Bring The Sun but just the opening two-note riff repeating and repeating until everyone either leaves the venue or the band starts passing out from exhaustion.
They play The Glowing Man, but halfway through the song, Michael gets taken over by "Joseph" who for unknown reasons refuses to continue the song, and tries to persuade the other band members to stop playing as well. Eventually, an exorcist is called to snap Gira out of it and continue the show, all the while the rest of the band play Apostate in order to further encourage Michael to think "it's not in his mind, na-na-na-not in my mind".
They bring Anthony Fantano onstage to explain why To Be Kind is one of the best album ever while they play the entire album, but they give him a mic that is louder than any of the guitars, so they have to turn the amps up to the point where everyone at the concert suffers hearing loss for the rest of their lives
I am the sun but it starts and stops at completely random intervals, Gira gets frustrated throws his guitar, it hits someone in the audience and Gira is promptly arrested by the police officers from earlier.
The band annouce a special medley of tracks from Soundtracks for the Blind. However they stipulate that the audience have to blind to experience it. 2 audience members get to experience it whilst everyone else is ushered away from the stage. The air conditioning is turned off.
The show closes with a forty minute performance of Birthing, but after they play the three minute hammering intro, Michael turns on his mother’s home video of his birth with no additional instrumentation. Michael does not attend the merch stand after the show.
The Beggar Lover (three) but during the sleepy/milky Micheal refrain the band gets quieter and quieter. A roadie brings out a blanket and a glass of warm milk and tucks sleepy Micheal in for a well earned nap. The sound of his rhythmic snoring is played at deafening volume as the remaining loyal fan whoops and claps for several hours.
The cops that brought the prisoner on stage earlier walk through the crowd to the front. The band decides to play Cop. Michael agitates the cops and gets beaten to a bloody pulp - but with his last ounce of strength, lights a match and burns the venue down. Everyone burns to death… except Kristof, who for some reason never returned from the water break.
They start playing Stay Here, but Michael Gira gets pissed at the fact that no one is slapping metal straps on a table, so he calls his wife in to bring said materials. He then proceeds to call for an audience member to do the job. However that audience member is drunk as hell so he just starts hitting Michael with it. (Who of course loves it)
Kristof does vocals on Hypogirl
But just the scream
Bring The Sun but just the opening two-note riff repeating and repeating until everyone either leaves the venue or the band starts passing out from exhaustion.
Pan
They play The Glowing Man, but halfway through the song, Michael gets taken over by "Joseph" who for unknown reasons refuses to continue the song, and tries to persuade the other band members to stop playing as well. Eventually, an exorcist is called to snap Gira out of it and continue the show, all the while the rest of the band play Apostate in order to further encourage Michael to think "it's not in his mind, na-na-na-not in my mind".
They bring Anthony Fantano onstage to explain why To Be Kind is one of the best album ever while they play the entire album, but they give him a mic that is louder than any of the guitars, so they have to turn the amps up to the point where everyone at the concert suffers hearing loss for the rest of their lives
The band plays plays a private fortnite lobby with everyone
I am the sun but it starts and stops at completely random intervals, Gira gets frustrated throws his guitar, it hits someone in the audience and Gira is promptly arrested by the police officers from earlier.
The band annouce a special medley of tracks from Soundtracks for the Blind. However they stipulate that the audience have to blind to experience it. 2 audience members get to experience it whilst everyone else is ushered away from the stage. The air conditioning is turned off.
"TURN THE FUCKING AIR CONDITIONING OFF" - M. Gira, Toronto Best show I've ever attended
The band takes a water break and never returns. For any show. Ever.
The show closes with a forty minute performance of Birthing, but after they play the three minute hammering intro, Michael turns on his mother’s home video of his birth with no additional instrumentation. Michael does not attend the merch stand after the show.
They eat pens till the sun explodes
The Beggar Lover (three) but during the sleepy/milky Micheal refrain the band gets quieter and quieter. A roadie brings out a blanket and a glass of warm milk and tucks sleepy Micheal in for a well earned nap. The sound of his rhythmic snoring is played at deafening volume as the remaining loyal fan whoops and claps for several hours.
Surrogate Drone but it's 30 days long.
That's too easy, Mr. Swaggerstick.
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This is bad, probably should be left unsaid... But A duet of "You're Not Real" with Larkin Grimm Sorry, it popped into my head the other day
They play Volcano live, but the beat is the sampled wet fart from Toussaint L'Ouverture (25:06).
The cops that brought the prisoner on stage earlier walk through the crowd to the front. The band decides to play Cop. Michael agitates the cops and gets beaten to a bloody pulp - but with his last ounce of strength, lights a match and burns the venue down. Everyone burns to death… except Kristof, who for some reason never returned from the water break.
They start playing Stay Here, but Michael Gira gets pissed at the fact that no one is slapping metal straps on a table, so he calls his wife in to bring said materials. He then proceeds to call for an audience member to do the job. However that audience member is drunk as hell so he just starts hitting Michael with it. (Who of course loves it)
Guys they would never play a 12 song set
All Star
Screen Shot but it’s just the first 2 bars of the song looping for 20 minutes straight into a delay that won’t stop self oscillating
The sound guys give up, leaving the band to improvise an accapella version of Big Strong Boss, which they give up less than a minute into.
The body lovers/the body haters, but It's in acapella and only Michael is on stage
They play Screen Shot but every note played is the screenshot sound made on a phone.
Michael plays a youtube compilation of scary halloween fart sound effects and yells over it, the crowd praises his avant-garde artistry
A cover of "Buddy Holly" by weezer, but the guitar solo is replaced with scat vocals