Back in March, one half of The Knife Karin Dreijer Andersson released a solo album under the name Fever Ray.The self-titled album is one of the year’s best, full of claustrophobic electronic-pop songs that blend into each other so well that it almost finishes before it begins, leaving you reaching for the repeat button.
Fever Ray have performed the album’s tracks at some 50 shows, all of them reported to be among the most disturbing of recent years. Venues were completely filled with dry ice, through which you could vaguely make out eerie figures on the stage: a deeply sinister clown, someone dressed as a kind of insect.
This weekend, a recording of one of these shows has been made available to readers of The Guardian.
Guardian “readers” can download the album from http://guardian.co.uk/feverray
Crowd sourcing a Nine Inch Nails show
On August 23rd, Nine Inch Nails performed their self-hate masterpiece The Downward Spiral live in its entirety for the first time ever.While the band were unwilling to pay the venue’s exorbitant fees to have the performance professionally recorded, they were able to negotiate an open camera policy, meaning fans could film the show themselves using anything from a mobile phone to hi-def video camera.
Almost as soon as the show ended, fans started using the nin.com forums and quasi official NIN fan sites NIN Hotline and thisoneisonus.org to hunt out and compile footage from all who attended. Now only two months later, a polished multi-cam edited downloadable DVD of the full Webster Hall performance has appeared.
Forget crowd surfing - crowd sourcing is the new thing to do at rock concerts.
You can download the DVD from http://theninhotline.net/features/TDSlive/ or stream the YouTube channel here.
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