The Raveonettes at the World Cafe FAN

Recorded part of "The beat dies" but I was too close to a speaker so the sound's bad and unfortunately I moved too much, still it's a beautiful song, so there it goes.
(Still you can listen to the whole concert here on XPN's website)


For setlist click here.

A fine frenzy concert, 24 March, Philly + Chris Stills + Ferras

My pics from yesterday night's concert.


I'm posting even vids this time! (about time I figured out that button in my camera!!)


This guy rocked in English and French!!. Plus, any guy who's capable of looking at the crowd and say a girl "got me good" like he did wins my gold star. Avec une couple d' ... comme il faut, chapeau.
Concert was at the World Cafe (I sort of spend half my life there!).

Ok, video nr 1: A fine frenzy -"Whisper" (first time ever I uploaded a vid on youtube, btw) (and not me shouting at the end!)


Video nr 2 I made: Chris Stills' Landslide:


Video nr 3, Stills rocks the guitars


I'm sorry but I didn't get any decent pic of Ferras. I recorded a short vid though, if anybody's interested let me know. Otherwise I won't post it since I've almost run out of space in my youtube account because of the quality of the AFF vid I posted.

As for a review, I'm sort of lazy these days so just a couple of notes:

1. Sorry but Ali was not having her best night, I was surprised at how many times she came this close to actually yelling, and a few of the songs almost bored me (hence the amount of pics I took). I saw her in August last year, liked her more then. Still she's more than talented and she pulled up some tricks that left me mesmerized (like the "buuut" in Ashes and wine, not on the cd, that alone was worth the whole night).

2. Daxx oh Daxx, where were you? (Nielsen, lol). There was this different guy at the drums, was efficient but not nearly as classy or intense as Daxx, who plays the drums with that air I've seen in nobody else, like he's sipping down martinis in a crisp white shirt at a bar in the French Riviera, he's thaaat cool. I was looking forward to seeing him play again, bummer.

3. Wasn't the bass player for Chris Stills the one playing with Rufus Wainwright last summer?. I wish I could find out for sure. Seems Stills is a wise guy when it comes to choosing band mates!

Lizz Wright at XPN's Free at Noon

Some pics from last Friday's Lizz Wright concert

A very beautiful woman, a strong one too, not one of those nonsense blah girls this one. Great body expression, she sang so effortlessly and with such a beautiful voice it was cool to watch. Seven people onstage, great vocals, lots of people there to see her!.

"My heart", first single for the new album, is a pretty good song, soaked in rythm.

Lyrics to new Carina Round song

*UPDATE AUG 29th: Carina has posted the words here.

(*Note: there's probably quite a few mistakes, tried my best.)

See me down and see me out
See those wings you gave me
Watch me fly across the sea
Count the ways you made me

I walked in circles
Walked the line
Tripped through tangled heart strings
Made an enemy of time
Made a mess of all things
All things

Well I have thought, I think about
What and how to tell you
I have lived it seems without
Learning how to be true

That I mean every word I said
From deranged to divine
That I would do it all again
As if for the first time
The first time

Chorus:
The hoping
The head forgets
The heart will always remember
The hoping
The hand regrets
The heart remembers forever

I am sorry I am so
Full of things you don’t know
And as for the things you do
I am sorry for those too

Out of every broken heart
Broken rule and promise
I have made a rescue raft
I sail towards you on it
On it

Chorus

Do you
Do you want me
Do you know how to show
How to show these things
I just didn’t want to have to ask
I just didn’t want to
Least of all people, you

Well, should you find someone with whom
There’s no sugar or ?
With whom never to assume too much rain or a draught
Scratch your name into her heart
Scratch away all the doubt?
Scratch my memory from your brain
Scratch your fucking eyes out
Eyes out

Well I was put together wrong
Still I was made for you
When all stitches come undone
They’ll come together like glue
Like glue

Posted April 11th 2008