[photo by nyctaper]
After more than a decade of work as a band, at the end of 2007 The Slip went on hiatus. Two years later, they are back. At Sullivan Hall on Saturday night, guitarist/vocalist Brad Barr announced in the middle of their longest show in two years that the band was actively recording new material and would play many shows in 2010. Throughout the two-set show The Slip performed several of these newer songs, but satisfied the packed crowd with best-ever quality versions of the classic material — “Children of December”, “Wolof” and the thirteen-minute “Paper Birds” in particular. If this epic show is any indication, 2010 will be a banner year for The Slip.
We recorded this set from the left side elevated seating area fifteen feet from the PA. While the raised area gave us a direct line to the stacks, albeit off-center, there is persistent crowd chatter on this recording. With that caveat, enjoy!
Direct download of MP3 files: (Set 1 HERE) (Set 2 HERE)
Download the Complete show in FLAC [HERE].
The Slip
2010-01-02
Sullivan Hall
New York, NY USA
Four-Track Digital Master Recording
Recorded from Upfront Left Side – 15 Feet from PA
Neumann KM-150s + DPA 4021’s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac
Recorded and Produced
by nyctaper
2010-01-04
Setlist:
Set 1:
[Total Time 1:09:26]
01 [introduction]
02 Aurora
03 Broke The Promise Land
04 Gaunt Debutante
05 Give the Devil Back His Heart
06 If You Knew
07 The Soft Machine
08 Happy Snails
09 All I Saw Was You
10 Children of December
Set 2:
[Total Time 1:23:13]
01 [introduction]
02 Paper Birds
03 Motherwolf*
04 [banter]
05 Airplane/Primitive
06 Wolof
07 Suffication Keep
08 [encore break]
09 Let There Be Horses
10 [second encore break]
11 Pass It On
12 Heartbreaker (Zep)*
*with Marco Benevento
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Awesome! Thanks Dan. I was so impressed with Eisenhower when it came out. Can’t wait to heard the new stuff. Any idea whether 2010 will see the release of a new studio album?
Thanks for this one!! Excellent show with a nice mix of new and old material. Hope they play a lot in 2010!
This is a ncie setlist. Some good old stuff in there too. Here’s to hoping for a tour.
the crowd does not interfere with the quality of this recording in any way. thanks for posting! I second harry’s emotion as well.
so glad i found this awesome thanks