Will Sheff - 16 October 2011 at the Toff in Town

(Photo courtesy of freetoeknee from http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/)

When I started taping it was for shows like this.  Amazing performances that I (and hopefully others) would want to relisten to.  Thankfully the audience at this show was also great, and the recording turned out really well. 

I'm not planning on saying too much about the show, hopefully people will download it and make their own minds up.  The key points for me - a great set with songs I never thought I'd get to hear (e.g. The Presidents Dead), and reworkings of old songs (the version of For Real was worth the price of admission alone).  The only real let down was that the version of Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe was pretty bad.  I hoped that he would come out and play one of the songs I'd assumed we'd hear but hadn't (Westfall, Okkervil River Song) so that the show would end on the note it deserved, but sadly he didn't.  Nonetheless, this was a great show that deserves a listen.

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Lay of the Last Survivor
Plus Ones
A King and a Queen
Happy Hearts
Red
Your Past Life as a Blast
Wake and Be Fine
The President's Dead
I Guess We Lost
A Stone
Unless It's Kicks
The Valley
For Real

Love to a Monster
Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe

Okkervil River Gossip

Whether this is gossip depends on if you use the definition that says it must be sensational, or the one that says it can be trivial.  This is of the trivial (but a little interesting) kind.  At Will Sheff's show on Sunday (yes it was awesome, yes it was taped) prior to playing I Guess We Lost he mentioned it was from the EP of I Am Very Far b-sides they've released.  As far as I can tell that EP hasn't been released or even announced yet.  So there you go - look out for an EP from Okkervil River pretty soon.

In other news - I'm having some internet woes that will prevent me from uploading any shows this week.  Booker T Jones will be up as soon as I can, followed by Will Sheff's solo show.