Robyn came out in exactly the same outfit as the night before, though awfully disheveled this time. After "We are the Underneath" Robyn and co. retired, claiming they would go backstage to drink, but saying a REALLY special guest would be showing up shortly (causing a mock indignant expression from Grant). Speculation ran rampant, as you'd imagine, until Flanagan appeared and introduced Neil Finn.
Neil played a short (but lovely) set, mostly of fairly obscure songs. One of them he said his 3-year-old son collaborated with him on; one other he'd never before done on stage. A wonderful little interlude.
Robyn, Grant, and Jon came back out, and Neil announced that he was going to do something he'd always wanted to do... play the drums. Which he did for the rest of the night.
After a couple of songs, Neil protested that he wasn't really qualified on drums. The others responded with some laudatory words, and launched into Wipeout. Heh. Neil was fine back there, at least until "All You Need Is Love," which turned out to be a tad more complicated than he'd realized.
Still, another memorable night at Largo. Viva Sea-Tac had a different ending this time, which sounded like a lot of ad-libbing. Devil Mask was a shocker, as was Sleeping Knights. When Robyn, Grant, and Jon get going on their rock songs, it's really something special; I wish they did more of Robyn's tunes like that than just the few that concluded the first set.
One more thing: Robyn looked pretty worn out most of the night, and seemed to drink a lot. It looked like he had an awful lot of wine on stage (for that matter, I counted four Guinnesses consumed by Jon while performing). After the show, some Fegs waited around for a chance to talk to him or get autographs, and were told he wouldn't be coming out; he was too exhausted.
'til next time,
- Chris