Tegan & Sara returned to New York City after a triumphant start to their Sainthood tour last October with 2 sold out Town Hall shows.  This time was very different.  They’ve embarked on the North American leg of the tour and did not include a New York date.  Instead on January 27th the following appeared on their website:

 

we’ve decided, quite spontaneously, to offer an opportunity for some of you to spend an intimate night with us at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. perhaps it’s worth noting that my use of the word intimate only applies to the small-ish size of the venue and the stripped down nature of the material we will be performing. i wouldn’t call it an acoustic performance so much as a night of reinterpretations of the well worn and well loved album versions you’ve come to love.

 

With that small bit of info and the onsale date a couple of days later and the fact that the show would be February 15th we were left to fend for ourselves.  It wasn’t until the tickets went onsale that we learned they’d be $75.  That is a lot more than Tegan & Sara shows usually cost, and a lot more than Music Hall of Williamsburg shows usually cost.  In fact I know quite a few people who didn’t buy tickets because of this price.

 

For those of you non-New Yorkers reading this, The Music Hall of Williamsburg is a very popular venue located in Brooklyn.  It is also very small.  It’s capacity is about 550, and was formerly a great venue called Northsix (it’s on North 6th Street).  So shows there tend to be small and sell out very fast.

 

Anyway obviously I bought a ticket and let me now guide you through my evening with my favorite two Canadian twins.

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This series of posts are all about cool holiday gifts, for you or the people you care about. We’ll be including tons of cool stuff in the categories we cover on the site. Since this is our first year we’re going to not limit ourselves to just stuff that came out over the past few months, we’re going to include a bunch of other awesome stuff as well. Think of this as your definitive source for the coolest gifts for the coolest people you know. Our first post is all about music related goodies.

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Tegan & Sara kicked off their two night stint at New York’s Town Hall tonight and I’ve got your first report on the show.

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ON IN AT is a 3 book collection released alongside Tegan & Sara’s new album Sainthood. Each of the books is totally different and covers a different topic. ON covers their North American tour in 2008, IN covers a 5 day period where T&S went to New Orleans and tried to write together for the first time every, and AT covers their 08-09 tour in Austrialia. The books are available right now only at shows and at MapleMusic. They’re costly, so are they worth the price?

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Tegan & Sara’s new album “Sainthood” arrives on October 27th but I’ve gotten a hold of an early copy and I thought this would make an excellent first real post for MediaDecay.

 

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