By way of a hand of friendship to Vincent Moon after my rather scathing assessment of his Burning documentary in my last post about Mogwai, below are my ten favourite moments from his rather fine Take Away Shows site:
10. Grizzly Bear - this was in fact the tenth in the series, and featured the Grizzlers (as no-one calls them) performing songs from the magnificent Yellow House in a shower room and on the street like some kind of indie barbershop quartet....
9. Dean & Britta - delightful stuff from Dean Wareham (of Galaxie 500, Luna and Dean & Britta) and Britta Phillips, busking on the underground in their usual wistful, VU-indebted fashion.
8. Liars - more art-rock brilliance/nonsense, but with added elevators.
7. Port O'Brien - the seafaring folk-rockers take their rousing, shouty songs to the streets of Chinatown, with excellent results.
6. The Antlers - the miserable-but-beautiful, woozy, chiming ballads of this lot find strange bedfellows in the shape of a doll-repair shop. Spooky.....
5. Yeasayer - featuring vests and jumpsuits, but also - thankfully - prog pop brilliance in the form of an apartment singalong. Worth a watch just for the interruption when the band are told to keep the noise down.
4. Bon Iver - a communal folkly, sit-in turns out to be the perfect setting for the backwoods charm of Justin Vernon and co.
3. Doveman - the terminally underrated Thomas Bartlett performs walking about some buildings and uncovers a room full of pianos. Cue beautiful music.....
2. Sufjan Stevens - risking his life on a windy rooftop, covering Great Lake Swimmers. Wonderful.
1. The National - the band are filmed at some remote chateau or possibly chapel, channeling the spirit of The Rolling Stones and coming up with some intimate and gorgeous versions of the songs found on Boxer. Watch, if only for the spine-tingling version of "Ada."
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