Setlist from last night (25/26 January)

"All the Way from Memphis" - Mott the Hoople
"Station to Station" - David Bowie

"Mercury Poisoning" [live] - Graham Parker & the Rumour
"Venus Man Trap" - Veruca Salt
"Girl from Mars" - Ash
"The Shade" - Metric (for Emily Haines' birthday)

"Crazy" - R.E.M.
"Crazy" - Materal Issue
"Crazy" - Plumb
"Crazy" - Booker T. Jones
"Crazy" - Me First & the Gimme Gimmes

"Face to Face" - Code Blue (for Gary Tibbs' birthday)
"Pure Mania" - The Vibrators (ditto)
"Out of the Blue" [live] - Roxy Music (what I said)
"Beat My Guest" - Adam & the Ants (you get the idea)

"Portuguese Knife Fight" - Cage the Elephant
"Spanish Bombs" - The Clash
"Italian Girls" - Rod Stewart
"French Vacation" - The Walkmen

"Lose It" - Supergrass
"Digging for Something" - Superchunk
"Do the Vampire" - Superdrag
"The 19th Most Powerful Woman in Rock" - Supersuckers

"Little Guitars" - Van Halen (for Eddie's birthday)
"Girls Who Play Guitars" - Maximo Park
"American Guitars" - The Auteurs
"Mars Needs Guitars!" - The Hoodoo Gurus

"I Just Wanted to See You So Bad" - Lucinda Williams (for Lucinda's birthday)
"City with No Children" - Arcade Fire (by request)
"Mexican Radio" - Wall of Voodoo (also by request)
"I Wanna Be True" - Toxic Kid (hot damn! by request)
"Take Back the Power" - The Interrupters

That's got to be the most attention ever paid to Gary Tibbs' birthday.

Well, I knew he'd applied his ability to a number of bands, and guess what, I had all those records at my fingertips. So why not. (I wish I'd had time to do as much background on Emily Haines. She's lent her talent to a number of bands outside Metric.)

Mr Tibbs pops up in Breaking Glass, too.