Art Brut – Live On KEXP

Setlist:
Formed A Band
Emily Kane
Post Soothing Out
Good Weekend

Listen to KEXP here. Photo via Spin.

MP3: Art Brut – Live On KEXP

Here’s what Eddie Argos has shared thus far:

*Rhode Island

Rhode Island was the first day of the tour. The crowd were aces, as were Demander and the Hold Steady. It’s the first time I’d seen either live and it was just a glimpse of how much fun this tour is going to be. There was also a Cuban restaurant whose menus claimed they were fighting for the rights of Cubans and for the truth about Cuba to be told. If those are your aims, I don’t know if opening a sandwich shop in Providence, Rhode Island is the best way of reaching your goals, even if your steak sandwiches are really good.

Boston

Boston is when I noticed that no one understands what I’m saying and that I need to take an American with me whenever I order anything in restaurants, especially water or tomatoes. I made a very good joke about it on stage, no one laughed (obviously because they didn’t understand what I was saying).

Philadelphia

Philadelphia was by far my favourite show so far, and the Hold Steady played perhaps the best show I’ve ever seen anyone play. We were brought a lot of presents by fans too, a wrestler called Chris Hero brought us some T-shirts and DVDs of himself. We were also given a bag full of cookies and cake with a card, we scoffed the cookies and read the card after. I was a bit worried the card was going to say “These should take effect in about half an hour”. Either I or the person writing the review for NME.COM had taken something though, as we have wildly different recollections of what happened. I never take my shirt off, I know what I look like in side profile.

North Carolina

Was a blast, John from the Mountain Goats came down so I watched the Hold Steady with him and then later listened to the Mountain Goats with Craig (a bit like spending an evening inside my record collection). Demander told me it was their best show, it was the only one I’ve missed (I was doing the merch stall). They’ve been amazing every night, so I’m sure it must have been pretty spectacular. I’m sad I missed it.

Back soon!
Ed Argos.*

MP3: Art Brut – Modern Art [alternate link]

The quirky Brits recently recorded a mini-set for The Interface featuring ‘Good Weekend’, ‘Direct Hit’, ‘Post Soothing Out’ & ‘Pump Up The Volume’. Check out a performance of the latter track below. To view the entire show, head over to Spinner.com, here.

MP3: Art Brut – Pump Up The Volume

The quirky Brits recently recorded a mini-set for The Interface featuring ‘Good Weekend’, ‘Direct Hit’, ‘Post Soothing Out’ & ‘Pump Up The Volume’. Check out a performance of the latter track below. To view the entire show, head over to Spinner.com, here.

MP3: Art Brut – Pump Up The Volume

The quirky Brits recently recorded a mini-set for The Interface featuring ‘Good Weekend’, ‘Direct Hit’, ‘Post Soothing Out’ & ‘Pump Up The Volume’. Check out a performance of the latter track below. To view the entire show, head over to Spinner.com, here.

MP3: Art Brut – Pump Up The Volume

Check out the clip below of Art Brut’s performance of It’s A Bit Complicated‘s ‘Direct Hit’ on Late Night With Conan O’Brien yesterday evening. Fantastic job, as always…

MP3: Art Brut – Direct Hit

All hail Art Brut.

Check out their highly amusing toga-centric party clip for latest single, ‘Direct Hit’, below.

MP3: Art Brut – Formed A Band (via Darla)

NME is reporting that Art Brut’s tongue-heavily-in-cheek lyrics are now a focal point for one particular course at a university in Berlin. AB frontman, Eddie Argos explains:

*’In one of the main universities in Berlin yesterday, they had a lecture about my lyrics, which is funny… It was called ‘The Depressive Dandy – the Lyrics of Eddie Argos’. It’s amazing I’m on the curriculum. In Germany, they think I’m an intellectual, which is ridiculous…

They say things like ‘As an intellectual Eddie, what do you think about this?’ and I say ‘But I’m NOT an intellectual, I’m an idiot’… I tell them ‘you think I’m much more intelligent than I am’ and they think I’m being modest!’ Yesterday though I did an interview with a lads mag and they were asking me about Pauly Shore and sex tapes and I thought ‘Brilliant, they definitely know I’m an idiot’.*

MP3: Art Brut – Direct Hit

Two of my favourite bands played Studio B on the 18th. I only wish that this combination was as winning as it should have been. A number of factors attributed to this less than stellar night: hangovers (“I haven’t slept in two days!” declares Art Brut’s publicist outside before the show), Studio B getting the bands onstage late, Studio B opening the doors really late and probably most significantly, the timid all ages crowd (sorry).

As unfortunate as all those factors are, Art Brut and O’death are really consumate professionals at this point in their careers. They know that the audience has come to see them act crazy and even if they cannot feed off of a frenzied audience, they still put in an effort to entertain.

This was my…4th? time with Art Brut. I chose this show over Ratatat at Webster Hall. Call me crazy, but the thought of not seeing Eddie Argos as he blew through town was too much to handle. An Art Brut show makes me intolerably happy.

The band previewed some new tracks, which I am sure I will come to love. Eddie cracked a joke about one saying that we had never heard it since it had not been purposely leaked.

As always at Studio B, crazed fans feel it is necessary to jump onstage. Here comes the inexperienced concert goers part. There was one failed attempted by a boy to get up next to Eddie. He only succeeded in nearly breaking my hand that was lying on the speaker as his boot smashed ontop of it. It is still killing me. I turned around, fists blaring but realised he was 15 and I better not.

To those wondering if I stayed for Soulwax. I did not. That would have involved another line and ten bucks I didn’t have after Studio B kicked us all out after Art Brut.

Two of my favourite bands played Studio B on the 18th. I only wish that this combination was as winning as it should have been. A number of factors attributed to this less than stellar night: hangovers (“I haven’t slept in two days!” declares Art Brut’s publicist outside before the show), Studio B getting the bands onstage late, Studio B opening the doors really late and probably most significantly, the timid all ages crowd (sorry).

As unfortunate as all those factors are, Art Brut and O’death are really consumate professionals at this point in their careers. They know that the audience has come to see them act crazy and even if they cannot feed off of a frenzied audience, they still put in an effort to entertain.

This was my…4th? time with Art Brut. I chose this show over Ratatat at Webster Hall. Call me crazy, but the thought of not seeing Eddie Argos as he blew through town was too much to handle. An Art Brut show makes me intolerably happy.

The band previewed some new tracks, which I am sure I will come to love. Eddie cracked a joke about one saying that we had never heard it since it had not been purposely leaked.

As always at Studio B, crazed fans feel it is necessary to jump onstage. Here comes the inexperienced concert goers part. There was one failed attempted by a boy to get up next to Eddie. He only succeeded in nearly breaking my hand that was lying on the speaker as his boot smashed ontop of it. It is still killing me. I turned around, fists blaring but realised he was 15 and I better not.

To those wondering if I stayed for Soulwax. I did not. That would have involved another line and ten bucks I didn’t have after Studio B kicked us all out after Art Brut.