TRIGGERFINGER - "Pink Me Up" - Pinkpop Festival - Landgraaf - Megaland (NL) + 3FM Session - 16-06-13

TRIGGERFINGER - Pinkpop Festival - Landgraaf - Megaland - 16-06-13 
1 - I'm Coming for You

2 - On My Knees

3 - Let It Ride

4 - Attitude For Darkness

5 - My Baby's Got a Gun

6 - Camaro

7 - All This Dancin' Around

8 - Mario's Drum Solo

9 - First Taste

10 - I Follow Rivers (Lykke Li cover)

11- Soon 

TRIGGERFINGER - Pinkpop Festival - Landgraaf - 3FM Session - 16-06-13

12 -Without A Sound

13 - Emily (Los Lobos cover)

14 - Soon

15 - Bonus : Au suivant (Jack Brel cover - 2003 !!)

Technical info  :
DVD Full Pro-shot
Video : Mpeg - 720 X 576 (initially 1280X720) - 25 FPS - 16:9
Audio : Mpeg - 48000 Hz
Menu & Chapters - Artwork included

I'd been undecided for quite a long time whether I would go or not to Pinkpop this year. The line up was tempting, Queens Of The Stone Age, Triggerfinger, ... ! I eventually stayed home, The Netherlands mean quite a long drive from here, but I didn't miss the live stream of one of my favourite band. And, on that sunday evening, they were once again impressively awesome !! They had been on a touring break for about 2 months and I was looking forward to seeing what they were up to and if they had any new material. I didn't get disappointed. The new song, "Attitude For Darkness" is quite engaging, based on an old school rock boogie riff that passed through the audience just like another great Triggerfinger's nugget. But the masterpiece of the show is no doubt "My Baby's Got A Gun". I've seen Triggerfinger quite a few times, live and on screen, and this number is not my fav of the last album, but I must admit that, here, the band delivered a devil possessed version of the track. Mario and Mr Paul's rhythm section is pounding as ever, Ruben's voice is at his top and his circular-saw riffs rip the song apart all the way (as you can hear below from the soaring take-off at 2'48) ! Looks like Mario is particularly keen on being back on stage too, when you see him screaming, licking his cymbals, leaving his drum kit behind to swagger  in front of the stage or else, tapping on glasses, on a bottle of wine and a Pinkpop bedside lamp on "I Follow Rivers" ! 
On top of that, our three shooters showed up in a very elegant pink suit to pay tribute to the festival (look at Mr Paul's "gold plated" shoes too !). Very smart ! At last, thank you Dutch fans for being so warm and responsive to the band and for making then this concert so intense. I am along with you with all the "best­e band van pinkpop 2013 !" that sprang up on the web after the show. I wish they could get this rousing welcome here ! "Soon", I hope ...   
I've added a few extras, from the same day and from an "old" early period ! 

Hope you'll enjoy !

Cheers !

Chac 

THE HIVES - "Tight & Sweaty" - The Studio - Webster Hall - New York - 26-04-12 + Oüi FM Hall - Paris - 19-09-12

THE HIVES - The Studio - Webster Hall -  New York -26-04-12

1- Come On !

2 -Try It Again

3 - Take Back the Toys

4 -Walk Idiot Walk

5 - Main Offender

6 - My Time Is Coming

7 - No Pun Intended

8 - Wait a Minute

9 - Won't Be Long

10 - Hate to Say I Told You So

11 - Patrolling Days

12 - Go Right Ahead

13 - Tick Tick Boom

THE HIVES - Oüi FM Hall - Paris - 19-09-12

14 - Wait a Minute 

15 - Go Right Ahead

16 - Tick Tick Boom 

17 - +  Special screamin' howlin' track !

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

Putting The Hives in a 300-capacity hall is just like stroking a tiger in an elevator. This may be shaking a bit ! This one is no exception to the rule and here again, the band unleashes the beast for a "secret" show in the overcrowded and cramped Studio, at the Webster Hall, New York, just after the release of  their first album in five years. And they're damn starving ! No holding back here. Pelle's banter hasn't toned down with the years and he is still this so brilliant / arrogant swaggerer ("this stage might not be big enough for my ego"), asking the audience to feel his hand, diving several times in the audience while his brother is licking the mic and thrusting his head in the arms of the first row ! On the telluric "Tick Tick Boom", down in the middle of  a parted audience, he even challenged the crowd to “crush him like an ant” before he made it back to the stage. Wish granted !
Anyway, if you have never seen a storm in a matchbox, this is the show !!
To stick to the same soaked in sweat atmosphere, I've added three songs of their gig in the hall of a French radio, even smaller than the Webster's !
At last, you will find a funny and howlin' bonus, in which you can notice that "to pelle" really means "to swagger" !!

On a technical side, this one really gave me hard time The Oüi FM part came out systematically mute. After many many attempts and long encoding hours under different formats, I had to inexplicably remove the interview that came after the Webster show to make everything work . Weird ! Anyway, this is original HD. I managed to trim off the commercials but I couldn't crop the upper banner without re-encoding and coming out with a much bigger file.

Enjoy !

Chac

New link / part 7 : http://www.filefactory.com/file/7i0h3qo9lqpf/The_Hives_-_Webster_Hall_(NY)_-_26-04-12.part07.rar
 

FIDLAR - "Hyper Swift" - Hype Hotel - Austin ((USA) - 16-03-13  & Canal+ - Studio 104 - Plaine St Denis (FR) - 02-02-13)

Fidlar - The Hype Hotel - Austin (TX) - 16-03-2013

1 - Cheap Beer  
2 - Stoked and Broke
3 - White On White
4 - No Waves
5 - No Ass
6 - Max Cant Surf
7 - Whore
8 - The Punks Are Finally Taking Acid
9 - Wait For The Man
10 - Cocaine
11 - Wake Bake Skate

Fidlar - "L'Album De La Semaine" - Canal+ - Studio 104 - Plaine St Denis (FR) - 02-02-2013

12 - Cheap Beer
13 - Stoked and Broke
14 - White On White
15 - Whore
16 - Gimme Something
17 - Cocaine
18 - Interview

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

Another furious live performance from the LA 2013 punk revelation. As usual, everything's played headlong and at top speed in a Ramones-like way. So, 2 high-energy shows unleashed in a neat quality (the first one is HD), giving a mouth-watering first taste to the forthcoming tour ... I won't miss this time !

Enjoy !

Chac

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - "Regular Mud" - Glastonbury Festival - Worthy Farm - Pilton (UK) - 26-06-11 & 28-06-02

 

Queens Of The Stone Age - Glastonbury Festival - 26-06-2011

1 - Feel Good Hit Of The Summer
2 - Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret
3 - Burn The Witch
4 - Make It Wit Chu
5 - Little Sister
6 - 3's and 7's

7 - First It Giveth 

8 - Go With The Flow
9 - No One Knows
10 - A Song for the Dead

Queens Of The Stone Age - Glastonbury Festival - 28-06-2002

11 - A Song for the Dead
12 - Gonna Leave You

13 - Regular John

14 - Quick and to the Pointless

15 - Avon

16 - No One Knows

17 - The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret

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

UPDATE : Part 8 is up again !

With the band back on the road, the long expected next album coming in June and the big British event striking back late July, time to scour time back to our favourite queens. The 2011 show sounds more like a best of one with some of the most famous songs made by the band and which had been, as Josh mentioned it, previously requested by the fans for the gig. The 2002 show, still in Glastonbury, is now part of  history, with the ultimate "Song For The Deaf" line-up, Nick Oliveri, Mark Lanegan and the six-armed man ... Dave Grohl, still obviously on his caffeine addiction. He must have guzzled 642 coffee pots to look so overexcited to pound his drums at that pace ! Incidentally, this doesn't fail to amuse Nick and Josh at times. Incomplete show sadly, the BBC going obviously on a wrong track by choosing to broadcast only the highlights. If anyone out there happens to have the full show ...

Enjoy !

Chac

  

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

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

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

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