All right now. A weekend of Hitchcock indeed. Here goes.

I'm not totally unpacked yet, and don't have the definitive setlist kototh wrote down; this is what I wrote during the second set. Meaning the first set is likely in the wrong order.

Black trousers, white shirt, black vest.

A really, really brief set (his name wasn't on the bill, after all), leading up to a much longer one from Jon Brion. I won't go into the details of it, Jon was basically as Jon always is. Benmont Tench materialized after a while to play piano, and Robyn, Grant, and a drummer whose name I can't remember came out as Jon was doing "Space Odyssey" on the ukelele.

Robyn left after "Stark", and the rest of the band finished off the night with "My Ghost Is Made of Cleveland."

Robyn made a comment early on about this being the first show since his operation two months ago. I hadn't heard about that operation; from later comments, the reasonable inference is that he had a hernia.

Anyway, certainly nothing earth-shattering in the first set; a couple of fun stories, a bit more rambling than usual. All of it was solo. The later bit had Robyn, Jon, Grant, Ben, and the drummer whose name I still can't remember; Jon solicited impromptu song titles from the audience between each tune, and they ran with it. Last Match was a brilliant rock song; Robyn just amazed us with how quickly he came up with the tune. Definitely a highlight. The Aquaman tune, done bossanova style, was a riot. All Thumbs was Grant's creation, was moody and really clever. Another highlight. Pork Fist was done reggae style, and was hilarious.

There was some uncertainty in the crowd whether the one song was called "Bleach Me" or "Leech Me"; I'm in the bleach camp. Whatever.

I'm too tired to type anything more; tomorrow I'll give more details and info about Saturday.

cheers,
- Chris