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Live music video 'podcasts'

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  • 11-12-2006 2:12am
    #1
    Lunar Junkie
    Registered Users Posts: 181 ✭✭


    This looks like a cool idea that might just work:
    http://fromthebasement.co.uk/

    It's an internet-only live music TV show which has been set up by Radiohead's producer Nigel Godrich plus some friends of his. No presenter, they just get 3-4 bands on each show and let them perform a couple of songs, shoot it in high-definition video and use analogue tape for the sound, then upload it for people to buy through iTunes or a paypal-type system. Seems they have pretty high profile acts for it too- Thom Yorke and The White Stripes plus Kieran Hedben (Fourtet) and Steven Reid for the first episode. I think this might really take off, as long as they don't get scuppered by filesharing freeloading (there's bound to be some of that, though). There's too little live music on TV as it is, so it's great to see this kind of thing coming along.

    I've found a couple of blogs that do a similiar thing.. This one ('Concert a Emporter') is pretty good, they film various indie bands performing acoustically in unusual settings:
    http://www.blogotheque.net/concertaemporter/
    ..as is this one - Brainwashed 'The Eye' - live sessions with various groups, the video quality isn't fantastic though:
    http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=6&id=26&Itemid=61


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