Lounge Act Recap - Ed Harcourt SXSW 2008
Our first performance on Wednesday morning was from Ed Harcourt. Last year, Ed parted ways with EMI who squeezed out a best-of retrospective disc but never released his final album, The Beautiful Lie, in the United States. Almost two years after its release overseas, this album has been picked up here by Dovecote Records, who are putting it out this summer. SXSW proved the perfect opportunity for Ed to play in the states with a full band for the first time in almost five years.
Our early morning session was not without some mild difficulty. About five minutes before we went live with the performance, Ed’s lovely wife Gita dropped her violin. She tinkered with it quite a bit but the look on her face said it all. She seemed quite uncertain about how she was going to play. The mood was tenuous during the first song after we went live, but she was able to get things back in working order and the show did indeed go on. It was a lovely way to start the day. The session contained a few tracks from The Beautiful Lie, but Ed also reached back to his 2nd album, From Every Sphere, as well.
View the entire photoset here…
Track Listing:
Shadowboxing
You Put A Spell On Me
Fireflies Take Flight
interview
The Last Cigarette
Until Tomorrow Then
Ed Harcourt - Live On WOXY.com (full session download)
