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Julian Plenti: "Games for Days" (Live on Fallon) (Video)

8:20 a.m. · August 10, 2009 · by Nick Neyland

Paul Banks brought his best Richard Butler/David Bowie impression to Jimmy Fallon’s talk show on Friday (August 7), where he performed a track from his solo record, Julian Plenti is…Skyscraper. The video for “Games for Days” features Emily Haines from Metric, and was debuted last week.

It’s difficult to see where Banks is heading with the Julian Plenti project—it’s so close to his work with Interpol that it barely seems worth going through the effort of assembling a new, less sartorially elegant band. Fallon seems to like the idea of assuming a new persona, even referring to Banks as “Julian Plenti” at the close of the performance.