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September 17, 2007
Midlake & John Grant
This past week, my great friend John Grant was here in Boston, opening for Midlake at The Paradise. The entire show was excellent. John was the lead singer of The Czars, and now he's performing new songs on his own. An example of one of his older songs (with The Czars) is below.
(Wanna John's amazing versions of classics from Connie Francis, Abba, Tim Buckley, Patsy Cline, Simon & Garfunkel, and others? Then check this out.)
And Midlake were fantastic. If you don't have their album The Trials of Van Occupanther, I can't recommend it enough--it was one of my top-tens of last year. Here's an example why:
Posted by scottheim at September 17, 2007 12:41 AM
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Ah! I have that covers album! His interpretation of the Tim Buckley song is just gorgeous.
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at September 18, 2007 04:01 PM
Midlake played the Austin City Limits Festival yesterday. I wanted to check them out, but they played at the same time as Common and Bloc Party. Oh well, they're from Denton, TX, so I'm assuming they'll be back here soon enough.
Posted by: ttrentham at September 17, 2007 03:25 PM
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