The very cool ‘Unfamiliar Stars’ DVD from The Lucksmiths is officially released today! Here’s the skinny:
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THE LUCKSMITHS – UNFAMILIAR STARS
Filmed at The Lucksmiths’ August 2009 farewell show at Melbourne’s Corner Hotel, ‘Unfamiliar Stars’ (matdvd058) is both a captivating concert film and a definitive end-of-the-line document, standing tall among the best of the band’s vast discography. Directed by Natalie van den Dungen (The Tote documentary), the film captures the final bittersweet airings of many Lucksmiths favorites as witnessed by a full-house of hometown fans, friends and family. Clocking in at a total of thirty-three songs, the swansong performance is the culmination of farewell tours across Europe and Australia, and finds the band in vintage form, cherry-picking pop gem after pop gem from their sixteen-year career and filling the gaps with a double-dose of irrepressible Lucksmiths repartee.
Here’s the impressive final show set-list: 1) A Hiccup in Your Happiness 2) Good Light 3) A Downside to the Upstairs 4) Synchronised Sinking 5) Myopic Friends 6) Camera-shy 7) Stayaway Stars 8) Untidy Towns 9) The Golden Age of Aviation 10) Take This Lying Down 11) Successlessness 12) Great Lengths 13) Song of the Undersea 14) Under the Rotunda 15) Requiem For the Punters Club 16) Frisbee 17) Macintyre 18) Punchlines 19) Weatherboard 20) Broken Bones 21) The Chapter in Your Life Entitled San Francisco 22) Self-Preservation 23) California in Popular Song 24) Smokers in Love 25) Fiction 26) Caravanna 27) A Sobering Thought (Just When One Was Needed) 28) Sunlight in a Jar 29) T-Shirt Weather 30) Midweek Midmorning 31) The Great Dividing Range 32) The Music Next Door 33) The Year of Driving Languorously.
Rounding out the package, ‘Darkening Doorways’ is a short documentary of the band’s final months and presents an intimate view of The Lucksmiths in rehearsal, in the recording studio and throughout their farewell tour.
You can see the video trailer and two additional previews if you scroll down this page a bit (see January 18 and January 24 news entries). The release is available now in the Matinée shop and from smart music and video retailers worldwide. Don’t forget your copy of the farewell ‘Get-to-Bed Birds’ 7″ (matinée 077) while you’re in the shop!
Please note: this DVD is an all-regions disc in NTSC format. Our chums at the Lost And Lonesome Recording Company in Australia have pressed the DVD in PAL format, so please point your browser Lost and Lonesome-wards if your country uses PAL.