ann, tegan, dabney and sara

on friday night, ann and dabney had the pleasure of seeing two singing canadian lesbian identical twins (yes, you heard that right), otherwise known as tegan and sara.



the show was fantastic. the music - stellar. tegan and sara combine a power pop sound with an ani difranco attitude. their harmonies soared live (perhaps their identical chromosomes give them an advantage???) ann and dabney even appreciated that they weren't afraid to flub up a song and start over. bonus: melissa ferrick (who they used to open for in the past) joined them on stage for a surprise encore.

plus they - individually and collectively - were hilarious. usually, when ann and dabney go to a concert they want the artist to shut up and just play their music. but the banter between tegan & sara's songs was a window into their inimitable sisterspeak. they would tell childhood stories, interrupt each other to give another perspective, tell the other one to stop talking and play, or adopt the voice of a national geographic narrator describing the other's movements actions, i.e. "tegan, 24, is tuning her guitar."

and then there was the other show. perhaps because everyone was there to see two canadian lesbian identical twins, there was the obvious freak factor. it was the best people-watching opportunity that ann and dabney had had in some time. there was a bookish couple sitting to their right (how did ann and dabney know they were bookish? they tried to READ during the concert) and only a handful of people over the age of thirty scattered about (yes, mika and sherman, you count). and the lesbians. oh, the lesbians. the entire baby dyke population of all the area new england colleges was out in full force.

last but not least, tegan & sara had some of the best concert t-shirts that ann & dabney had ever seen. none of that plastisol photo of the band on a black t-shirt with the concert location and dates on the back shit. these concert tees looked like they could have come out of superette's craft room. to order one, click on a design.