The Handsome Family
The Grace Emily
Adelaide, Australia
2013-10-16 (Wed Oct 16th 2013)


The Grace Emily is a tiny little venue which features great sound , but a
crazily irregular shaped performance area that gets wider up the back then
it is near the stage.One either stands at the back or the sides or
depending on the whims of the audience , you can try to sit down right at
the front, this is uncomfortable as there are about 4 seats in the entire
venue and they are situated up the back. They need to invest in some
seating for these sorts of shows. There were about 100 folks there i guess
, a quiet and respectful audience who got into the dark alt country tales
of this wonderful duo.

The Handsome Family , Brett and Rennie Sparks , are regular visitors to the
Grace Emily, this time they brought along a drummer to spice up things and
they delivered the usual weird and wonderful set full of songs about the
dangers of being hypnotised by Octopi,living with Owls that steal pills and
being bewitched into dancing by old women who live in the deep forests.
Brett's voice was, as usual, incredible, he can be tender, bellowing and
barely audible all in the space of one verse. Rennie on bass , banjo and
vocals was her charming and faintly Morticia Addams like self, entertaining
us all with a variety of off the wall and zany anecdotes . Her main subject
this time round was her speculating about what she would encounter if she
visited a Koala at the local wildlife park called Hazel- , also a lot of
octopus related banter , most amusing.




01.Bottomless Hole
02.So Much Wine
03.talk
04.After We Shot The Grizzly
05.talk
06.Octopus
07.The Sad Milkman
08.My Sister's Tiny Hands
09.chat whilst Brett replaces string
10.Lizard
11.talk
12.Frogs
13.Linger, Let Me Linger
14.Woodpecker
15.The Loneliness Of Magnets
16.Owls
17.talk
18.Weightless Again

encore
19.talk
20.Glow Worm
21.talk
22.Don't Be Scared



SP-CMC-25 cards >SP BB > Sony PCM M10 > 16bit wav > Mac Pro > Adobe
Audition ( remove excess applause , levels and minor EQ > sbe and flac
conversion XACT ( LEVEL 8 )
Stealth mode 3 metres from stage, quiet audience .
taped and transferred,mastered by gods golfball
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(additional lineage for tracksplits: flac > wave > tracksplit with WavePad Sound Editor > tlh > flac level 8)