Les Savy Fav
Slim's
November 12, 2004

Review by Jake Thomas

A Les Savy Fav show will never leave you wanting for entertainment, even if you don’t like the music. Lucky for me, they are both musically and visually one of my very favorite bands of the last few years, and this show only strengthened those feelings. The band played a ton of their older singles, which I guess makes sense since their most recent release is their singles collection called “Inches”. I was a little let down that “Adopduction” and “Blackouts” were left off of the set list, but I think they’ve played both of those every other time I’ve seen them so whatever.

I would say that the singer, Tim Harrington, was in rare form but he always is. The show started with the man on the stage by himself for a good five minutes in a sea captain outfit, complete with pipe, talking in to the microphone as if he were dictating his sea log. It was pretty damn hilarious. Once the band came out, as the show progressed he got to more and more levels of undressed. Eventually he was just down to his tighty-whiteys and a tank-top with both straps broken, which was then tucked in around his underwear to resemble a short miniskirt…and then further tucking occurred, and he appeared as a grown man in a diaper. At some point there was a kid who had gotten on stage in an attempt to stage dive, but Tim had him pinned down in dry-hump mode before the kid even knew what was going on. But this was all just a prelude to the encore, when he came back out on the stage in a tight, white pony outfit that left nothing to the imagination other than ways to burn those images from your retinas. There was enough crowd humping, tit licking, and fake penis stroking to last me for a while. Or until the next time Les Savy Fav comes to town, which is hopefully sooner rather than later.




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