Friday, November 14, 2008

The acoustic 31 knots?


Photo by Kasper Troels @ www.comeondieyoung.dk

A little month ago i witnessed, what i still think is one of the best shows ive attented this year. San Francisco 3 piece - 31 Knots, kicked my ass to high heavens that late saturday night. Not only is 31 knots a fantastically excentric and technically potent liveband, they also radiate a such rare theatrical, almost hyper bohemian atmosphere, that makes it impossible for the audience to predict in which direction the band tends to stretch its energies (both mentally and musical). Those energies and qualitities combined, to me, celebrate so many great things, that i cannot anything but recommend you try and pick up a 31 Knots show first chance you get.

That being said. French Le Cargo, has an amazing youtube channel, on which many unique and intimate live videos with wonderful atypical not so household names can be discovered. Amongst them, great artists like Matt Elliott (UK), Broadcast 2000 (UK), Promise And The Monster (SE)(one of my favourites), Efterklang (DK), Zombie Zombie (FR), The Concretes (SE) and even hundreds more (im serious, hundreds).

And untill today, now also 31 Knots acoustic. Didnt see that one coming. None the less, extremely entertaining stuff.




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