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I think he played for about 1.75 hours in Duncan, he started around 9pm and finished just before 11. But bear in mind that there was a fair bit of banter between a few of the songs too (which IMO is great. I don't like it when a band just shows up and plays songs and doesn't talk to/at the audience. And Matt's banter is really entertaining too).

Woo, I guess my new technique for remembering the songs must work then (remember what old songs he played, then listen to the newest album and figure out which songs he played from that) ;). I thought it might have been that one... shame he didn't play that as I really like that song, but it would have slowed things down a bit. As it is I thought the last two songs worked well together. (he did something similar a bit earlier, he started playing a song in completely the wrong key - I think it was Silent army? - and then (after a bit of banter) got back to playing it in the right key with a different guitar. It was quite amusing :angry: ).

Empty's Theme Park was all electric at Duncan, and pretty darn brilliant.

Duncan setlist (Friday Nov 6th), as best as I can recall: Giant Us Remains Impossible Great Whales Of The Sea Single Explosion Born Losers The Boy Who Could Explode A Silent Army In The Trees Black Helicopters Weapon Load Me Up/Walking On The Moon Apparitions Empty's Theme Park Encore: Last Parade Fought to Fight It Kicking the set off with Giant was pretty awesome. It took Matt a couple of songs to warm up (his vocals on Giant weren't great) but once he hit his stride he was fine. All the new songs sounded really good live too. Weapon was, as ever, completely brilliant. The banter was really funny between songs too, including stories about how Matt was getting over "pemonia" (sic) ;) (with comments about how everyone cheers if he says that), Matt's childhood baseball experiences, playing led zep's "When the levee breaks" in different houses simultaneously with his friends really loudly, being woken up the other night by a pirate banging a ninja on a car hood (which he told in Nanaimo as well apparently), and wanting to run off to Palm Springs right now to retire. Also, Load Me Up was brilliant - something went wrong with a gizmo on the guitarist's belt (by the looks of it) or something, and he had a roadie fiddling with him for a good minute or so while they were playing... he didn't miss a beat though, even as Matt was watching and looking bemused while singing from centre-stage (also not skipping a word!). Then the guitarist went offstage for a bit and they did some impromptu drum solos to kill time til he got back, and ended up playing a bit of The Police's "Walking on the Moon" when he eventually came back, and then got back into Load Me Up and finished it :angry:. And apparently Matt forgot to add Last Parade to the setlist in the morning, which is why it was first song in the encore! He was going to do something else (a slow one) straight after Last Parade, but couldn't be bothered and skipped it, and went straight to Fought to Fight it instead :angry: I don't think he did On Nights Like Tonight at tonight's show (can't recall exactly, but am more convinced that he didn't). He definitely didn't do The Vancouver National Anthem or Volcanoes, but did everything else from the new album. It was a really great show :angry:.

I've got one ticket to sell for the Matthew Good show at the Vancouver Orpheum on June 26th (I can't make that show anymore). The ticket is for Left-Centre Orchestra (on the floor level), row 20, seat 28. So the view should be good! It's a hardcopy ticket bought from Ticketmaster and it's ready to mail out - I'm selling it for $55, which is what I bought it for. Please PM me if you're interested! I can take Paypal as payment.