Junior Boys pictures are up!

Even though I was at the Empty Bottle on a Sunday night and the two opening bands just enhanced my desire to go to bed, the Junior Boys definitely did not disappoint. Having seen them twice before as an opener, the opportunity to headline seemed to give the Boys added confidence and to show off singer Jeremy Greenspan's wit and personality. Oh, the irony of a band that makes such sublimely sexy music being fronted by a man so supremely un-sexy. But oh, his smooth voice was just as hot in person as it is on record. With a live drummer in tow this time around, the boys played exactly the set list I would have chosen, featuring a large chunk of their latest, So This Is Goodbye and throwing in the best of their debut, Last Exit ("Teach Me How to Fight," "Under the Sun" and a fantastic rendering of "Birthday," my fav of the night). They alternated between the uptempo dance-inducers like "The Equalizer" and the calmer, more soothing tracks like "So This Is Goodbye." In between songs (and when technical difficulties ensued), Jeremy regaled the audience with funny tour stories, like having to constantly hear "that guy" yell out "Canada" at every show, and how their big plans for a multimedia light show failed and left them with nothing but a neon sign that said "Junior Boys." Overall, a quality show.