If you missed Regis and Kelly last Thursday BNL played Another Postcard, part of Maybe Katie and part of One Week. Yes Ed has a sudo mohawk, which he claims Tyler gave him. They explained the tour will consist of them playing the entire new album and doing a Q&A.

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As we heard from the show in NYC the other day they did pretty much play the entire new album, with a few songs from older albums interspersed and did Q&A. After Q&A and an intermission they did a few songs acoustic.
It seems like some older fans may get discouraged on this tour. I personally like the new album a lot. Much more than Stunt and Maroon, and yes it's no Boaps or MYSD and definitely not even close to Gordonesque, but I still really like most of the new songs.
If I were at the NYC show the thing I would've been most disappointed about was the fact they didn't play If I Had A Million Dollars. But the show was just short of 3 hours and they did play a bunch of older stuff.
From what I understand the Buffalo Show and a few others that are sponsored by radio stations for there holiday bashes will not be like most of the other shows because BNL will have a few opening acts and a shorter set. I'll let you know after the show in December.
In other News next time BNL comes to Boston they will no longer be playing at the Fleet Center. No they wer not banished, Fleet was bought by Bank of America and in most likelyhood will change the name to the Bank of America center.

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Another Postcard video
I think the guy who directed Pinch Me did this one... if so, the feel is the same.
http://search.launch.yahoo.com/search/lsearch/video?p=ladies
Thanks to Chris from the Chatter
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Rolling Stone Article
The Barenaked Ladies will debut songs from their new album Everything to Everyone with a tour that begins October 21st -- the day of the record's release -- at the Orpheum Theater in Boston. "We're going a little bit smaller, a little more intimate," says Barenaked Ladies drummer Tyler Stewart. "We wanted to play songs from the new album and wanted to have a kind of informal information session about the record for our fans. We're going to talk about the songs and inspiration behind them. It's easier to do that in a smaller setting rather than arena where people come to hear your hits."
The cover of Everything to Everyone features a white flag of surrender, representing the Barenaked Ladies' somewhat tongue-in- cheek exasperation with their chosen career.
"Every time we put out a record we have to jump through hoops to get radio to play it," says Stewart. "It seems like we're a baby band starting all over again sometimes. Last time I checked we've been together almost fifteen years and sold around ten million albums. You wonder why we have to convince everybody every time. But it serves as a reminder that you've got to keep working hard."
Known for a playful approach, the Barenaked Ladies show sharp political claws on their latest. The song "Shopping" mocks certain political leaders' tendency to encourage that activity as a way of navigating national times of difficulty, and "Second Best" exhibits a similar awareness of current events.
"It celebrates the idea of being second best this time, like Canada, which didn't join the war effort in Iraq," Stewart says. "I'm proud of our Prime Minister for not joining what looks more and more like George W. Bush's personal effort."
Everything to Everyone will also be available in a deluxe CD/DVD format that will include the album, as well as eleven acoustic tracks available as a DVD or audio. "One of the great things about this band is that when we get bogged down in months and months of recording, it's really refreshing to be able to sit in a living room and play songs acoustically," Stewart says. "We started out as an acoustic band in living rooms playing folk songs, and it's a pleasure to get back to that. It's like, 'Ah jeez. We actually sound pretty good like this.'"
Barenaked Ladies Tour Dates:
10/21: Boston, Orpheum Theater
10/22: New York, Hammerstein Ballroom
10/25: Chicago, Riviera Theater
10/26: Detroit, State Theater
10/28: Minneapolis, Orpheum Theater
10/29: Milwaukee, Riverside Theater
10/30: St. Louis, American Theater
11/1: Sandusky, OH, State Theater
11/2: Indianapolis, Murat Theater
11/4: Grand Rapids, MI, DeVos Hall
11/5: Columbus, OH, Mershon Auditorium
11/6: Cincinnati, Taft Theater
11/8: Philadelphia, Tower Theater
11/10: Washington, DC, Constitution Hall
11/13: Hartford, CT, Bushnell Theater

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EW Article
Thanks `Rowe from the Chatter
From the October 24th, 2003, issue of Entertainment Weekly (#734)
Barenaked Ladies
Everything to Everyone
This band is the Ogden Nash of Canadian pop, so bent on writing wacky rhyming couplets that the songs sound like excerpts from clever children's books after a while. This is what their fans demand from them ,so in that sense, the Ladies' latest CD delivers, albeit with less caffinated friskness than in the past. But it's the earnest attempts - the clever kiss-off "Aluminum," the tender "Have You Seen My Love?" - that linger beyond a knowing snicker.
Grade: B
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Jam Music Article
thanks to Tink from the Chatter
Barenaked souls
Depression, suicide, uncertainty and even celebrity -- Ladies' new CD covers Everything
By MARY DICKIE -- Toronto Sun
It may seem arrogant for a band to release an album called Everything To Everyone -- unless it's from The Barenaked Ladies, who could hardly be called arrogant.
If anything, they might be too easy-going for their own good.
"Because we're unassuming and we work hard and we don't whine and complain a lot, we're not taken seriously," says Ladies singer/guitarist Steven Page.
"We are the Rodney Dangerfield of rock," adds bassist Jim Creeggan, only half-jokingly.
They might be right about that. The Ladies' nice-guy image and relentlessly good-humoured music have helped them sell millions of records in both Canada and the U.S., but they're still widely seen as a goofy college-kid band rather than an increasingly sophisticated ensemble. With its wide range of sounds, Everything To Everyone -- out Tuesday -- may be an attempt to quash that notion.
"That was definitely part of it," acknowledges Page. "We brought so many styles in that it became an issue. We had to decide whether to embrace the eclectic quality or streamline it, and we decided to embrace it."
But the title also refers to a shift in The Ladies' songwriting process, which now includes all five members instead of just Page and fellow frontman Ed Robertson.
"We included everybody right from the beginning, whereas usually it's been separate camps," says Creeggan. "That was a big change."
It wasn't always easy, however. "Too many voices can be distracting," admits Creeggan. "And it's hard to write lyrics in front of everybody. So Steve and Ed often finished things off, and it worked better that way."
"Lyrics by committee don't work," Page agrees. "Ed and I have built a really good relationship where we trust the common goal. Not that I don't trust the other guys, but each person you add gives more opportunity for dilution."
'A FORUM FOR MY SONGS'
"I never felt that the Barenaked Ladies was a forum for my songs," says keyboardist Kevin Hearn, who, like Creeggan, has a solo career as well. "But I really enjoyed collaborating with these guys in a new way."
Another switch was taking more time to write and record the album -- their first studio effort since 2000's Maroon.
"We basically took eight months off," says Page. "We made music on our own, did some acting and spent time with our families. And then we got together just a few times a week, which allowed us some space. We wrote tons of songs and demoed them."
The Ladies like the demos so much, in fact, that they made three of them -- including the single, Another Postcard -- and all are available on a limited edition of the CD. There is also a deluxe DVD version with 11 acoustic performances.
"The demos sounded so good it was weird to get on to making a real album," says Hearn. "It felt like we'd already made it in a way."
Everything's songs reflect on depression and suicide, lost opportunities and uncertainty, as well as the traps of celebrity -- even their own.
"I think we're the kind of people you want to be stars," says Page. "We've cultivated this regular-guy image, and in a lot of ways we are regular guys. We're part of our community here, and relatively well-read, things that celebrities tend not to be."
And the Ladies have put their fame to use, raising money for SARS relief and, in Page's case, getting involved in political activism.
"If you can use it as I've been trying to -- for things that you think need attention, that are going to help people -- great," he says. "But you'll get killed unless you really have some substance to back it up. The guillotine of celebrity can be ruthless."
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Macleans.CA Article
Thanks to EthanS from the Chatter
Barenaked brains
The Ladies' new release has their signature bouncy sound, but the lyrics reflect a darker intelligence
BRIAN D. JOHNSON
TORONTO IS IN RUINS. Beside a crumpled bus, on pavement littered with rubble, five soldiers are backed up against an army truck and under fire, looking like extras in an old war movie. They're being bombarded by fake concrete debris -- chunks of painted Styrofoam a film crew is throwing at them as they pretend to react to a six- storey-tall chimpanzee that's climbing the CN Tower. For the Barenaked Ladies, it's another day of taking care of business. They're shooting a music video outside a sound stage in Scarborough, the Toronto suburb where the band first formed 15 years ago. The scenario is K-Tel King Kong, but to see these jokers cavorting like B- movie Beatles, I can't help thinking of John Lennon playing a surreal soldier in How I Won the War.
The video is being shot to promote Another Postcard, the first single from BNL's new CD, Everything to Everyone. Like the band's 1998 breakout hit, One Week, it's nonsense rap, but instead of singing "Chickity China the Chinese chicken," Ed Robertson is rhyming about postcards of chimpanzees.
Some chimps in swimsuits
Some chimps in jackboots
Some chimps in hard hats
Some chimps who love cats
I've got some shaved chimps; that's chimps devoid of any hair I've got depraved chimps dressed up in women's underwear. It's the one totally goofy tune on an album that also includes a rumination on suicide (War on Drugs), a wry dissection of stardom (Celebrity), and a soul-searching plea from Robertson, asking whether he'd still be heard if he "shed the irony" (Testing 1,2,3). The Barenaked Ladies aren't going to dispel their image as a novelty act by choosing a Dr. Seuss chimp riff as the first single. But the decision wasn't theirs to make. "I originally thought it wasn't the right choice," concedes Steven Page, explaining that the label gets to pick the singles. "But whatever the label feels good about, great. I love the fact that it's nonsense. This way we can say, here's our new record, here's a fun song. That's what music is about for us. People come to us first for entertainment, then hopefully leave with other stuff."
Other stuff? Well, yes. Behind the clowning antics and comic irony, the Barenaked Ladies are Canada's most serious band -- a quintet of seriously good musicians with serious questions about war, fame, social justice and their own success. We have divas coming out of our ears -- Celine, Shania, Sarah, Alanis, Avril, Nelly -- but BNL is a band, a cohesive gang of wise guys who seem determined to prove that the harmonic shimmer of optimism and wit pioneered by the Beatles is not dead. They may not have taken the world by storm, but with sales of 12 million records, they're also Canada's most successful band. With their sweet but brainy pop, and their Revenge of the Nerds image, they've broken the rock-star mould. They're self-effacing celebrities, nice lads who devote their spare time not to doing drugs and models, but to their families, and local causes such as promoting wind power and reinflating the NDP. They're so Canadian it hurts. The classic rock 'n' roll band is a reckless chemistry experiment built on a combustible mix of male egos. But 15 years after first harmonizing at an Ontario music camp, lead singers Page and Robertson -- BNL's Lennon & McCartney -- still seem to like each other. "I think I'm probably Lennon," says Page, 33, "because I tend to be more intense. Ed's more movie-starish in a way. And he has the big hits." Both men agree the Beatles analogy goes only so far, and suggest they're really more like Ernie and Bert of Sesame Street. "Everyone wants to be Ernie," says Page. "But I know I'm Bert. I'm the curmudgeonly, bitter, jaded guy."
When these guys talk about their band, it sounds more like a men's group than a rock group. In 1998, just as BNL was about to hit the big time, "we had a major powwow, this great clarifying moment," recalls Robertson, 32. "We forced ourselves to examine our relationship. We all needed our space and we all needed support from each other." The singer had a "big blowout" recently with drummer Tyler Stewart. "But we came in the next day and it was fine." The Ladies have always split songwriting royalties evenly five ways, even though Page and Robertson have traditionally composed most of the music. With Everything to Everyone, they've thrown the creative process open for the first time. Six of the album's 14 cuts were co- written by bassist Jim Creeggan or keyboard player Kevin Hearn. "The collaboration gave us more material," says Page, "but it also became difficult. It's totally democratic. So everybody loses in some ways, and everybody wins."
Page is the band's most engaged activist, its "social and political watchdog," according to Robertson. And the weight of world politics can be felt between the lines of Everything to Everybody. "We wrote a lot of the songs while we were watching Colin Powell trying to make a sales pitch to the UN in February," says Page, "just thinking about how we as Canadians fit into the world, and how we as artists, and as employees of Time Warner, fit into the world." Then, while they were recording in Los Angeles, the Iraq war was in progress. "It was a really weird time," says Robertson. "Through the ramping up of the war, the media really turned on celebrity. All these polls on CNN -- do you care what celebrities think? Yes, you care what celebrities think! That's why you have a television. You care what they wear, what they eat, what they put in their hair. Are you going to tell me now because they're against the war you don't care what they think?" You'd never know it, but a number of the songs on Everything to Everyone were politically motivated. Next Time began with Creeggan trying to write a song about the U.S. airmen who bombed the Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan. "The lyrics were well-intentioned but heavy- handed," says Page. "So we combined that idea with the sentiment of 'look, this is what happens when you push yourself away from the people who matter to you.' It's saying, if you make a really bad mistake, there's no second chance."
When you die they make a list
Of every love you never kissed
Of each regret and each mistake
Every choice you failed to make
You can always get it right
next time
This band likes choruses that say the opposite of what they mean. Take Shopping. Robertson says it "stemmed directly from George Bush's first address after 9/11 -- that the best thing you can do is start shopping." The song is a brisk, bouncy ode to consumer joy (Everything will always be all right/When we go shopping). And if you didn't know better, you might miss the irony.
That's the trouble with being ironic in America. It's like wearing camouflage. And BNL's irony is couched in such bright, clean, feel- good music that one could get the wrong impression. While touring the U.S. during the 2000 presidential race, Page recalls, "I realized how many of our fans just assumed I was a Republican -- it's hard to tell a Republican from a Democrat, frankly. A 22-year-old kid could be either. They assume I'm just like them, a regular guy, and that's kind of our image. We are regular guys. But I can't allow that to happen any more."
Such confusion is part of what prompted Page to start working with the NDP's Jack Layton. Last fall, when Layton was campaigning for the party leadership, Page enlisted BNL in a benefit concert. He also works with the WWF (formerly known as the World Wildlife Fund), and with WindShare, which co-owns a wind turbine on the Toronto waterfront. "I can't help but see how energy and violence are so related. It's all stuff people fight and kill for. It's what rules the world."
During the Iraq war, Page says, he immersed himself in '60s protest music, from Pete Seeger to Phil Ochs, "but that's not what I write -- I write about emotions, about dislocation and alienation." There are echoes of a bellicose America in Second Best, a Police-like anthem that asks us to join "the chorus of the unimpressed," as Page sings: If winning is an art / Then it's drawn us apart / when you erased your heart and beat your chest." But he explores darker territory in War on Drugs, a world-weary ballad that asks how dull life would be without demons to keep us company -- and draws an example from a bridge in his own backyard:
Near where I live there's a viaduct
Where people jump when they're out of luck
Raining down on the cars and trucks below
They've put a net there to catch their fall
Like that'll stop anyone at all
What's unique about the Barenaked Ladies is how they've remained stubbornly rooted in their community, and apparently unseduced by celebrity. They are among the world's least flamboyant rock stars. "Because of our modesty," says Page, "people don't take into account the success. So when you want people to kowtow to you at the record company or in the media, they won't. They think, 'Ah, those guys will do anything, they're just guys.' And I know lots of people assume we're blander than we actually are. But we're not going to go out and start partying with Limp Bizkit to change that."
Robertson, with his tattoos and punk coif, looks more like a rock star than Page. But he says he's never touched alcohol -- from fear of following in the footsteps of his alcoholic father -- and he's smoked just two joints in his life. "Both were with Willie Nelson on his tour bus," he laughs, recalling a Farm Aid gig in 1999. "He's my total hero. And I think he smokes pot from the moment he wakes up to the moment he goes to bed. There was an ashtray on the bus that must have had $1,200 worth of pot butted out in it." When Nelson offered him a toke, Robertson declined at first, then thought, "Would I rather look back 40 years from now and say I never smoked a joint, or say I smoked a joint with Willie Nelson?"
Stoned for the first time in his life, Robertson went out into the audience with his wife to watch Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. "I think I got pretty high," he says. "Tipper Gore wanted us to come over and dance. It was the most surreal experience. I smoked a joint and danced with Tipper Gore in a ring of Secret Service agents -- 'I wonder if they know I'm high!' "
Page, like Robertson, has three children and a house in Toronto's leafy Riverdale neighbourhood. And he's more comfortable in the city than in the VIP lounges of Los Angeles. "I can't imagine living anywhere else," he says, noting that Canadians, especially in Toronto, tend to be passive-aggressive toward their celebrities. "They have this attitude," says Page, "where they're like, 'Yeah, I see you walking into Book City, you think you're so famous, pretending to buy books.' No, I really am buying books. People go out of their way to not recognize you, so you can really just exist and do your grocery shopping and yell at your kids." If there is such a thing as the Canadian Dream, the Barenaked Ladies could be its poster boys. The lads who sang If I Had $1,000,000 are now millionaires (but in Canadian dollars, Robertson points out). They've paid their dues, building an American fan base with incessant touring. They weathered the leukemia that took Hearn out of action for a year. Now, with Canuck circumspection, they're wondering how they can be everything to everyone -- and singing sometimes it's better to be second-best. The cover of their new CD is a mock socialist-realist portrait of the band in profile, hoisting a white flag and smiling into the future. For the Barenaked Ladies, surrender has become a winning formula.

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Theresa's review of BNl at Borders in Nyc
Yesterday, I seen the show at Borders in Wall Street. It was absolutely amazing. It was a small set, and a small show. But, they still had a great energy. They were promoting "I love the 80s Strike Back." So They through in a few 80s songs such a Duran Duran and "Careless Whisper" which sounded so fucking amazing. In any case, it was a great set.. they even did some minimal freestyle raps, and Tyler kept saying "Everytime I try to do something good.. I fuck it up."
After, the show. There was a signing. Now, as a die-hard fan since I was in 8th Grade.. Now in college.. I have never met them before. So, to meet them to me, is my heaven. All the guys, were complete sweethearts, and when I went up there to get my cd signed I was talking to my Mother.. so I asked Ed, if he would like to say Hi to Mom. Which he was more than happy taking my phone and talking to my Mother. It was sweet. I told Steven that the concert was good last night, and next time try to make it in an arena with seats. He laughed. Jim was very talkative but smiled and nodded, the same followed with Kevin. Tyler was cool, and I was talking to him for like 2 minutes till I relaized I was holding up the line. But, before I left I said Happy Early Birthday to Ed and explained it was my birthday also. They all wished me a happy belated birthday and I was on my way. There is so much detail I am leaving out, but I am still reeming with excitment, it's hard to spit it out in coherent sentences. Ok, well.. there ya go.

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The Exorcists review of The Peep Show in NYC
So I just got back from the concert. This was the oddest BNL show I have ever seen in my life.
First off, I saw a girl get pulled out of the venue on a stretcher and second this was an angry crowd. Now, maybe this is just because it was NYC, but this crowd was mad and vocal about it. I'll get to more specifics later but let's get to the show.
So here's how it works. It's not all acoustic (don't worry Raven). The band comes out and plays full band electric for almost all of the night. They play for an hour, then take an intermission. After intermission, they come out and do their unplugged session which is about 3 or 4 songs acoustic with the band huddled around one microphone. That was very cool.
Then they open the question and answer period which turned ugly here in NYC. People started chanting "Sing", "Shut the Hell up and Sing" & "Play some music". It was loud enough that the band did hear it.
Also there was a lot of loud talking during the songs--so loud that a song like Have You Seen My Love was losing to the chatter volume level in the venue. If this is what's happening to BNL crowds, that if they don't play One Week, Brian Wilson or Another Postcard, people are gonna revolt and scream to talk to each other over songs, then it might be time to stop going to shows and remember the glory days when everyone at the shows loved the music.
There definitely was a depressed Steve at the end of the main set. I kind of got the impression that they were apologizing for playing all the new CD and I think his feelings were hurt that there was so much loud talking throughout most of the crowd that they could hear it on stage.
The crowd didn't understand what was going on tonight--Other shouts I heard were "Play something we know!". I think they were expecting a greatest hits show, even though the band told you from the start, it wasn't going to be that.
The band plays the entire new CD. It was good to hear the whole thing live. Right now, Unfinished turned out to be one of my favorites to hear live. I was a little disappointed during War On Drugs--Steve lost his voice or he got too choked up to finish it because he had mentioned the suicide of Elliot Smith before the song. Either way, he wasn't able to hit his emotional parts in the song and Ed actually had to sing it for him. Not sure what happened there. Ed also lost his voice during the first set. When he sang Take It Outside, he was straining.
After the intermission, they both had their voices back at pretty much full strength.
Highlights? One Week acoustic was awesome. Straw Hat acoustic was amazing.
They sounded good tonight. Not the best, I've heard them though. Tyler fucks up a lot on the drums, but that's been there done that as far as this band goes.
The absolute highlight of tonight was hearing The Wrong Man. My goodness did it sound beautiful. It's actually one of my favorite BNL songs. Steve completely nailed it.
I don't remember the exact order of the setlist--so I'll give you a rough idea.
Testing 1,2,3
Maybe Katie
Celebrity
It's All Been Done
Next Time
Unfinished
Aluminum
Stephen Page is Having a Baby
Enid
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Take It Outside
War On Drugs
Upside Down

intermission

Acoustic set:

Lovers in a Dangerous Time
For You
One Week
Straw Hat

Q & A period

They sang a peppy fast paced version of Break Your Heart during the Q & A because some girl asked them to sing it.

End Q&A

Told You So
Another Postcard
Second Best
Have You Seen My Love
Shopping

Encore 1

The Wrong Man
Brian Wilson

Encore 2
Old Apartment

Like I said, I'm not sure about the order and I might have left some stuff out.
This is definitely a tour for hardcore BNL fans. This is not the casual fan tour at all. If the idea of the guys doing a 20 minute Q&A during the show is enraging to you, do not go see this tour. There was a lot of banter and even some little improv.
They came onstage at about 8pm and ended about 11pm. 3 hours of BNL? I was in heaven.
It's a really creative idea for a concert and the guys are ahead of their time once again. It's not really a VH1 Storytellers--they don't talk too much about why the wrote certain songs...but the idea that they tell you that you will hear the whole new CD and they will pull out rarities every night (and some songs you'll only see on a setlist one night) makes this a really special event.
A lot of the new CD sounds good live and seeing them do Another Postcard live made me like it a bit more than I did.
Shopping still annoys the shit out of me though and using it as the set closer was a little sad.
Overall it was a good night to see BNL live and playing...the crowd sucked ass though. I was up in the 1st Mezzanine I'm glad I was there because I had a seat. The floor looked oversold and extremely crowded. I saw some pushing going on down there as well.
I think the band needed to do more warnings about what these shows were going to be. Once they played Brian Wilson and Old Apartment, everyone was happy and grooving...but for most of the night the natives were restless.
Now I know some other fan who was squeezed up front will describe this show differently...but from where I was sitting, this night wasn't a complete success and I felt the band was aware of it and I felt bad.
Still had a great time watching them do their thing and I'm looking forward to the arena tour this fall. Ed said that will be a more typical rock show.
I love how they call it a "rock show".

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Chris's review of ThePeep Show in NYC
In addition to The Exorcist's good review.. here is my take:
______ So I went to the "Peepshow" concert in NYC last nite, and I am once again, reaffirmed that BNL runs circles around other "modern"-type bands. The concert ran approx 2.5 - 3 hrs long and was well worth the 50+ dollars. HOWEVER, in my opinion, this series of shows, like Everything to Everyone, seems more skewed towards truly devouted fans rather than the One Weeker-ers out there.
I was quite agitated at a good majority of the fans at the show -- many were rude, completely obnoxious and seemed bored during most of the set. The promotion of the show as well as the bill itself "warned" people that this is not a proper show and that it was to be focused on new and old.
It was broken down into 2 sets with a Q&A ... the first set was new stuff (which sounded fantastic live), the second was part acoustic and catalog material (with some new) and the Q&A was well.. a Q&A. I won't give actual breakdown of how the show went in order though. You just have to buy a ticket yourself.
The concert began with "Testing 1,2,3" which sounded tight and even better live!
Most of the new songs shined, although "Shopping" was overblown... the ending chorus just seemed to stretch on forever -- it was almost like Steve was "scatting" and improvising way too long. "Another Postcard" drew a surprisingly minimal crowd reaction, while people seemed to cheer following such tracks as "Unfinished" and "Upside Down".
And yes there was some freestyle improv but it was minimal.
The second set was unbelievable because it started out acoustic, quintet style, with great surprises -- Lovers in a Dangerous Time! It actually brought chills ... and wonderfully, a large part of the audience cheered when they played it. I remember seeing them perform that 10 years ago. Great to see them goin' back to where it all began prior to 6 albums and grand success. It was pitch-perfect. O yea -- and they also brought out "Straw Hat and Old Dirty Hank" acoustic. Excellent.
(sidenote: the audience seemed a tad restless during the acoustic set which is clearly unfair since acoustic is their roots!)
Other set list surprises included "One Week" (acoustic -- which was terrific), "Enid" (! - including the moody intro), "The Wrong Man Was Convicted" (one of many great tracks on the album MYSD which is so criminally underheard / underappreciated it's nauseating), "Never Do Anything" (!!) and "Steven Page is Having A Baby" (!!!) The SPiHAB hasn't been heard in over 10 years... and how many times will you ever hear those tracks live again?!?! Who knows really.
Q&A highlights: One woman in the audience asked how did they come up with the name "Peepshow" and if the candy "Peeps" was part of that influence for the name. Duh. Other girls were screaming so loudly that it was just a washout... it was hard to hear everything at once... questions / responses got a bit muddled. Another highlight was their quick rendition of "Break Your Heart" (first verse and chorus) because some girl didn't know the name of it but sang part of it BADLY. Overall, the Q&A didn't really work...
The show ended with two encores with "Brian Wilson" and "The Old Apartment". Audience was cheering incessantly.
The "classics" and the acoustic thing was worth the price of admission for me. I thoroughly enjoyed the new material, but I haven't listened to it long enough to really know it well enough.
They are returning in the Spring with their "proper" shows so go buy the new album, go see them and go buy "MYSD" :)
-Chris
ps:
the DVD package of "Everything to Everyone" is well worth the extra cash

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From Red Roots NJ on Barenaked.net
As many of you know, all 5 memebers of BNL were here at MSH not too long ago. Here is what the article reads:
[B]Barenaked Ladies visit microbiology lab[/B]
Heard a rumor that some folks were "barenaked" in the Microbiology Lab? Don't worry, it was not a huge violation of infection control practices, it was just the popular band, The Barenaked Ladies (fully clothed!). The five memebers of the group were on a special visit on October 10th to deliver a cheque for $87, 500 in support of SARS research.
The funds represent the Barenaked Ladies' earnings from this summer's concert for SARS relief. The band wanted to go beyond the hype of the concert and support research into the disease that struck Toronto so badly.
"During the SARS crisis some of the attention was put on people like the Barenaked Ladies or Mike Myers, but these are the people who were dealing with it every day," said Lead Vocalist Steven Page, calling health care workers the "real heroes."
The band took the opprotunity to thanks some of the "real heroes," signed autographs, posed for photos and chatted with staff.
*Photograph*
Caption: Barenaked Ladies (left to right) Kevin Hearn, Steven Page, Ed Robertson, Jim Creeggan, and Tyler Stewart with MSH President and CEO Joseph Mapa.
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From Scary at the Org
The Barenaked Ladies will be making at special appearance at the E! studios for a special courtyard interview on Wednesday, October 29th at 4pm EST.
http://www.nettwerkmanagement.com/a...46&artist_id=10

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