What was the setlist like at the show you saw? They could only play for about an hour and fifteen minutes on Saturday. I think they had to be done by 9.30.
I actually liked Neal Morgan. He came off as a nice guy during the Sunday show. And hey, I got to ask them a question about their "musical studies" (they have none (well, the two arrangers anyways)) and I got to plug Owen Pallett's record. (I feel like such a street-teamer though (twas worth it))
You guys got fucked royally at the Phoenix show, to quote this
Globe & Mail article: "By then it was obvious that this show should have happened in a proper theatre, with no time limit placed on a singer whose latest album (Have One On Me) runs over two hours. For her to land at the Phoenix was a comprehensive failure by her management, her booking agent, and the promoter." What the hell kind of venue has an "internal curfew" that ends at 9:15pm on a Saturday anyway?
I don't remember the exact setlist at my show but it seemed that the set was all stuff off the new album including Kingfisher and Daddy Longlegs, and the encore was Emily. Which is a hell of an encore, really. Set + encore went for a little longer than 1.5 hours I think, although I'm not sure.
Scary, that's pretty cool that you got to meet the arrangers after the show, how did you manage that? Fake a press pass on your home PC again? Well done. I have nothing against Neal Morgan the person (I think they did that thing where Newsom tuned and Morgan joked with the audience at almost every show this tour), it just annoys me that he goes out of his way to reflect Newsom's ... preciousness with exaggerated drum antics, and I still maintain a strong belief that he cannot effectively keep a beat on his own set for any sustained period.