Hosier Lane, Melbourne
When it was announced earlier this year Laura Marling would be playing at the Forum Theatre in support of her third album “A Creature I Don’t Know”, the opportunity to juxtapose this much loved english folk singer with the grit and rawness of an iconic Melbourne lane way was something we were suitably excited about.
Home to both a top end spanish restaurant and health centre for the homeless, Hosier lane is arguably Melbourne’s most famous lane way. Once adorned with a Bansky rat, this iconic bluestone lane is an ever changing gallery of sophisticated street art. Being hospitable tour guides, we met Laura at the Forum stage door; just a short walk through the lane way to our shoot location.
“With a mind so dark and skin so white” as she proclaims on album track “All My Rage”, this dusky voiced ghostly songstress is well known for the lyrical wisdom beyond her years. Since releasing two Mercury Prize nominated albums, her third takes up a independent writing phase, following a more collaborative past. While private and soft-spoken, Laura is jovial, self assured and a real pleasure to meet in person.
As the crew lock in camera angles and complete the usual sound checks, Laura begins to treat us to a medley of two songs from this latest release, in a setting often lyrically fitting. Perched on milk crate with a borrowed acoustic guitar in hand, Laura’s poetic brilliance is a pleasure to listen to as she effortlessly performs Don’t Ask Me Why and the John Steinbeck inspired Salinas.
There’s something altogether pure about the experience. Ignoring the ambient distractions (this time a plane bypass and delivery van beep), Laura holds the Sideshow Alley crew captivated as she gracefully meanders her way through a story of love and loss and calls to the heavens. Seemingly a very angelic moment indeed.
[..YouTube..] I love the whole IDEA!!!!!!!!!!!
[..YouTube..] good god woman. yo so good
[..YouTube..] Ty is pretty icanic.
[..YouTube..] …..wow……..just………wow….
[..YouTube..] It looks like she’s trying to train the birds to chirp in time. Seems to kinda work too!
[..YouTube..] Laura reminds me of Joni Mitchell
[..YouTube..] This is incredible. I quite possibly fell deeper in love with Laura—and that’s saying something. Well done.
[..YouTube..] Laura Marling in amazing. Another brilliant video from Sideshow Alley. Absolutely fantastic, as always.
[..YouTube..] FANTÁSTICO!!!!!!
[..YouTube..] I just screamed out of pure excitement when i saw this gem pop up in my subscriptions. I LOVE Laura!!! Amazing job as always
[..YouTube..] Reminiscent of Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen all wrapped up as one. Brilliant and captivating. Smooth and deliberate.
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[..YouTube..] organic hipsters
[..YouTube..] Totes organsies mahn
[..YouTube..] Those of us who are lost and low I know how you feel I know it’s not right but it’s real But it’s real.
[..YouTube..] i do love the music, but more than anything I like the birds cheeping in the background. Is just nice and real
[...] The talented folks at Sideshow Alley released their live video of Laura Marling shot earlier this year. Details [...]
[..YouTube..] she is just amazing isnt she.
[..YouTube..] Ms Marling beautiful and gorgeous as everAnd really awesome vidoe too
[..YouTube..] Wow, she is totally amazing. Her voice is beautiful and captivating, as is she. Her songwriting talent is second to none. Also, as creepy as this is, I would be lesbian for her, she is stunning. Sorry for the creepyness Laura.
[..YouTube..] More beautiful and talented with every performance.
[..YouTube..] that’s what i wanted to write.. totally agree!
[..YouTube..] “cool”
[..YouTube..] 6:45 is my favorite moment in the entire video…
[..YouTube..] She is so perfect!
[..YouTube..] I love her humble attitude afterwards too! Perfect.
[..YouTube..] what an amazing video. miss marling seems to be very comfortable with the crew too. I just loved the entire thing.
[..YouTube..] Saw Laura at Glastonbury 2010, She was amazing then and sounds more amazing now!!! ♥
[..YouTube..] Saw Laura at Glastonbury 2010, She was amazing then and sounds more amazing now!!! ♥
[...] on the latest Sideshow Alley episode. See the video and hear Laura’s beautiful voice here. [...]
[..YouTube..] get sarah jaffe into this!!!
[..YouTube..] Captivating….
[..YouTube..] the ending oh my god how she bites her lip<3 i love her so much
[..YouTube..] Triple like! This gives me hope
[..YouTube..] I Love you
[..YouTube..] Love this!
[..YouTube..] Beautiful.
[..YouTube..] Holy awesome voice! Thanks for this gem.
[..YouTube..] It’s Laura fucking Marling, how can one pass by, have a look and still walk away? I wish I was that lucky ):
[..YouTube..] I swear this is what I say about her all the time. Just for her though.
[..YouTube..] Great…
[..YouTube..] I hear so much Joni Mitchell in her singing. awsome
[..YouTube..] I wonder why you found it necessary to publish the creepy part of your otherwise nice message
[..YouTube..] Just felt I needed to put it out there, you know
[..YouTube..] Just felt I needed to put it out there, you know
[..YouTube..] Also, I just wanted to tell the truth with everything regarding her. You can’t say you disagree with any of it though, that would be mad.
[..YouTube..] Also, I just wanted to tell the truth with everything regarding her. You can’t say you disagree with any of it though, that would be mad.
[..YouTube..] Amazingly beautifull
[..YouTube..] Among the greatest artists alive today, in the context of any media. Her talents are many, and she is consistently challenging herself and striving to evolve. She represents the very core of what art “is.”
[..YouTube..] Among the greatest artists alive today, in the context of any media. Her talents are many, and she is consistently challenging herself and striving to evolve. She represents the very core of what art “is.”
[..YouTube..] Her use words is incredible, her message is so deep rooted and open. Truly amazing and inspiring.
[..YouTube..] Her use words is incredible, her message is so deep rooted and open. Truly amazing and inspiring.
[..YouTube..] Guys, how do you record the guitar? Is it just the output from one camera?
[..YouTube..] i want to know why.
[..YouTube..] REALLY nice! I haven’t listened to Laura Marling in a while now, and while she was very good before, from this performance I get the impression that she’s been developing her craft since I first encountered her music. I’m quite impressed with this!
[..YouTube..] Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
[..YouTube..] Very Bob Dylan-esque, dontcha think?
[..YouTube..] love the locations they shoot these videos
[..YouTube..] this is the second sideshow ally vid i found by mistake (first being kimbra) brilliant atmosphere.Also should be noted LM is just amazing, actual music this.
[..YouTube..] So natural, so divine… Only Laura…
[..YouTube..] Effortless and flawless.
[..YouTube..] Beautiful girl !!!!
[..YouTube..] haha, “cool”
[..YouTube..] Very good description. Her voice is amazing…and her eyes just blow me away.
[..YouTube..] Thank you God for Laura Marling.
[..YouTube..] I’d be a lesbian for her to but I’m a bloke so that’s not possible. Also, being a lesbian requires that you have a gender and genders not allowed anymore, right?
[..YouTube..] That also means you can’t be a bloke, if genders are not allowed anymore too.
[..YouTube..] That also means you can’t be a bloke, if genders are not allowed anymore too.
[..YouTube..] I know! I’ll have to re-think everything now!
[..YouTube..] Joni Mitchell
[..YouTube..] 아름다워요!
[..YouTube..] I love laura!
[..YouTube..] no blondes left in salinas. looks a lot like that alley.
[..YouTube..] She’s so cute it hurts to look at her
[..YouTube..] This is real, raw talent. None of this fabricated Nicki Minaj or Drake crap.I LOVE Laura Marling.
[..YouTube..] This is real, raw talent. None of this fabricated Nicki Minaj or Drake crap.I LOVE Laura Marling.
[..YouTube..] Lovely voice and very confident singer with great poetry… maybe a sort of cross between Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell, reminiscent of Joan Baez in her younger years. Hope she keeps writing and singing!
[..YouTube..] New album in may!
[..YouTube..] Is the crate she is sitting on supposed to be make this look more authentic or something? I just feel like she’s sat awkward and uncomfortably and it’s unnecessary
[..YouTube..] 0:05 is it just me or did he say:Banksi’s done a few thinks here. What a small, small world.
[..YouTube..] you see a music video with no shades, no fake tan, no rapping, no half naked women, no vocoder, no heavy editing, no dance routine, no gurning, no bombast or bravado or singing about how they’re this and that and how their gonna..!! this is awesome and popular music can go suck a dead badgers left bollock..!!
[..YouTube..] I think they are trying to show how Melbourne and hipster hosier lane is
[..YouTube..] I got a shiver down my spine at the start of the video, watching Laura play in an alleyway in my home town. Oh Melbourne I love you and cannot wait to see you again. I was at that show at the Forum right up front. such an magical and perfect night
[..YouTube..] Well it would be hard to find a folk artist that isn’t influenced by Dylan
[..YouTube..] she reminds me more of joan baez
[..YouTube..] your comment, sir, is the first comment that i have thumbed up in a long time intentionally
[..YouTube..] who’s the girl in the yellow who ‘marked it’? she’s beautiful….
[..YouTube..] The equivalent of a modern day Bob Dylan.This is perfect.
[..YouTube..] soo true! this song is sooo good! Oh Btw i use this to get this in mp3: bit.ly/16FdSjK?=zqwbq
[..YouTube..] OMG ur right the song beats most tracks hands down Yeah and peeps are using this to get it on your pod => bit.ly/16FdSjK?=jgzlr
[..YouTube..] Sideshowalley; the guitar sound also from the lavelier Mic?
[..YouTube..] Laura has the face of an angel
[..YouTube..] I was thrown and blown and tossed as turned
[..YouTube..] Lovely! Adorable music, singer and operator’s work. I want it never stopped.
[..YouTube..] Steinbeckian.
[..YouTube..] love love love
[..YouTube..] Captivated.
[..YouTube..] Wow!
[..YouTube..] great guitar player ! and wonderful voice !
[..YouTube..] I think I like her better.
[..YouTube..] she has an amazingly clear complexion! she’s such a good singer. i love her
[..YouTube..] or just southern and west-coast hippie…wow… white people aren’t allowed to have anything are we?fuck bob dylan.
[..YouTube..] Yes, but Joan Baez more than Dylan…
[..YouTube..] She doesn’t sound anything like either of them to me.