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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-K4CXvxNcw
Ms KT Tunstall. I thoroughly enjoyed that :)
From the same show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0j_VEs3kXA&mode=related&search=
First time I saw her perform was on Jools Holland's show. Had no idea who she was at the time but she did pretty much what she did here - started the repeated percussion bits and looped them, then performed the song. Very impressive.
The new single is good too, as is the video.
Edit: This must have been the performance I saw:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYEU91d8ngc&mode=related&search=
Stan_Lite
01-08-2007, 15:33
Talented lady :cool:
Know the name, and the song, but never seen it played live like that before. Very good. :)
Blackstar
01-08-2007, 16:23
She is a lovely lady, my old Info Sys teacher was mates with her.
Bill Bailey is the absolute king at doing stuff like that, but obviously isnt as good a singer as her :p (although he is a massively talented musician).
Intelligent live performances like this are definitely more aurally pleasing than a display of techical mastery that seems to be the norm for most live acts these days...
She uses this thing:
http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/en/e2-headrush/67361
I swear one of these days I'm going to buy one :)
Been working on my own version of Want You Back, but lacking the delay :(
She is bloody fantastic!!!! I loved her anyway, but this rocks!!! :D
She uses this thing:
http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/en/e2-headrush/67361
I swear one of these days I'm going to buy one :)
Been working on my own version of Want You Back, but lacking the delay :(
I was really hoping she was using a MIDI sampler all correctly programmed etc with a nice footpedal control. Purely because from a technical point of view, that would be beautiful.
Boxes like that rock, but the art of rigging up works of art to achieve an aim is dwindling away - and quite a lot of live performance creativity with it IMO...
I was really hoping she was using a MIDI sampler all correctly programmed etc with a nice footpedal control. Purely because from a technical point of view, that would be beautiful.
Boxes like that rock, but the art of rigging up works of art to achieve an aim is dwindling away - and quite a lot of live performance creativity with it IMO...
Aye, there are fewer and fewer artists doing that kind of thing these days. Most often with Guitarists you'll just see them dial up sound after sound, all pre-defined and leaving no slack for creativity, though I must confess I have a multi-fx pedal of my own and tend to rely on its presets more than anything else. A mate of mine bucks the trend by still using a large chain of stomp boxes, but he's got this amazing sense of what will just 'work' with a song, and how to get it from the pedals. I guess thats kinda the mark of a true artist, rather than the rest of us pretenders :)
Yeah. One of my friends at uni has this... "thing" with synthesis. Everything just sort of flows/works. Quite amazing.
I had a do-all Zoom 2020 (IIRC) thing. Programming it seemed tricky or counterintuitive and really didnt interest me in the end. If I could have had the skills to rig up MIDI related stuff (like Bill Bailey does) back then before I broke my fingers it would have been ace.
Speaking of awesome MIDI-based and synthesis creativity - ever seen a Muse live set? They have at least one but probably more dudes running about the back of the stage fiddling with about 40U of racked processing. God knows what it all does (I suspect a lot of it is boring stuff to get their sound like compression and whatnot) but it looks so cool!
Oh to be the people that put all that stuff up!!
MIDI? I remember the oldschool patch-panel analogue synthesizers (just - we had digital at school too). I have virtually zero audio/visual creative talent (my 'penchant' is the technical side) but that doesn't mean they weren't great fun to play with.
Also had a play with a small mixing desk and done some lighting work.
My point of mentioning all the above is that I think you appreciate the talent of Bill Bailey and the like all the more when you've come across some of the equipment yourself and know roughly what's involved. That's not to say that those who haven't come across such don't appreciate talent.
She is bloody fantastic!!!! I loved her anyway, but this rocks!!! :D
Agree :)
Wow - I didn't realise she was quite that talented! Impressive :cool: :)
My point of mentioning all the above is that I think you appreciate the talent of Bill Bailey and the like all the more when you've come across some of the equipment yourself and know roughly what's involved. That's not to say that those who haven't come across such don't appreciate talent.
What she's doing takes a really really good sense of rhythm. A good part of that comes from playing guitar. The tricky part is firing the pedal perfectly on the beat. I can do similar with my delay pedal (albeit only a single sample) and it is so tricky to get it 'just right' which she seems to do every time.
Flibster
01-08-2007, 20:17
Seen stuff like this at Rhythms of the World last year for the first time in ages.
Guy beatboxed, played the digeriedo, guitar and all sorts of other stuff into a digital sequencer. Bloody great.
Must resist buying more gig tickets at the moment... spent FAR too much on them this year so far. Although Crowded House and Seasick Steve should be well worth it. :D
Simon/~Flibster
Seasick Steve is awesome. Saw him on the Glastonbury program the other day. Annoyingly, there were two other guys playing a fiddle and an accordion on there who were brilliant but I can't for the life of me remember what they were called. I'm sure it was 'Spears and...' someone... but I can't even find them in the list of Glastonbury artists. :(
digeriedo
That's a skill in itself. Mind you, much like a lot of cultural music, there's a lot of rhythmic elements to traditional Aboriginal music so good rhythm is pretty much a pre-requisite to learning to play the didgeridoo properly.
Flibster
01-08-2007, 20:42
Seasick Steve is awesome. Saw him on the Glastonbury program the other day. Annoyingly, there were two other guys playing a fiddle and an accordion on there who were brilliant but I can't for the life of me remember what they were called. I'm sure it was 'Spears and...' someone... but I can't even find them in the list of Glastonbury artists. :(
I've seen so much stuff like that this year I keep getting them mixed up. :embarassed:
Pine Leaf boys were great, but I'm really looking forward to Seasick Steve. Bought his album the other day, absolutely love it.
That's a skill in itself. Mind you, much like a lot of cultural music, there's a lot of rhythmic elements to traditional Aboriginal music so good rhythm is pretty much a pre-requisite to learning to play the didgeridoo properly.
Yup. Chap I used to work with at Dynamics could make a didgeridoo out of 2 1/2" aluminium tube that we used for damper bodies. He was great at playing it. But he did bum around australia for 8 months.
I can't play the didge at all... strangely the other half can. Must be something to do with practice at blowing large hard things. ;)
Simon/~Flibster
Annoyingly, there were two other guys playing a fiddle and an accordion on there who were brilliant but I can't for the life of me remember what they were called. I'm sure it was 'Spears and...' someone... but I can't even find them in the list of Glastonbury artists. :(
Ahhhh! Helps if one spells the name right!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce7wkTegOeU
Ahhhh! Helps if one spells the name right!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce7wkTegOeU
If you're into that kind of music, I can recommend watching out for Seth Lakeman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3ttmuhLWVM
and Show Of Hands:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCBvCNcHE_A
Good stuff. Wasn't really interested in this sort of thing until recently, but I think there's something kind of mystical about sea-shanty type music.
Excellent video from KT, song's not bad either.
http://rapidshare.com/files/53804783/KT_Tunstall_-_Hold_On.avi
Saw her perform this acoustically on the BBC's Glastonbury show and didn't think much of it but after a few plays on the radio it had me hooked. :)
wow, KT Tunstall's great! I had no idea! I love that Seth Lakeman video, too - cheers garp :)
a couple of videos I totally love:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SmjnK9iTZY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36Xt-XeWnHM
won't be to everyone's tastes but some will hopefully enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36Xt-XeWnHM
woah...
woah...
isn't it awesome!?
I realise I'm totally derailing this thread right now, I'll shut up if you like, but I just saw this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW0B1sipLBI
I'm not sure why but her voice gets me every time, I love it.
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