Desire Avenue

If Stina ever did a live show, what songs would you like to hear?


My perfect setlist would be:

01 Into The Wasteland (Buda Remix)
02 I Could Still (Be An Actor)
03 Come To Me
04 The Thing About Fire
05 Ask The Mountains
06 Murder In Mairyland Park
07 Get On With Your Life
08 Winter Killing
09 Common Miracle

10 So Lee
11 Dynamite
12 Trainsurfing
13 Under Your Command
14 Keen Yellow Planet
15 The First Day In Spring
16 From The Cayman Islands With Love
17 And She Closed Her Eyes
18 Down Desire Avenue

-encore-
19 Clothe Yourself Well For The Wind
20 Little Star

Nice idea,aermancer-and I really like your setlist actually! The idea of ending with 'Down Desire Ave' is great,pref with full string complement.I might add a couple of great singalong numbers-'Butterfly' is one I always sing along with the chorus,f'rinstance,or 'Circus'.
I suppose I could think up a setlist of my favourite Stina tunes-but it doesn't necessarily make a good giglist...I like the way you've (apparently) thought yours out to make a satisfying whole.

But I have to say a couple of things-one,I think some of those tracks are difficult to render live without recourse to recordings-eg 'Ask the Mountains' without Mr.Papathanissiou,'Come to me' without the Tivoli,etc.

More than that,I think what Stina says about live performance is spot-on.The usual Christians-to-Lions scenario (give'em what they want,like it is on the album) is something Stina considers 'insulting to her audience'-she'd far rather do something creative,something new.I think she would genuinely hate to do old songs.In this respect she always strikes as a true Artist rather than yer usual muso.
And I'd pay a lot of money to see her do that if it was possible for her.(I'd pay her NOT to do 'Little Star' to keep the great unwashed away from the gig ).
So instead I could visualise a scenario for Stina to do something creative live-a vast freezing Gothic Church,such as the vocals for 'Dynamite' were recorded in-with just Stina on inimitable electric guitar and Jonas Nystrom and the orchestra.
Or in a very intimate piazza,Stina with string quartet.
Or Stina on a floating harbour or ship with a really heavy bassist and drummer doing 'Dynamite'-type material.
Or with some kind of creative live electronics,improvising in real time.

Or in my music room,with me on piano [love]

sound world wrote:But I have to say a couple of things-one,I think some of those tracks are difficult to render live without recourse to recordings-eg 'Ask the Mountains' without Mr.Papathanissiou,'Come to me' without the Tivoli,etc.

More than that,I think what Stina says about live performance is spot-on.The usual Christians-to-Lions scenario (give'em what they want,like it is on the album) is something Stina considers 'insulting to her audience'-she'd far rather do something creative,something new.I think she would genuinely hate to do old songs.In this respect she always strikes as a true Artist rather than yer usual muso.

i know exactly what you mean, it's why i generally don't like most live music. it's why i don't like Bj?rk's live stuff, because she tries so hard to get the music to sound exactly like it is on the album.

And I'd pay a lot of money to see her do that if it was possible for her.(I'd pay her NOT to do 'Little Star' to keep the great unwashed away from the gig ).

hehehe

with some kind of creative live electronics, improvising in real time.[love]

that's exactly what i was thinking i would love for her to do, overhaul these songs electronically to make them brand new again. i didn't say it though because i didn't want to sound overzealous or something.

keep it simple.....

vocal and piano
vocal and acoustic guitar
vocal and electric guitar.

keep alternating every couple of songs.

No other musicians....no distractions.....just keep the attention on Stina and her singing.

As for the songs,well.........all my faves naturally

Murder In Mairyland park
Little Star
And She Closed Her Eyes
CQD
Circus
On Falling
.................etc etc etc

A little jazzy combo with a piano sounds good. In that case my favourite setlist would be:

On Falling
Everyone Else In The World
Man With The Gun
Soon After Christmas
Proposal
His Song
Parliament Square
I See You Again
Common Miracle
Down Desire Avenue
Murder in Mairyland Park
Butterfly