Holiday Surprise Review

My review from Saturday's show is now live. I'm never really thrilled with how my concert reviews turn out (except when they're obscenely negative), but this one came out not so bad. I was afraid of gushing too much and overcompensated by making it a little too short, but other than that, I'm satisfied.

They ran three of my pictures, but I took a few other good ones, which I'll run here.

Scott Spillane on the sousaphone

Spillane and Julian Koster playing Neutral Milk Hotel's "The Fool" in the middle of the crowd

Now you know what I meant by "clusterfuck"

Olivia Tremor Control co-vocalists Will Hart, left, and Bill Doss, right

Jeff Mangum singing backup

Mangum playing "Engine" to end the night