A couple weeks (and change) ago we reported that despite their other projects, Ben Folds Five were reuniting as part of MySpace Music’s “Front To Back” series to play The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner in its entirety at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Memorial Hall. We weren’t lying, it happened last night. It was Darren Jesse, Robert Sledge and Tim & Eric bud Ben F’s first performance together in almost a decade. So far we only have the words of hardcore fans to go by, but it sounds like they did a good job of it. Ben’s father even came out for “Your Most Valuable Possession” (in case you forgot, his message on Ben’s answering machine was used on this song on the album). According to the posts we’ve read, they didn’t play “Brick,” and one dude claims there was no encore, but then some other folks explained to him what it means to encore: “Everything after TUBORM was the encore. You know, you go off stage, you get some applause and you come back. That’s what they did.” This is what they played in addition to Reinhold Messner from front to back:
