{"id":37,"date":"2001-04-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-04-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-37.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"yesterday-evenings-barenaked-ladies-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2001\/04\/06\/yesterday-evenings-barenaked-ladies-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday evening&#8217;s Barenaked Ladies concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barenakedladies.com\">Barenaked Ladies<\/a> concert was <b>amazing<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Support act:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everything2.com\/index.pl?node=The Lilac Time\">The Lilac Time<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.everything2.com\/index.pl?node=Stephen Duffy\">Stephen (formerly &#8220;TinTin&#8221;) Duffy<\/a>).  He started off playing a slow song on his own, with just an acoustic guitar.  For the next one, Steve from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everything2.com\/index.pl?node=BNL\">BNL<\/a> joined him on backing vocals, then a few songs later, Jim, Kevin, and Tyler came on stage, too.  Ed was the last to fall in, and they kicked the whole thing up a gear with an up-tempo version of Duffy&#8217;s 1985 hit &#8220;Kiss Me.&#8221;  There was a break of about 25 minutes before the BNL came back on, all dressed in simple patterned shirts and black <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everything2.com\/index.pl?node=trousers\">trousers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Main Set:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Too Little Too late<sup>5<\/sup><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everything2.com\/index.pl?node=Alcohol\">Alcohol<\/a><sup>4<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>Life, In a Nutshell<sup>2<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>Falling For The First Time<sup>5<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>In The Car<sup>4<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>Pinch Me<sup>5<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>The Old Apartment<sup>3<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s All Been Done<sup>4<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>Light Up My Room<sup>4<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>Humour Of The Situation<sup>5<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>Tonight Is The Night I Fell Asleep At The Wheel<sup>5<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>Jane<sup>2<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>Off The Hook<sup>5<\/sup><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everything2.com\/index.pl?node=Medley\">Medley<\/a>:  All the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everything2.com\/index.pl?node=BNL\">BNL<\/a> songs ever!  <small>(Well, not really&#8230;only about fifteen of them, each one lasting only a few bars)<\/small><\/li>\n<li>One Week<sup>4<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>Never Do Anything<sup>5<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>If I had $1,000,000<sup>1<\/sup><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everything2.com\/index.pl?node=Medley\">Medley<\/a>:  Some recent hits by other artists in the BNL style, including &#8220;The Real Slim Shady&#8221;, &#8220;Clint Eastwood&#8221;, &#8220;I&#8217;m Like A Bird&#8221; <small>(again, just a few bars of each)<\/small><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Encore 1:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shoe Box<sup>3<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>Brian Wilson<sup>1<\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Encore 2:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Call And Answer (with Stephen Duffy on backing vocals\/guitar)<sup>4<\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Plus, of course, lots of little snippets of (semi-)improvised lunacy, such as &#8220;Steve&#8217;s Cock\/It&#8217;s A Family Show (We&#8217;re Just A Messed Up Family)&#8221;, the Darth Vader version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everything2.com\/index.pl?node=Britney Spears\">Britney Spears<\/a>&#8216; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.everything2.com\/index.pl?node=Oops!...I Did It Again\">Oops!&#8230;I Did It Again<\/a>&#8220;, &#8220;34? 36? Do my Thighs Look Big In This?&#8221; and the &#8220;Canadian Blues&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The guys had an absolute blast on stage.  You could see they were genuinely enjoying themselves.  This is the first time I&#8217;ve seen them live, but it won&#8217;t be the last!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<blockquote><p><small><br \/>\n1:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everything2.com\/index.pl?node=Gordon\">Gordon<\/a><br \/>\n2:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everything2.com\/index.pl?node=Maybe You Should Drive\">Maybe You Should Drive<\/a><br \/>\n3:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everything2.com\/index.pl?node=Born On A Pirate Ship\">Born On A Pirate Ship<\/a><br \/>\n4:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everything2.com\/index.pl?node=Stunt\">Stunt<\/a><br \/>\n5:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everything2.com\/index.pl?node=Maroon\">Maroon<\/a><br \/>\n<\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening&#8217;s Barenaked Ladies concert was amazing Support act: The Lilac Time (Stephen (formerly &#8220;TinTin&#8221;) Duffy). He started off playing a slow song on his own, with just an acoustic guitar. For the next one, Steve from the BNL joined him on backing vocals, then a few songs later, Jim, Kevin, and Tyler came on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2001\/04\/06\/yesterday-evenings-barenaked-ladies-concert\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yesterday evening&#8217;s Barenaked Ladies concert&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}