Bill Callahan Union Chapel
Wednesday 19 August 2009

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Bill Callahan

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Sophia Knapp

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Wednesday 19 August 2009
Aug 19

Union Chapel

Compton Terrace
London N1 2UN
United Kingdom
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Tel: +44(0)20.7226 1686
Web: www.unionchapel.org.uk

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BILL CALLAHAN (Smog) radiates a peculiarly male energy: an unspecified kind of careworn rage, an acute sense of restlessness. As an autobiographer, Callahan is a rogue trader with an unreliable commodity, a conscientious objector to the confessors club that constitutes singer-songwriting.


Though new album Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle has a lighter feel than earlier Smog releases, the songs featured contemplate religion, nature and Callahan finding his own place. Callahan’s trademark bass vocals and his songs dark introspection find their perfect home in the gloom of the Union Chapel.

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  • syva

    Couple of videos someone has uploaded to YT from the Thursday gig. Doesn't do the sound justice :F http://www.youtube.com/user/philoxus

    August 2009

  • EskimoWoman

    Wait, he also played 'Too Many Birds', as I remember that If "you could only stop your heart beat for one heart..." clearly!

    August 2009

  • EskimoWoman

    Hey, first song of the set was "Our Anniversary", as for "Rococo Zephyr", it was not in the setlist at all. I want to see him again soon!

    August 2009

  • thommyc

    people of last night - what time did bill kick off last night? i'm going later, might be late but don't want to miss any... thanks

    August 2009

  • geospizafortis

    Gareth53, thanks for remembering most? of the setlist? I was going to ask someone on here for it... His performance of "The Wind And The Dove" with Sophia Knapp; It was just...beautiful. I'm still slightly speechless thinking about it now. So much better than the album version - does anyone know if an MP3 or Youtube clip of it exists anywhere? Not necessarily that performace, but the diff arrangement with the female accompaniment.

    August 2009

  • kpc_0123

    i know its late but if anyone has tickets for tonight (20th) I would really love to see the man, my number is 07970680029.

    August 2009

  • gareth53

    >Does any one have a copy of the setlist? from (my increasingly unreliable) memory: - Rococo Zephyr - Diamond Dancer - My Friend - Bathysphere - The Wind & The Dove - Eid Ma Clack Shaw - Say Valley Maker - Rock Bottom Riser - Let Me See The Colts - Jim Cain - All Thoughts Are Prey To Some Beast Encore - Cold Blooded Old Times

    August 2009

  • ListenLisse

    Great gig the band was amazing, I was so glad he played All Thoughts are Prey to Some Beast.... Bathysphere was a nice surprise.

    August 2009
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