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• Jun16

  Take Away Shows

  Posted in Websites by Danielle Stowell Permalink

  Witnessing your favorite music performed live, and sharing that experience with the sea of people that surround you is, for most music enthusiasts, just about as good as it gets - regardless of what musical genre you prefer.

  What I love about the Take Away Shows on LaBlogotheque.net is that it gives you that concert experience, but with an appealing twist. Often there is no audience.

  The Take Away Shows showcase clips of somewhat lesser-known indie bands performing completely out of their traditional element. A few examples include: crammed into a freight elevator (#41.1 - Arcade Fire "Neon Bible"), on a subway train in Paris (#87.1 - Yeasayer "No Need to Worry"), or one of my personal favorites, being pushed around a warehouse on a loading cart (#35.1 - Cold War Kids "St. John").

  These clips give you a very intimate experience with the band, even though you're not there in person. The small audiences that do form around the spectacle (often unwittingly) add to the spontaneous, stripped-down feel of the performance. I am only familiar with a fraction of the bands featured on the site, but those of you with a more sophisticated musical palate might find some of your favorites.

  

  I just happened to stumble upon this musical goldmine one day, so I'm afraid I can't offer much of a background on the creators of the site itself. The main page of the site is in French, and my efforts to figure out how to view the page in English proved futile. I was, however able to determine that the Take Away Shows are just one component of the blog, which also offers opinions about current events, the arts, and world culture in general. Vincent Moon, often the contributing videographer of the Take Away Shows has dedicated the better part of his 20s to making films about music.