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Tour Dates
05/27/16 Manchester, "Dot To Dot"
05/28/16 Bristol, "Dot To Dot" 05/29/16 Nottingham, "Dot To Dot" 06/01/16 London, Village Underground 07/17/16 Suffolk, UK "Latitude Festival" 07/23/16 Dublin, Ireland Iveagh Gardens Read More
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Ahead of their tour-ending final North American stop at the Cedar Cultural Center, Dublin alt/indie-folk band Little Green Cars stopped in to local record store The Electric Fetus, to perform a gentle but arresting twenty-minute set followed by a meet and greet, in support of second full-length album, Ephemera (on Glassnote/Island Records).
Adam O'Regan, Stevie Appleby, Faye O'Rourke, Donagh Seaver O'Leary and Dylan Lynch played an enjoyable four-song acoustic set, though were also looking forward to returning home to Ireland for a brief break, before beginning a European summer tour.
Without fanfare or even proper intro, the band began with ‘Brother’, armed with only acoustic guitars, handheld percussion, and small keyboard. ‘You vs. Me’ brought tall and usually shy singer Stevie Appleby to the forefront, supported by the band’s pitch-perfect harmonies and gentle finger-plucking.
“We have a new record out, and I wrote a poem about it” Appleby said next, mentioning that “Ephemera means all things must pass” as he summed up the album’s vision and its place amongst all the other musical works in the marketplace.
“Today is actually the last day of our seven-week tour… we’re gonna make you smell us now” Appleby joked as the quintet moved away from the amplification and speakers and stepped forward, to finish their set off-mic and as close to the gathered crowd as possible.
‘The Factory’ proved a proper set closer, it’s gospel-tinged chorus of “Jesus, Mary, Mother of God, I’m alive again” ideally suited to their well-honed harmonies, perfected from rehearsals and countless hours in tour vans, practicing acapella.
The W.B. Yeats poem of the same name that inspired the new album reflects its themes of transitory enjoyment and random items of short-lived importance in its lines, “Before us lies eternity; our souls are love, and a continual farewell.”
With an endearing free acoustic set, Little Green Cars provided the apt farewell to North America... until the next time.
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Little Green Cars
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Without fanfare or even proper intro, the band began with ‘Brother’, armed with only acoustic guitars, handheld percussion, and small keyboard. ‘You vs. Me’ brought tall and usually shy singer Stevie Appleby to the forefront, supported by the band’s pitch-perfect harmonies and gentle finger-plucking.
“We have a new record out, and I wrote a poem about it” Appleby said next, mentioning that “Ephemera means all things must pass” as he summed up the album’s vision and its place amongst all the other musical works in the marketplace.
“Today is actually the last day of our seven-week tour… we’re gonna make you smell us now” Appleby joked as the quintet moved away from the amplification and speakers and stepped forward, to finish their set off-mic and as close to the gathered crowd as possible.
‘The Factory’ proved a proper set closer, it’s gospel-tinged chorus of “Jesus, Mary, Mother of God, I’m alive again” ideally suited to their well-honed harmonies, perfected from rehearsals and countless hours in tour vans, practicing acapella.
The W.B. Yeats poem of the same name that inspired the new album reflects its themes of transitory enjoyment and random items of short-lived importance in its lines, “Before us lies eternity; our souls are love, and a continual farewell.”
With an endearing free acoustic set, Little Green Cars provided the apt farewell to North America... until the next time.
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Little Green Cars at Electric Fetus, Minneapolis (07 May 2016) |
