What The Hell Is Going On? #57: Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Concrete & Glass + Charlotte Gainsbourg
By: Thomas Hannan
Hey mate.
This week on Rockfeedback TV, we plunge ourselves head first in to ROCKtober with... very little rock music whatsoever. Instead, we’ve sounds that range from the gorgeous to the terrifying via the serene and completely improvised, making it one of our most choice weeks of programming thus far.
We start today with another of our exclusive Rockfeedback Sessions from perhaps our very favourite band of recent years, Wildbirds & Peacedrums (pictured). The Swedish duo recently released Rivers, a combination of their Iris and Retina EPs, and here talk us through the process behind the recording of those very different but wholly complimentary records, and as is customary in these sessions, offer some thoroughly brilliant renditions of the songs too.
On Wednesday we’ve the first part of our coverage on the 2010 Concrete and Glass Festival. A multimedia event combining sculpture, performance art, film, music and anything else creative and bizarre held in East London earlier this year, part one has Rockfeedback TV covering a whole host of artists whose work featured in the opening private view, and some excellent music (if the term even really applies) from Owl Project and Volcano The Bear.
Come Friday, we’ve three whole songs performed at Charlotte Gainsbourg’s debut gig at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire to offer you, unique footage – the first time she’s ever allowed cameras to document her performance, no less – of the actress/chanteuse performing tracks from her rather elegant, Beck-produced IRM album from earlier this year.
Elsewhere on the site we’ve made Nick Cave’s Grinderman our band of the week in light of their excellent recent LP and gig at London’s Hammersmith Apollo on Friday night (write ups of both with you imminently), and there’s still time to win records from our previous BOTW Deerhunter, and tickets to see Black Mountain perform alongside Black Angels in some kind of big rock and roll BLACK fest at the Shepherds Bush Empire. Dan Michaelson of Absentee and The Coastguards and Prince Rama contribute pieces on their favourite obscure albums in our continued ‘It’s Genius, I Swear’ column, and there’ll be the usual slew of reviews and nonsensical in jokes that you’ve come to know and tolerate.
Tom.x
Artists in this article: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Wildbirds & Peacedrums