On the Big Screen - photo by BlackBerry
The rotary-valve trumpet-wielding Zach Condon brought Beirut to Pitchfork for a sort-of “greatest hits” set this year, proving that the band is even better live – tighter, more aggressive – than in the studio. My setlist is below.
- Nantes (from The Flying Cup Club – youtube)
- Mimizan (from Dark Was the Night – youtube, with same lineup as Pitchfork)
- Elephant Gun (from the Lon Gisland EP)
- The Shrew (?) (from March of the Zapotec EP)
- The Concubine (MotZ)
- Postcards from Italy (from Gulag Orkestar)
- Scenic World (GO)
- (Cover version of a mariachi-inflected song by A Hawk and a Hacksaw)
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- My Night with the Prostitute from Marseilles (from Condon’s Realpeople side project Holland EP)
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- Cherbourg (FCC)
- The Akara (MotZ)
- A Sunday Smile (with violinist Owen Pallett and a cornetist-unknown-to-me sitting in) (FCC)
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- Gulag Orkestar (GO)
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