final fantasy, ubc norm theatre, vancouver bc canada, september 19 2006 (mp3/sbd)

This was, honestly, one of the best shows I've ever been to. Polaris Music Prize winner Final Fantasy (known to his friends as Owen Pallett) played a sold-out show yesterday to approximately 450 fans of his take on classical, pop music, and video games. He played his classics (This Is The Dream Of Win And Regine, The CN Tower Belongs To The Dead) as well as some shining covers by bands like Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Joanna Newsom, and even reached as far as pop diva Mariah Carey.

If you ever hear that Final Fantasy is coming to your town, I urge you to go to his show, you won't regret it. I also taped the set Bob Wiseman played before, I'll post that later.

Photo by Suzanna Wright.

Thanks to Dean Christie for manning the soundboard and giving me one awesome recording of this set.

1. Intro
2. Do You Love?
3. This Lamb Sells Condos
4. Many Lives -> 49mp
5. This Is The Dream Of Win And Regine
6. Peach Plum Pear
7. Hey Dad
8. The CN Tower Belongs To The Dead
9. ABC Auto Industry
10. The Arctic Circle
11. Song Song Song
12. That's When The Audience Died
13. Please Please Please
14. Better Than Worse
15. This Modern Love
16. Sweet Fantasy
17. The Miner Becomes Forgetful

click here to download the lossless (flac) version.

Also! Suzanna Wright has video clips of the performance. They're up on YouTube:

Peach Plum Pear
Better Than Worse
Better Than Worse (Ending)

edit: People had trouble downloading the zip file, so I fixed it (I hope).
edit 2: changed hosting, added a rar file too.
edit 3: totally fixed downloads! gah!