So LanaLou's had a pretty good crowd tonight, but was still intimate and funny and very participatory -- the second best NO FUN show I have seen in 2024 since my bloggerversary. If you missed it, there will still be a post-Christmas letdown show at LanaLou's after Christmas, we believe, with many of the same highlights, but with commentary in a faux-Ukrainian accent. Maybe Pete will do "Too Cool for Christmas?" I haven't heard that song in years.
Meantime, here is the whole "Good King Wenceslas Show (2024)", possibly with slight audio lag, and "Be like Xmus," and ooh, here's three songs from early in the set, and wonderful ones at that. Guest opener Sister DJ's funniest, most striking song was about Whalley but her "Goodwill Christmas" song was pretty great too -- all her songs seemed to be themed around poverty, and had a little bit of underclass political bite to them, but they were still very very funny and tuneful. Plus if you watch the Wenceslas clip to the end, Pete Campbell tells the story of the time Stevie Ray Vaughan played his Stratocaster (!).
Oh, and I take the stage for the Wenceslas suite, dangling my bat as per normal, but with the lyrics to "our song" rewritten to efface all mention of bats. There's a rat in it, though. I would have brought a rat if I had known!
There are lots of rats around Metrotown Station. They're quite large and none too shy. I saw one coming home, in fact! But no bats.
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