Earlier today we told you the story of how it came to pass that Sound InSession was born. I'm sure you remember; if not, don't worry it wasn't very interesting. In short, Woodpile Sessions and Sound InSession have been born and married at the alter of filming live music and we got Yukon along for the ride for our very first attempts. Once we departed the tube (going to the tube in the first place may have been a little overambitious for our first attempts), we took the trip to Brick Lane and Shoreditch with Yukon, a first time visitor to the country. He then graced us with two more tracks. The first, I'm Sorry I'm Such An Idiot was filmed in the construction of 8 Bit Lane by Rough Trade and the second, a cover of Oh No Oh My's I Painted Your House was taken upstairs at Shoreditch's Box Park. Next time, we're planning this better.
Thanks to Yukon for playing for us and being such a good sport as we showed him around London.
Some days you wake up with an idea that just won't put itself back to bed no matter what. Whether it be to pay your overdue rent or finally try that special flavour of coffee at your local cafe that's been eluding you to date. In our cases here at Sound Influx, for some time we've been pondering the idea of joining the moving pictures world and filming our very own sessions.
Our sessions, we thought, would fall somewhere between the iconic TakeAwayShows of Paris and the instantly recogniseable Courtyard sessions that The Fly create. So, we put our heads together and picked up our collective cameras and head out into the streets of London in an attempt to make this pipe dream become a reality. Along the way, we met our good friend Sam Hopper who, incidentally had similar plans to us with the Woodpile Sessions and we formed an alliance.
Now all we needed was an artist. As it so happened, our friend from NY, USA, Alec also known as Yukon was making a trip over the Atlantic and was willing to make his first UK appearance with us across our nation's capital. So, we hopped onto the Waterloo and City line with him, forgetting quite how loud, bumpy and cramped said turquoise line was. What resulted was the following two videos.
1.1 - Doe Eyes
1.2 - Well Whatever Happens, Happens
Stay tuned later in the day for what happened when we (rightly) got off the Tube and travelled to east London.
