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LowLow Live at Club Academy on 2008-11-18 (November 18, 2008)

Collection: : LowMusic
Band/Artist: Low
Date: November 18, 2008 (check for other copies)
Venue: Club Academy
Location: Manchester, UK

Source: (FOB) Yoga EM8 > Iriver H140 (Rockbox)
Lineage: Iriver H140 > USB > WAV > WireTap Studio (1.0.6) > WAV > Flac Frontend 1.71
Taped by: Steve P
Transferred by: Jacob H, Steve P
Keywords: Low; LowTorrent; Sparhawk; Ida

Description

01. [Intro]
02. For Free
03. Murderer
04. Tonight
05. On The Edge Of
06. Sandinista
07. Walk Into The Sea
08. Shots And Ladders
09. One Special Gift
10. Just Like Christmas
11. The Long Way Around The Sea
12. Little Drummer Boy [Traditional]
13. Blue Christmas [Elvis Presley]
14. The Coming Of Jah [Max Romeo]
15. Santa's Coming Over
16. If You Were Born Today (Song for Little Baby Jesus)
17. [Band Intros]
18. Taking Down The Tree
19. Happy Xmas (War Is Over) [John Lennon & Yoko Ono / The Plastic Ono Band]
20. The Last Snowstorm Of The Year
21. Canada

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Notes

Musicians:
* All tracks
Mimi Parker (lead vocals, drums) [Low]
Alan Sparhawk (lead vocals, guitar) [Low]
Steve Garrington (bass) [Low]

* Tracks 08-21
Daniel Littleton (guitar, vocals) [Ida]
Elizabeth Mitchell (harmonium, vocals) [Ida]
Jean Cook (violin, vocals) [Ida]
Eric Pollard (drums) [Retribution Gospel Choir]

This was one of three UK Christmas concerts from Low. Ida played an opening set, and then joined Low (as did Eric Pollard) for the last two-thirds of Low's set. Similar to previous Low Christmas concerts, tracks from the 'Christmas' EP featured heavily, plus both tracks from Low's 2008 Christmas 7". The band were in fine spirits, and the presence of Ida & Eric Pollard really added to the sound.

For my first gig recording, and with a fairly cheap microphone, I was quite pleased how this came out. Not excellent, but listenable. The original recording was very quiet with loud applause, so thanks to Jacob H for editing and normalising. Alan's vocals in particular are quite clear, and the audience is very quiet during the songs. However... as you will hear, one guy in the audience gets more vocal between songs as the set goes on (and alcohol is consumed). And unfortunately he was standing close to the microphone. His random musings and quoting of various song lyrics seem to both annoy/confuse the audience and band.

Apart from that, this is a nice recording of a great night and a rare on-stage pairing of Low and Ida. enjoy!

Some nice photos from the gig here:
http://flickr.com/photos/paul_eames/sets/72157610062418562/