22 Sunday Nov 2015
Faithless performed at Alexandria Palace last night in support of their new remix compilation album.
When they performed the big hits the place was pulsing, but in the chilled numbers the audience seemed to lose attention – shame really as it took the edge off a good performance.
More photos available at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mp3monster/sets/72157660900174080
01 Wednesday Dec 2010
Posted in Music
We have been lucky not have been overly affected by the snow, so managed to get across to Bournemouth last night to see Faithless perform again in support of their album The Dance. Some photos can be seen at mp3monstrer photos .
It was a great gig, with a lot of the tracks from the latest album working very well in a live format (I have to admit I was disappointed when I heard the album). Some of the older numbers have been made a lot ‘beefier’.
In addition for this tour you can buy almost immediately after the concert a live recording (these can also be ordered from the Faithless website).
If you get a chance to see Faithless live, we would recommend it.
08 Thursday Apr 2010
Posted in Music, Photography
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The New Blood tour is following on the back of his Scratch My Back album – A different take on the covers album, by working the covers as orchestral pieces.
So the tour means a large Orchestra rather than his regular touring band. The concert has much in common with a traditional orchestral performance with the first half being the new album end to end. After the interval we’re treated with some great reworkings of his own songs. Some obvious choices and others not so.
With a large orchestra Peter can’t provide the usual style of performance he lays on with zorb balls, Sedgeways, massive moving floors. That’s not to say this was not a class Gabriel visual feast. No, we get curtains made from massive U2 style displays, visuals behind the orchestra; several camera crews filming, often right in the middle of the musicians so the stage side screens get you into the heart of the action.
So a beautiful and stunning concert. I have posted some photos on our flickr account. What is cool is that the guy (Stefan Goodchild) who produced some the visuals has found my pictures ans some by a few others (possibly more professional than mine) and put them together into a collection to show his work which can be found here.
If you read the journal, the artist will be making some video clips of the work available. We would highly recommend checking them out, along with the blog.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mp3monster/sets/72157623594005837/
19 Monday Oct 2009
Posted in Music
12 Friday Sep 2008
Posted in General
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artists, concert, FabChannel, Music, performance, streaming, Universal, V2, video
I’ve come across a rather interesting resource called FabChannel.com. FabChannel are providing quality video streams of whole concerts from legitimate sources, either licensed concert recordings from music companies such as Universal and V2 or professional recorded performances from Dutch based venues. The video quality is good enough that it could be expanded to watch full screen with only a small amount of graininess on a 1600x1200monitor with streaming through a Flash player. FabChannel’s performances cover a wide range of well known artists such as The View and Martha Wainwright, and they claim to have got over 900 performances available already.
The site also has integration with last.fm and can also provide useful artist bios etc. To generate income to pay for the service there are some adverts on the site, but they’re not annoying popup’s etc.
