Live Fantasy: New Pornographers' Current Tour

If only I weren't in Florida.  Gah.

Well, at least NPR Music gave us a wonderful, wonderful live webcast of this show last week.  Live, with a fun little chat room in which participants decided that a Neko Case/Andrew Bird collaboration should happen, even though it would cause many heads to explode.  Then we played the game of "who should Neko collaborate with next", so much that our chat facilitator came up with a poll on it.  I don't know that I could tolerate Neko & Ke$ha, but I would pay good money to see Neko & the Roots.  And just as much money to see Neko & Petra Haden.

Anyway.  We did also get some high-quality stage banter, with Case & Carl Newman trashing Pitchfork in the kindest way possible, Case bragging about her breast milk, and Newman stating that "rock'n'roll is about rehearsing."  It was a terrific show, to be sure - and they didn't even play "The Laws Have Changed" OR "Letter from an Occupant". 

Of course, we didn't get the full daughter-of-teenage-parents-punk-rock rant from Neko Case that Boston did, but thank god for The A.V. Club: yeah, she will go to jail if you throw another CD at the band. 



And she doesn't yell, doesn't scream, doesn't get unreasonably pissed.  You can see from the video that someone chucked that thing pretty hard - it made a thud against Carl's guitar.

End result: I love the New Pornographers, all "Together" (huh huh huh), but Neko with or without them is a goddess.