Mp3s: Kevin Drew & Broken Social Scene live
Posted on November 26, 2007 at 12:02 am | No Comments
Back in late August, Broken Social Scene‘s Kevin Drew brought a couple of his BSS bandmates and a few new recruits (including American Analog Set‘s Andrew Kenny) to the small stage of TT the Bears in Cambridge for a special MySpace-sponsored show. It marked the live debut of this new BSS incarnation, specially designed to deliver songs from Drew’s as-of-then-not-yet-released “Spirit If…” solo disc. I wrote about the show here, and didn’t offer up my recording in deference to Kevin’s wishes, but now that the album’s been out a couple months, sketchy YouTube live clips abound, and the band’s extensive touring is nearly over (see the last string of dates below), I’ve decided to share these well-worth-hearing Mp3s. Scroll down even further for some more BSS/KD aural goodness…
Sam Goldberg, Brendan Canning, & Kevin Drew of BSS
Broken Social Scene presents
Kevin Drew’s “Spirit If…”
Live at TT the Bears
in Cambridge, Massachusetts
on Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
1. Intro (banter)
2. Lucky Ones
3. Safety Bricks
4. F–ked Up Kids
5. Tbtf
6. Backed Out On The…
7. Hit the Wall (Brendan Canning song)
8. Farewell to the Pressure Kids
9. bss presents john legend (banter)
10. Broke Me Up
11. Bodhi Sappy Weekend
12. Frightening Lives
13. Happy Birthday Cameron Drew
14. Superconnected
15. Canada vs. America (BSS)
16. who’s in love? (banter)
17. Lover’s Spit (BSS)
18. nixing the encore (BSS)
19. Major Label Debut (BSS)
Sam Goldberg, Andrew Kenny, Kevin Drew, & Bill Piddle of BSS
Some additional links & songs…
Additional Audio: The entirety of “Spirit If…” can be streamed at Kevin’s Arts & Crafts page (just click on the “discography” link there), and at his MySpace page you can stream “Lucky Ones, Frightening Lives, Big Love,” and “Bodhi Sappy Weekend“. NPR Music streamed last Sunday’s BSS presents Kevin Drew set in Washington, DC, which marked their final U.S. date of the year. Here’s what they played, along with times you can find each song in the stream…
BSS presents Kevin Drew’s “Spirit If…”, live at the 9:30 club in Washington, DC, November 18th, 2007: Lucky Ones, Cause = Time (7:48), F–cked Up Kids (17:06), Safety Bricks (23:02), tbtf (28:00), Stars and Sons (33:40), Frightening Lives (38:20), Backed Out On The… (46:00), Superconnected (50:45), band intros (59:20), Hard to Find (1:01:11), Farewell to the Pressure Kids (1:05:30), Major Label Debut (1:14:25), Kennel District (Pavement) (1:19:33), Feel the Pain (Dino Jr.) (1:22:19), Lover’s Spit (1:28:46), It’s All Gonna Break (1:38:45), When It Begins (1:53:36)
As you can see, the band threw in a couple seminal covers (Pavement, and a loose Dino Jr. one), and thankfully played the one American Analog Set song they took to including in their sets, “Hard To Find“. I’ve pulled out the Pavement cover, the AmAnSet song, and my favorite track off “Spirit If…” here…
Video: The dinosaur-party clip for “Backed Out On The…“ showed up back in July. Lots of fan-shot live vids from the tour can be found via a Kevin Drew YouTube search. Tour dates: The band plays their final dates of 2007 in Canada…
Wednesday, Dec. 5th in Kingston, Ontario @ Stages
Thursday, Dec. 6th, Montreal, Quebec @ Le National
Friday, Dec. 7th, Ottawa, Ontario @ Capital Music Hall
Saturday, Dec. 8th, Toronto, Ontario @ Kool Haus
Friday, Dec. 14th, Calgary, Alberta @ MacEwan Ballroom
Saturday, Dec. 15th, Edmonton, AB @ Edmonton Events CentrePurchase: Support the artists that help make your life better: buy your Kevin Drew and Broken Social Scene releases here. Stream all ‘Nac-hosted Mp3s at the Hype Machine.
the fine print… If anyone has an issue with these Mp3s being made available, just let me know (my contact info in the ‘nac faq). Live sets recorded with a Sony ECM-719 mic and a Sony MZ-RH10 minidisc, converted to .wav and then edited to 192kbps Mp3s. Files are made available for a limited time, and are not reposted once removed.
[Live MP3s] Spiritualized in Boston 2007
Posted on November 20, 2007 at 1:47 pm | 1 Comment
Even if I hadn’t spent a solid chunk of the last 12 hours editing its audio, the sounds of last night’s Spiritualized set at the Museum of Fine Arts here in Boston would still be echoing inside my head. Easily the most beautiful show I’ve seen this year, maybe in several years, and I’m feeling forced to hit up a thesaurus to try and describe it. Instead, I’ll let others do it for me…
- Rick and Jerad shared their thoughts on last night’s show.
- Frank at Chromewaves wrote up Saturday’s Toronto stop.
- Many, many write-ups for the band’s performance at the Apollo in NYC last Friday night: Brooklynvegan, Vulture, ProductShopNYC, VV’s Sound of the City, Billboard, and the NME.
So how did Jason ‘Spaceman’ Pierce celebrate his 42nd birthday in Boston? By giving us a present in the form of the final U.S. stop on a tour he has dubbed “Acoustic Mainlines“: J. on acoustic guitar, Doggen on electric piano and harmonica, a four piece string section, and a quartet of fantastic backup singers. On paper such a setup might appear pretentious, but in practice it was near-perfection. This gospel gift becomes even more remarkable once you know this bit of info, shared by Case on the Spiritualized message board:
“For those going to the US shows, you’ll be surprised to learn that they threw the whole thing together after only three days of being in the US – that includes hiring the gospel singers and string players because they couldn’t afford to fly them over from the UK. In addition, they had to hire a different set of string players for the east coast dates because they didn’t have the resources to fly the west coast performers over.”
I’ll not weigh this post down with more words, as all that really matters are the files that follow…
Live at the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston, Massachusetts
on Monday, November 19th, 2007
01. Sitting On Fire
02. Lord Let It Rain On Me
03. True Love Will Find You In The End
(Daniel Johnston cover)
04. Cool Waves
05. Amen
06. Going Down Slow
07. Soul On Fire
08. Walking With Jesus
09. Feel So Sad
10. Stop Your Crying
11. Shine A Light
12. All Of My Tears
13. Baby, I’m Just A Fool
14. Anything More /
Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
15. Broken Heart
16. I Think I’m In Love
17. Lord Can You Hear Me?
18. Oh Happy Day
Some Spiritualized links…
- Their official site, MySpace page, and Wikipedia entry.
- Additional Audio: A torrent of the recent San Francisco show is up on Dime.
- Video: A Spiritualized YouTube search will offer up some live “Acoustic Mainlines” footage.
- Photos: My Flickr-hosted shots from last night are here, and Drive Blind has a few here. Chromewaves has some great shots from Toronto, and P4K shared some from the NYC show. Also hit up a full Flickr tag search.
- Upcoming dates: Spiritualized plays two more sold-out shows before the year is out, on December 8th and 9th at London’s Union Chapel.
- Purchase: Support the artists that help make your life better. Buy Spiritualized merch here.
- Listen to any and all ‘Nac-hosted Mp3s at the Hype Machine.
And with that, I’m officially taking a long Thanksgiving break from the ‘ol blog, and will return on Monday (what, was three shows shared in three days not enough for ya?). Best wishes to everyone out there, regardless of what your upcoming weekend entails. I’ve certainly got many, many things to be thankful for, this year especially. Hope you can say the same.
the fine print… If anyone has an issue with these Mp3s being made available, just let me know (my contact info in the ‘nac faq). I’m just a fan sharing songs. Live sets are recorded with a Sony ECM-719 mic and a Sony MZ-RH10 minidisc, converted to .wav and then edited to 192kbps Mp3s. Files are made available for a limited time, and are not reposted once removed.