Explosions in the Sky, Constantines & Castanets @ Central Park Summerstage - pics & setlist
photos by Toby Tenenbaum, words by Black Bubblegum
“Great fucking show. And! Hotboxed my first port-a-potty. Fun!” – Anonymous | July 1, 2009 1:17 AM
The rain let up, the band came out, and a wonderful evening of music in Central Park ensued. Explosions in the Sky, the Austin based quartet, brought its rolling, meandering, lyric-free virtuousity to the heart of NYC and held a packed crowd in rapt attention at the Rumsey Playfield… Wordless music is often an acquired taste to an audience with limited attention spans and a multitude of distractions. But the sheer power of this band, with intricate interlocking guitar lines and a brilliant drummer has won over a sizable following. I saw them a few years back at the intimate Bowery Ballroom, but this show in the park even topped last year’s sold out and packed show at Terminal 5. Fun indeed!
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Explosions In The Sky, Constantines and Castanets topped off a noteworthy triple bill at Central Park’s Summerstage amidst the rain last night (6/30), creating a little artificial sunshine of their own. The current round of EITS shows is to commemorate the band’s tenth anniversary and it showed at Summerstage; the band pulled equally from their prior releases with special attention paid to their 2001 mouthful-of-an-LP-especially-for-a-instrumental-band Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever. Full setlist below.
EITS has an additional few dates on the current leg of their US tour, concluding in their native Austin, Texas on July 4th. If there are fireworks (explosions in the sky…) after the show, that will make it the second time this year that happened to them in their hometown. After that, Austin’s instrumental finest will head back on the road, though this time with inflatable plastic bubbles, confetti guns, and skeleton suits in tow…. meaning with The Flaming Lips.
Constantines were recently featured on Volume 6 of the Arts & Crafts sampler curated by Kevin Drew (of Broken Social Scene). Downloadable for free, the sampler contains unreleased tracks by Amy Millan (of Stars), The Hidden Cameras, and The Most Serene Republic as well as contributions for The Stills, Apostle of Hustle, Los Campesinos! and many others. Get that here.
Castanets are going on a tour in July that includes a hometown show at Cake Shop here in NYC.
The EITS setlist and more Summerstage pictures below…
Castanets…
Constantines…
Explosions in the Sky…
Explosions In The Sky @ Central Park Summerstage, 6/30/09 Set (via)
Yasmin the Light
The Birth and Death of the Day
A Song For Our Fathers
Your Hand in Mine
Greet Death
Snow and Lights
A Poor Man’s Memory
Catastrophe and the Cure
The Only Moment We Were Alone
