Thanks for the Bancamp link. I'll try to check it out soon.

I was about to post the link to the KEXP session. Great stuff. Still a bit disappointed there's no lossless audio floating around, though. By the way, it was kind of neat to hear Alan mentioning Sonic Youth as an influence on his guitar playing in the latter bit of the interview at the end of the session.

Please do not forget to tape. I hope one day they'll make it here.

I received my copy of the golden reissue of "In The Fishtank" this morning. About to crank it open...

Low's Duyster live in-studio session:
http://www.stubru.be/programmas/into...wliveinduyster

My recording of Low @ De Duif in Amsterdam:
Dime or LMA

a splendid night it was, definitely one of the better times that I've seen them. Support act will be shared on Dime some time soonish, as well as the previous day in Brussels

Thank you so much, I can't wait to listen to this!

An interview with Alan by Radio Fujiko, from Italy:
http://www.radiocittafujiko.it/music...fternoon-tunes

yup:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b020t4fn

Low will be on the BBC tv show 'Later with Jools Holland', this Tuesday 21st May, 10pm gmt.

Ha! he surely looks a lot alike.

New tourdates as posted on their site:

<<
Friends, we’ll see you tonight and Friday night on Later with Jools Holland. It airs on BBC Two on Tuesday at 22:00 and on Friday at 23:05. US air dates coming soon. Set your dvrs…
We’ve also recently announced shows in August in Ireland and the United Kingdom just after Pukkelpop and a UK tour in November just before ATP’s End of an Era Festival. Details for all shows are available here.
16 Aug – Hasselt, BE – Pukkelpop
19 Aug – Cork, IE – Cyprus Ave
20 Aug – Dublin, IE – Whelan’s
21 Aug – Belfast, UK – Empire Music Hall
14 Nov – Cambridge, UK – Junction
15 Nov – Nottingham, UK – Rescue Rooms
16 Nov – Sheffield, UK – Queen’s Social Club
18 Nov – Liverpool, UK – Anglican Cathedral
19 Nov – Edinburgh, UK – Queens Hall
20 Nov – Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club
21 Nov – Norwich, UK – Arts Centre
22-24 Nov – Camber Sands, UK – ATP Festival
>>

Low is playing Jools right now :-) I completely forgot about it, and was just in time to catch their last song
And they will be doing Pukkelpop which is an hour south from me (I used to work in that town, drove past the site every day) on the same day as Neil Young, and I won't be there... I bet they sold their kids just to be able to play on the same day as Neil

I read that in my mailbox without quote, and thought


WTF


????Justin Timberlake????


but it's 7AM and he's the man of my dreams

Low on Later with Jools Holland. Looking forward to the imminent torrent. :)

Bitchen! It would be extra cool if someone could make a Low-only DVD (or TS file), though...

Here's the full 6GB DVD:
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-d....php?id=451507

I'll comment if someone would like to share the Low part only

ok, so I couldn't resist testing my new & improved upload speed. And it went quite fast indeed ;-)
This is uploaded in four parts:

1. http://we.tl/ei0fNyWCsB [1.98GB]
This is the live show broadcast, part 1 of 1.

2. http://we.tl/fheRvGmSDE [1.95GB] (part 1 of 3)
3. http://we.tl/HYUUbSb6ro [1.95GB] (part 2 of 3)
4. http://we.tl/s3NuTp2kM1 [181MB] (part 3 of 3)
This is the extended show. You'll need to download all three parts, then extract with your preferred archiver program, such as http://www.7-zip.org/

Info file and checksum are included in both packages. Apologies for the third small part, might have been able to fit it in 2 but I didn't feel like repackaging it all over again.
Links will be valid until 8 June 2013


Enjoy!



Live Show - Broadcast on the 21st May 2013

01. Stereophonics - Catacomb
02. John Grant - Blackbelt
03. The Lee Thompson Ska Orchestra feat. Bitty Mclean - Fu Man Chu
04. Cerys Matthews - Interview / Oh! Susanna
05. Yasmine Hamdan - Samar
06. Melt Yourself Down - We Are Enough
07. Low - Waiting
08. Stereophonics - Graffiti on the Train

Running Time - 30m

Extended Show - Broadcast on the 24th May 2013

01. Stereophonics - Catacomb
02. John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
03. The Lee Thompson Ska Orchestra feat. Bitty Mclean - Fu Man Chu
04. Cerys Matthews - Interview / Down by the River Liv'd a Maiden
05. Melt Yourself Down - We Are Enough
06. Low - Waiting
07. John Grant - GMF
08. Stereophonics - Indian Summer
09. The Lee Thompson Ska Orchestra - Bangarang
10. Kelly Jones - Interview
11. Yasmine Hamdan - Beirut
12. Melt Yourself Down - Fix My Life
13. Lee Thompson - Interview
14. Low - Just Make It Stop
15. John Grant - Blackbelt
16. Stereophonics - Graffiti on the Train

Running Time - 63m

Low has filmed some stuff for Bitchdork, according to this tweet they posted yesterday:

"Shooting this video thing for Pitchfork today. Steve looks awesome, as always".

Mimi Parker shares the first memory of her life:
http://youtu.be/dhqB0xcOeU8

Alan Sparhawk shares the first memory of his life:
http://youtu.be/d_ILUu7-jZ4

Low is playing some more Europe dates before their UK tour in November, in NL, BE, DE, CH and IT.
Check http://chairkickers.com/shows/ for the schedule

And I'm already going to Nick Cave on Nov 12 when Low hits Nijmegen. Might be able to make it to Leuven though

More info about the forthcoming Pitchfork thing:


Low taped a live performance in Noiseland's warehouse last week for Pitchfork. Low's latest release on Sub Pop Records, "The Invisible Way" was produced by Jeff Tweedy. Look for the video, directed by Dan Huiting, on Pitchfork.tv soon.

Recently unearthed footage of Hospital People performing "Crash" on a 2003 morning newscast:

http://www.perfectduluthday.com/2013...-this-morning/

:eek:

Well, I haven't been in here in a while.

I meant to stop in an share my experience of seeing both Retribution Gospel Choir and Low in the same few months, but I've been busy at work as HBJ has been talking about Low.

Cheers, man. How the hell you manage to ensure that Low is the second most talked about band on this board is beyond me.

Here's a pretty short but really awesome interview by Brian John Mitchell with Alan Sparhawk, a must read:
http://www.silbermedia.com/qrd/archi...ASparhawk.html

here's a picture of the T-shirt I got from the merch desk in Brussels. Thinking about framing it, with stickers included ;)

That's awesome, _tunic_!



Alan Sparhawk, captured at Homegrown 2012 by Kip Praslowicz

Some info about Kip Praslowicz's work:
http://blog.thecurrent.org/2013/05/d...t-photography/

New video for "Plastic Cup":
http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/20...ow-plastic-cup

copy of post by Anna on the mailing list:


someone got really really pissed off

It was retweeted by LOW.

Hilarious! And what a bunch of MOOKS! A 27-minute live take on "Do You Know How To Waltz?" sounds like absolute heaven to me.

Same here. I was just reading similar reactions on facemook, and thought it was hilarious. Some posts do imply this was a magnificent set which many people did enjoy, though (or would have loved to hear). Hopefully a recording will turn up.

The "Drone, not Drones" remark at the end of the set, surely has to do with this campaign:
https://www.facebook.com/drone.not.drones?fref=ts

Anyway, here's another recent acoustic session by Low on Soundcloud, consisting of "Try to Sleep", "Holy Ghost", "Clarence White", "Venus", and "Walk Into The Sea" (June 13th):
https://soundcloud.com/wdizzo

By the way, a cover of "Holy Ghost" opens the new Mavis Staples album, out on June 25. True story!

http://www.anti.com/artists/mavis-staples/
http://www.anti.com/releases/one-true-vine/

Has she performed it live, yet? Haven't downloaded any torrents lately. Curious to hear it, of course. I bet it's gonna be powerful. I love Mavis, and I will be all over that album like a rash.

The Mavis Staples album can be streamed on NPR

Low's Waltz can be streamed on the Current site, and here's a quick interview with Alan after the show.

Thanks for each of these!

I just love Alan comments in the article. Alan and Mimi looked disengaged......what a joke!

SO - are they touring with any sort of piano / keyboard when playing "normal" shows?

Drone, Not Drones also uploaded a recording of Low performing "Do You Know How To Waltz" at Rock The Garden, to Soundcloud (it might be the same as the one hosted at The Current, I'm just listening to the Soundcloud thing now so I haven't compared):

https://soundcloud.com/drone-not-drones


Drone, Not Drones' official website (currently a work in progress):
http://dronenotdrones.com/

Low tweeted:
Thank you friends. Thank you @TheCurrent , for unfairly taking so much flack on our behalf and supporting local music.

yes they do, Steve the bass player actually plays keyboard (or piano on a keyboard to be exact) on a whole bunch of songs on this tour. And on the previous tour they were a foursome with Steve on bass aan Eric Pollard (drummer of RGC) on keys.
If there's any recording you need to hear, it's emmanuel's from Amsterdam. It hasn't made it to Archive.org yet though. It turned out so good. Mine is up there already of the same night, but it doesn't sound half as good.

Another great interview with Alan:
http://www.interviewmagazine.com/mus...visible-way/#_


Also, Low performed "Do You Know How to Waltz?" as an encore the night previous to Rock The Garden at a screening of "How To Quit Smoking" in Duluth. Strange how audience reactions differ so much from one show to the next. There's some footage of that encore at Cinema Purgatorio's facemook:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151735333524343

Low 2013-05-08 Festival Les Nuits Botaniques @ Cirque Royal, Brussels, Belgium
Uploaded by _tunic_

you're welcome ;-)
not the best quality (a bit hissy, because the level were too ...erm... low). But it's better than nothing. Here's the LMA link for the non-Dimers: Low Live at Festival Les Nuits Botaniques @ Cirque Royal on 2013-05-08

here's a link to downlod the drone:
http://download.publicradio.org/podc...0617_128 .mp3

Big thanks Tunic!

I just realized something:

NPR - Mountain Radio Show performance has a length of 28:04......fourteen seconds shorter than the DRONE Not Drones - Do You Know How To Waltz? performance that stirred so much controversy.

it was The Current not NPR, or is that the same thing?

here's a fresh RGC show from Archive.org:
Retribution Gospel Choir Live at The Pourhouse on 2013-06-09

http://www.nyctaper.com/2013/06/low-...and-full-sets/

two sets of Low were taped by the nyctaper posse!

I knew acidjack had taped the show in Williamsburg, but I wasn't sure the Solid Sound performance had been recorded as well. This is great.

By the way, it seems Alan Sparhawk joined Yo La Tengo on stage at Solid Sound Festival. Hopefully a recording of that set will surface soon, too.