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.

1. Nantes (from The Flying Cup Club – youtube)
2. Mimizan (from Dark Was the Night – youtube, with same lineup as Pitchfork)
3. Elephant Gun (from the Lon Gisland EP)
4. The Shrew (?) (from March of the Zapotec EP)
5. The Concubine (MotZ)
6. Postcards from Italy (from Gulag Orkestar)
7. Scenic World (GO)
8. (Cover version of a mariachi-inflected song by A Hawk and a Hacksaw)
9. ??
10. My Night with the Prostitute from Marseilles (from Condon’s Realpeople side project Holland EP)
11. ??
12. Cherbourg (FCC)
13. The Akara (MotZ)
14. A Sunday Smile (with violinist Owen Pallett and a cornetist-unknown-to-me sitting in) (FCC)
15. ??
16. Gulag Orkestar (GO)
17. ??