The New Pornographers "Twin Cinema" from Twin Cinema Live at Barrymore Theatre Madison, WI Feb 22, 2006

The back end of the show featured less banter than the beginning, and it ended kind of abruptly. I realized during the break that, even though I didn't see the end of the set coming, it was a pretty full set, which included most of what I wanted to hear. One of the few I was left waiting for was the title track from their latest album, which they used to open the encore (and which I recorded, of course).

At this point I no longer cared about the security presence, so I actually used the LCD display and got a clip that looks pretty decent. I also wound up recording a slight digression about the gap left by Guided By Voices in the drunken shenanigan band market, which sort of came out of nowhere and went right back there. There's a bit of a let's-get-off urgency to the song, but it has a tightness that works well for the encore. It really was time, naturally, for the show to wrap up and they brought things to a close pretty well.