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Last night Libby and I put on our favorite thick-rimmed glasses and headed down to First Avenue to take in a little piano driven pop rock courtesy of Ben Folds. The show was the opening date for the latest leg of his ongoing US tour. He played for almost 2 hours and touched on some of his old 5-era stuff but focused mostly on his newer material, which was fine by me because his newer stuff somehow seems more appropriate now that he and his audience have kinda grown up. Pretty much all of it was great, so there's really no reason to try and enumerate the highlights. Lowlight was all the cliche guys in the audience who sang along with the quiet break-up songs in horrible off key falsettos. Thanks!

Opener was The Fray. They were the lame.

Ben Folds Official Site [benfolds]
Ben Folds on Austin City Limits [pbs] - it airs this weekend