You, reader, might be experiencing National exhaustion on these pages.  We endeavor on in our ardor.  We continue to look forward to their consecutive hat-trick of shows in California in August and continue to encourage all to catch the band live along the way.  In case you won’t or to get you prepped, (up until a few moments ago) you can currently could have watched below The National’s entire 90-minute set yesterday at Bonnaroo.  The video featured superb sound and vision by the band and producers.  The strong setlist is below the video.  In addition to some surprising song arrangements, singer Matt Berninger was obviously comfortable on stage, engaging in repeated comedic banter with the crowd.  And Brooklyn neighbor St. Vincent (with Blondie-blonde hair) joined the band for This Is the Last Time.  It was also good to see that new songs Humiliation and Graceless have taken their rightful place in the set with some of the band’s older greats.  Hopefully Bonnaroo or The National will make the broadcast available again.  If not, you can at least check out an interview by Fuse with Berninger and Dressner at bottom.  We look forward to August.

Setlist:

I Should Live In Salt
Don’t Swallow the Cap
Mistaken for Strangers
Bloodbuzz Ohio
This is the Last Time
(with St. Vincent)
Sea of Love
Afraid of Everyone
Anyone’s Ghost
Conversation 16
Squalor Victoria
I Need My Girl
Abel
Apartment Story
England
Humiliation
Graceless
Fake Empire
Mr. November
Terrible Love