The Mountain Goats played in Portugal for the first time ever. I recorded it on a mobile phone so the quality is medium. It gets a bit too distorted on Up The Wolves and This Year, but the rest is listenable.

For reasons unexplained as yet there were No Keyboards on the last night of the European tour, which led to some surprising renditions of some of our favourite songs.

Laura Cortese and the Dance Card were amazing, they played strings on some of these tunes. Steal Smoked Fish with strings was the most beautiful moment in any gig I've ever experienced.

There's someone playing harmonica, very softly, during Birth of Serpents. This is a member of the audience taking it upon himself to add notes, which made me happy.

Also here is the first time in known tMG history that Matt Douglas played No Children on the saxophone.