IT WAS GLORIOUS. ABSOLUTELY GLORIOUS.

Last night Vancouver was host to one of the best live shows of the year. It will be hard to top the energy that was flowing through nearly everyone on the floor. How anyone could have sat back against the walls, or at tables is beyond me.

The New Pornographers brought the pop. They brought it hard.

The entire line up was in tact last night and Neko Case did not disappoint. Though she's only a voice on the stage she commands your attention. I think it's safe to say that once again she had everyone in the audience fall in love with her.

Having said that, make no bones about it, the porn hogs is a collective that is structured by A.C. Newman's vision with a little help from the one and only Dan Bejar (Bejarrrr!!!!!!!!!!). The band was in full on happy mode last night. There were no glitches of any kind that I could see. True to form the band kicked in to an (un)impromptu cover of some eighties song that I can't recall right now.

All I need to remember is losing myself in the music much like a hippie would at a Dead show. The melodies, riffs, sex, drugs and rock & roll will soothe my soul forever, and last night the porn hogs took my soul and did with it what they wanted. For that I have to thank them.

True to the Pitchforkmedia interview, just as A.C. said it would be, Bejar only sang for NP and did not take up his familiar acoustic guitar. But all was well as before the NP set Destroyer put on the liveliest show I've ever seen Bejar and co. put on. He was clearly in a good mood as he sang tracks of the early Destroyer albums as well as some new.

Also true to the Pitchfork interview, it was best Danny boy only sang for NP as he was clearly drunk off the beer and energy. I don't think I've ever seen/heard him speak so much on stage. At one point he even had to ask the other porn hogs, "What song are we doing again?" Ahhh, good times. Good times, indeed.

Needless to say, I went to sleep dreaming of Sea Monkey spoons.