So, despite sounding like ‘kangaroo’, it turns out Bonnaroo isn’t in Australia but Tennessee. Who knew? Dirty Projectors’ appearance at the festival there earlier this year ended with a guest appearance from David Byrne, joining the band for Knotty Pine. There’s a nice audience recording of this and the rest of the set by, confusingly, an Aussie guy called Morris, here.
Definitely located in Australia is ABC - the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. A few weeks back, Dave did a phone interview with the ABC/Triple J’s Mornings With Zan radio programme. No surprises - who wants to delve too deep at nine in the morning? - but it’s worth a listen.
For more depth, and some surface, try Pitchfork’s Take Cover interview with Rob Carmichael, discussing his design of the Bitte Orca album cover. The piece touches on, but doesn’t explain, Nietzsche’s appearance opposite Dave on the back cover. Maybe unconnected but in the Making Music interview, Dave mentioned being into Wagner whilst at college. Nietzsche was a contemporary of Wagner and, for a time, a big advocate of Wagner’s music, with characteristically strong ideas about art and its role as a palliative against the chaos of the world. If you’re still in need of something to listen to after Bonnaroo and ABC, Philosophy Bites has two excellent podcasts covering Nietzsche’s take on art, truth and morality.
Miles– you are fucking awesome. Thanks for aggregating everything here with such style and grace. I no longer sift through Google news/blog results for “dirty projectors” every day, knowing I have you out there on the scene.
Yo! That was me that taped the Bonnaroo set.
Blog is now located at http://www.sydneytapes.blogspot.com and just letting you know that unless they’re playing the same night as Pavement in Sydney, I will be taping their sydney show as well. Glad you enjoyed it.