« Destroyer is here this week, album stream, tour dates, MP3s | Main | do you trust the music industry? »
Posted in music | pictures on April 21, 2008
Colin Meloy played 2 Brooklyn shows, pics & stuff
photos by Jason Bergman
DOWNLOAD: Colin Meloy - We Both Go Down Together (live)(MP3)
Colin Meloy @ Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY - Apr 17, 2008
Jason stopped by the 2nd of two shows Decemberist Colin Meloy played in Brooklyn last week to promote his new live album out now on his old label Kill Rock Stars. L Magazine recently featured Colin in an article entitled "In Defense of Colin Meloy, On the Occasion of His New Album"....
...he's just like you and all your friends, only he's ridiculously, annoyingly successful -- and he is unabashedly proud of himself, just as, admit it, you would be. He runs around his carefully, elaborately designed stages, with half-choreographed movements, leading the crowd in energetic and impassioned yet playful singalongs. He's a young Wes Anderson of sorts, crafting tiny, possibly meaningless things all around him, just because he can -- using an ever-growing budget to incorporate weirder and more freakishly detailed minutiae by the day. He's created his own world, where his every whim is carried out without question, and that world continues to grow in size, despite his chosen subject matter veering so far from the middle of the road.....Jason said (about the Brooklyn show, that), "Colin played a new song that revolves around a couple after they have had sex in a forest and some nefarious villain comes and harms the girl." More pictures from that show below...
Tags: Colin Meloy, The Decemberists
Posted on April 21, 2008 11:44 AM
Leave a comment
Powered by Ajax Comments
« Destroyer is here this week, album stream, tour dates, MP3s | Main | do you trust the music industry? »
Comments (14)
ah how easily sleep comes, zzzzzz, right after you vomit.
Posted by Anonymous | April 21, 2008 12:17 PM
pretension personified, takes himself way too seriously
Posted by Anonymous | April 21, 2008 12:25 PM
Lots of joking and chatting with the audience on Thursday night in W'burg - didn't seem to be taking himself too seriously that night.
He also writes great songs and is a great entertainer. Seriously.
Posted by drewo | April 21, 2008 12:43 PM
Please someone tell me if he sang in that fake whiny accent?! "You were one...of the gayng"
Posted by deb | April 21, 2008 12:45 PM
He did. And then, I bitch-slapped the fool.
Posted by Anonymous | April 21, 2008 1:18 PM
oh, he's so precious.
Posted by Anonymous | April 21, 2008 1:22 PM
was it sold out?
Posted by Anonymous | April 21, 2008 1:30 PM
First night was close to sell out not sure about 2nd.
Posted by Anonymous | April 21, 2008 1:41 PM
Is that a Telecaster?
Posted by Anonymous | April 21, 2008 1:53 PM
ugh theater kids, go back to doing high school plays colin
Posted by Anonymous | April 21, 2008 1:56 PM
that's not a telecaster, those are sideburns!
Posted by Anonymous | April 21, 2008 2:13 PM
Dude, it's totally a Strat. Geeez.
Posted by Anonymous | April 21, 2008 4:03 PM
it's an acoustic, not a tele. actually, that would make it an ironic tele. you know, since he was in williamsburg and all, it's fitting.
Posted by Anonymous | April 21, 2008 4:04 PM
maricon city
Posted by HIPSTER POSEUR | April 21, 2008 6:26 PM