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The Nationwide delivered a heartfelt efficiency of “House Invader” to welcome again David Letterman to the Late Present on Monday.
Matt Berninger carried out the one, from their newly launched album Chortle Monitor, because the stage flooded with blue mild and the work featured within the tune’s music video flashed behind the band. “What if I’d by no means written the letter/I slipped within the sleeve of the report I gave you? What if I’d stayed on the C prepare to Lafayette? What if we’d by no means met?” sang Berninger from the lonely refrain. “What if I’d solely simply carried out what you advised me/And by no means seemed again?”
Earlier this yr, Letterman praised the Nationwide throughout a dialog about music, calling them “your saddest good friend’s favourite band.”
Previous to the band’s efficiency, Letterman advised host Stephen Colbert on Monday that this was the “second time in my life that that is taking place right here tonight” — referencing the Foo Fighters‘ look on his last episode of the Late Present. When the query of musical friends got here up for Monday’s episode, Letterman stated he had prompt The Nationwide however discovered that they have been on tour. He was later knowledgeable that the band could be leaving to the tour to look on the long-awaited return. “As a result of for a band, TV cash is de facto extra attention-grabbing,” the comic joked earlier than including, ” I used to be actually, actually touched by that.”
He then gave a “tip of the hat” to the Foo Fighters, who “went method, method, method out of their method” to bid him farewell from the CBS present in 2015. “So these two teams, I’ll love them eternally,” stated Letterman.
