Slaves @ SXSW 2014 (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever)
A bumper edition of Later…With Jools Holland last night (October 21st) as U2, Interpol, Slaves and Zola Jesus all performed live on the BBC. Check out the performances below if you’re able to.
U2 performed ‘Every Breaking Wave‘ from their latest album ‘Songs Of Innocence‘ which, after the high profile free release on iTunes, proved to be the lowest new entry for the band on the UK’s official album chart since 1981.
Interpol were also promoting their new album ‘El Pintor‘, and aired ‘All The Rage Back Home‘, while Slaves played a typically raucous version of their latest single ‘Hey‘.
And Zola Jesus was also in town, another with a new album just out, of which Live4ever’s review concluded: “This is extremely stylised and precise music, nothing is off-the-cuff or thrown away, nothing is left to chance, and no opportunities are wasted.”
“With every careful step of the way it seizes each opportunity to impress. The music is inviting and exciting, even when it is at its most distant or dark. Zola Jesus has created a sound that may incorporate the bleak intensity of real pain, but it is done through the eyes of hope. It may be mired in the darkest depths, but it is an album that has its gaze firmly locked on the light up above.”
