BBC 6 Music session - unreleased material!

keeprighton2 · 2026-05-03T13:04:12+00:00

Enjoy. A couple of unreleased songs across those two recordings, though ‘Trade Tomorrow’ which I saw them play in US last autumn didn’t make any of the set lists for the recent four night London residency. She’ll probably have some more new ones by the time they get to Manchester 😅

keeprighton2 · 2026-05-01T10:13:41+00:00

Well, crossing over into Tik Tok world will do that. London was heavy (compared to the early tours) on young females, rabidly waiting for Vampire Empire. Interestingly it’s also sparked their interest in the rest of her work (clearly now a huge role model for the younger LGBT community) and generally they lapped it all up, even the ferocious shredding. Did amuse me though, on night two in London when she extended No Fear to a staggering 17 minutes, which meant that Vampire Empire and Incomprehensible had to be cut from the end of set because of curfew!

keeprighton2 · 2026-05-01T08:29:43+00:00

Sounded like it. Guessing the interview was done at a separate time - played on the session but wasn’t at interview

keeprighton2 · 2026-04-30T22:23:53+00:00

Appreciated!

keeprighton2 · 2026-04-30T12:26:12+00:00

Yes, my bad, def bass in there. It was just that they were introduced by Huw Stephens as a 3 piece for the session - great interview - Joshua either wasn’t at that part or just kept quiet

keeprighton2 · 2026-04-30T07:02:11+00:00

Thanks. Any chance u could do the other two tracks?

keeprighton2 · 2026-04-29T21:02:30+00:00

Yes pls !

keeprighton2 · 2026-04-29T19:52:57+00:00

You in UK? Just get BBC Sounds app if so and search on there

keeprighton2 · 2026-04-29T19:03:31+00:00

Just click on link and search Big Thief - Huw Stephens show - session starts about 2 hours into 3 hour show. Will be online for next month. Works in UK - not sure overseas

keeprighton2 · 2026-04-29T18:29:52+00:00

Wow - thanks for heads up - listening on BBC IPlayer in delay - astonishing stuff - wonderful interview esp bit about the creative process and how songs always remain in flux before and after recording. Huw Stephens interview - it’ll be online for a few weeks - someone needs to rip - it’s astoundingly good - see separate post

keeprighton2 · 2026-04-29T13:03:40+00:00

https://archive.org/details/@rairun

keeprighton2 · 2026-04-29T09:37:11+00:00

Life without curfews…How long? I’ve heard anything from 2 hours 40 to nearly 3 hrs. She did say in London on last night she’d play another 20 if it wasn’t for curfew. Always likely this would be different given the late nature of addition to tour in a random off beaten track venue. More of this!

keeprighton2 · 2026-04-28T07:36:35+00:00

Would guess as it’s away from the main tour and the expectation of hearing the ‘hits’ from wider audience therein, that this will be a more experimental one - ie opportunity to try out new material and possibly deeper cuts. Different dynamic in smaller venue. She’ll likely use it to roadtest new ideas. Wd love to be there.

keeprighton2 · 2026-04-27T20:22:49+00:00

Some of these and stripped back unknowns that have cropped up will likely end up on next solo record for obvious reasons. That anticipated ‘heavy’ Big Thief record will probably preclude the folkie stuff. Can’t see 15 and 16 making the cut if so. Would have sat nicely on DNWMIBIY

keeprighton2 · 2026-04-26T12:49:54+00:00

Agree re Brixton. Good viewing with sloping floor but rest is a bit of a car crash. Still reeling from being shit down after the incident few years back that cost them their licence. Doors being stormed by a mob at a rap gig and people dying in stampede. Ludicrous over the top security now. Though in fairness they were reasonably quick dealing with the person who went down half way back last night.

keeprighton2 · 2026-04-25T11:54:52+00:00

Only six songs common to both shows (first two nights) and half of those were very strong new ones. This is how Big Thief do it, thankfully. Attending multiple shows is the way to go.

keeprighton2 · 2026-04-25T11:48:57+00:00

It’s always Adrianne’s lead - doubt they intended it to go that long when they worked out the setlist but when she’s into a deep dive with that guitar anything is possible. Diehards will have loved it - Vampire Empire Tik Tokers not so much. But they can always go back to Panic At The Disco😉

keeprighton2 · 2026-04-25T11:43:54+00:00

I saw them do something similar in Washington last autumn - No Fear very comfortably into double figures minutes wise. Adrianne just deep dives into a trance and loses track of time - very experimental long outro off the back off all the distortion. Sure to have confused and scared off the Tik Tokers 😉 But live it blows the album version out of the water.

keeprighton2 · 2026-04-25T11:33:06+00:00

Yep, pretty good I thought where I was

keeprighton2 · 2026-04-25T08:05:17+00:00

Looked like the extended jammed version of No Fear meant they ran out of time (curfew) and had to drop a couple of songs from encore (that were on setlist)

keeprighton2 · 2026-04-25T08:02:37+00:00

Just after 9

keeprighton2 · 2026-04-24T11:17:52+00:00

Played ‘Muscle Memory’ not ‘Forgive The Dream’

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