It started almost an hour after it was supposed to because the 6pm show had some fire alarm problems or something. While we were waiting outside, we could hear snippets of them performing.
Anyway, we go inside and I almost died because our seats were so close! I sat in the very upper part of the balcony last year at Nob Hill so this was awesome. The first thing I noticed was Sheila and Misty's little red piano! It was sitting right on Bret's table! We sat around some more waiting...I used the bathroom but because they roped off the women's restroom, my friend and I used the men's room after we saw a few women in that line and this guy had told us it was "half and half." Let's just say walking out of the men's room was one of the most awkward moments of my life. WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THE WOMEN?! Oh gosh...anyway...
Back inside, the theater started filling up. I noticed the scalper guy who was selling tickets outside the theater had come in and was talking to a couple sitting in the row in front of me [I was in pit row 3] so I'm guessing he sold them their seats. Then my friend and I realized that HE AND HIS LADY FRIEND WERE SITTING PIT ROW 1 CENTER SEATS. Maybe I should explain that I have seen this guy a bunch of times at the Curran Theater trying to scalp Jersey Boys and Spring Awakening tickets. He's making a living off scalping the hottest events. If you buy a scalped ticket to some popular event in the Bay Area, you're probably buying it from this guy. HE IS EVERYWHERE. My friends and I were annoyed and shocked.
Finally around 9:50 or something, the Live Nation guy comes out and then Arj quickly follows [after Jemaine's Ronald Chevalier-esque intro]. He was hilarious! I love that he made so many jokes that seemed to be for Bay Area audiences. It was clear that he was happy to be back home. After his set he made us all promise to follow him on twitter and to subscribe this his mailing list.
Bret and Jemaine came out and immediately went into "Too Many Dicks" which was epic of course. They both got really into the dancing, Bret especially. He kept thrusting that disco ball codpiece. Jemaine called us "San Francisco" which was amusing to me, since I am from San Francisco, but we were in Berkeley. hahah. He later said that the 6pm show told him he should refer to the audience as "Berkeley" but that he was just going to call us "Bay Area."
I have the actual setlist so I'm just going to go down the line [the order may have been different, e.g I think Jenny was before Carol Brown, but I'm not sure]
Too Many Dicks- afterwards, they had a bit of banter regarding the song. Like how it was based on true events and such. They broke down the song and analyzed it as well..."Then we say 'Too many dicks' about eight times...." "The second verse was about morality."
Hurt Feelings - BRET PLAYED THE LITTLE RED PIANO DURING THIS SONG! I'm sorry I didn't get a video of it.
Stana - was awesome. I managed to resist listening/watching the youtube videos of this and I was blown away. I loved it! The red lighting was a nice touch. After the song, Bret totally called out this guy in the front row for recording the song and then giving up because it was too long.
Sellotape - I almost died from excitement when they started playing this. One of my favorites and to hear it live was amazing. But we didn't have an epic sing a long like they didn't in LA last year, but oh well. It was still epic. They did the banter in between about Bret putting envelopes to his heart and mailing them.
Carol Brown - Jemaine had omnichord problems again [reminiscent of last year..hah] and he joked about it being in ROCK 1 and that we were lucky it wasn't in ROCK 2 because we would have all been blown away. The weird thing is they didn't have us be the choir...? I don't know why. I was really looking forward to it.
They introduce Nigel and talk about how the New Zealand Orchestra originally had a few more members like Bruce and some other name that I don't remember right now and how now it's only Nigel. I think it was around this point that somebody yelled out "BRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCE!" and Jemaine was confused and said something like "Was that Bruce's original fan? The sad thing is that also sounded like 'Booo!" Hilarious. So Nigel comes out looking suave and stuff in hat and sunglasses.
Jenny - OH MY GOD HOW GORGEOUS DOES THIS SOUND WITH THE CELLO?! I was so excited when they started playing it. The sad thing is some of the people around me seemed clueless [well the couple next to me didn't even know where they were from.. ] or maybe they were just better at containing their excitement. I'm sure I probably annoyed a lot of the people around me with my constant screams.
Muth'uckas - Bret got behind the drums for this one! Some people cheered when they got to the "EVERYBODY COME ON" part.
Epileptic Dogs- Bret got behind the keyboard for this one! I was dying during the remix part. Unfortuantely, I only got a few seconds of the strobe light on video...oh well.
I'm Not Crying - they got the sad lightening. Bret asked for lighting that would "remind the audience of a time they don't want remember." Bret made sax noises with his mouth and then Jemaine joined in, and then they both got Nigel to join in!
H vs R - all I can say is, I was impregnated by Jemaine's potent rhymes.
Same Girl/Sugalumps - I've been dying to see this one in person and I'm sure you all knew why. I laughed so hard during the "CELLO DAWG WHY ARE YOU CELLOING IT UP WHEN WE'RE TRYING TO HAVE A CONVERSATION OVER HERE DAWG." "JEMAINE DAWG" "YEAH DAWG?" and well, Sugalumps...we all know what happened. Jemaine sat on the edge of the stage on his side whilst Bret came over to my side and did his beckoning and reaching back thing. The best part of course was when he took that girls' camera and started taking photos of his crotch and Jemaine then came over and took the camera and aimed it into his pants!
Lights went down...everyone cheered for an encore. It seemed like forever until they came back out.
Finally Bret, Jemaine, and Nigel come out. Bret's now wearing the Band Meeting tshirt and once he gets onto his stool, he talks about the merch available. He takes off one, to reveal a smaller Band Meeting shirt, and then another, until it was his own blue tshirt left. He said something like "This one's mine....so you can't have it because there's only one."
Business Time - everyone's favorite of course. Mark [I think?] played drums!
Bret says something like "Oh what should we play next?" And so of course I couldn't help myself and shouted "Bus Driver's!" while the girl in front of me shouted "Frodo!" but Bret heard the guy behind us who shouted "Freebird" so they did that and it was hilarious! "Why is a woman trying to have a relationship with a bird?"
Bus Driver's Song - I don't know if I could explain how excited I was that they played this. I actually squeed and the people around me laughed at me. I doubt they played this because they heard me, but I'd like to think that they played it because they did.
Sometime during the encore [or was it towards the fake ending?] they thanked all the crew members, like Matt, Mark, Amy, and Kimberly! It was so sweet.
Albi - loooooooooooved it. I loved the colors of the rainbow lighting.
Then it was over. Bret and Jemaine asked us to stay put so they could take a photo of the audience and that was it!
I went up to the stage afterwards and asked Mark for the setlist and he gave it to me.
The merch table was crazy packed but we made our way to Arj who I talked to a bit and got a photo with. He yelled at my friend to delete a photo because he thought he was blinking. haha. And he signed my season 2 poster. Whilst talking to him, a couple of ladies went up and said hi to him and he told them that they were going into the City for an after party [probably the main reason why they didn't stay after for a meet and greet].
We went outside to where the tour buses were and the crew people made us all wait on the side walk across the street. There were maybe 40 or so people? It was cold but we were all patient. The crew people kept yelling at us to get back on the sidewalk. At one point, Mark [god I hope that's his name] came out with the robot heads and my friend and this other girl ran forward to get them. My friend was kind enough to give me BRETBOT [that's what's written on the inside]. Some people asked to take photos with them and so it made it's rounds. After awhile some crew person told us they left but we all stayed put, and then after some more time we ran back across the street to the theater. We watched the white tour bus drive away and then some more trucks. Someone told us they left an hour ago and so the crowd began to dwindle. Some crew people were still there...including Mark. haha. Finally it was just the blue tour bus and there were maybe 15 of us left? We waited and waited some more...watched TBS through the tourbus window....until the blue tour bus drove away. And then we all dispersed. A bit disappointing, but I guess it wasn't too much of a shocker.
All in all, IT WAS AN AWESOME AMAZZZZZZZZZZZINGGGG SHOW!
No comments:
Post a Comment