BLOOD RED SHOES - "Night & Day" - The Bowery  Electric - New-York - 23-10-10 + Pukkelpop Festival - Kiewit - Hasselt (B) - 17-08-12

The Bowery  Electric - New-York - 23-10-10
1 - It’s Getting Boring By The Sea
2 - Dont Ask
3 - Keeping It Close
4 - I Wish I Was Someone Better
5 - Count Me Out
6 - This Is Not For You
7 - Heartsink
8 - Say Something, Say Anything
9 - Light It Up
10 - Colours Fade

Pukkelpop Festival - Kiewit - Hasselt (B) - 17-08-12
11 - It's Getting Boring by the Sea
12 - Don't Ask
13 - Cold
14 - Say Something, Say Anything
15 - In Time to Voices
16 - This Is Not for You
17 - Light It Up
18 - Heartsink
19 - I Wish I Was Someone Better
20 - Je Me Perds

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Two cracking shows by the relentless touring duo from Brighton. Laura-Mary is still so gorgeously mistreating her guitar and Steven is pounding his drums as ever. No cheat, no pose. Nice having so much noise being only two.

Night : a straightforward high-energy show from NY small venue, The Bowery Electric. Hardly a pause between songs, giving the few people present not much time to get their breath back or to cheer and holler their support. Maybe too "dazed and confused" to do so.

Day : lower video quality but dear to me as I was part of the front rows that day. It was nice and well-deserved to see them finally hit the main stage on a scorching early afternoon, after coming four times to the festival. Steven pointed out the fact by the end of the show and Laura-Mary even hammered it in saying this is one of their favourite festivals. So, smashing felt concert from both sides.   

Enjoy !

Cheers !

Chac

 

***************************UPGRADE**************************
THE THERMALS - "Into The Wild" - Haldern Pop Festival (D) - 15-08-09 + KEXP Session - Bumbershoot Festival - Seattle - 06-09-10
BIG THANKS to "bug1408" for kindly sending me his TV master copy !!!!

Haldern Pop Festival - 15-08-09
1 - Returning To The Fold
2 - I Let It Go  
3 - How We Know 
4 - I Called Out Your Name 
5- Back To Gray 
6 - When I Was Afraid 
7 - Here's Your Future
8 - Test Pattern 
9 - Our Trip      
10 - 100 %(Sonic Youth cover)
11 - We Were Sick
12 -  It's Trivia
13 - I Can't Let Go
14 - A Passing Feeling
15 - No Culture Icons
16 - Goddamn The Light
17 - St. Rosa And The Swallows
18 - A Pillar Of Salt
19 - Now We Can See

KEXP Session - Bumbershoot Festival - Seattle - 06-09-10
20 - I Don't Believe You
21 - I'm Gonna Change Your Life
22 - Never Listen to Me
23 - Not Like Any Other Feeling
24 - Only For You
25 - Power Lies
26 - You Changed My Life
27 - Your Love Is So Strong
28 - Bonus Track : Basket Case (Green Day Cover)

Technical info  :
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So, thanks to "bug1408" you can now fully appreciate one the best shows I have (at least, one of my favourite - top 3, no question !) THIS IS definitely the concert I've watched the most, about 30-40 times maybe and I never get sick of it ! Everything's tight and perfect here ! Hutch's clear-cut voice, Katy's bouncing round bass,Westin's hectic rhythm, too happy for joining the band ! All fired away at Ramones-like pace (19 songs in 55 mns !!) - Everybody seems to have a whale of a time. The band, who's nicely playing in the golden daylight of a late afternoon and the responsive audience, who even sings along before Hutch starts singing "Now We Can See" (much to his surprise and making him smile). As extras, the KXP session is still HD and goes round the tracks from their "Personal Life" album. The greatest news for the end : the new album, "Desperate Ground", is coming out april 2013 ... and it is definitely "loud and fast" again !!!!
Enjoy !
Cheers !
Chac

Webcast version (different songs) :

 

TRIGGERFINGER - "All these covers around" - Ancienne Belgique - Brussels - 04-12-10

AB - Brussels - 04-12-10
1 - I'm Coming for You
2 - All This Dancin' Around
3 - Short Term Memory Love
4 - Mario's drum solo & Little Teaser
5 - My Baby's Got a Gun
6 - Camaro
7 - Hunt You Down
8 - First Taste
9 - Is It
10 - On My Knees
11 - All Night Long (Ray Charles )

BONUS : «Covers corner» :
12 - Ballad Of  A Thin Man (Bob Dylan) - Radio 1 session (B)
13 - Get Free (MajorLazer) - Giel Radio (NL)
14 - Man Down (Rihanna) - Red Bull Soundclash 2012 (B) - Battle with De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig
15 - Sexy Beesten with De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig - Lowlands 2012 (NL)
16 - Interview - Therapy TV - Greenville Festival 2012 (D)

Technical info  :
DVD Full Pro-shot
Video : Mpeg - 720 X 576 - 25 FPS - 16:9
Audio : Mpeg - 48000 Hz
Menu & Chapters - Artwork included

Another thundering set by our Belgian power trio, back home, at the AB, following the release of their "All This Dancin' Around" LP. In front of a packed supporting crowd, our shooters are on top form. Ruben's voice and guitar are still stunningly extensive, Mario's solo just before "Little Teaser" is one of the most devastating one I've heard from him and Monsieur Paul's bass sounds as well, particularly heavy here ! So does the performance of "My Baby's Got A Gun" when, after the sweet bluesy start, a pulsating electricity blitzkrieg falls upon you !!    

As the end of the concert closes in on the moving Ray Charles's cover from the album, I've tried to keep up the magic with a "covers corner" in which Ruben's voice turns the various-era songs into gold classics, provided they were not yet so. Particularly impressive on Dylan's "Ballad Of A Thin Man", lavishly delivered  in an incarnate version by Ruben The Voice. Thrills ahead !

Triggerfinger has always been terrific on covers (which shows well their openmindedness - see also their chart n°1 cover of Lykke Li's "I Follow Rivers'). Here, their second cover of Rihanna is again no exception. The video quality is lower than the other ones but I've chosen to keep it as I haven't found any other pro-shot video of the song. It is comfortably watchable nonetheless and the performance, with his Led Zep's Kashmir intro, is awesome (as you can hear it coming from the audience) !

The last section of the dvd is granted by a nice 2012 interview in which each members dig up their early years in life and in their budding starts as musicians. Really interesting and DON'T MISS Monsieur Paul's punchline at the end. Just hilarious !! :-)

Enjoy !

Cheers!

Chac