He dedicated nearly each song throughout the night, including one to the AU girl’s swim team, who left their “swimming costumes” and a love note out for him to see in the locker room. He listened to the fans, chatting back and forth and declared himself to be unintelligent, unfit and uncool. Admittedly copying OK Go, he had everyone in the room hold up their cell phones during the song he acknowledged that many people were here for, “Chasing Cars.” But this was followed up by two of the real highlights of the evening. A girl named Valerie brought a sign to the show asking Gary if she could sing “Set the Fire to the Third Bar” with him on stage. Apparently this is a regular thing at their shows, which only Valerie seemed to know about. We were pleasantly surprised (as was Gary) by this girl who did a near perfect rendition of Martha Wainwright’s vocals. And their performance of “Make this Go On Forever” was one of the best songs of the night, a powerful anthem that suited the packed arena. Many of the songs off of the new album contain repetitive choruses that work well live, on songs like this one and “Open Your Eyes,” which they saved for the encore. (via DCist: Snow Patrol & OK Go @ Bender Arena)
