Benjamin Franklin famously stated that there are only two certainties in life, which are death and taxes. I can also propose a third, which would be no two Les Savy Fav performances are ever the same. The NYC band headlined Music Hall of Williamsburg for the very last time* on Friday, October 30, 2026, were joined by Jersey City, NJ’s Rye Coalition and made Mischief Night an extremely memorable one.
Concertgoers were told on social media by Les Savy Fav to avoid wearing nice clothing and that there would be a zombie makeup station on site. All five members of LSF appeared on stage dressed as undead police officers and began their set with “Guzzle Blood” from their 2024 album, OUI, LSF, which seemed quite fitting. Tim Harrington’s dismembered arm and hand were eventually thrown separately into the audience.
It would be an impossible for me to recount all the mischievous antics that took place during their set but Tim would leave the stage numerous times, disappear into a sea of people, only to return by the next song wearing something he wasn’t wearing when he left. It seems as if he confiscated hats, wigs and other accessories from audience members while singing in the crowd. Harrington applied fake blood to people’s faces and clothing, hence the warning of not wearing anything nice. During “Dirty Knails” numerous rolls of toilet paper descended from the venue’s balcony onto the main floor. After that song, someone helped wrap Tim’s head with toilet paper for him to briefly become a mummy. He also crawled under a small table on the side of the stage, and while he was over there, he somehow removed part of the black curtain from the stage, and then wore that fabric like a cape. An audience member near me dressed in costume as Buckethead, and eventually that person’s mask and KFC bucket were donned by Tim. Oh, he also used a brown wig as a merkin during their encore. The final song of the night was “Let’s Get Out of Here” from Root for Ruin which was a perfect way to send us out; a room full of people in unison declaring, “let’s get out of here.”
When I arrived at Music Hall last night, I realized that I’ve been attending Les Savy Fav shows for over two decades. I last saw LSF perform at MHOW in 2011, where the venue was celebrating their fourth anniversary and at that concert, Tim climbed upon a ladder and was held up by the crowd. An image of that moment was on display outside of the venue last night, and I’m so happy I got to see a band that I love so much perform in this space one final time.
*Music Hall of Williamsburg will close their doors at the end of December. If you attend any of their remaining concerts, they have images from their house photographers on various walls and outside the box office of previous performances.
**My friend Tiffany recommended their music to me and stated that I had to see them live, so I did, and have been every performance I could attend since then. For more Les Savy Fav photos, I have more available via their tag on this site and on Flickr.