Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space - Live at Royal Festival Hall 12 Oct 2009

Astonishing quality recording of the show from the other night.

Phew! That was a helluva weekend - a party on Friday night, no sleep till approx. 5am Sunday by which point I'd arrived in London, spent the afternoon and evening boozing, and been introduced to the magic of laughing gas. This set us up nicely for the Peter Murphy show at Indigo2 on Sunday - a lesson for all early 80s acts on how to pull off a gig with grace and style. Magnificent stuff indeed.

By Monday we weren't feeling too clever, but a trip to the pub to meet the rest of the troops soon cleared away the cobwebs. We had a great selection of seats for the Spiritualized show - I was right down the front with my London-dwelling friend, and the rest were up in a box at the left hand side. It was here that the recording was made - I think we were deemed too untrustworthy to keep quiet up in the box - aye right…

The show itself? Mind-blowing. I've seen them loads before, with string quartets and choirs, but this was something else. I counted over 30 people onstage throughout. They did the album in order then an encore of Out Of Sight. At some points I actually thought I was having an out-of-body experience - other things had taken hold of me. By the time it got to Cop Shoot Cop it was hold on to your seats time.

This is THE best audience recording I have ever heard, and it was my mate Tufty and his swanky digital setup who did it.

If you're in the vicinity of Manchester or London for the remaining shows I urge to to get tickets and be suitably blown away...

*EDIT* Get your second night recording in WAV format here: Part 1 / Part 2



Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space - Live at Royal Festival Hall 12 Oct 2009 <-- NEW LINK
00 - Intro
01 - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
02 - Come Together
03 - I Think I'm In Love
04 - All Of My Thoughts
05 - Stay With Me
06 - Electricity
07 - Home Of The Brave
08 - The Individual
09 - Broken Heart
10 - No God Only Religion
11 - Cool Waves
12 - Cop Shoot Cop…
13 - Crowd
14 - Out Of Sight

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Brain Donor - Get Off Your Pretty Face

A 7" 'intriguing' picture disc from Julian Cope's acid fuzz-rock trio, Brain Donor, formed in 2001 and consisting of Cope with two members of Spiritualized.

This was the second single released by the band, a taster for the debut album 'Love, Peace & Fuck' which I've got on beautiful double-white vinyl somewhere.

The band's aim is "a desire to combine Van Halen-esque heavy metal with garage rock in the style of Blue Cheer, and Japanese bands High Rise and Mainliner."

Here's what Cope has to say about this single:

"Donorland explodes with these two cloven-hoofed Pan-shamanic frig-ditties. This life affirming proto-Wodinist upheaval is available in two formats: CD and intriguing 7" picture disc. Ritual death in the afternoon never felt so good."

Totally bonkers in other words...



Brain Donor - Get Off Your Pretty Face

A - Get Off Your Pretty Face
B - Who Will Entertain Your Moron?

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Spiritualized - Anyway That You Want Me

It's been a struggle, but here's a classic Sunday comedown track from Spiritualized. It comes courtesy of Tufty (whose house all of my records are in). The first post-Spacemen 3 release from Jason, and a Troggs cover to boot.

If you are a fan be sure to check out Tufty's Spiritualized Live blog, an attempt to catalogue every gig by offering live mp3s, ticket/poster scans etc. Go see it by clicking here.



Spiritualized - Anyway That You Want Me

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