Woodpigeon – No Cigarettes
Serendipity struck for Woodpigeon at End Of The Road this year, when fellow Canadian act Timber Timbre were delayed on the way to the festival, leaving a vacant slot to be filled on the site’s main stage, the Garden Stage.
Frontman Mark Hamilton was the only Woodpigeon to make the trip over from Calgary for the festival. Fortunately, however, he has a ready-made backing band waiting for him on these shores in the form of our very own Eagleowl – the two band’s origins are entwined with each other following Mark’s time spent living in Edinburgh a few years back – and the collective heroically stepped into the breach.
The band had performed the previous day on another stage, and – during a barnstorming set – had covered Withered Hand‘s wonderful No Cigarettes.
I was looking forward to a repeat performance when I heard about them covering for Timber Timbre, and thought it might be a good idea to film the song this time.
The video quality’s not exactly High Def because it’s only from my little Sony point-and-click instant camera, and it’s a bit shaky in places because - well – it’s me filming it; but it’s not too bad all things considered.
What an absolutely brilliant version of that song! Don’t tell Toad but, covers are brilliant!
I saw them when they did this earlier in the day, it was fantastic. Also, eagleowl’s own set was pretty special- one of many highlights, what a great festival!
What a result. That is some crowd they got.
And that wasn’t the only Withered Hand cover of the weekend…
Thanks for posting both of those Dylan. Nothing wrong with interesting cover versions. really enjoyed them.
Great covers, and fantastic videos. Thanks Dylan.
When it’s songs I know this well I actually like covers.
I think it’s because I’m a hypocrite.
Love both vids, and the EOTR stage is very cool!
As far as I’m concerned Eagleowl, Woodpigeon, Meursault, Withered Hand – they could all just keep producing cover versions of each other’s songs and I’d be happy.
Wouldn’t they eventually just run out of songs and end up creating some sort of spatial anomaly like a black hole or wormhole which would suck creation in its entirety in on itself?
That is probably what would happen.
Of course it’s what would happen – I can easily prove this with a Flux Capacitor.
Matthew – did you happen to notice how many people in the crowd were sitting down? What’s going on over there?
Madness – madness I tell you. If I’d been there myself there’d be none of that sort of shit, I tell you!
On that subject, I didn’t think you’d gone to End Of The Road, Matthew.
At least we’d die happy.
That we would, Agnes, that we would.