I recently traveled to Salt Lake City to attend the Retribution Gospel Choir’s performance at Kilby Court, April 16th, 2010. Two opening acts performed followed by a set timing in just under an hour by RGC. Attendance was around fifty people, many of whom were obviously fans judging by their reactions to each song and by the informal chat sessions with the band following the show.
I recorded the fifty-three minute, twenty-four second set and have shared the audio on archive.org. To listen, use the embedded streaming functionality below, or download the set in it’s entirety from the archive.org set page.
Setlist:
01 Breaker (2:21)
02 Workin’ Hard (4:15)
03 White Wolf (4:42)
04 Poor Man’s Daughter (7:25)
05 They Knew You Well (2:55)
06 Take Your Time (3:56)
07 banter (2:16)
08 Hide It Away (3:07)
09 Your Bird (3:13)
10 Something’s Going to Break (2:49)
11 Electric Guitar (9:27)
12 banter (1:33)
13 Then She Turned Into (2:23)
14 ’68 Comeback (3:10)
Minnesota Public Radio’s The Current radio station recently featured an interview and in-studio performance with Retribution Gospel Choir, and the station’s weekly music talk show featured a discussion of “2.”
Interview, awkwardly facilitated by Mary Lucia:
Video of the band doing “Working Hard”:
And here is the Musicheads episode in which DJs Bill DeVille, Steve Seel and Jade discuss the album (segment starts at 16:45):
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RGC is currently on a world tour promoting their newest album, “2″ and the commentary from fans in attendance thusfar has been quite positive. People are commenting on Sparhawk’s intensity and are noting that bandmembers Pollard and Garrington have taken to displaying a vigor not previously seen. Having seen them play in December I too saw and felt this new dynamic and think the band is really coming together as a performing act.
At their recent appearance at Casa del Popolo in Quebec, Montreal, Canada Retribution Gospel Choir’s live set was recorded by an obviously skilled bootlegger. The recording was submitted to the Internet via a Bittorrent and then subsequently uploaded and shared via archive.org. The recording quality is superb, the setlist quality. Use the embedded streaming functionality below, or download the set in it’s entirety from archive.org on the Retribution Gospel Choir Live at Casa del Popolo on 2010-01-26 page.
Setlist:
01. Breaker (3:40)
02. For Her Blood (2:06)
03. Working Hard (2:08)
04. Hide It Away (3:19)
05. Poor Man’s Daughter (8:10)
06. White Wolf (2:27)
07. They Knew You Well (3:30)
08. Your Bird (4:26)
09. What She Turned Into (2:23)
10. Electric Guitar (8:45)
11. Take Your Time (7:36)
12. Kids (5:31)
Very high recording quality of an excellent Low show from 1999, when they were still very much a band that played extremely quiet, slow music and their song titles were just one word.
During an April 2008 European tour archive.org contributor, _tunic_ recorded three of Retribution Gospel Choirs’ shows at Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands on April 22nd, STUK in Leuven, Belgium on April 23rd and ZAKK in Düsseldorf, Germany on April 24th. The recording quality varies and the set lists are similar although these shows are worth a listen by fans of RGC live. Below are links to audio and photos from the three performances.
Alan Sparhawk played a few songs and talked about Low, music, song-writing, gear and lots more October 10, 2007 at the Whole Music Club’s “Making Music” series.
Click here for a list of video and audio recordings from the event.
To officially release their new self-titled album to their hometown of Duluth, MN, Retribution Gospel Choir fired up a forty minute, eleven song set at Pizza Luce on Saturday, March 8th, 2008. The first ten songs of the set was a nearly verbatim performance of the band’s new album which they followed up with an encore of Poor Man’s Daughter.
Either use the built in player below or download the file directly from archive.org 70.3 mb VBR .zip
There was tiredness for myself and myself this evening so I set out the recorder to capture the set while we were having dinner. My apologies for the jackasses at the next table getting drunk and ruining a perfectly good show.
Los Besos’ Alan Sparhawk and Brad Nelson teamed up with Taconite’s Jamie Ness for an all-cover set at The Brewhouse. Audio for nearly the entire evening as well as two videos were recorded.
Either use the built in player below or download the file directly from archive.org 87 mb VBR .zip
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I recently traveled to Salt Lake City to attend the Retribution Gospel Choir’s performance at Kilby Court, April 16th, 2010. Two opening acts performed followed by a set timing in just under an hour by RGC. Attendance was around fifty people, many of whom were obviously fans judging by their reactions to each song and by the informal chat sessions with the band following the show. 
During an April 2008 European tour archive.org contributor, _tunic_ recorded three of Retribution Gospel Choirs’ shows at Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands on April 22nd, STUK in Leuven, Belgium on April 23rd and ZAKK in Düsseldorf, Germany on April 24th. The recording quality varies and the set lists are similar although these shows are worth a listen by fans of RGC live. Below are links to audio and photos from the three performances.
