Here We Go Magic

Thu, April 26, 2012
Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm

This event is all ages.

$13.00 - $15.00

Here We Go Magic’s sophomore album, Pigeons, had only been out a few weeks when the seeds for A Different Ship were planted in late June 2010 at the Glastonbury Festival. The New York band had been on the road since spring, wowing audiences at Bonnaroo, Coachella and elsewhere with their uncanny live chemistry, turning album tracks into intricately groovy sonic explorations where the band seemed almost synchronously possessed. That had been their sweet spot since their earliest rehearsals together, when singer/songwriter Luke Temple, bassist Jennifer Turner, guitarist Michael Bloch and drummer Peter Hale bonded over a shared belief in musical spontaneity and a kind of improvisation that feels too divinely ordered to be called “jamming.”

But you can never count on festival conditions, and Glastonbury started off rough for Here We Go Magic. Onstage before noon in the scorching sun, operating on a few hours of uncomfortable sleep (“we didn’t know we were supposed to bring tents”), they struggled at the start of their set to feel connected to the crowd. “We were playing horribly hungover and groggy in front of hungover and groggy people,” says Bloch.
“The crowd wasn’t giving us much to work with, except for these two guys standing in front,” Temple continues. “One of them was dancing around like a maniac and I was like, ‘I’m just gonna play for those two guys. Then I realized, ‘That’s f~~king Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich!’” The band met Yorke and Godrich briefly after their set, and over the next few weeks, Godrich popped up at their shows in London and Paris, eventually proposing to Here We Go Magic that he might lend a hand with their next recording. In particular, the producer said he thought he could help them better communicate their hypnotic and hypnagogic live vibe on tape.

But you can never count on festival conditions, and Glastonbury started off rough for Here We Go Magic. Onstage before noon in the scorching sun, operating on a few hours of uncomfortable sleep (“we didn’t know we were supposed to bring tents”), they struggled at the start of their set to feel connected to the crowd. “We were playing horribly hungover and groggy in front of hungover and groggy people,” says Bloch.
“The crowd wasn’t giving us much to work with, except for these two guys standing in front,” Temple continues. “One of them was dancing around like a maniac and I was like, ‘I’m just gonna play for those two guys. Then I realized, ‘That’s f~~king Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich!’” The band met Yorke and Godrich briefly after their set, and over the next few weeks, Godrich popped up at their shows in London and Paris, eventually proposing to Here We Go Magic that he might lend a hand with their next recording. In particular, the producer said he thought he could help them better communicate their hypnotic and hypnagogic live vibe on tape.