February 23, 2008
SPOON NEWS!
SPOON PLAY SCALA, KING’S CROSS, MONDAY 25th FEBRUARY 2008
The thought of once again being stood shoulder to shoulder with fellow Spoonocrats (Spoonatics?) cradling a pint, confident in the knowledge that I’ll know and like every single song the band play has sustained me through a black winter. Truly I am a small, nerdy man. I haven’t always got as much from Spoon gigs as I do from their records but last August at London’s Borderline was up in my top 5 gigs of all time, so my quarg-circuits are fizzing with anticipation! Haven’t been to The Scala for ages (last time was probably 10 years ago (!!) when, dressed as Ken Korda at the request of the band, I introduced Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci) but I remember it being a lovely venue. Will you be there? Buy tickets here
Here’s a bit of footage I shot of lead singer Britt Daniel before that Borderline gig on 17th August of 2007. When the band had finished their soundcheck Britt and I squeezed into the tiny dressing room backstage and I tried not to look too obviously over-excited as he played 3 songs for me: The Beast & Dragon Adored, Advance Cassette and this one, Black Like Me, the wonderful final song on their latest album Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga and one of my favourite Spoon songs ever! I’ll probably post the other two at a later date. You can read my fan review of the subsequent gig and more about how I got to film with Britt here.
In addition to the hand held camera that shot this footage I had a small digital camera on movie mode, taped to the wall shooting the performance as if from a webcam. The idea was to include it as part of my MeeBOX pilot somehow but in the final analysis this kind of musical performance just didn’t fit with everything else and for the sake of compromise we used an edited version of my video for Spoon’s Don’t Make Me A Target which I posted briefly last year then removed. I’ll repost that vid, along with loads of brand new bits from MeeBOX just before the pilot goes out in March (or early April).
Maybe see you Monday!