Following yesterday’s post of the 9/1/2010 Birds and Batteries show, here’s another they played two years ago in Denver.  Listening to both 2008 and 2010 yields some insight into this band’s evolution over the past two years.

Birds and Batteries
7.17.2008
The Lion’s Lair, Denver, CO

Source: DPA 4060s (Core-Sound HEBs) > battery box > Lunatec V3 > M-Audio Microtrack 2 > CF > WAV > Adobe Audition 3.0 > CDWave
Taped by: Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. intro
2. We’re An Industry
3. I’ll Never Sleep Again
4. Soft Surveillance
5. After A Flood
6. Turnstyles
7. Ocarina
8. Mythology: The Great Director
9. Star Clusters

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files are available upon request.

A enthralling set from Katherine Ersing of Pollination Population, this is one of those noise collages that I could listen to for hours.

Pollination Population
7.11.2010
Titwrench Fest, Glob, Denver, CO

Source:  [DPA 4060’s > DAD6001’s > Lunatec V3] + [SBD > 1/4″] > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Mixdown > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. intro
2. Be Your Honey Bee
3. Noise Set

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be downloaded as a zipfile here.

After coming through Denver many times to play the Lion’s Lair, Birds and Batteries scored a headlining slot at the Hi-Dive this month.  The band’s upcoming album Panorama is available for pre-sale in LP or CD format via Spune, and hits stores on October 12th.

Birds and Batteries
9.01.2010
Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Source:  [Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3] + [SBD > 1/4″] > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Mixdown > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Lightning
2. The Villain
3. Sneaky Times
4. Strange Kind of Mirror
5. We’re an Industry
6. Squeeze Box
7. Star Clusters
8. Lonely Guns >
9. Out in the Woods
10. A Million People

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be downloaded as a zipfile here.

(Photo by Tim Weilert of Something Like Sound.)

As previously noted, Owen Ashworth is on his last U.S tour ever as Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.  He stopped in Denver last night to serve up one more helping of tunes awash in disappointment, desolation, aspiration, and love. While a little light on early albums (only one song each from Twinkle Echo and Pocket Symphonies), CFTPA nevertheless covered the breadth of a 13 year catalog. Two rare covers also emerged, Christmas in Oakland and John Prine’s Christmas in Prison. Australian trio Otouto backed Owen for most of the show, and also opened with a set of their own material.

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
9.11.2010
Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Source:  [Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3] + [SBD > 1/4″] > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Mixdown > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. intro
2. Harsh the Herald Angels Sing
3. Toby Take A Bow
4. Nashville Parthenon
5. White Corolla
6. Young Shields
7. Tonight Was a Disaster
8. Ice Cream Truck
9. Man o’ War
10. Old Panda Days
11. I Love Creedence
12. New Year’s Kiss
13. Natural Light
14. Christmas in Oakland
15. Christmas In Prison
16. Northfield, MN
17. Killers
18. Cold White Christmas
19. Bobby Malone Moves Home
(Encore)
20. White Jetta
21. Optimist Vs. The Silent Alarm (When The Saints Go Marching In)
22. White on White

Notes:
OTOUTO played as Owen’s backing band.

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be found via BitTorrent at Dime.

Vitamins were lying low for most of the summer, but returned in August and September with plenty of new jams.  All but two of the tracks below are unreleased!  The band’s last studio EP, Songs For Stem Cells, can be downloaded from Amazon and iTunes, or picked up in physical form at Twist and Shout.

Vitamins
9.01.2010
Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Source:  [Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3] + [SBD > 1/4″] > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Mixdown > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Track #01
2. Annual Bi-Centennial
3. Track #03
4. A Fear Of Rattles
5. Track #05
6. Track #06
7. Track #07

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be downloaded as a zipfile here.