
Natasha Leone
Sean Avery
Ryan Schreiber
Cobralegs
dude in bunny suit

and:
parents of Animal Collective members who were pointed out by the band from stage

Who from Interpol was there?

i think i saw tom yaps there.

It's kind of depressing that shows this cool don't happen often...oh well, last night was a great time!

to the girl who hideously yelped the lyrics of MY GIRLS into my ear, thus ruining an already tepid performance of my favorite MPP track - you were cute, but i wanted to shiv you in the kidney anyway.

also, FIREWORKS was a monster with no equal.

Does Panda Bear still smoke weed??

this dude:
Daniel Kessler - Guitarist

http://www.mtv.com/shared/promoimages/bands/i/interpol/flipbook_0707/cr_brian_appio/flipbook/04.jpg

"also, FIREWORKS was a monster with no equal."

TRUE INDEED!

I saw Tom Yaps as well - dude looked fucked up.

photo credit?

New to New York I guess.... what's wrong with Terminal 5. I missed the show and was hoping to catch it in May, now I'm having second thoughts.

terminal 5 = clusterfuck and the stage is in an awkward place..its not intimate like bowery and the sounds arnt as good

Panda Bear's drums on Fireworks were incredible.

There was some dude yelling toward the back of the floor between the set and the encore: "Haley Joel Osmont is here!! He's right here! Look! It's Haley Joel Osmont!!"

It was pretty damn funny.

t-5 gets a bad rap...place isn't perfect but i've seen some fun things there. crowd can sometimes suck but that is your fault for having lame friends

thank god everyone near me seemed pretty mesmerized by the performance so i didn't have to deal with any falsetto, great crowd. i'm also glad that this show was so good that now i don't have to risk ruining my animal collective experience by seeing them at terminal 5.

Great set last night. Best I've seen so far. Better than seaport, Webster, APW. Lights were a nice touch. Sound was perfect. Crowd was eating it up, very lively and attentive. Brothersport is their Rebellion/Lies.

I heard a rumor that Tom Yaps was rushed to the hospital last night in an ambulance?!?
can anyone confirm or deny? I know his ESPN X-Games interview at 2pm was apparently postponed?

The sound was overall as good as it's gonna get for a band with this much layering. Bowery is absolutely the best sounding venue. y'know, besides Carnegie Hall.

Yeah, I was standing next to Nick Zinner about 20 feet from the stage for the whole night and didn't realize it was him until I came on this board and made the connection. I knew he looked familiar. Also, this music business exec asshole behind me was pushing people around. But it's okay, I heard him say AC was "better than he expected." He's definitely an avid fan.

I'm dying to see them again, but at t5? what to do, what to do...

photos need to improve, dude.

what happened to tom yaps' finger? there was blood everywhere!

tom yaps cut his finger on my razor blade, which was used to wolf down a shit load of lines. I patched his cut up with a band aid, which turned out to be acid. This caused his heart to explode. grease was everywhere.

anon 2:57 - you aren't serious are you? is Thomas ok? I've been calling him all morning but he won't pick up. last i heard he took a bunch of mescalin and got thrown out because he tried to smoke santogold's hair. since then he has been m.i.a.

HOW WAS COMFY IN NAUTICA?

i don't know what's more scary to a hipster, sounds of a baby crying or a career. It was like being stuck sitting next too a newborn on a flight headed for the hudson river. But she wasn't bad. The d.j. between sets was better, any one know who it was???

And the crowd was filled with a lot of college kids that's why it was moving or else it would be just one guy going crazy and the rest of us nodding our heads.

"There was some dude yelling toward the back of the floor between the set and the encore: "Haley Joel Osmont is here!! He's right here! Look! It's Haley Joel Osmont!!"

It was pretty damn funny."

why is that funny? who gives a fuck if he was there? i thought it was pretty damn obnoxious, and stupid, and came at a time during the encore when the focus should have been on the band and the music, not some drunk frat boy douche bag screaming like an asshole.

also, the crowd sucked. for a crowd that was supposedly mainly composed of AC fanclubbers, it was a pretty weak display. the people around me didn't even know the song titles. i was seriously waiting for whitney from the hills to show up.

still, great show.

Let's get wet!!!

oh shit -- winter's love?!?

i wiissshhhhh they played that at the grand.

comfy in nautica = unexpected bliss. geologist and avey played it just as intensely as AC stuff.

Comfy in Nautica was beautiful beautiful beautiful.

HOW WAS COMFY IN NAUTICA?

one word: EPIC.

also, the crowd sucked. for a crowd that was supposedly mainly composed of AC fanclubbers, it was a pretty weak display. the people around me didn't even know the song titles. i was seriously waiting for whitney from the hills to show up.

seriously?? where on earth were you standing?

oh man the people around you didn't know the song titles? maybe you should pay more attention to the band and less attention to people having a good time, faggot.

I think Tom Yaps wrote me.

anon 3:30- I agree that your enjoyment of a concert shouldn't have anything to do with whether or not people know song titles, and I had a great time last night, but knock it off with the homophobia already! What the fuck?

merriweather post pavilion is simply incredible. each time i listen to it, i hear new things. a classic. and many AC fans may hate on me, but I think it's their best work yet.

^^^^^ doesn't know the song titles

i guess these days a good time at a concert involves not paying attention to the show or knowing anything about the music and just standing around being loud and obnoxious and trying to look pretty...i assume since the comment touched such a nerve, this is pretty much what you were doing there, faggot/fratboy.

^^^^ was comment 69 heh.

^^^^ yep, pretty much that, exactly

Yo 3:16, you're angry man. Take it easy. I don't know if Haley was really in the house or not, and who cares, but the guy who was yelling about it was funny and the encore hadn't started yet so relaaaaaax homes.

this could be the last time i ever post to this blog

I think concerts are about enjoying music and not concerning yourself with the worthiness of those around you. People were at least moving, which made me happy. If they were talking loudly over the music, that is lame. But not nearly as lame as you deployment of the word "faggot", which is really fucked up.

And not that it makes a goddamn bit of difference, but I knew every song except for the new one.

Oh wait, BOTH of you anonymous asshats are calling each other faggot?! Maybe the crowd DID suck...

gay fan - you speak the truth.

scoblionko's definitely the scammer. dude claimed to have 3 seperate pairs of tickets because he "used 3 different credit cards." then claimed there were no hard tickets, that it was an eticket only release. when i questioned him, he flipped out and said hes selling them to someone else. good thing i didnt believe him.
dude is a fuckwad. everyone leave mad messages on his machine. this guy needs to know not to fuck with the fans of animal collective.

anyone else think that Brothersport is a total rip off of El Guincho?

http://gothamist.com/2009/01/22/animal_collective_fans_bust_scam_ar.php

The crowd was great because people weren't TALKING THE WHOLE FUCKING TIME like they do at most shows. It was a special night at the Bowery. I'm gonna try to get my whole 16-minute video of Fireworks on Youtube if the file size isn't too big - will link here.

animal collective REALLY SUCKEd- what a crappy and boring show- seriously. waaayy overrated.

set was kinda short, but still, best show i'd seen from them since seaport. still not better than seaport, atleast for me, wasn't as intense. winter's love was amazing, so was slippi. that new blue sky song sounded pretty good to.

as far as the opener goes, don't be so quick to bash her. she's much better in rings, plus she seemed pretty nervous.

i would rather see noah's brother than aveys sister

Awesome show! Not the best AC show I have been to but definitely up there. Slippi was the highlight of the night for me and my only disappointment was that they did not play Banshee Beat.

I bought tickets from the scammer guy. Enormous disappointment after looking forward to that show for over a month. Now all I can do is effing read about it. I had my doubts, but wanted to go to that show so bad, I figured it was worth the risk. Anyway, his name is Seth Scoblionko, and he's on facebook. http://www.facebook.com/people/Seth-Scoblionko/604140
What a douchebag...

best to use publicity shots than to post pics like that. just sayin.

how do we get this guy arrested?

The pics are dope - in a surreal, trippy kind of way.

schokotank

The MPP album is a blatant rip off of Nirvana Unplugged

ah to be 19 again

that show was so amazing
ac are just the cutest and most humble band around even though they're making some of the best music out there
i'm soooo so so glad i got to go
man winters love was a trip out even though there were only like two parts that i could recognize as the song
so dubby
slippi was just cataclysmic for my brain
i wanted to go crazy but all i could do was give a big cheesy smile when the lights blinded me
that new song was really good it has a very 90's feel to me did they add more words instead of just the looping or repeating of blue sky or something?
guys eyes... what can i say
i'm forcing my husband to have that to be our wedding song and he's dedicating it to me
p.s. i hope i wasn't the girl screaming in your air
i know i sung along to every song maybe too loudly and i can't sing for beans

i swear every time they play comfy in nautica they trick me into thinking it choco girl with the same lazer sounds

THANK YOU ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
you guys are SUHWEET

dear animal collective,

you make my 15 year old panties sooooo wet. even though my crouch was sooo dry due to stealing my parents perscription medication, choppin' it up, and snorting the heck outta it. I was arguing with my little sister about who is cuter. All i said is animal collective > jonas brothers. Im drippin wet right now thinking of the 'pew pew' lazer noises you guys so skillfully copy and paste. And those lights made almost throw up the robitussin a chugged outside.....almost

What an awesome setlist... for an opening band. Play a real set you pussies.

there should be a missed connections devoted to ac shows.

6:37:

that would take so much effort to write all that.. id just like hate it and not try to make everyone know if it was gonna require that much effort..

just sayin

century mark on the comments hooray! anyone see that guy reading between sets, who the fuck brings a book to a show??

6:37
dag man
i just meant cute in their humility not like i want them to bone me or something
are you sexually frustrated with all your talk about wetness
it's kind of weird
non of that happened i only sweated my ass off during the set and downed some mcdonalds and arizona green teen after the show

there's no winning in these comments
even if you make a sincere comment on how you liked the show

weirdos

AC sucked

shit setlist

Who are you creatures that come on to this blog and say like shit setlist? ....Where do you guys live? Houston and D? 7th and D. Anywhere on D? Obviously it would have been nice to hear some other songs but to i find it laughable to critique these guys after they play a sick show at my favorite venue in the city...those songs go well together and just remember that they are playing for themselves and not for you....How often do you see a show that sick? Finally, the dbag making a scene in the middle, kys...

awesome show, probably the last time animal will play a venue that small...let's hope not.

"together and just remember that they are playing for themselves and not for you"

yea that's probably like the stupidest statement ever

congrats you are a moron and an AC fanboy hipster faggot

That setlist is fucking amazing.

How did all these people get tickets?

take off the skinny jeans and relax people, life is good.

show was nice, sorry if you didn't enjoy it

AC is fucking awesome but 6:37 is the man

More bunny

10:41 - that's the stupidest statement ever? well, your logic is severely flawed if you think that true statements are stupid

Panda Bear doesn't care about red headed step children like Anon 10:41

Panda Bear doesn't care about black people.

Grand Ballroom- had fun!
Bowery - didn't go, seems like allot of haters though...
Terminal 5 - can't wait!! im buyin my ticket @ noon, anyone think its gonna sell out by 1/2?

oh, someone post audio.video of "Winters Love"

i don't feel reading through these comments, but hopefully everyone knew that the opening act was Abby Portner aka Avey Tare/David Portner's sister. She's also in a band called Rings and she also did the art for AC up until Strawberry Jam. She is fuckin' amazing and is the perfect woman next to kria brekkan whom avey is coincidentally married to. what a family!

I'm sure she's great once she gets rid of her annoying baby crying samples.

The setlist posted above is wrong, out of order and a song is missing.

by god yes we know it's abby portner. but does that mean ppl have to like her. i'm pretty sure she doesn't want ppl to just like her cuz she's one of the guys sister

i happened to like her set it was pretty mooooody it could make for some good atmosphere music or something, i doubt i'd ever listen too it conscientiously, but i do like it better than rings

wasn't there another new song too towards the end? perhaps before winters love. i'm thinking that it wasn't too vocal so maybe thats why it hasn't been mentioned i thought it was "blue sky" and that blue sky was something else new. anyone else remember it? i would just give it to atmosphere between songs (like they do sometimes)but it had a clear beggining and end (ppl even clapped when it was over)plus it had a melody to it

KNOCK IT OFF WITH THE "FAGGOT" SHIT ALREADY.