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LIMITED VINYL EDITION, Includes Bonus full length CD of the album. Deluxe 3 disc set, Double Coloured Vinyl with exclusive Bonus track + Bonus CD Album. Limited Edition of 500 for the world.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Lau's second full release is a live one, an unusual move for a band with such a small canon of material. It is de rigueur for a regular band to this around about album number 5 or 6. Lau are not a regular band and playing live is central to the ethos of these guys.
`Live' is built primarily from `Lightweights & Gentlemen', but also gave us early visibility of some of the songs that would later appear on the splendid `Arc Light' including `Frank and Flo's' and the peerless `Banks of Marble', a wonderful Kris Drever vocal track.
The record kicks off with an 8 minute version of `Stewarts' and is unique to this record. This is a live favourite of both the band and the audience and can change significantly from gig to gig. This version features a Martin Green accordion solo that is furious and I would suspect caused significant damage to the instrument.
Many of my friends tell me they cannot stand live albums even by their favourite bands as the experience of listening never captures the essence of the live experience and the sound tends to be of a lower quality. This simply does not occur here. `Lau Live' is a killer record and needs to be in your collection, buy it now.
`Live' is built primarily from `Lightweights & Gentlemen', but also gave us early visibility of some of the songs that would later appear on the splendid `Arc Light' including `Frank and Flo's' and the peerless `Banks of Marble', a wonderful Kris Drever vocal track.
The record kicks off with an 8 minute version of `Stewarts' and is unique to this record. This is a live favourite of both the band and the audience and can change significantly from gig to gig. This version features a Martin Green accordion solo that is furious and I would suspect caused significant damage to the instrument.
Many of my friends tell me they cannot stand live albums even by their favourite bands as the experience of listening never captures the essence of the live experience and the sound tends to be of a lower quality. This simply does not occur here. `Lau Live' is a killer record and needs to be in your collection, buy it now.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Greysuit
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Probably their best album so far.
This is not finger in the ear folk music - this is crank it up to 11 folk music.
Some amazing overlaps, fiddling and time signatures could help Lau to re-define folk music.
Let's hope so.
This is not finger in the ear folk music - this is crank it up to 11 folk music.
Some amazing overlaps, fiddling and time signatures could help Lau to re-define folk music.
Let's hope so.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By MG Watson
Format:Audio CD
Fantastic Scottish live folk band, imaginative use of instruments, particularly the accordion. "Unquiet grave" will cut into your very soul. An album not to be missed.
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sophisticated folk
Although recognisably Scottish, this is rather more nuanced than a lot of Scottish bands. You've got your guitar, fiddle and accordion, with good vocals as well on some songs,... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Captain Kirk
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A proper Diddle-fest with oodles of character
Great live performance, brio and dash... superb musicianship, a great example of Nouveau Scottish Folk Rock er...or whatever you care to call it. Read more
Published on 16 Oct 2008 by Man of Kent
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