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Oct 10 2007

Underline Everything, I’m a Professional

Published by ryantheduke at 5:13 pm under Videos, MP3s, News

As part of the wonderful Pop Montreal festival, The National were nice enough to come to town this past Sunday. I missed seeing them in 2005, because when their tour with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah crossed into Canada, The National were nowhere to be found. This time around they were here, and very grateful to be here. Matt and the rest of the band were grinning all night at the crowd reactions, especially when the whole crowd was singing along (hear: Fake Empire) and also when the entire crowd made the “awww” noise at the sound of “Daughters of the Soho Riots”.

The set comprised of mostly all Alligator/Boxer material, to everyone’s delight, and the fans familiar with their older albums were treated to “Cold Girl Fever” in the encore. The best song of the night, in my opinion, was “Squalor Victoria”, a song which they “have no idea what it’s about”, according to Matt.

A friend of mine that I traveled to Albany with on Saturday had loaned me his minidisc recorder to try out, so this show was my first attempt at taping this way. I am fairly happy with the results, and I would love to hear what you think. You can download the MP3’s below, or get the lossless version here (if you don’t have an account, you just need to keep refreshing to get one). Enjoy!

The National @ Le National - 10.07.07

Hit the link below to watch the videos that Brock recorded. Some are on the dark side, but when the light is right, these black-and-white videos look great.

Watch

Brainy

Secret Meeting

Mistaken For Strangers

Baby, We’ll Be Fine

Slow Show

Squalor Victoria

Abel

Wasp Nest

All The Wine

Racing Like a Pro

Apartment Story

Daughter of the Soho Riots

Fake Empire

About Today

Start a War

Cold Girl Fever

Green Gloves

Mr. November

11 Responses to “Underline Everything, I’m a Professional”

# Mr. Pantson 10 Oct 2007 at 6:45 pm

Sweet! i’ve been waiting for this.

thanks guys
# Silk16on 10 Oct 2007 at 8:27 pm

Milles merci! Awesome freaking show!
# Liamon 11 Oct 2007 at 9:45 am

I miss Montreal…
I’m really sad I missed this passed weekend. But thanks to you guys I can sit here at my computer and close my eyes, and it’s like I’m there
# Jackon 11 Oct 2007 at 1:03 pm

Thanks a lot, but any chance you have/could procure an audio rip from the videos?
# ryanthedukeon 11 Oct 2007 at 1:40 pm

hey jack.. sorry, right now we are too busy with the blog and life in general to upload another rip. maybe later though.
# Liamon 12 Oct 2007 at 11:19 am

is jack puttin the dis on your audio recordings Ryan?
# ryanthedukeon 12 Oct 2007 at 5:41 pm

haha, hey, it’s my first recording.. i feel no pain.
# doreenon 13 Oct 2007 at 6:24 am

thx so much, guys… it’s a bit strange, because i went to 5 shows during my stay in montreal & you where at all those show, too.
thx!
# The National Live (via TrendWhore)on 13 Oct 2007 at 5:39 pm

[…] Just a quick note for those of you who traveled to Montreal this past weekend to catch The National… The guys at Trendwhore are continuing their great work and have recorded the entire show + videos. Really great post, check it out. […]
# Mark B.on 14 Oct 2007 at 4:06 pm

Brilliant. Thanks fellas!
# Trendwhore » He Starts To Speak And Then He Goes To Pieceson 13 Nov 2007 at 12:26 am

[…] using a minidisc recorder, but I plugged the microphone into the wrong port and got nothing (making The National show the night after my first recording). Though, I messed it up, my friend had my back and recorded it as […]