Huron St, Brooklyn
When we arrived at Huron street we were a bit confused, a guy dressed in full knight’s armour shouting at the east river was being shot by a small camera crew right where we were planning to shoot Nicole Atkins. At first we thought he was part of Nicole’s entourage, but then realised that Nicole wasn’t there yet. We were hoping that he could stay, but he had some other castle to defend.
“So many cameras I feel like we’re in a firing squad”.
When Nicole arrived with her co-guitarist Irina Yalkowsky, they set up a Fender Vintage Deluxe Reverb Amp on a long lead to a little generator hooked to a car battery parked around the corner. It looked like a desperate attempt to keep someone on life support as the trucks of Brooklyn rolled past threatening to ruin all sense of sound on this shoot… then they started playing.
The subtlety of this song was not lost on the industrial location and sat perfectly with the setting sun over manhattan in the background, Nicole and co squeezed out a sometimes subtle, sometimes smashing rendition of The Tower from her album Mondo Amore.
We were glad that Sideshow Alley is a one take project as our fading light over the east river became an issue toward the end of this epic 6 minute song. Finishing in near darkness the lovely Nicole remarked…
“I feel like we should be making a drug deal right here, or exchanging a body out of a trunk”.
[..YouTube..] Awesome… thankyou to all involved.
[..YouTube..] They’re great!
[..YouTube..] What kind of acoustic does she have?
[..YouTube..] I saw this girl play with the Avett Brothers last year, she’s incredible live! Such energy and uniqueness of her voice!
[..YouTube..] @tophlovr it’s a Martin D15, the mahogany top back and sides make me think so.
[..YouTube..] it’s a Martin D15, the mahogany top back and sides make me think so.
[..YouTube..] @tophlovr Martin!
[..YouTube..] Martin!
[..YouTube..] Martin!
[..YouTube..] ive missed sideshow alley
[..YouTube..] sweet
[..YouTube..] u’re amazing.
[..YouTube..] nice song! nice voice! and nice amp noise! ;D
[..YouTube..] Nice to listen to you Nicole Atkins.
awesome voice and guitar playing.
[..YouTube..] her talent never ceases to amaze me…. her guitarist is right there too…
[..YouTube..] women have so much more then just talent
[..YouTube..] yo i’m her # 9,000,009 best fan . 4 life believe that .
[..YouTube..] i am amazed by her voice. just the timbre behind that. love love these two chicks!
[..YouTube..] Really nice. Never heard her music before but I’m impressed.
[..YouTube..] She have very nice voice, somebody knows who is that girl with stratocaster guitar and how she have amazing noise?
[..YouTube..] She have very nice voice, somebody knows who is that girl with stratocaster guitar and how she have amazing noise?
[..YouTube..] i love nicole atkins…..but this is not live….at all…….still…..a great song
[..YouTube..] i love nicole atkins…..but this is not live….at all…….still…..a great song
[..YouTube..] That Chick with the Strat is the best guitar player in NYC Thats Irina Yalkowsky !!! she shreds !!!!!
[..YouTube..] That Chick with the Strat is the best guitar player in NYC Thats Irina Yalkowsky !!! she shreds !!!!!
[..YouTube..] Thisis my official theme song since I was named after the morning it seems fitting. I love this song never heard it before but I hardly ever see anything half way decent to listen to with al the complete bullshit fake ass bubblegum pop DIE!! I mean, yeah these chix R ass kicking muse-ishuns >:~.} Im an instant fan, rare to hear real talent but I think its making a comeback.
[..YouTube..] yo what’s that guitarists’ name? they shudn’t leave her out. she’s awesome.
[..YouTube..] I love this song, and I think Nicole is the best girl composer in the States in the last years, but I’m sorry, always since I heard Mondo Amore, feel like I was getting to a climax with this song, and then, the guitar solo just tear everything down. I feel like this song could’ve use a more technical-blues-guitar-player, more influenced by Jimmy Page or something, ’cause being like this, is like hearing a 10 year old boy playing. I’ve nothing against this girl, but she have to work on her skill
[..YouTube..] this is sideshow alley doing what it does best, showing real music talent!
[..YouTube..] I think it adds to the song. I like the unpolished sound it brings. I mean they even rigged it to a car battery.
[..YouTube..] I think it adds to the song. I like the unpolished sound it brings. I mean they even rigged it to a car battery.
[..YouTube..] I just died and went to heaven. OMG…amazing pipes.
[..YouTube..] this is pure music I love these chix!!
[..YouTube..] Mind officially blown
[..YouTube..] Do people need their pulses checked? This is the most beautiful performance anyone could imagaine watching. I adore Nicole…such a wonderful song that hits so close to home and reminds us all of the losses from the real crumbling towers…she really nails how we all feel that in our hearts. Thank you Nicole, for being you, for being real and for sharing your gift. xo
[..YouTube..] amazing video – music&production. love the swamp donkey tag in the background!
[..YouTube..] Can someone tell whther this is really live – it sounds dubbed? The acoustics sound like and internal recording.
[..YouTube..] Can someone tell whther this is really live – it sounds dubbed? The acoustics sound like and internal recording.
[..YouTube..] It’s the result of the way it’s recorded. According to the channel’s respond in the Lissie’s When I’m Alone video, “We’ve got a wireless lapel (lavelier) microphone clipped to her shirt. That combined with the other instruments set at quite a low volume give us a nice close vocal sound. It doesn’t sound quite so good in person as we design the audio setups to get the best recording.” Thus, makes it feels like it’s been recorded in the studio.
[..YouTube..] i reckon about 8000 of those views are mine
[..YouTube..] Definitivamente es un palo de mujer, tiene un voz para no envidiar a nadie esta tía en directo tiene que ser una gozada.
[..YouTube..] Is that a euphemism you dirty pup
[..YouTube..] Is that a euphemism you dirty pup
[..YouTube..] Unbelievable vocals – how does she make it look so effortless?
[..YouTube..] this kind of music is the best kind of music there is
[..YouTube..] this kind of music is the best kind of music there is
[..YouTube..] i like, is different
[..YouTube..] Thanks Sideshow Alley for, yet again, bringing us some more phenomenal music.
[..YouTube..] pipes refer to her amazing vocals. Heh.
[..YouTube..] pipes refer to her amazing vocals. Heh.
[..YouTube..] There’s no way anyone could ever dislike this!
[..YouTube..] Love her voice… why isnt she a huge star by now. All her songs are like Christmas.. love…
[..YouTube..] This song proves to me that Nicole Atkin’s is an unbelievable talent! I’m not sure when she wrote this but in any year this would be called outstanding and a record of the year! Pity the Grammy’s give awards to too many recording artists who don’t deserve it. The same goes for the moronic Brits awards in the UK! A great pity that Nicole is not known more widely when the music scene at present is so in need of a magnificent writer and a singer with an exceptional voice like Nicole’s…!
[..YouTube..] The guitarist is fantastic too! What a brilliant sound she produces with Nicole on this magnificent song…!
[..YouTube..] This performance is amazing. Love her.
[..YouTube..] Nicole is simply the most stunning female vocalist alive today according to my ears. Great support on the guitar and a fine sound recording. Magnifique!
[..YouTube..] no dislikes?! holyshit! AWWWWSSOOMEEEE
[..YouTube..] love this song awesome film work as well
[..YouTube..] 5:45 now I know why you guys always hold your applause at the end
also… Damn! girl makes love to that guitar …absolutely beautiful