Take-Away Shows: Take A Stroll With Your Favorite Bands February 6, 2008

Picture your favorite indie-licious band. Picture them walking the streets of some European city, playing music while a camera follows them around and people walk by. You’ve just pictured the genius of French blog La Blogotheque’s “Take-Away Shows”.

These videos feature a large number of indie favorites (including Arcade Fire, Andrew Bird, The National, Xiu Xiu, Okkervil River, Liars, and Mojave 3, to name a bunch) performing some of their songs in “unique urban environments” in single takes. The result is usually very intriguing and intimate. Marissa Nadler sings in Central Park at night and then alone on a bed with her guitar. Some bands play in a metal elevator.

One of my absolute favorite Take-Away Shows performances features Will Sheff of Okkervil River sitting in the grass near a flowerbed singing the devastating “Song of Our So-Called Friend” with his guitar and harmonica.

There is a lot of magic to be found on this website — I strongly suggest you check it out.

http://www.blogotheque.net/takeawayshows