Archive for December, 2009
Rockwood Show Reviews
If you missed the gig at Rockwood, read about it here. Or check out the Sparked blog for another great write-up. It was great. People that were there will get a mastered copy of the show in the next few weeks. All others will get some sneak peeks through the mailing list. And we’ll hope to see you at future shows.
Show Diary: Rockwood Music Hall, 12/3/09
The feeling has faded somewhat from last Thursday. There’s only so long you can hold lightning in a bottle before it disappears back into the ionosphere and its home in the clouds.
But we played our last show of the year last Thursday and it was truly a joy to play and let’s see if I can remember enough to tell you about right here. (Also, see the show reviewed on the Sparked blog)
Rockwood is a small and tiny little place. But it’s a special place. And we’d done a good job of telling the gang about the show. This time I relied more on personal outreach to, in the words of James Murphy, all my friends, than on massive blast emails. That plus a great write-up in the New Yorker and some other things and the room was packed. Rockwood shows are free. But if they weren’t we’d say it was sold out. As it was, people were turned away at the door and the room was full to capacity.
Meanwhile, of course, we have the whole band. And the beauty and humor of Rockwood is that it’s a tiny little stage and 3/4 of that stage is occupied by a grand piano, further reducing the available real estate. And somehow, and over the course of about 20 minutes, we fit everyone up there and then had people spilling off onto either side. Rich and Marc were doing percussion on one end and then Flavio and Dan were doing their thing on the other end and then me, Paul, Bronwen, Matt, Noah, Stan and Katie were squeezed up onto the actual stage.
But the cumulative result was one of joy and energy and all these musicians and all their friends and fans packed into this tiny little space and what we did was we had this big party. And also the music was good.
Here’s some thoughts and reflections on the set:
