And all your memories are as precious as gold...
As promised in the news item below this one...here's the 'something a little more substantial' from Thursday night's
First up, the Air review and set list, quickly followed by the TVOTR set list and review. I'm posting them both verbatim, including the lyric quotation which isn't even one of DB's songs! Over to you Mr Jones...
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I'll bet you know their stuff from Sofia Coppola movies and it sounds pretty romantic live, too. Absurdly French, the keyboards wash over the audience for an hour and more, creating the impression that we all are wearing white linen trousers and pastel blue shirts.
My only disappointment of the evening? They are so static onstage they made Kraftwerk look like agitated monkeys. But the smoochy, trippy, mindsmoothing fodder they delivered more than made up for this. As expected, the packed, clap-a-long audience loved 'em.
The set list then (I still can't believe how these younger bands do such short sets)
Radian
Venus
Once Upon A Time
Napalm Love
Talisman
Cherry Blossom Girl
Run
Remember (sing along, y'all)
People in the City
Mer Du Japon
Photograph
Don't Be Light
Kelly
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Kyoto
Sexy Boy (you rock)
La Femme
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The above picture of DB with TVOTR was taken with the new 'In-The-Room' system to give that real 3D feel. The frame rate change is set to one second so you can count just how long you're transfixed for!
Something is happening here, But you don't know what it is, Do you, Mister Jones?
Here, for fun, in lieu of a proper set list are David Sitek's pre-show notes:-
Dirty Whirl 1st half bowling - 2nd half drums - real tight - hihat snare
A Method Percussion
Ambulance - super simple - beat box - styx??
Day Drunk Floor tom - sing sing sorta - verse high hat/rim - super simple - chorus - 16th notes - high hat/cymbalverse same - chorus - wait for it - 16th notes/snare
Province Drumset - 1st half - rim/high hat - chorus ride floor - 2nd verse - extended ending
Young Liars super sparse - come in - bass drum - snare - chorus ride
Tonight - log drums
Satellite clave beat - Latin-ish ?? - I start - count end real obvious.
Well, I loved TVOTR acoustic. Sort of acoustic, more like unplugged with low volume electric guitar and bass. Groovy missionary pump organ and African log drum, bells etc. Standouts for me the newly minted Province, the ever popular Young Liars and Day Drunk, which I'd never heard before.
Kyp and Tunde's voices sounding firm and confident in this enormous, filled-to-capacity room at the Theater at Madison Square Garden. David Sitek running from one sound implement to another. They could have done a two hour show with this set up and I would have been completely enraptured.
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Thanx Sailor...there could be a job for you here if you're interested?
Each time I read one of these reviews and set lists I kick myself for not being in New York, it's clear that those of us that couldn't make it have missed some damn fine music.
Oh well, if there's anybody reading this undecided about attending any of the upcoming shows...just do it!
NB: If the lyric quotation DB used for the TVOTR piece has you puzzled, it's a line from Bob Dylan's Ballad Of A Thin Man.