Final Fantasy
Dec 11th, 2007 by Donagh
Final Fantasy plays Vicar Street, Dublin tonight.
Final Fantasy is Owen Pallett, a classically trained musician (and another bloody Canadian) who, because he was not careful in the classical sense, fell lopsided into popular music’s mainstream as the string arranger for Arcade Fire and Hidden Cameras. In 2006 though he brought out his second solo album He Poos Clouds, sealing his fate as a brilliant indie pop-star, kinda.
Live Owen Pallett doesn’t try to reproduce the sound of his songs as they are recorded (probably because many require members of a chamber orchestra) sticking instead to his violin with loop pedal and maybe a drummer.
However, he’s still managed to put on a great live show and I’m certainly looking forward to it.
Trillpier tells us that Owen is asking for people to let him know what songs they’d like to hear at gigs (a bit late now for tonight’s one I’d say), but unfortunately, some of these requests don’t come for free.
Here’s the price list:
Has A Good Home
All songs are free, with the exception of:
Your Light Is Spent - a copy of your favourite work of fiction
Furniture - spelt flour chocolate cupcakes for at least 200 audience members
The Chronicles Of Sarnia - a string quartet who can sightread and are willing to accompanyPlease Please Please - a Boss SP-1 Spectrum guitar effects pedal in working condition
He Poos Clouds
All songs are free, with the exception of:
If I Were A Carp - a large, airtight bottle
The Pooka Sings - twenty large carafes of coffee for all the dozing audience membersSpectrum 14th Century
The Book Of Butchery - a pair of Calvin Klein socks
Cockatrice & Chickatrice - twenty tambourines (will be returned after the song)Final Fantasy Plays To Please
Horsetail Feathers - free
Ultimatum - freeCovers and Miscellany
Fantasy - a bottle of Hendrick’s Gin
Honour The Dead, Or Else! - $1 000
Any Les Mouches or Tenderizer Material - a bottle of Hendrick’s Gin, with shaker and dry vermouth
Chopin, Schumann or Beethoven on the piano, Bach or Ysaye on the violin - free, why not?
I prefer the obscure remix did an interview with Owen a while back and says that he’s a good laugh, although most of the interview seemed dominated by the singular qualities of the Omnicord.
Live tracks courtesy of lullabyes.net.
This Lamb Sells Condos: Play Now | Play in Popup The CN Tower Belongs to the Dead: Play Now | Play in Popup Song Song Song - Live: Play Now | Play in Popup He Poos Clouds - Live: Play Now | Play in Popup
The interview was dominated by the Omnichord and the Juno, and various analog synths, technology, and music software program’s. Not the kind of thing I ever expected Owen to be into, therefore we went on a rather large tangent alright, as it was interesting to get his take on these subjects and the wit in which he delivered it. The full interview is available in this month’s Totally Dublin, which has hit the streets now. I’ll post it for everyone once it’s out of circulation.
Thanks for letting me know. As I rarely come across Totally Dublin I’ll wait for you to post it - more likely to read it there.
No probs Donagh, and cheers for the mention! Wish I was going tonight, Miracle Fortres and A Hawk And A Hacksaw, great bill.
Miracle Fortres played while I was on the Dart and A Hawk And A Hacksaw cancelled. But Pallett was great.
I heard AHAAH cancelled, but the other two were great. Excellent reports about Miracle Fortress. And now I hear FF is playing again tonight as special guest at Girl Talk. Twice in two nights, twice missed. More fool me! Still haven’t managed to see Pallett. Some day.