“We just signed with Zara,” joked Matt Berninger, the frontman for the National, on hand to perform at the Spanish retailer’s New York flagship store for its Wednesday opening. “They’re starting a record label.” While it’s not unheard of for a big fashion brand to start a record label these days, it was noteworthy that the Brooklyn-based band, which recently sold-out a six night stand at New York’s Beacon Theater, was playing for a bunch of Italian-suited businessmen and fashion industry folk. True professionals, the band members kept their cool, despite chatty shoppers and a makeshift stage, delivering a seven-song set that transported the lucky fans beyond the midtown store setting. Stranger things have happened.
Set List:
Anyone’s Ghost
Bloodbuzz Ohio
Mistaken for Strangers
Afraid of Everyone
Sorrow
Apartment Story
Terrible Love