spiritualized – ladies and gentlemen we’re floating in space

tomorrow is the big day everyone, which means that today is (lucky for you) the last day in our look back at the 2008 pitchfork music festival. the next few days will either be artists playing that day or quick looks back at the day we had at the festival, and then we will finally return to our regularly scheduled programs next week. today is an interesting post because im going to be writing about a band i didnt even see, well at the festival at least. near the end of the last day, we headed over to the B stage to see bon iver, while mike stayed back at the A stage to see spiritualized. i had never heard of spiritualized, but while we waited for bon iver to begin as they started a little later than anticipated, we could hear faint mumblings of the spiritualized show from across the park, and it sounded excellent. luckily they ended up playing a show in detroit at my favorite, st andrews, just a few weeks later so i was able to see them for myself. mike was supposed to attend but he bailed after i bought my ticket, which also marked my first solo show ever (mike — dont think i forgot about that). but it was still fun and super empty, so i was able to be right up front.

todays song is “ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space” and you may recognize it from the vanilla sky soundtrack (gosh do i love that movie). without the bitter, the sweet just aint as sweet. but dont let the slowness and rock-ballady feel of this song fool you, because spiritualized means business, especially live in concert. the combination of turning every song into a huge rock gospel piece, complete with abstract walls of noise and gospel backup singers, sounded exactly what you think a show by a band called spiritualized would sound like. holy cow cant wait to see them again.

spiritualized – ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space

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1. next time, use mike’s last name so when he gets googled, people will know what a bad friend he was to you.

   elyselorraine

   16 Jul 09 at 10:32 am

    

2. I was wondering where I could buy a photography print of this picture of Jason Pierce ? If anybody knows I would appreciate it.

   terri with an i

   12 May 10 at 10:09 pm

    

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