Here’s an archive of People Like Us & Wobbly’s live set for BBC Radio 3, at The Spitz, London – 2004
Mixing It
Thanks to Mixing It and BBC Radio 3
Mirrored at the Free Music Archive:
Welcome to the only official site for People Like Us and Vicki Bennett
Here’s an album by WFMU’s two terrible DJs, People Like Us, & Kenny G.
01. I’m From
02. Wake Up
03. Nothing
04. So Sorry
05. Close To Me
06. You’ll Be A
07. More Sorry
08. Counting Time
09. Give Up It’s Mine
10. Greatest Nobody
11. It Wouldn’t It Be Nice In Yr Face
12. Too Far
13. I’ve Got You
And here’s the full 3 hour WFMU show that this album was edited from – Nothing Special with Kenny G
Kenny G website
Mess Media through Soleilmoon website
Interview with People Like Us by Kenny G on WFMU, one week before this was recorded.
Here’s some live video of a special concert People Like Us performed at the WFMU record fair. For those of you who have never been there, it’s the time of year, one of many that all DJs and volunteers do their best not only to raise money for the station but have a great time at the same time.
Live at the WFMU Record Fair (2003), shot by Corey Smith. The work has been carefully constructed using industrial and documentary film footage from 1940-1975.
The hour long performance on this disc was captured live on October 5th 2002 when Wobbly, People Like Us and Matmos circled their wagons in the lecture hall of the San Francisco Art Institute. Having mutually agreed upon a country and western theme, Vicki Bennett (PLU), Jon Leidecker (Wobbly), and Drew Daniel and M. C. Schmidt (Matmos) pored over their archives of honky tonk classics, chopping and dicing Nashville’s finest almost beyond recognition, and collectively restitching the mangled shreds in a kind of crazed digital quilting bee. Several tense rehearsals and strong pots of tea later, the foursome shuffled on stage and delivered the goods: from panoramic twangfests to offkilter waltzes to barn burning stompers. Flickering and tranquil one moment, and wildly slapstick the next, Wide Open Spaces hits the sweet spot between song forms and improvisation, and showcases the qualities that all three collaborating artists share: absurdist humor, baroque sample manipulation, and stuttering rhythmic frameworks that lurch and sway. While the presence of five samplers, four laptops, three CD players and a pedal steel guitar on one stage could have led to a tediously ego-driven “jam” or simply cacophany, the results feel lushly detailed but not cluttered, and swing naturally between structure and freedom. It’s an international media magpie summit where country’s chick-a-boom meets tech house’s boom-tschak, and tearjerking sentiment and patriotic hokum are subjected to a dense shower of coughs, sputters and rude noises. Listening back to the recorded results, all three musical units agreed that this concert was mighty fine, and worth sharing.
01. Morning
02. Dolly Pardon
03. Clawing Your Eyes Out Down To Your Throat
04. Shenandoah
05. Holler
06. Tremble Valley Peady
07. Chicken Legs
08. Cattle Call
09. Unshackled
10. Arkansas Explorer
11. Calling
12. I Must Die
13. Wide Open Spaces
Tigerbeat6 website
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Here’s an edit of a session done for KFJC by People Like Us & Wobbly in 2002. It formed the foundation for a later release by the duo entitled Music For The Fire.
01. The Way In
02. Naked Little Girl
03. Sheep Laid Out To Dry
04. Okay
05. Goodbye
06. Woman
07. The Working Title For Our Opera
08. SwingLargo
09. A New Baby
10. Bitter Dregs
11. Pain
Wobbly website
Campfire Special on KZSU – parts of this went on to form the album A Fistful of Knuckles.
01. Track 1
02. Track 2
03. Track 3
04. Track 4
05. Track 5
06. Track 6
07. Track 7
08. Track 8
09. Track 9
10. Track 10
Thanks to Mike Howes at KZSU
People Like Us, The Jet Black Hair People and Wobbly – Live At ATW
01. Bubble Skin
02. Favourite DJ
03. I’m Gonna Die Forever
04. It Is Very Nice
05. Stupid
06. Frightening Rock Out
07. Angels
08. Encore
Wobbly website & The Jet Black Hair People website
People Like Us, The Jet Black Hair People and Wobbly
What’s The Use – Live – 1999
Download at UbuWeb http://ubu.com/sound/plu_whats_the_use.html