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http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/av/2012/01/album-stream-wire--.html

Fans of the copper genius may be interested to see this video of a whole gig, recorded at the Kennedy Center. It'll keep us Brit fans going til he comes back. Impressively, this is his band's first show together.

http://www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/videos/?id=M4906

Could it be that Jim Kerr and co have been tipped off about Word talk and enthusiasm for their early work? .....or simply that one of the albums of the year, "Skying" by The Horrors has more than a passing resemblance to those formative albums. Anyway, whatever the motivation ver minds embark on the "5x5" tour, playing 5 tracks from each of their first 5 albums, from "Life In A Day" to "New Gold Dream",....with 2.5 hour sets said to be in order, 2nd March Roundhouse,.....count me in,.....anyone else?!

Git down with y'r bad self, let all your hairs down mahn... and babe...

Groovy!

John Grant played three live tracks* on the Radcliffe & Maconie show on Radio 2 last night, and rather lovely they were too. His voice was in very fine fettle.
(*Sigourney Weaver, Where The Dreams Go To Die, and I Wanna Go To Marz).
You can listen to the show on the BBC iplayer here or the tracks in isolation here.

As mentioned on many a Word podcast, the shouting out of "Free Bird!" as an ironic song request has long been a tradition at live gigs.
At The Decemberists' rather fine show at the Hammersmith Apollo last night (review in Nights Out), singer Colin Meloy heard the familiar drunken heckle, and proceeded to explain how he was President of M.A.C.O.F. (Musicians Against The Calling Out Of Free Bird).
Riffing on this theme, he jokingly announced he had nothing against Night Moves by Bob Seger, much to the amusement of the rest of the group.
It tickled them enough to call his bluff by striking up a few hesitant chords.
And so it was that the entire Apollo audience found themselves crooning "Night moves, night moves".
As Colin put it: "None of us expected to be singing that tonight. Or maybe there was one of you, just one, looking in the bathroom mirror and saying to yourself that tonight was going to be the night."

So what's the most unexpected song you've seen a band perform after a shout-out from the audience?

on just now and at 2am tomorrow morning

http://www.rockpalastarchiv.de/concert/echobunnymen.html

I don't get out much these days but, on a work-related trip to Glasgow, managed to get a ticket for LCD Soundsystem at the Barrowlands. I thought that for homework I'd best get my hands on their new album and was chuffed to find it available to download from Amazon for £3.80. Bargain. However, this got me thinking. You see the ticket was £27, including over four quid in handling and booking fees. So the album, the tangible, permanent artefact, the culmination of hours of studio time and record company expense, cost less than *the booking fees* for one gig, one fleeting mustard burp!

I know this has been discussed in the magazine, and doubtless debated here, but I'm just gobsmacked! Am I being ridiculously naive or is there something amiss here?

"After 10 years of digitalization of music, the average (Norwegian) musician's income has increased by 66%. As a group, the only losers in digital music seems to be the record companies."

A couple of Norwegian M.Sc students have come up with a very interesting study for their thesis, which shows that on average income lost by dwindling record sales has been more than made up for with increases in earnings from "live concerts, other collection agencies and government stipends".

http://www.espen.com/archives/2010/10/record_companies_lose_artists_gain...

Bloody hell, I bought the original ellpee, the first CD issue, the 25th Anniversary one, the one with Tommy and now this - http://www.planetrock.com/Article.asp?id=1976305&spid=35830

where will it end?

It's all in the title really, any recommendations for Friday nights in October and November?

In the age of EVERYBODY-must-make-a-comeback-and-go-out-on-the-road that we now live in, here´s a guy I´m waiting for. Bring the drummer, please Bill.

I was just listening to Who's Next and was reminded of my near obsession some time ago with finding a decent live version of Baba O'Riley. I have accumulated numerous live Who albums, both legit and bootleg, but have never found a live version that's a patch on the original.

This is surprising, because on the face of it, it's a simple three-chord rock song recorded by the band who were, at the time, the greatest live force on the planet. It should have been an absolute blockbuster.

Maybe it's because the album version has such wonderful cathedral-like ambiance. Maybe it's because Daltry sounds strangled on the high notes live and tends to rush the phrasing in the verses. Maybe it's because Moon is tethered too strongly to the synth backing track and seems to plod.

What other examples are there of great songs that should work live but never seem to?

Just enjoyed watching this and thought I'd share it, The Boss on stage with REM in 2006. He takes the 2nd and 3rd verse and the solo:

It must be quite the effort keeping a white suit clean for a whole tour.

Any other nice guest-spots you've witnessed or found footage of?