A Skin, A Night
Although it’s been out for a little while, I had been anticipating The National’s DVD A Skin, A Night for quite some time. Boxer was my favourite album of 2007 and I’ve loved most of the Vincent Moon live performances. Having just watched the DVD all at 60 minutes, I was rather disappointed with the film. Rather than a collection of live performances, the DVD concentrates on the band recording Boxer and whilst this could have been interesting, I didn’t get many insights into the band themselves other than they are fiercely private and shy individuals. Okay sure, that’s fine. I respect them for giving us some mystery about who they are as musicians and what motivates them but because of this, what we get instead is 60 minutes of grainy footage and not a lot else. It seriously lacks excitement or substance. The band have been noted as excellent live performers and the two times I’ve seen them, they have been magnetic. Perhaps if we had a few full length live performances in there, we could see the magic of the band and why they’re so brilliant but it’s not to be found here. Disappointed yes :(
New National - “A Thousand Black Cities”
From a gig in Copenhagen on Tuesday night. Via Stereogum.
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The National
I’m not going to lie to you. These are some of my best work thus far. The top one was from the Wednesday night Sufjan gig. My opinion of the show? Pretty good. ‘John Wayne Gacy, Jnr’ and ‘Chicago’ were amongst my favourites. The trumpet player was incredible too. But overall, I didn’t love the show was much as I thought I would. It felt slightly predictable at times, some of the arrangements.
Friday night seeing The National was incredible though. Tonight I will be shooting them properly but I can safely say they have been the best gig of 2008 so far and look likely to enter in the top 5’s of 2008. I promise to add more megapixels to my shots tonight ;)
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Hooverdust is a pop culture blog designed and developed by James Sann. I cover a range of topics such as Film, Music, TV, Photography, Design and teh internets.
Based in Melbourne and Bendigo, Australia, in my professional life, I am a freelance multimedia designer, photographer and a part-time University lecturer & tutor.
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