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DOWN THE PIT

DILLY DALLY - "Befeathered" - Lee's Palace - Toronto - 27-05-23

 

DILLY DALLY

Lee's Palace - Toronto - 27-05-23

1 - Candy Mountain 

2 - Ballin Chain

3 - Colour of Joy

4 - Doom
5 - Witch Man
6 - Green
7 - Believe
8 - Sorry Ur Mad
9 - Marijuana
10 - Morning Light
11 - Gender Role
12 - Snake Head
13 - Ice Cream
14 - I Feel Free
15 - Sober Motel
16 - The Touch
17 - Desire
Encore 1:
18 - Next Gold
19 - Bad Biology
20 - Purple Rage
Encore 2:
21 -  Heaven
 

Technical info  :

Blu-ray Audience shot

Video : Mpeg - 1920 X 1080 - 25 FPS - 16:9
Audio : Mpeg - 48000 Hz
Running Time : 90 mns
Size : 15,7 Go

Menu & Chapters - Artwork included
 

 

So, here we are again. New stuff, new shape. To be honest, I wasn't quite sure to get down to this ever again. Who cares anyway ? Everything is on YouTube now (and that's just fine, particularly with what lies in this one !). My almost 3-year truancy may also come from the fact I still spend (too ?) much time down the pit (see above). Better living it than making up for it I guess. Yet, people seem to crave for "touching the thing" again. Vinyl records reached an unexpected 45 % of physical music media sales here last year. It was 1 % ten years ago ! Time to author again then ? Hum ...

Actually, another thing kept me away from here. As mentioned before, what is a 720x560 dvd video worth compared to a 2560x1440 youtube cell-phone footage ? If I wanted to keep in touch with all this I needed to find an HD authoring soft to make the grade. Burning blurays seemed to be the awkward alternative then. Again, nobody cares anymore and so do the manufacturers. That kind of standalone softs no longer really exist, they have been bundled up into bigger video editing packages, just as cosmetic add-ons, with fewer functionalities.

After countless hours spent searching, I finally managed to get my hands on an old one. Then, I had to "tame the beast" ! I didn't start from scratch but the approach was quite different and getting familiar with the whole layout and firepower did sometimes make me sweat ! I eventually made my way through. One last hurdle was looming ahead. The rendering (shivers down the spine typing this) ! I'd had some looooong encoding experience with dvds, I expected a kind of act of glory with hd blu-rays ! I didn't get disappointed. I let the machine run the whole night for the first try. Waking time, feeling still clouded I headed to the computer, turned the screen on again and ... done : 6 %, remaining time : 102 hrs !! Ahaaaaaaaaaa !!!! Alright, I'm done with it. Really a shame to have spent so much time to something of no use.

 Two days later, I still felt frustrated and decided to give it a second chance. Scouring forums again, I discovered that it would be better to demux video and audio and that there's a possibility not to make the soft render both files if I managed to turn them into bluray compatible formats. After multiple attempts with no avail I finally got the two green ticks opposite my files, quality untouched !! Yeaaaah !! Back to the fearful overnight rendering ! I felt a bit edgy when switching the screen on the next day. But ... done : 74 %, remaining time : 6 hrs ! This was much better ! All in all, my first 16 Go bluray was rendered in thirteen hours, which is somehow unexpected considering my 10+ year old setup !          

Now, of course, talking about the band who made me feel going back to business ... As it often happened before, ... the opportunity made the thief ! On a blue Monday, I came across the sad news : Dilly Dally are quitting ! A real blue day indeed ! I've never got to see them live. I somehow planned to go and see them in Germany at some point but the pandemic screwed the whole thing up. So eventually, the two farewell shows were of course to be held in their hometown, Toronto. No possible way for me to get there. Sometimes being a huge fan is not enough. I could only hope that some guys from the lucky audience could post some footage to let me live the thing from afar. This is from there I need to send a so grateful shout-out to "ConcertJunkiex" and "Josh Cornell" !!! Thank You so much guys !! You made my day and managed to make me taste the special flavour of this night ! More, altogether you put on the whole experience of the show giving us the entirety of the set, 21 songs !! Amazing !! This was more than I expected and I tried to get the best of both worlds by doing some multicam stuff on "Marijuana", "Next Gold", "Bad Biology" and "Purple Rage".

 So, this is where this back to authoring business all started from. Got to do something to pay homage and make it up for not being there that very night ! I have always loved Dilly Dally for drowning us into a loud grungy pool of molten tar until the aery sound of Liz's guitar hovers around to pull us up from asphyxia. Katie / Enda's silk sandpapered voice is also a distinctive touch of the band that just keeps you float, eyes wide open, in their limbo. This humble tribute also gave me the opportunity to rediscover some songs I shamefully overlooked at the time, like "Bad Biology" (I used for the second menu) for example which perfectly illustrates the atmosphere described above. Additionally, I tried to use the artwork of their two albums to fiddle with a kind of broad thematic design for the whole thing. Well, at least, I tried ... don't know. Anyway, Dilly Dally are breaking up, this is sad news but on the bright side, they're still friends, which leaves the doors open for a possible future reunion, fingers crossed. "Who knows ?" Just hope that day I won't be going mad with an exasperating video editing bench but going mad down the pit for, really, what it is meant to be !  

Thank you so much for being around Dilly Dally ! Wish you all the best for your future individual journeys !

Enjoy !

Cheers ! 

Chac