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Miami Herald: What can we expect from your show?French duo Air are joined by Badly Drawn Boy drummer Alex Thomas on their current North American tour, which kicked off Saturday (3/13) in Miami.
Air's JB Dunckel: The more we play, the less we are onstage -- we'll be three onstage, and last time we were five. We've worked on new designs for the video screen, and have new lights and new tracks, too.MH: What are your respective roles when you perform?
JB: Nicolas is more into bass and guitar and vocoder, and I am more into keyboards and singing.MH: Do you enjoy touring?
JB: There are some magic moments, but it's a lot of waiting and traveling. I enjoy playing onstage, of course, but I must say that sometimes...for example, when you cross Transylvania in a bus and it's snowing outside and you stay 23 hours on the bus without eating anything, it's not fun.
They play Friday, March 19th at Terminal 5 with AM. Tickets are sold out (not totally surprising considering that it's their first US tour in 3 years), but there's always Craigslist.
They're touring in support of their new record, Love 2, and they recently released an iPhone app, Love by AIR (iTunes), which is "five different pages or 'soundscapes,' [that allow you to] transform the musical experience real-time by sampling and processing ambient sounds, your own voice and more into Air's own music. You can also record your own messages or performances with the application, and share your own unique productions of Air's music with friends and more." Their video for the song "So Light Is Her Footfall" and a preview trailer for the tour are is posted below...
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saw them recently in the UK and they were fantastic. I was surprised when they walked out as a trio but they totally blew me away with how well they captured there music with just three of them. It was a great mix of new and old material.
Friday night will not disappoint.
Posted by Anonymous | March 15, 2010 1:37 PM
Well, thankgod for that application.
French people...funny frogs.
Posted by Anonymous | March 15, 2010 1:56 PM
Saw them in Miami this weekend. Heavenly...
Posted by Nelson | March 15, 2010 2:07 PM
I was lucky enough to see Air with orchestra at the Hollywood bowl. I've also seen them as a five piece. I hope this slimmed down version on friday doesn't lack the massive improvement the band is live vs their studio work.
Posted by Anonymous | March 15, 2010 2:09 PM
I love this song. But the video is too strange... ;)
Posted by tim | March 15, 2010 2:17 PM
sweet Ap
Posted by Anonymous | March 15, 2010 2:27 PM
Mehr, anyone?
Posted by Anonymous | March 15, 2010 2:29 PM
theyre so hot
Posted by Anonymous | March 15, 2010 3:07 PM
Anyone have any idea of what they've been playing?
Posted by Anonymous | March 15, 2010 3:52 PM
from a review:
"Highlights included the whistling homage to the Spaghetti Western "Alpha Beta Gaga," the intimate "How Does it Make You Feel?" and the phantasmagoric lullaby "Venus."
"So Light is Her Footfall" and "Cherry Blossom Girl" also resonated with the crowd, but an Air show is less about individual songs and more about the atmosphere created by the entire set. Call it mood music for now people.
Godin and Dunckel were so cool they never broke a sweat, even during a relatively rousing three-song encore that included the standout "Sexy Boy."
Posted by Anonymous | March 15, 2010 4:40 PM
I've got two tix that I can't use. email if you are interested. emily313 @gmail.com
Posted by em | March 15, 2010 10:45 PM
I love this song also but have to agree with Tim that the video is a little strange especially towards the end! Very arty though. Greg
Posted by Greg | March 16, 2010 5:12 AM
tickets are still available through Ticketbastard for the show in Philly at the Electric Factory on Thursday
Posted by Anonymous | March 16, 2010 12:28 PM
ZZzz (c) me last night during much of the set
Posted by Anonymous | March 20, 2010 12:42 PM
Julian Cope on Mac:
"I gots to tell y’all that when I heard the other day that the Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch is writing his autobiography, I nearly shat my undies laughing so hard (good job I don’t wear any!); Ian Mac write a book? A man for whom completing a single song on his own is a struggle of Everest the Hard Way proportions is hardly going to write a book. Ian, I’m speechless at your continued arrogance in the face of no evidence whatsoever. In my opinion, you’ve been a dried-up shell of a husk of a man since just after OCEAN RAIN, so don’t embarrass us all with your ludicrous claims that you’re gonna write an autobiography. Two words… No Way. Writing a book involves discipline and hard work, two things you never nailed in the past and never will. As I heard it, you even said in the press that your book will be better than the Bible. Well, in two ways it may well be like the Bible: 1) it’ll be full of half-truths and outright lies, and 2) it’ll have been written by umpteen uncredited writers and you’ll name yourself solely as its author. There you go, dumkopf, I just handed you the map: don’t even bother buying yourself a pen, son; just do what you’ve always done throughout your career; get someone else to do most of the work then claim all the credit yourself. I even have a title already: MAC USER. And with that, I shall sweep off into the Beltane sunset. Yowzah!"
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Posted by يوتيوب | October 26, 2010 8:11 PM
Guggenheim billed it as a performance piece and it was just an installation. Resultingly, the crowd simply waited for the "show" to start, limiting anyone's ability to freely explore the space (the ground floor was packed with indian-style seaters, and the balconies were lined with people holding onto their spots like grim death.
Posted by منتديات | January 9, 2011 1:03 PM
it makes no sense for them to deconstruct the entire TD North venue to play a show the next night ~50 miles south at an amphitheater (which probably would require a different stage setup anyway). They'd play Providence or Mohegan Sun before that (and I think those are both highly unlikely).
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Amazing is an enormous understatement. One of the best electronic shows I've ever been to and I've seen well over a thousand concerts. I had no idea Vladislav Delay was as good a drummer & percussionist as he is- fabulous and he kept everything swinging with a very unique style of playing. If you missed this you missed out big time...
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Posted by يوتيوب القمة | February 20, 2011 9:14 PM
Well the band is ok, but I won't say they are cool stars.
And by the way, there is a note that video doesn't exists anymore
Posted by iphone development | August 3, 2011 8:54 AM