Of Montreal get special guest at New York show

Of Montreal played their second show at New York's Irving Plaza last night (March 10) before a famous fan.

They performed songs from their newest album, 'Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?' to a sold-out crowd, that included former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne.

The band's line-up changed constantly throughout the night, with drum machines occasionally replacing drums, and two bassists on other numbers. The group played in costume, guitarist BP Helium in a full angel suit, complete with wings. Screens behind the band showed psychedelic animation, including 'Yellow Submarine'-style caricatures of the musicians.

Leader Kevin Barnes, who recently bared all during a gig in Las Vegas, stayed mostly clothed throughout the one-and-a-half hour set. With tightly parted hair, Barnes began the show in a sparkly cape. By the end, he wore a sashed kimono, cut-off shorts, and fishnet stockings.

"It's kind of my concept, to bring world peace to the Earth if everyone had to stand naked in front of their peers once a month," Barnes told Rochester's WITR in February. "I had to pick Vegas because that's the only 21-plus venue we're playing on this tour and I didn't want to become a sex offender, because that would be pretty dreadful."

The full set was:

'Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse'
'So Begins Our Alabee'
'Suffer For Fashion'
'Sink the Seine'
'Cato As A Pun'
'Bunny Ain't No Kind of Rider'
'Disconnect the Dots'
'Will You Come and Fetch Me'
'Requiem For O.M.M. 2'
'The Past is a Grotesque Animal'
'She's a Rejecter'
'I Was Never Young'
'Faberge Falls For Shuggie'
'Oslo In The Summertime'
'Gronlandic Edit'
'Rapture Rapes the Muses'
'Forecast Fascist Future'
'The Party's Crashing Us'
'The Repudiated Immortals'