Of Montreal put on a pretty good show.  Their musical talents are awesome.  Their show is theatrical, but most if it came off as "summer camp skit" and not "glam rock god/ess."  They played all our favorites, and I was very happy about going to see them.

Every time we go to a show we vow that the next time we are going to purposefully miss the opening acts (if we don't know them), because they usually stink.  This is the first time we've ever skipped the openers, and it's only because we saw Clinic the night before and I needed a nap.  I am probably the only person who took a nap before Of Montreal ... which is sad ... even though some of the kids there looked young enough to need an afternoon nap.  If I hadn't been so tired, I probably would have gone to see the opening acts since one was named Mixel Pixel - what a cool name!

Usually we get to a show way-early and stake our claim very close to the stage.  Since we sauntered in during the second Of Montreal song, we ended up on the sidelines.  But, that was lucky for us.  The kids at the show (and they were all kids) were the rowdiest bunch of thugs I've seen. The whole center floor was undulating en masse like an angry sea.  Throughout the show, people were getting knocked down, tossed about, and generally abused.  It was kind of fascinating to watch.  The weirdest part is that Of Montreal is dancy glam rock ... like Ziggy Stardust Era Bowie ... like Roxy Music.  It's like they were all listening to angry punk on their iPods.

The crowd didn't ruin it for us, though.  And neither did the goofiness of the stage show.  I had a great time!  For the whole week after the show Andrew and I would randomly sing snippets of their songs*.  They write the best, catchiest tunes.

*We were also singing snippets of Clinic songs, too.  But that's harder since most of their lyrics are purposely unintelligible.  Of course, that doesn't stop us from making them up.

[photo taken 3/13/2007 in Philadelphia]

[title from the lyrics of "Suffer For Fashion" by Of Montreal from "Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?"]