[photo by Taylor Forry]
On June 16, at the appropriately named Grand Ballroom, a room full of awed people witnessed an absolutely amazing display of musicianship, spectacle and performance. Sigur Ros were joined by their friends Amiina and an Icelandic horn section, and for two full hours presented a flawless rendition of their material. This was not just a concert, it was an event, and from the very first notes the energy in the room was electric. In the last two weeks, the glowing reviews have accumulated with nary a negative word — truly an accomplishment in these days of opinion overload.
We sat in the 5th row for this concert, close enough to see all the stage interactions, but far enough back to feel the depth of the outstanding sound quality at this concert. We did not record, but rather relied on our correspondent “oneforthegooddays” to capture this event. By happenstance, he sat about 10 seats to our left.
This recording was made with a modest Sony stereo microphone and the rockbox upgraded i-River and is true to the sound in the venue — this is a flawless superb capture. Thank you oneforthegooddays!
This download is going to be available simultaneously on nyctaper and oneforthegooddays site [HERE], and in celebration of this amazing event, we will return to direct flac download and also offer direct mp3 download for this recording!
Direct download of MP3 files (HERE)
Download the Complete Concert in FLAC [HERE].
Sigur Ros
2008-06-16
Manhattan Center Grand Ballroom
New York, NY USA
Digital Master Recording
Recorded from FOB
Row E, Seat 3
Sony ECM DS70P > i-River (Rockbox) > 16bit 44.1kHz wav > Soundforge (set fades, slight level adjustment) > CD Wave > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac
Recorded by oneforthegooddays
Produced by nyctaper
2008-06-28
Setlist
[total time 1:36:19]
01 Svefn-g-Englar
02 Glósóli
03 Sé Lest
04 Ny Batteri
05 Við Spilum Endalaust
06 Hoppipola/Með Blóðnasir
07 Heysatan
08 Viõrar Vel Til Loftárasa
09 Sæglópur
10 Olsen Olsen
11 Hafsol
12 Inní Mér Syngur Vitleysingur
13 Gobbledigook
Encore:Popplagið (not recorded)
If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Sigur Rós, visit their website, visit their MySpace page, and purchase their new CD Með suð à eyrum við spilum endalaust directly from their website.
looking very forward to this…
thanks to you nyctaper & your colleague.
awesome quality for a bootleg! thank you so much for sharing this gem!
THANK YOU!
THANK YOU!
THANK YOU!
hey danlynch,
thank you soooo much for your recordings.
you did a perfect job with your buddy and
you made a lot of sigur rós fans so happy.
thx again dude and we all owe you something. :)
alex79
thanks alot to you guys for recording and sharing, it’s much appreciated :)
Thanx much for all the efforts, greatly looking forward to listening.
I’d imagine everyone involved was cheering loudly during the encore and having a great time. It’ll live on eternally in our memories.
Thank you for this wonderfull recording!
And thx to the guy who recorded it.
as alex said, we all owe you something.
best wishes!
THANKS DEADBIRD FOR TAPING
THANKS DAN FOR RELEASING
Thanks a lot, the recording quality is amazing, great job!
Thanks to everyone involved for making this available. Excellent sounding recording and great to see it being offered in lossless format too
took forever to download this, but it’s great. Thank you.
Love the new album too and am going to see Sigur Ros live in november, so the bootleg acts as a sneeky peek.
muchas gracias gente lo escucho seguro q debe star buenisimo!!!
And the babelfish translation:
“thank you very much people I listen to safe q must star best!”