Dark Was The Night producers (from left) Bryce Dressner, John Carlin, & Aaron Dressner (Photo by Tim Soter) “The National’s Aaron Dessner explained the
format of the show to Pitchfork in a recent news feature, ‘We’re going to have two halves (of the show). The first half will be songs from Dark Was the Night, and then there will be a short intermission. And then afterwards, there will be mini-sets by different artists and collaborations, both things that relate to Dark Was the Night and some that don’t.'” I was told the show will be four hours long. According to , the National will play two new songs at the show. They wouldn’t say much else except that we should expect some “exciting collaborations”. I know that Thomas “Doveman” Bartlett will be playing piano at the show. Also heads up Europe: they’d “like to do another show in London and/or Paris but it is a huge amount of work and schedule coordination to pull off so I’m not sure. But we’re looking at options!” And in what had to be the worst timing ever for “huge shows with special guests”, Pete Seeger’s , but at the much larger Madison Square Garden. Maybe Bruce Springsteen will stop over to sing a song at Radio City before his set at MSG. Hey, it doesn’t seem completely impossible. Posted on May 3, 2009 1:49 PM Jim James, Jim James, Jim James, Jim James. fingers crossed.
Looks like some very good tickets were rereleased. Just saw Row DD (2nd row behind pit).