

[photos by Corry Arnold – courtesy of Impose Magazine]

He’s been recording albums for more than ten years, and Kevin Devine decided to have a party to celebrate. And what a party it was, as Kevin came bearing gifts in the form of three of his albums played straight through in three sets at Webster Hall on Saturday last. He performed his first album Circle Gets The Square as a solo acoustic set, and mixed in one new Sandy-inspired song. The final two sets and the encores were played with two different version of the band, as set two consisted of the latest album Between the Concrete and Clouds with a stripped down God Damn Band, and the final set of Split the Country, Split the Street (and encores) with a full version of the band. This was an ambitious undertaking, but in the end it proved that Kevin and the God Damn Band were up to the task. Overall, the night saw the performance of thirty-eight separate songs in close to three full hours of music — a marathon of sorts, but also a full-scale celebration of the career thus far of one of indie-pop’s great songwriters and perhaps one of its most under-appreciated ones at that. The result was one of the best shows we saw all year.

I recorded this set with the Sennheiser cards mounted in front of the soundboard in the balcony and mixed with a superb soundboard feed. For the first set, I did not fully reset my levels after a high-volume soundcheck, so that Kevin’s quiet set has low levels on the master that had to be boosted, leading to some ambient noise. For the second set, everything was dialed in perfectly and the sound is superb. Finally, the rowdiness of the now-drunk crowd is maybe a bit too apparent in the third set, which sounds excellent but has quite a bit of shouting, even with the board feed boosted. With those caveats, enjoy!

Stream “Protest Singer”:



Stream “Between The Concrete and the Clouds”:



Stream “Cotton Crush”:



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Kevin Devine

2012-12-01

Webster Hall

New York, NY USA

Digital Master Recording

Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Soundboard + Sennheiser MKH-8040s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, downsample set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and Tagging via Foobar)

Recorded and Produced

by nyctaper

2012-12-06

Setlist:

[Set 1 – Total Time 43:51]

01 [introduction]

02 Fingerprints and Photographs

03 [banter – Circle]

04 Write Your Story Now

05 Protest Singer

06 Guys With Record Collections

07 [banter – John]

08 If We Meet Today

09 [new song intro]

10 From Here

11 This Box Is Empty

12 Working in Quiet

13 Letting a Good One Go

14 Confessional at 6 PM

15 [banter – thanks]

16 Lullaby For a Snow Faced Girl

[Set 2 – Total Time 44:09]

17 Off-Screen

18 The First Hit

19 [banter]

20 Sleepwalking Through My Life

21 Awake In the Dirt

22 Between the Concrete and the Clouds

23 11-17

24 [band introductions]

25 Wait Out the Wreck

26 A Story A Sneak

27 The City Has Left You Alone

28 I Used To Be Someone

[Set 3 – Total Time 1:15:45]

29 Cotton Crush

30 Afterparty

31 No Time Flat

32 [banter]

33 Keep Ringing Your Bell

34 No One Elses Problem

35 Buried By The Buzz

36 Haircut

37 Probably

38 Alabama Acres

39 Yr Damned Ol Dad

40 [band introductions]

41 The Shift Change Splits The Streets

42 You Are The Daybreak

43 Lord I Know We Dont Talk

44 [encore break]

45 Every Famous Last Word

46 Just Stay

47 Noose Dressed Like A Necklace

48 [banter – thanks]

49 My Brothers Blood

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