Do You Have Any Rare of Montreal Covers?

If you haven’t seen the thread at the Townhall, Matt from You Ain’t No Picasso is undertaking an ambitious project to assemble all of the covers of Montreal have performed. If you have any old recordings of any covers, even so-so quality, now’s the time to dig them out! Check the Townhall thread for more info.

Of Montreal M.I.A. cover

Downloadable on Pitchfork

Video from January ‘03

From fp:
I got to see of Montreal’s first show outside the U.S., in London 2003, just happened to move there right beforehand. I had a crappy little digital camera that recorded video and Dottie said of course I could record, would I send them a copy? And I said sure, but then I saw the footage. I had tried to calculate how shitty to make the video to make it all fit onto a memory stick, and it’s an understatement to say it didn’t turn out great, which is part of why I never sent it, the other being I am a total piece of shit when it comes to procrastination, but really it’s not that great, so don’t expect much, but it is a noteworthy show, and it’s five years old this month.

http://www.vimeo.com/album/5933

(I used Vimeo only beacause BP publicly advocated it and QG has been doing the same for a while, but really, the increase in quality doesn’t do this pixelated video any good.)

The setlist is:

2003-01-08 Water Rats, London

Don’t Ask Me To Explain
Doing Nothing
Pancakes For One
On The Drive Home
Penelope
One of A Very Few of A Kind
Jennifer Louise
You Are An Airplane
Old People In The Cemetery
If I Falter Slightly Twice
Brown Sugar
Death Dance oFOASFY (short edit)

"Feminine Effects" Studio Version, More Video

Pitchfork is reporting on a new 2-CD 1DVD compilation called The Green Owl Comp: A Benefit for the Energy Action Coalition, which will feature of Montreal’s “Feminine Effects”. This song has only appeared live so far, so this version will be new to all of us. LINK

Also, if you haven’t checked in at the official of Montreal blog, the band themselves were kind enough to set up their own video channel at Vimeo, check it out.

More Video: Kinks Cover

Forgive me for almost not accepting the comment on the post below. It was from an anonymous sender, and was only a link, to a site called lesinrocks.com. I went to check it out, expecting possible girl on girl musical action, and lo and behold it’s a brand new acoustic performance from Kevin and B.P.! It appears to be from France, and B.P. has the new do, so it must have been on that last quick European jaunt, which would have put this on about the 12th, eleven days ago. They do a cover of the Kinks’ “Days” as well as “Heimdalsgate…”. Here’s an mp3 rip of “Days”, too:

Kevin and B.P. live acoustic session on video at lesinrocks.com

of Montreal “Days” (Kinks)

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Sesiones Live In Mexico City 11/11/06

Interesting to watch this now, knowing how full-blown the live shows would become on the Hissing Fauna tour. Don’t watch this unless you’ve seen the incredible concert video of the Amsterdam 12/11/07 show over at Fabchannel first.

“Sessions” is/was broadcast Mondays in Mexico at 11:30PM and features a mix of American and Mexican alternative acts, and is hosted by Alejandro Franco. I downloaded this as a DVD from DimeADozen and spent some time converting it and uploading for Youtube. I was looking right now before posting for more info about Sesiones and was dumbfounded (because I had already googled them and looked through their videos and didn’t see this) to see they had this video posted themselves at imeem.com. And amazingly, I don’t think anybody else ever found it, either. It was posted four months ago at imeem, but as of this writing has only 12 views. I would have thrown in the towel and just embedded their video, but after watching them both, the sound quality on these is much better (192 kbps). And they’re right here for your easy consumption, divided into tracks. But seriously, check out that Amsterdam video first if you haven’t.

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Townhall Down Again

If you don’t know, an alternate E6 message board can be found HERE

More Video and Audio

Fabchannel has an excellent pro-shot video of of Montreal’s recent performance in Amsterdam (Dec. 11), including performances of “The Past Is A Grotesque Animal”, “Wraith Pinned To The Mist…”, and “Softcore”. CHECK IT OUT Audio rip courtesy Graham can be found HERE

Also, if you use the DimeADozen Bittorrent tracker: the St. Louis show in November that we got the two Prince covers from is still available, as is of Montreal’s videoed performance on Mexican TV. We are working on ripping that Mexico City video down to sharable size, hopefully we’ll have that done before Xmas. Or Festivus.

Kevin Barnes Top 10 For 2007

From Pitchfork:

KEVIN BARNES, OF MONTREAL
1. Caribou: Andorra
2. Deerhoof: Friend Opportunity
3. M.I.A.: Kala
4. Robert Wyatt: Comicopera
5. Liars: Liars
6. MGMT: Oracular Spectacular
7. Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam
8. Panda Bear: Person Pitch
9. Fiery Furnaces: Widow City
10. A Hawk and a Hacksaw: A Hawk and a Hacksaw and the Hun Hangar Ensemble

Two New Prince Covers

We added two new Prince covers to the Downloads section (on the lower left) and here below. They were the opening tracks for the St. Louis show Nov.19 (that the pics in the post below are also from). Thanks to the taper for sharing!

of Montreal “I Would Die 4 U” (Prince) (w/”Pussy Freak” intro)

of Montreal “Baby I’m A Star” (Prince)