Michael Gira
Montreal QC
2007-05-05

Michael Gira
La Salla Rossa, Montreal, QC, Canada, 2007-05-05

01. "good evening"
02. The Promise of Water
03. Not Here / Not Now
04. My Brother's Man
05. Destroyer
06. "be quiet"
07. To Live Through Someone
08. She Lives!
09. All Souls' Rising
---- tape flip ----
10. My Sister Said
11. The Rose of Los Angeles


MD5 Checksum included

Recorded by wereier on cassette with a cheap Sony recording Walkman w/ built-in mic -> played back on an NAD 6240 tape deck -> Macbook Pro -> Audacity (normalization, track splitting, conversion to 16 bits) -> XLD (FLAC conversion)

This was recorded on a terrible, $30 Sony recording walkman purchased sometime in the late 1990s. The sound is not good - it's a little distorted, there's a lot of shuffling noise, and just not very hi-fi to begin with - but it is listenable, and this was a rather interesting show so I figured I'd put it out there..

Gira was opening for Daniel Johnston. This was shortly after the release of The Devil and Daniel Johnston movie, and Salla was completely packed, the show was sold out. The crowd was pretty crappy, and talked loudly through much of Gira's set. He asks people to quiet down after a few songs, then briefly gets really huffy when he misunderstands someone yelling "GO HOME" as referring to him, rather than referring to the people in the audience who won't shut the hell up.
Interesting set, starting with three songs from the not-yet-released Angels of Light album "We Are Him", with some older Angels songs and a version of the old Swans song "She Lives" from 1994's "The Great Annihilator" album.
Other highlights are the super-intense version of "My Brother's Man" and a great version of "All Souls' Rising" with some wordless screaming towards the end.

I didn't stick around for much of Johnston's set. I haven't really gotten into his music, and I was getting a sketchy vibe from the audience. It seemed like everyone was there to gawk at the crazy man or something.

This would benefit greatly from some mastering & clean up, which I might do myself in the future, or if anyone else wants to give it a shot go right ahead.

Total length is a little over 50 minutes.