Editors w/The Antlers - 2010-02-08 - The Warfield SF

Photos by thehappyone

Editors

2010-02-08
The Warfield
San Francisco, CA

Postion: 20 feet back from the right stack

Equipment: Edirol R-09HR @24 bit 48hz > downsampled to 16 bit 44.1hz/
Sonic Studios DSM-6/L microphones

Linage: WAV > Adobe Audition 1.5 > slight compression/normalization >
CD Wave (tracksplits) > FLAC(6)

Tracklisting

01 4:07 In This Light And On This Evening
02 2:34 Lights
03 3:58 An End Has a Start
04 4:37 You Don't Know Love
05 4:22 Bones
06 4:48 The Boxer
07 4:38 The Big Exit
08 3:51 Blood
09 4:45 Eat Raw Meat = Blood Drool
10 4:18 The Racing Rats
11 3:49 Walk the Fleet Road
12 5:04 Like Treasure
13 3:31 Bullets
14 4:59 Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors
15 8:34 Bricks and Mortar
-
16 5:17 Munich
17 5:37 Papillon
18 5:21 Fingers in the Factories

Total 84:20

Notes

There's a rule of taping, the sweeter the spot, the more obnoxious the crowd around you.

I'd say this is a really good pull, as the Warfield being one of those cinema-type setups looks pretty tough to tape in...believe it or not, it's my first recording there, but it's occasionally marred by nattering drunk chicks, no offense to those who like their drink, and/or females in general. "Walk The Fleet Road" gets the worst of it, sadly. If you want to chat with your friends, go to the foyer and do it. If you want to take pictures of your friends, be mindful of other patrons and don't use the band playing as your backdrop. Yes, I tried to minimize the chatter by shifting around, but wasn't always successful. Perhaps I should stopsounding like an old crank and gotten drunk.

I also missed the very start where Tom Smith says "Hello, Everyone". He has some mutton-chops growing. The band were tighter than a duck's behind, as one would expect, since they're by all accounts an excellent live act, and the vocals were as clear as a bell. While I prefer the material off their first album the most, I didn't really mind the electronica-driven songs, though here they bear more than a passing sonic resemblance to Depeche Mode, as the start to 'The Boxer' is eerily reminiscent of 'But Not Tonight', and 'The Big Exit' sounds like it could have been slotted on Violator. However, while I don't feel the most recent material is quite as transcendent as "The Back Room", it's still pretty good, and the band gives it a good accounting...everybody who tweeted about it during and afterwards really liked it.

And yes "Eat Raw Meat = Blood Drool" is a god-awful song title.

I've provided the usual blurry iPhone pics, anybody else's photos are likely better.

REMEMBER

* Do not sell or otherwise leverage this recording for material gain, like linking to this through some ad-strewn blogsite.

* I'm OK with MP3 transcodes (not on DIME of course), since that's a battle that was lost long ago.

* Above all, enjoy this recording! Purchase the Editors' albums and/or go see them when they come by your area.

lammah

Note:  This is all as originally provided in 2010.

EDITORS (pCloud)

Videos...

An End Has A Start (weiserphoto)

The Racing Rats (gmax1967)

Munich (weiserphoto)

And from their 2008 appearance...scorpiocheech has you covered.

Winston Tong - 2010-01-20 - Bottom Of The Hill SF (w/Mark Matos & Os Beaches and The Grave Brothers Deluxe)

Winston Tong (photoset by thehappyone)

 

Winston Tong (photo by thehappyone)

 

Setlist

 

intro  [0:36]

The Stranger  [5:27]

In A Manner Of Speaking  [4:27]

Jinx  [7:24]

Slow Dancing On The Killing Ground  [4:50]

The Fugitive Kind  [4:14]

Freedom  [5:28]

No Tears  [4:35]

Total 37:05

The ever-enigmatic Winston Tong performed behind a silk gossamer screen/sheet for this set.  He was aided by members of The Grave Brothers Deluxe for a few of the songs, a mix of solo efforts and Tuxedomoon classics.

Looks like there's no other photos or videos that can be found online of this, at least.  Upon revisiting this performance, this was more electro-sounding than I was expecting, so gives a different spin on these tracks, even if they sound a bit 90s/00s Adi Newton/Clock DVA-y.

Winston Tong (pCloud) 

 

Here's a video from Ear Candle Productions of his performance a couple of years prior, at the Vortex, also performed with LX Rudis on synths.

 

 

While I did previously tracksplit the Winston Tong recording, for my own purposes (presumably), the opening acts have sat untracked and under-appreciated for the past 13+ years.  Until today.

First up is Mark Matos and Os Beaches.  Two of these tracks here were pro-filmed by their label at the time.

Do The Right Thing

 Down At The Border

The two photos I took of Os Beaches are included in the link but aren't good enough in quality to want to showcase, but suffice to document they are from the same gig, so are useful for that purpose, as the above video links weren't precisely dated.

Setlist

Hold You Down / Do The Right Thing / Down At The Border / Warrior & The Thief / Take The Light Away.

"Hold You Down" may be previously unreleased.

"Warrior & The Thief" appears on 2009's Words Of The Knife.

The remainder can be heard on 2012's Coyote and the Crosser.

Haven't done anything to this Sonic Studios DSM-6L to Edirol R-09HR recording besides levels and patch up a sonic blemish or two.  But doesn't need much because the Sonics are hand-in-glove when it comes to taping at Bottom Of The Hill.

 

Mark Matos & Os Beaches (pCloud)

 

Part Time Punks Festival 2009 - Viv Albertine (pt. 4)

 

Viv Albertine
'Part Time Punks' Festival
2009-10-11
The Echo
Los Angeles CA

taper:     lammah
kit:        Sonic Studios DSM-6/L mics > Edirol R-09HR
location:  Right in front of Viv

Tracklist

01 - Viv Albertine intro    1:19

02 - Don't Believe          4:35

03 - Never Come             3:18

04 - Boy                    3:02

05 - The False Heart        4:48

06 - Hookup Girl            3:22

07 - 'Punk Times'(Viv chat) 3:39

08 - Void                   4:26

09 - Confessions of a MILF  5:39

Total 34:12

This was pretty special, it shouldn't surprise anyone in the least that both Ana and Gina from the Raincoats were in the audience.  In fact before this, I let Gina past me so she could film the set.  You can hear Gina right at the start tell Viv how beautiful she looks...she does indeed look amazing considering she's 54 now(!).  There's a couple of dim photos of them included.

Hearing her talk about Sid Vicious offering to give her an orgasm (which she claims she took a raincheck on) and how Vivienne Westwood used to be a schoolteacher was way more entertaining than reading about in some Jon Savage tome[1]...and "Confessions of a MILF"...funniest song title ever.

About as good as you can hope for in a recording too, except for the clown who you can hear between songs laughing and yelling right into the mic.  Wait, that's me!  Sorry.

Remember, kids.

* Please don't sell or or otherwise leverage for material gain.

* I'm OK with MP3 transcodes (not on DIME itself of course) as long as this info file and/or reference to the original seed is retained

* Above all, enjoy this, and support the artists by seeing them perform, and purchasing their merchandise.  Viv's EP is really good, definitely check it out if you liked this.

[1] 2023 addition - "Certainly, no offense meant to Jon with that".  This was the contents of info file shared when I originally made this recording available.  Don't know if I can add too much to this besides that this is as brilliant then as it was then, even if her playing was a bit rudimentary given her relatively long break from music.

VIV ALBERTINE - AUDIO (pCloud)

In addition, I upped a full video of her performance, in what must have been in glorious 15fps 480p.  

No idea of how this only has an aggregate of less than 200 views.  And I upped this relatively recently (Feb 2019).

Great conversation with Gina Birch prior to the start of this show...also have a bit of a chat with Ana DaSilva...coming up in the next segment..

...split in two parts.

Part One ... Don't Believe through Hookup Girl

Part Two ... Viv monologue / Void / Confessions Of A MILF

VIV DVD

Alternate video of "Void"

Part Time Punks Festival 2009 - The Raincoats (pt. 5)

Gang Of Four's Hugo Burnham looks on...

The Raincoats
2009-10-11
'Part Time Punks'
The Echoplex
Los Angeles, CA

taper:     lammah

lineage:   Sonic Studios DSM-6/L > Edirol R-09HR >
           Adobe Audition [compression/normalizing/
       downsampling/tracksplits] > FLAC(6)

Tracklist:

01  No Side To Fall In        3:10

02  No Looking                3:13

03  You're A Million          4:10

04  Shouting Out Loud         5:51

05  Don't Be Mean             5:34

06                            4:09

07  Babydog                   5:28

08  City Girl (band intros)   1:58

09  City Girl                 7:07

10  Only Loved At Night       4:25

11  No One's Little Girl      4:38

12  The Void                  5:12

13  Viv Albertine intro /

    Adventures Close To...

    (breakdowns)              3:28

14  Adventures Close To Home  4:32

15  Lola  [The Kinks]         7:00

16  In Love                   3:19

17  Fairy Tale In The

    Supermarket               3:51

total 77:14

Pics by Ned Raggett

Their first LA performance ever!

This recording is probably on par with the other recordings I did on the downstairs stage, but instead of being taped 'down in front', I was in front of the stage left speaker stack, with relatively few obstructions, so technically it's  probably the best recording I've ever done.

The Raincoats were somewhat more shambolic here than in SF, but c'mon, this is not Yes we're talking about.  Took them a couple of times to get Adventures Close To Home going, Gina kept flubbing the bass intro.  "Sack the bassist" she cries after the second attempt went south.  'Only Loved At Night' is just one of those songs...

Right before Viv Albertine came on for her set, I had a chance to briefly chat with Gina Birch...who had videoed her entire performance.

Any help ID'ing track 6 appreciated!

A few photos, including one of Hugo from Gang Of four, thrown  in.

REMEMBER

Do not sell or leverage for material gain.  MP3 transcodes are OK, as long as this info file in included.  Above all, enjoy the music!  -lammah

RAINCOATS (pCloud)

In addition here's a link to some pre-gig chatter, labelled as before Viv Albertine's set, but most likely actually before The Raincoats proper, featuring the Raincoats principals.

PRE-GIG (pCloud)

Our effort (songs 11+13-17)

You can grab a DVD version of this, too.

LaBellie Vie vids

You're A Million

Only Loved At Night

In Love

Lola [The Kinks]

Part Time Punks Festival 2009 - Section 25 (pt. 3)

Section 25
'Part Time Punks' festival
2009-10-11
The Echoplex LA

taper: lammah
equip: Sonic Studios DSM-6/L > Edirol R-09HR
locat: Right in front
mstrg: 48/32 WAV > Adobe Audition 1.5 [compression/limiting on claps/normalization/re-EQ/tracking] > FLAC

Tracks

00 Intro (synth from 'New Horizon')   1:12
01 Gene                               9:02
02 Friendly Fires                     4:24
03 Wretch                             4:05
04 Charnel Ground                     4:01
05 Warsaw [Joy Division]              3:56
06 Looking From A Hilltop             5:53
07 Up To You                          3:09
08 Poppy Fields                       6:05
--
09 Dirty Disco                        6:07

TOTAL                               +47:58

Blackpool's very own, in their first LA appearance in nigh-on 25 years.

This recording is dominated by the riffing of new guitarist Steve Stringer...whom even if you don't rate his playing, is a great name for a guitarist, about as good as Lindsay Thrasher from the much-missed Vomit Launch.  He was a bit unsteady at the start of 'Charnel Ground' which seems to be a new oldie that the group brought out to play, but as you can hear, sounds good otherwise.  You can hear Larry on harmonica(!) during encore Dirty Disco.  An extended version of Gene as it took the elder Cassidy a few minutes to come out.

Includes some good pictures from my friend Mark.  The man at the DJ booth is none other than James Nice of LTM fame, whom we had the chance to meet.  My favorite picture is this one, which captures both Cassidy brothers in their element.

Cassidy Bros in action...RIP Larry

Remember

* Please don't sell or leverage for material gain.  
* MP3 transcodes (not on DIME of course) are permitted, but please include this info file
* Above all, enjoy the music!  

A couple of pics from Ned...  #1  #2

lammah

Nice...

SXXV PTP AUDIO LINK