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4.6

53 of 55(96%)customers would recommend this to a friend.

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4 / 5

Phantismo

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Posted 09/24/2009

by Hartlickless

Location: Huntington

Of Montreal is a very exciting band whose origionality shines through in a live setting. The show on September 18th was very wacky with the musicians in costumes as with the addition of non-band members in costumes performing way-modern dance. Very psychadelic. Very colorful. Very dance-able. Keenan Thompson was also there buying drinks and wearing sunglasses.

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Review 2 for Of Montreal

5 / 5

of Montreal= A Spiritual Experience

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Favorite moment: Feathers being shot out into the audience @

Setlist: Can't remember but it was dope. Lots of tracks from Sunlandic Twins and Hissing Fauna, Are you the Destroyer? The only song from Skeletal Lampings I can remember is Id Engager. @

Opening act(s): Janelle Mone? @

Posted 09/22/2009

by DramaQueen0413

Location: New York, New York

Of Montreal is one of my favorite bands right now and their live performances are definitely the reason why. I have seen them three times this year and the show at Terminal 5 was the best yet. Everyone was having a great time, and I was down in the pit so I was only three people away from Kevin Barnes. We were all sweating and dancing, and we all took care of eachother. What a generous and exciting crowd! If anyone went down, everyone helped them up. The band was definitely feeding off of the crowds energy and played a great set. They stuck to some of their older music, which was awesome for true of Montreal fans. They keep their concerts exciting, and the groupies in costume were as crazy as ever. The combination of everything: the energy, the music, and my passion for this band- made me feel like I was in a spirtual place. Music can do that to you-it moves you. Catch this band any cahnce you get, you won't be dissapointed!

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Favorite moment: Feathers being shot out into the audience @

Setlist: Can't remember but it was dope. Lots of tracks from Sunlandic Twins and Hissing Fauna, Are you the Destroyer? The only song from Skeletal Lampings I can remember is Id Engager. @

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Review 3 for Of Montreal

5 / 5

Of Montreal was Unforgettable!

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Posted 09/22/2009

by Brittaa

Of Montreal was an amazing concert. I love how terminal 5 was packed with people dancing and enjoying the music. My favorite part of the show was the end after the encore. I loved the confetti coming down...!!!!! It was soooo AWSOME! Favorite concert EVER!

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Review 4 for Of Montreal

5 / 5

The best band you could ever see live

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Posted 09/21/2009

by Anonymous

Of montreal has always been one of my favorite bands. I saw them once before a few months ago, and they didnt fail to disapoint then or now. Seeing them in concert is great if you love the music, but its a delight to your eyes as well as your ears. The costumes and story that is happening on stage draws you into the mood of the concert, which is just overall fun. I would reccomend going to see them if you love their music or just like having a great time. Just be careful, a lot of drinking and pot smoking insues at these type of concerts and I wouldnt recommend bringing children because of some lyrics and acting that happens.

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Review 5 for Of Montreal

2 / 5

overdone spectacle.. ridiculous.

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Favorite moment: not sure i had one. if i did, i can't remember it now. @

Setlist: who knows? i was distracted by the wigs and ridiculousness going on around the band. @

Opening act(s): some girl who used to be in outkast. name forgotten. @

Posted 09/21/2009

by hard2imagine

Location: NYC

really enjoy their music.. first time seeing them live.. it was like going to some bizarre performance art piece. i spent more time trying to figure out what was going on onstage that i paid very little attention to the tunes.

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Favorite moment: not sure i had one. if i did, i can't remember it now. @

Setlist: who knows? i was distracted by the wigs and ridiculousness going on around the band. @

Opening act(s): some girl who used to be in outkast. name forgotten. @

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Review 6 for Of Montreal

5 / 5

Of Montreal gave me what I expected!

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Favorite moment: For one of their songs explosions of feathers erupted falling down on the crowd like snow flakes. Very cool, and fun. @

Setlist: PERFECT. Went like their most recent album. Played all their songs I wanted to hear except for maybe one..Gronlandic Edit. @

Opening act(s): Janelle Mone (May be Misspelled) was an amazing new act and opener. Full of energy and a great entertainer! @

Posted 09/20/2009

by HeatbeatCity

Location: Brookyln

The band was very fun and down to earth. The venue Terminal 5 was spacious and I loved the new open roof deck they had going on. Enjoyed the lounge chairs, to sit, smoke, and hang before the show. Looooooovedddd Of Montreal's set and show, they always give good show and every show I've seen at Terminal 5 has never let me down .The lighting, projector screens, and every other stage effect totally added to my experience.

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Favorite moment: For one of their songs explosions of feathers erupted falling down on the crowd like snow flakes. Very cool, and fun. @

Setlist: PERFECT. Went like their most recent album. Played all their songs I wanted to hear except for maybe one..Gronlandic Edit. @

Opening act(s): Janelle Mone (May be Misspelled) was an amazing new act and opener. Full of energy and a great entertainer! @

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Review 7 for Of Montreal

4 / 5

Always a great time

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Posted 09/20/2009

by AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Of montreal always puts on an exciting show. They played a great mix of their best new stuff as well as their classics. very surreal, very danceable

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Review 8 for Of Montreal

2 / 5

Awesome band held back by terrible acoustics.

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Favorite moment: The encore when Kevin Barnes and Janelle Monet sang a soul/funk song together. @

Posted 09/20/2009

by Brocktopolis

Location: NYC

I completely recommend seeing of Montreal, but see them at a DIFFERENT VENUE, not Terminal 5. of Montreal is one of my favorite bands and I love their live show, but the acoustics at Terminal 5 are terrible. I saw of Montreal before in San Francisco at Great American Music Hall and it was incredible, but Terminal 5 really ruined this show for me. I read bad reviews of this venue before, and I thought I'd see for myself and go to the concert anyway. The sound was so bad that at times I could barely recognize what song was being played, by no fault of the band. There's a strange reverberation/echo in the building that creates painful high pitched noise artifacts that distort the sound. It was REALLY bad at times when there were a lot of instruments playing at once, which is unfortunate because most of of Montreal's music is intricately layered with a lot of things going on at once.

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Favorite moment: The encore when Kevin Barnes and Janelle Monet sang a soul/funk song together. @

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Review 9 for Of Montreal

3 / 5

Outsourcing the Weird

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Favorite moment: The 2 or 3 songs when the band was onstage playing by themselves with no other distracting scenes being played out behind them. @

Setlist: "I Was Never Young," "The Party's Crashing Us," "Suffer For Fashion," "Cato as a Pun," "Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse," among others... @

Opening act(s): Missed it! @

Posted 09/20/2009

by Rosefarmer81

Location: Brooklyn, NY

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As someone who has seen of Montreal 6 times in the last 5 years, I've truly enjoyed seeing their weirdness blossom, and their shows become the spectacles that they are. Even from my first show, back in 2004, when their low budget and limited fans only allowed them to express their peculiarities through their lyrics and sudden slo-mo stage fights in the middle of a song. Still, I never got the feeling that the group (but mostly the lead singer, Kevin Barnes) was being weird for weird's sake. They/he are truly weird deep in their souls. Past shows have included bizarre cartoons and photos shown on the stage's large screen, Barnes singing on a draped ladder that made him look 20 feet tall, superheros, lobsters, and Santas dancing onstage, and of course Barnes' many costume changes that have included Daisy Duke cut-offs, gold lame and sparkles - and THEN there's the cross-dressing.

But Friday's show in NYC was different. Almost as if the group's weirdness has grown bigger than themselves. Bigger than their cult following and bigger than even the stories people tell their friends about their crazy shows. On this night, the weirdness happened almost exclusive of the band (and Barnes). Pig-headed humans on a real bed having "sex" lasted an entire song, and yet none of the band members even held a glance in their direction. It felt disjointed. As if the band was playing the soundtrack to a truly odd stage show that you weren't supposed to understand. I felt myself intently watching the long and drawn-out pillow fight, the girls dancing in their bras and Depends, and the girl who masked men brought back to life and almost forgetting about the music I'd come to see.

And worst of all, Barnes' famous costume changes never happened. The only one he made was for the encore in which he wore a loungey girls' outfit that was probably just what he was going to wear to the bars afterward.

So he can't even do his weird stuff anymore? Is EVERYONE outsourcing these days?? Did they play well? Yes. But Of Montreal needs to remember that people should be coming to hear their music, because people like me are starting to not be able to see past the fog of the pig sex.

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Favorite moment: The 2 or 3 songs when the band was onstage playing by themselves with no other distracting scenes being played out behind them. @

Setlist: "I Was Never Young," "The Party's Crashing Us," "Suffer For Fashion," "Cato as a Pun," "Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse," among others... @

Opening act(s): Missed it! @

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Review 10 for Of Montreal

4 / 5

David Bowie Would Be Proud

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Posted 09/20/2009

by MylaGoldberg

Location: Brooklyn NY

The show was great. And not surprising, Kevin Barnes has vision, and Of Montreal is a band of truly talented musicians. Terminal 5 is a good space for them, and while there were less ninjas then usual, there were two fornicating pigs and a bevy of women in adult diapers.

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Review 11 for Of Montreal

5 / 5

of Montreal is unparalleled in its grandeur

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Favorite moment: In the middle of playing Heimdalsgate like a Promethian Curse, feathers where shot off into the air filling Terminal 5. @

Posted 09/20/2009

by Goliath58

Location: Terminal 5

The concert on Friday night was a hollistic bombardment of all the senses that captivated the entire audience. Drawing people from all walks of life, of Montreal infused their extremely creative music and lyrics with the production value of a play. With vivid lights and an energetic performance people could not resist dancing in unison to their up-beat and trendy music.

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Favorite moment: In the middle of playing Heimdalsgate like a Promethian Curse, feathers where shot off into the air filling Terminal 5. @

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Review 12 for Of Montreal

5 / 5

Expect a great night

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Favorite moment: When the shoot off a feather gun into the crowd. @

Posted 09/20/2009

by jamiejojo

Location: New england

If you have ever listened to of montreal you know they have that awesome weird sense of music, and them live could have been me playing them off my ipod. THEY WERE INCREDIBLE from the costumes to the set to even the baby women dancing across the stage. They played just the right amount of new stuff and old hits, so you could sing along, and be pushed in the mosh pit. overall: worth it

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Review 13 for Of Montreal

5 / 5

Janelle Monae is AMAZING...

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Favorite moment: Janelle Monae's stage dive & Of Montreal's Pig sex lmaooo @

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Posted 09/19/2009

by SoulRebel

Location: Hartsdale, NY

Went to check out Janelle Monae (for the 4th time) and she sang most of her new material... She was Just AWESOME!! I never heard of "Of Montreal" before this show, and I was pleased with their performance.. True entertainers! GREAT SHOW!!

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Favorite moment: Janelle Monae's stage dive & Of Montreal's Pig sex lmaooo @

Opening act(s): Janelle Monae @

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Review 14 for Of Montreal

5 / 5

Of Montreal--a surreal experience but tons of fun

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Favorite moment: audience help with backup vocals on The Past is a Grotesque Animal @

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Posted 09/19/2009

by bauxp

Location: NYC

Of Montreal puts on a unique show that is worth seeing. The sound and the visuals are intense---especially the animations in the background and the surreal dancers. Kevin Barnes sounds better live than on the CDs and his energy is non-stop. We also enjoyed how he incorporated Janelle Monae into a few of his songs.

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Review 15 for Of Montreal

5 / 5

Great!

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Posted 09/19/2009

by RobNey

The venue was great! The music was great! The drinks were great! The dancing was great! what else can you say? :)

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Review 16 for Of Montreal

4 / 5

Awesomely Weird!

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Favorite moment: Solange Knowles and Janelle Monae singing Sweet Hangover with Of Montreal @

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Posted 09/19/2009

by SteveO6290

Location: New York City

Ok so I was really only going to this show because I knew that Solange Knowles and Janelle Monae would be there. Beforehand, I did some research on Of Montreal and came to the conclusion that this band is waaaaaay out there; and needless to say, their stage performance proved me right. Janelle Monae's opening set was amazing. She really has this way of sucking you in and making you love her with all her unique antics, and if that isn't enough to get you, her voice will certainly do the trick. When Of Montreal started, I got a bit scared because of all the pushing and moshing that was going on, but once I moved out of the front center area, I actually was able to enjoy their music. Yes their stage presentation was a bit scary, but as far as musicality goes, they are awesome! Then Solange joined them onstage with Janelle Monae to sing 'Sweet Hangover' and it was AMAZING!!! So yea overall it was an excellent show.

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Favorite moment: Solange Knowles and Janelle Monae singing Sweet Hangover with Of Montreal @

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Review 17 for Of Montreal

5 / 5

Rediculous Mutlti-Colored Circus Romp.

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Posted 09/19/2009

by lieasleep

Location: Upstate, NY

Absolutely mind-blowingly crazy. from the opening band to the crazy stage antics and costumes to the light show, to the point where we were covered in feathers and flyer, an amazing. amazing show.

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Review 18 for Of Montreal

5 / 5

oM fantastic as always expected

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Favorite moment: performance of The Past is a Grotesque Animal @

Setlist: Heimdalsgate, The Party's Crashing Us, Suffer for Fashion, Sink the Seine, Cato as a Pun, The Past is a Grotesque Animal, Id Engager, many more @

Opening act(s): Janelle Monae @

Posted 09/19/2009

by VickyC517

Location: NY/Boston

the onstage performance, enhanced by the opening act Janelle Monae was unforgettable.

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Favorite moment: performance of The Past is a Grotesque Animal @

Setlist: Heimdalsgate, The Party's Crashing Us, Suffer for Fashion, Sink the Seine, Cato as a Pun, The Past is a Grotesque Animal, Id Engager, many more @

Opening act(s): Janelle Monae @

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Review 19 for Of Montreal

5 / 5

UNFORGETTABLE

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Favorite moment: When they projected millions of feathers into the crowd! Magical!! @

Opening act(s): Janelle Monae!! @

Posted 09/19/2009

by saabnl

Location: Terminal 5 - New York City

This was the most amazing performance I have ever been to. The opening act Janelle Monae's energy radiated through the crowd and of Montreal gave the most psychedelic, out of this world performance. I will remember this concert for the rest of my life! AMAZING!

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Review 20 for Of Montreal

4 / 5

Of Montreal NYC 9/18

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Favorite moment: They sprayed feathers all over the whole crowd and the feathers reached all areas of the concert instead of just the front @

Setlist: Gronlandic Edit, Suffer for Fashion, Heimdalsgate Lilke a Prometean Curse, She's a Rejecter, Bunny Ain't No Kind of Rider @

Opening act(s): Janelle Monae @

Posted 09/19/2009

by Christiano

I saw Of Montreal and they were so amazing. They really only played songs from Hissing Fauna however, the concert was astounding all the less. They played at Terminal 5 and I now think they are a better band live then in the studio. The lights were excellent and the only con of the whole show was that they didn't play Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games which is my favorite song.

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Favorite moment: They sprayed feathers all over the whole crowd and the feathers reached all areas of the concert instead of just the front @

Setlist: Gronlandic Edit, Suffer for Fashion, Heimdalsgate Lilke a Prometean Curse, She's a Rejecter, Bunny Ain't No Kind of Rider @

Opening act(s): Janelle Monae @

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