Enjoy!ĭownload the Complete Show / īack in April 2020 when we didn’t know when or if we were going to see live music again, Joan Shelley released Live at the Bomhard, the hometown tour finale recorded live in 2019 with the Best Hands Band and a special appearance by Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy. We are extremely happy with the results, and are pleased to offer this high quality download. I recorded this set with the Neumann hypers set up at the Soundboard and mixed with a board feed. We hope it isn’t another decade before they return. It was great to have Fiery Furnaces back, even if for just one night. The entire ninety-minute set worked like that, with no lulls, plenty of highlights, and no dip in energy throughout. Matt’s keyboard rack was liberally employed throughout and jibed perfectly with Emily electric piano - check out the interplay in a tasty “Benton Harbor Blues”, and the rocking “Ex-Guru”. The setlist contained a healthy dose from all of the band’s releases, of course segued with unexpected twists and turns - but always anchored by Eleanor’s meticulously delivered tongue-twisters and turns of phrase. And in that respect, this show was entirely what I had hoped to see. But what I did expect was a new take on classic material, and likely the new single from 2020 (“Down At The So And So And Somewhere”). The two stalwarts of the band from last decade (Jason Loewenstein and Bob D’Amico) were not joining in the reunion, and of the new band members, we only were familiar with the most excellent Emily Lee ( Shearwater, and others). To be honest, I didn’t really know what entirely to expect. Fiery Furnaces were back for a “hometown” show at long last. Last November at Brooklyn Steel, the wait was over. I didn’t expect the break to take a decade, but in 2020 the reunion was finally announced and well, you know what happened then. I expected a few years of time away, a solo album or two and then a return. We couldn’t get enough of them.īut in 2011, the band’s core siblings Eleanor and Matt Friedberger decided to take a hiatus. The attraction was natural for we live music fans - the band never played any of their shows or songs the same way twice, they consistently invited superb musicians to join them on tours, and the music was always challenging and cerebral. We recorded them so often that we ended up getting credited as an “engineer” for the Fiery Furnaces live album Remember, which used some of our recordings. It would be fair to say that this band was in part responsible for the growth of the site circa 2007-2008, as we recorded them all around the area, from multiple times at Maxwell’s, Mercury, Bowery, and Music Hall, to singular shows at Sound Fix Records on Bedford (RIP), Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, LPR, Southpaw (RIP), East River Park Bandshell (RIP), and Hiro Ballroom (RIP). Our live experiences with the Fiery Furnaces date back to the earliest days of this website. Enjoy this as much as I do.ĭPA 4061 > d:vice > iPhone 12 > WAV (24/48) > Adobe Audition CC + Izotope Ozone 5 > Audacity 3.0.2 > FLAC Here’s the first night, the one I’m calling the hits night. I’m absolutely ecstatic, the good feelings persisting long after the band stopped playing. Last weekend, I got to see Pavement play three wildly joyful shows. I’ve been listening to them for more than half my lifetime. Honestly I have nothing to say about Pavement that is original, interesting, or that you will care about.
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