The Smile emerged to great cheers before tearing into a similar set to the one they played at their second Kings Theatre show, hardly skipping a beat between cuts as their multitudes of techs helped them repeatedly switch instruments and positions. This project is clearly a product of both great multi-instrumental skill and of true passion and love for music, an exciting new frontier that the band and particularly Yorke find to be rip-roaringly fun. I can tell you that most of the crowd and I myself agree with the latter sentiment, as we excitedly bounced and danced to most of the night's unfailingly wonderful songs. Unfortunately their were analog modulation issues that foreclosed on us hearing more than a few bars of "Waving A White Flag", but even this hardly deterred The Smile. In all they played most all of ALFAA, and several newer cuts were in the mix, including the now NYC dedicated "People On Balconies" featuring Stillman and the much lauded "Bending Hectic". The main set was capped by another couple of Stillman accented cuts including "You Will Never Work In Television Again".

The encore was ever so slightly truncated from their earlier shows, but was nothing short of masterful all the same. Their encores are based around newer cuts, featuring "Just Eyes and Mouth" (complete with Yorke's legendary dance moves) and "Colours Fly" last night, before the band's version of Yorke's solo/Atoms For Peace classic "Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses" as the capstone. The experience of the whole show was truly electric.