

[photo by Sean O’Kane]

Kevin Devine is such a nice guy that its hard for me to believe that he was once in a band that broke up. The Miracle of 86 was a popular Staten Island based power pop quartet who toured and recorded from 1998 to 2003, before Kevin launched his solo career. Following the tragic events of the superstorm and the massive damage to their home borough, the band reunited on Staten Island for a benefit concert in January. The experience was so positive that Miracle of 86 decided to keep it going — with two shows in June. We attended the Maxwells date a couple of weeks back, and it was a show that felt very much like a bunch of old friends getting together to play some songs. The stage banter was friendly and funny and the performance of the old material was both inspired and surprisingly tight. We’re streaming “Sunday School”, which was so well played that it could be released tomorrow. Miracle of 86 could very well play more reunion shows, but for now Kevin will be concentrating, after his hugely successful Kickstarter (for two albums!) on his solo career. Expect a show in NYC in late summer / early fall.

I recorded this show in our usual manner in this venue and the sound is superb. Enjoy!

Stream “Sunday School”:



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Miracle Of 86

2013-06-14

Maxwells

Hoboken NJ

Digital Master Recording

Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Soundboard + Neumann TLM-102s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2 x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and tagging via Foobar)

Recorded and Produced

by nyctaper 2013-06-26

Setlist:

[Total Time 58:02]

01 [intro]

02 Sleep All Damn Day

03 G Song

04 Every Famous Last Word

05 [banter – stripes]

06 Surprise Me

07 Southern State

08 Dance Dance Revolution

09 [banter – Bryan Adams]

10 Knife

11 When Its on My Mind

12 [banter – Alice in Chains teaser]

13 Call Off The Cops

14 I Think You Meant to Say No

15 A Less Important Place

16 Nice Shirt Salvador Dali

17 Your Quicksilver Moment

18 Sunday School

19 [banter]

20 Red 19

21 [outro]

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Miracle of 86 alumnus Kevin Devine, visit his website, and purchase is official releases from Razor and Tie Records [HERE].