Andrew Bird‘s stage setup at the Virgin Mobile Festival (08/10/08)

Photo: Tim Griffin

Go here to participate in a live chat with Andrew Bird at 1 p.m. ET on Thursday, January 8 (today). Also, in other tour news, a second Andrew Bird show has been added at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on January 26, 2009 (buy tickets on 01/08 @ noon).

UPDATE: Read Andrew’s post about his new record over the Measure for Measure blog at NYTimes.com.