This post is partly an excuse to write about my favourite gig of the year (and possibly of my life) but also a discussion of what happens when an artist you like starts taking their work to ’strange new places’.
Dan Deacon is famous for his live shows. He works with all his equipment on a table down on the floor amongst the crowd, with the house lights on for much of the set. He garnered much acclaim for his gigs in Whelan’s and Vicar St in December 2007 and June of this year and, with that in mind, I got Spiderman of the Rings (2007) and marked out the Baltimore man-child as one to see at Electric Picnic in August. He lived up to expectations.
