One week after Thanksgiving (on November 29th) Sara, Brad, Liz, and I made a trip to Chicago to see Tegan and Sara perform.

I took a half day so we had time to eat dinner beforehand. We stopped in Greektown for dinner at Roditys. We ordered Flaming Saganaki Cheese (Opa!!!) before our meals.

The concert was at the Portage Theater which was a venue none of us were familiar with. It is a nice old theater. You can see the space here.

The surprise of the evening was the opening band, Northern State. I have endured some awful opening bands, and I was expecting mediocre at best. To my amazement they were a lot of fun. The band consists of white girls from suburban Long Island doing a Beastie Boys style hip-hop routine.

After Sara with no 'h' bought a Northern State CD during the intermission Tegan and Sara took the stage promptly. They played for quite a while. It was a great show and well worth the sleep deprivation I suffered the next morning. The set list as best as I can reconstruct it:

• The Con
• Relief Next to Me
• Are You Ten Years Ago
• Burn Your Life Down
• Like O Like H
• Nineteen
• Soil Soil
• Floorplan
• Dark Come Soon
• Monday Monday Monday
• Noises
• Ciry Girl
• Where does the good go
• Speak Slow
• Back In Your Head
• Call It Off

• You Wouldn't Like Me
• I Bet it Stung
• Walking With a Ghost
• Living Room

Also: photos.