PRODUCER / BOOM - Kevin Molloy
DIRECTOR / CAMERA / EDIT / SOUND - Nick Abbott
CAMERA - Chris Sweeney
PRESENTER - Toby L
(21.08.09)
Rockfeedback caught up with Bella Union songsmith Andrew Bird for an exclusive acoustic session whilst out in Austin, Texas, for the SXSW music conference in March. He delicately bowed his violin, stroked his guitar strings and sang like a freakin' angel for us, all bathed in beautiful Texan sunshine. A frank and honest chat only endeared him to us further.
Artists in this video: Andrew Bird
(09.12.09)
Two Gallants have been wooing us for a while with their sublime mix of punk, country and folk. Rockfeedback were blessed with an exclusive performance and interview from the San Fran indie kids in a hot Austin car park at SXSW.
(25.11.09)
More used to rocking out than kicking back, Sky Larkin thrive in a more stripped back session, performing a rare, exclusive acoustic set and chatting to Rockfeedback at Glasgow's inaugural Hinterland Festival.
(30.09.09)
Rockfeedback caught up with Noah and the Whale at London’s Field Day festival back in 2008. We filmed both their on stage performance proper as well as a breathtaking acoustic performance backstage, in a Gibson trailer of all places. Grown men cried.
(23.09.09)
He’s made a fan of everyone from TV On The Radio to Grizzly Bear, and gosh darn it, he’s made a fan of us too. Miles’ gritty, gutsy vocals deliver brazenly honest songs that dissect huge themes in the prettiest of terms, made all the more beautiful by this riverside setting for an exclusive acoustic performance at SXSW in Austin, Texas. Miles grants us a chat too, as he’s nice like that.
(09.09.09)
Mutual admirers Fanfarlo and First Aid Kit might have only actually met moments before we started rolling, but this charming acoustic duet (a cover of Devendra Banhart's 'This is the Way'), is still pretty much note perfect. Filmed in a rare moment of sunshine in Victoria Park, outside the gates of the Field Day Festival 2009.
“This is what happened the first time Fanfarlo and First Aid Kit actually met. It was in the morning, at Field Day in Victoria Park. We'd been talking on emails and on the phone about going on tour together but we hadn't actually met. The day before, we spoke about Devendra Banhart cause this idea about doing a cover together had been floating about, so before we know it, we're going through a more or less a capella cover of "This Is The Way" in front of a camera (which sadly didn't capture the ridiculous dancing going on behind it.)” – Simon, Fanfarlo
(21.08.09)
Rockfeedback caught up with Bella Union songsmith Andrew Bird for an exclusive acoustic session whilst out in Austin, Texas, for the SXSW music conference in March. He delicately bowed his violin, stroked his guitar strings and sang like a freakin' angel for us, all bathed in beautiful Texan sunshine. A frank and honest chat only endeared him to us further.
(19.08.09)
London-based folk-pop group Peggy Sue have been causing quite a stir over the last few months, but we've been onto these guys for a while such that they're now firm rockfeedback faves. Liking them so much we decided to take them into the middle of a council estate in Camden and make them play a few songs for us acoustically. That's how we tell bands we like 'em, aren't we nice? The results left us scooping our jaws off the playground tarmac and swinging wildly from the kids' swings nearby. Lovely stuff.
(14.08.09)
Rockfeedback reveals a few sides to the adorable Slow Club across these live performances and interview - we catch them everywhere from on stage at Glasgow's Arches, rocking out to their hearts content, to sitting in the back of a van we had to literally carry to safety where they perform acoustically for us, half sheltering from the rain, as part of the Hinterland Festival.
(12.08.09)
Husband and wife duo Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost are at the core of A Hawk and A Hacksaw, a band who provided one of the most remarkable exclusive sessions the Rockfeedback cameras have ever been privy to. Filmed on the porch of our hotel, The Austin Folk House, during last March's SXSW conference, the ex-Neutral Milk Hotel band leader directs his incredibly talented (and wonderfully good looking) bunch of musicians through some thrilling, Balkan-influenced material from their forthcoming 'Délivrance' LP. Stunning stuff.
(28.07.09)
The second of our Field Day artist previews - the rather wonderful Fanfarlo.
The completely spellbinding Fanfarlo treat us to an exclusive acoustic session underneath a bridge by the river Clyde in Glasgow, showcasing a handful of tracks from their debut LP 'Reservoir' and ignoring passing cyclists before engaging us in equally delightful banter. One of Hinterland Festival's finest bands.
(01.05.09)
Orphans and Vandals seductively wink and giggle their way through an interview and exclusive acoustic session for Rockfeedback, filmed above a quaint Glasgow tea room as part of the Hinterland festival
(19.03.09)
Whilst out at the recent SXSW conference in the 'States, Rockfeedback took Graham Coxon of Blur to a hat shop on Austin's infamous 6th Street for a few exclusive acoustic renditions (and first ever live plays) of songs from his forthcoming LP 'The Spinning Top'. After he'd finished wowing us in that emporium, it was on to another - the world famous Waterloo records - for yet more exclusive renditions of these really very beautiful songs. On the walk in between, Graham chats candidly and often hilariously about life, love and music.