Andrew Bird is AWESOME! I was lucky enough to win tickets to see him from 106.3 so I got some good seats. Otherwise I probably would have ended up at the back of the balcony. The place was packed and I'm pretty sure that the concert was sold out. The audience was really enthusiastic which always makes a concert better of course.The show opened with Swedish indy pop artist Loney Dear who was a complete delight and even got a standing ovation (as did Andrew Bird himself). He was really nice and autographed my CD. While he was signing my CD someone had asked if there were a lot of Ikeas in Sweden. Silly American. (If you do want to know the answer to that question though...yes there are Ikeas but not on every street corner like Home Depot).
The kooky Andrew Bird puts on a very entertaining show. It was fun to watch him switch from playing his violin to playing his guitar to playing his violin like a guitar to whistling to create the music for his songs. The guy has got a lot of talent and has a truly unique and beautiful sound. I would describe him as kind of a mixture of Damien Rice, Radiohead, and Jacob Golden with a splash of a Clint Eastwood spaghetti western theme song. I would totally see him again. Hopefully he'll make it back to the capitol soon.
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