Last night I saw Spoon live at the MFA in Boston.  I’d never seen a show at the MFA.  All I can compare it to is to say that it’s a much smaller, scaled back version of Radio City. Or at least, the experience of seeing a show there kind of felt that way.  It’s really an auditorium, with seats and excellent sound.  My friend bought the tickets.  For an extra five bucks he got us “Front of House,” which meant that we could sit in the first three rows.  That was a five dollars well spent.  I was just slightly off center in the second row.  One of the other unique things about this venue?  They don’t seem to care if you photograph to your heart’s content.  So I did.  The lighting wasn’t fabulous, and I couldn’t get right up by the stage, but that aside, I can’t complain too much.

I didn’t write down the setlist, but I can tell you that they played Everything Hits at Once, Lines in the Suit, The Way We Get By, Fitted Shirt (someone asked for it in the encore and they played it), several new songs, Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine, I Turn My Camera On, and Someone Something.

Britt Daniel is a doll.  He seems like a really smart, funny guy.  Here’s a little story.  At first, people were sitting in their seats and listening–sort of bopping along.  I noticed that the first night I saw Interpol at Radio City, too.  The niceness of the venue throws people off a bit.  Perhaps thinking that she’d stir people up, a girl went up front and started dancing rather suggestively. She jumped on stage and was putting on this sort of early-Madonna show. Britt seemed to find it pretty funny. When the song was over and she had gone, he said “Thanks, Mom.”

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