Further to my ongoing slog through a variety of computer based duties I have managed to splice together some more Sonar 2008 video memories including Pablo Valbuena's excellent and, I think, paranoiac installation at the Centre d'Art Santa Monica, along with a montage of the very last Yellow Swans gig. I hear that the end of the Yellow Swans is due to one of the members, Gabriel Mindel Salomon, moving to my home town of Vancouver to pursue a career in car-jacking, presumably hoping to play off of the typical Canadian's innate fear of Americans. Good luck to him although it seems to me to be a false economy with oil prices as they are. Either way, this was the first, and so I suppose last time that I've been able to see them live...
Yellow Swans 20 June 2008:
Pablo Valbuena Installation:
Again, if you wish, there are higher resolution files available here at the Wire magazine site, though this will not make the sound on either any better I'm afraid.
