Of Montreal at Roseland Ballroom, October 10, 2008
“When I got to Roseland that night, I went straight into the pit. One of the band’s managers came up to us and said that they wanted us to shoot the entire [performance] because there were going to be so many costume and set changes. We would just have to get out of the way for the roadies who would be handing off a lot of instruments through the pit. There were indeed lots of set changes: roller skaters, strong men. [Of Montreal frontman] Kevin Barnes was hanged from a gallows during the show, and then popped out of a casket wearing nothing but shaving cream from head to toe, and then jumped into the crowd. In the middle of the set, he rode out on a horse, wearing just a Speedo. It was pretty crazy.”—Kurt Christensen
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