in-store gig, 21st Aug 2009.

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in-store gig at Rough Trade East.

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Guest appearance as part of the Duke Special "Mother Courage and her Children" after show gig; 16th October 2009. I borrowed the audio and some of elvisleslie61's video of the same performance to tidy up the worst bits of mine. But check out his video too!

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A track previously recorded by Luke Haines' "Baader Meinhof" side-project.

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in-store gig, Rough Trade East, London 21st August 2009.

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Great performance, especially since this was probably only the second time Neil had played this new song live.

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Excellent new track from the new "Bang Goes The Knighthood" album. I like (pun intended.)

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New track (first ever performance, apparently) from Shepherd's Bush Empire, 26th November 2008. Referred to as "Never Told You" on the setlist, but apparently "I Never Said I Was Deep" is to be the title of the recorded version.

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Enjoyably odd Black Box cover. (skip to 1:30 if you just want to hear the song; I left the chat on at the start cos I thought it was entertainingly self-conscious...)

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I don't know whether it's accidental or not that the spot on Graham casts his shadow perfectly across the Marshall stack behind him, but it's a cool piece of lighting if it is deliberate. I almost pressed stop cos people kept walking through the shot (which was their right, I hasten to add), but I'm glad I left it going cos it isn't that distracting when watched back.

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requested.

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in-store gig, Rough Trade East, London 21st August 2009.

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"Probably the perfect rendition of the song", says Neil. And who am I to disagree?

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The video just about catches Damon's mad stage dive during "Advert", although it was mostly luck since from where I was I couldn't see him take the run up for it. I bet you won't see him do *that* at Glastonbury! At least I hope not, anyway...

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BEAK are comprised of: Geoff Barrow (Portishead) Matt Williams (Team Brick) Billy Fuller (Fuzz Against Funk)

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An hilarious / inspired performance from a great gig (one of the best TDC gigs I've seen I'd say...)

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Didn't really notice how much audience participation there was on this till I listened to it back afterwards; it's quite impressive.

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In-store gig at Rough Trade East, London.

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Now the album is out I can finally put this up :P Nice performance; I like the pause in the solo when Neil completely forgets what comes next and has to stop to have a think about it.

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Alexander (aka Alex Ebert from Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros) performs a track from his forthcoming solo album.

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Libertines reunion gig, The Forum London 25/8/2010. I waited a long time for this; thankfully it wasn't a disappointment...

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Tony Joe White cover.

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Erland and the Carnival are: Simon Tong - Guitar, Harmonium, Zither,Vocals Erland Cooper - Guitar, Vocals David Nock - Drums, Percussion, Vocals, Keyboards Andy Bruce - Synthesizers Danny Wheeler - Bass guitar

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Epic finish to an epic gig... the freeze frame at the end is intentional; the last 10 secs or so of video were jacked, and it was either that or lose the end of the song. (Unless that is you think it looks good this way, in which case I'll just pretend it was purely for artistic reasons :P )

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A David Gates cover I believe: a fine ending to the set.

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Someone requested more from this gig, so here's DLM playing Test Match Special, and discussing their nervousness about having to perform it on the show of the same name...

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In-store gig, 24/08/09.

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Crispian Mills performing "Govinda" (with additional vocals from Gouri Choudhury), School of Braja charity concert, 30th Jan 2009.

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Bloc Party's Russell Lissack joins Ash to cover Weezer's "Only In Dreams" for International Record Store Day 2010.

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with better audio: www.youtube.com

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Another track from the forthcoming solo album.

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Fun version of this TDC classic performed for an in-store gig in Letchworth, with Neil attempting to descirbe a Father Ted episode while performing the solo...

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Brilliant gig. (Although if you were there then you already know this.)

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Acoustic version, ICA London 9th July 2007.

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Quality is ok after first 15 secs (which I left in cos what follows wouldn't make much sense otherwise.)

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One of the most perfect TDC songs of all imho. I don't really think there's anything about this song that could be improved upon. (I like to think that Neil thought the same thing too, and that's why he left it so short.)

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La Cite de La Musique, September 22nd 2008.

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(best watched in HD.)

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Cover performed for Independent Record Store Day, 18th April 2009.

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The song itself starts at 0:55; I left the preceding silliness in because a little silliness is always a good thing imho. Talking of silliness, I only found out later that keyboard player Steve Brown was Glen Ponder in Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge. (It's perhaps as well I didn't know this at the time, otherwise I would have probably embarassed myself by shouting out "Knowing me, Alan Partridge, Knowing You, Glen Ponder, Aha!" Which doubtless would've gone down like a lead balloon...)

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Neil shows off his vocal range on this Human League cover by doing both "girl" and "boy" vocals himself.

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Concert in aid of the mental health charity SANE: please visit sane.org.uk for more information.

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I made a very small edit to this, since at one point Neil started to sing the wrong line, realised his mistake and then went back and sang the correct one. It's not a perfect solution - since you can hear the edit point - but slightly less distracting than leaving it as it was imho. But ymmv (and other acronyms.)

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La Cite de la Musique, Paris 23rd September 2008.

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