Cadenza got the chance to sit down with Matt Friedberger, the singer/multi-instrumentalist of the Fiery Furnaces, before their April 18 set at the Gargoyle.
Cadenza: How’s the tour going so far?
Matt Friedberger: It’s beautiful weather, that’s for sure. Every place we’ve went. Now it’ll be terrible [knocks on wood]. We’re going to Columbia, and then Lawrence, Kansas, next, so we’ll probably run into a tornado or something.
“I can’t hear you; I’m in Whispers, the loudest place in the school!” an undergrad yelled into his cell-phone as he stood in the new social mecca at the center of Olin Library.
Throughout the year students here at Wash U have flocked to Olin’s recently completed Whispers Caf‚, grabbing late night espressos, competing in hours of online poker tournaments and enjoying mid-afternoon gossip sessions with friends.
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