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They were playing a short set between the time the venue started seating people and the beginning of the ceremony, which meant that they were playing over a crowd filing into an auditorium. The first couple songs (“Nugget Man” and “Live” got drowned out by the crowd noise (“Live” in particular is a very quiet piece and easily drowned out), but the audience was pretty much seated by their last song, “Nun Fight,” and that went over very well. The auditorium was naturally suited to the song, and there was no need for the sound engineer to introduce artificial reverb as there is in small clubs.