Spoon kick off the Lights Camera Faction tour with Interpol on Thursday in Asbury Park, but ahead of that the Austin band played a very intimate, last-minute warm-up show at Brooklyn's Baby's All Right on Tuesday night (8/23). This was Spoon's smallest NYC show since they played the McKittrick Hotel in 2014 and, unsurprisingly, Baby's (official capacity: 280) was packed out the wazoo, with people cramming into every nook and cranny of the venue -- so much so that I watched a few people try to take a shortcut only to realize there was a railing in the way.
The band took the stage right at 9 PM and Spoon delivered satisfying, fun set. While they didn't bill it as such -- Britt was all smiles but not overly talkative -- the show was bookended with a celebration of Kill the Moonlight, which turned 20 over the weekend. Three songs from the album, "Small Stakes," "The Way We Get By" and "Something to Look Forward To," kicked off the set, and they ended their main set with an especially fiery rendition of "Jonathan Fisk."