Gnarls Barkley played a show at London's Astoria 2 on June 8, 2008 that was filmed, purportedly for release on DVD. As with many other events in the lifespan of the casual collaboration between Cee Lo Green and Danger Mouse, the DVD news quietly receded from circulation as the two artists turned their attention to different things. The show did, however, get aired as part of a series of live concerts hosted by internet has-been corporation MSN, and subsequently made the rounds on Youtube. Over the course of the show Gnarls runs through highlights from both studio albums. St. Elsewhere's "Just a Thought" receives an unbelievably intense rendition (see first video, below), while "Transformer" is performed in the wonderful acoustic version first widely heard in 2006 on Live from Abbey Road. Though the concert was sparing in terms of the usual, eclectic selection of covers, the group does run through an excellent performance of Radiohead's "Reckoner" (off of the then-recent album In Rainbows; second video below), which went on to be one of the Gnarls's most popular videos on Youtube other than its hit. An mp3 version of the set - excellent other than a few lamentably (and poorly) bleeped obsceneties from the original online broadcast - is available here.
I was born in San Francisco and am currently a resident at the University of Maryland. This blog's title refers to my right eye, which lost function on April 19, 2004. Thanks for taking a look -- I hope you find something you like.
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