''Hot February Night'' is a 2007 album by alternative comedian

Neil Hamburger Neil Hamburger is a standup comedy, standup comedian and singer character created and portrayed by American entertainer Gregg Turkington. Distinguished for his misanthropic jokes and anti-comedy style, Turkington has released a number of albums ...

. It was originally released by Off-Price Value Center in 2007 and then re-issued on LP by Drag City in 2010.

Album synopsis

The album was not recorded live in

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as popularly believed, though Hamburger did perform there acting as the opening act to

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. In fact, the album was pieced together from three shows recorded near the conclusion of that same tour, at

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in Vancouver, Canada, the Paramount Theater in Seattle, Washington, and the

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, in Portland, Oregon. A number of times throughout the album Hamburger mocks the crowd for their impatience and insults them by pretending to announce the band only to quickly change tack and continue on with the act.

Track listing

#"Christmas/Godfather" (6:38) #"Rock and Roll Will Never Die" (1:04) #"Shoulder Trouble '07" (0:10) #"Wonderful Wonderful" (4:21) #"Destroying the Mood" (2:10) #"Incident in Kabul" (1:55) #"Beatle Paul" (4:47) #"Decrepit Old Dogs" (2:45) #"Cranberry Sauce" (6:45) #"His Deathbed" (2:26)

References

{{Authority control Gregg Turkington albums Drag City (record label) albums 2007 albums