Andrew Bird, Fourth Presbyterian Church; December 11, 2013
People occasionally ask me how I can sit through four concerts from the same artist four nights in a row, or more generally, how there is any artist, anywhere, in any genre, who it’s possible to love so much that I would want to see more than a handful of times, let alone 30+. Even […]
Andrew Bird, Fourth Presbyterian Church; December 10, 2013
I’ve got about an hour to tell you my thoughts on last night’s Gezellegheid shows before I get to go off and meet up with fellow erstwhile blogger Mel to go stand in line for a while. (These write-ups were much easier to manage when I turned Birdmas into a staycation; maybe next year.) Last […]
Andrew Bird, Fourth Presbyterian Church; December 9, 2013
Hey, internet. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? I’ve become a bit more of an occasional blogger than anything else, but there’s one very special time of year where I still have thoughts and feelings about music that I need to impart to you, and that’s during what I’ve previously dubbed Birdmas, that delightfully cozy […]
Andrew Bird, Fourth Presbyterian Church; December 21, 2012
Well, the final night of this year’s round of Gezellegheid concerts is upon us. This show happened to fall upon the day of that alleged end of the world business, which was acknowledged by Bird in his typical sly way at the end of the set, when he treated the audience to a more stripped […]
Andrew Bird, Fourth Presbyterian Church; December 20, 2012
For the second day of what I have tentatively dubbed Birdmas — stop judging me, I’m tired — we had a setlist that was mostly similar to the first night’s, with only a few deviations, including an acoustic, folk-tinged rendition of “MX Missiles” which had both Mel, our sometimes-blogger and full-time fellow Bird fan, and […]
Andrew Bird, Fourth Presbyterian Church; December 19, 2012
Things you learn at a Gezellegheid show: Andrew Bird’s broken his nose five, maybe now six times. Trivia, for those of you who like those things. There’s a context for this, but you almost had to be there, and I’ve also sworn not to make any bird puns over the topic. Potential medical complications aside, […]