Veronica Falls - Best Live Sessions 2010-2013

Amoeba Music

Hollywood, CA

Feb. 26, 2012

+ 2 other live sessions

web streams (sound quality VG+ to Ex-) 

01 Right Side of My Brain

02 Stephen

03 Beachy Head

Not all gloom & doom: Veronica Falls having a laugh

04 Bury Me Alive

05 Bad Feeling

06 Come On Over

07 Found Love In
     a Graveyard 

08 Wedding Day

09 Bad Feeling

10 If You Still Want Me

11 My Heart Beats

12 Broken Toy

13 Waiting for Something
     to Happen

14 Teenage

07-09 = KEXP-FM (Seattle, WA)
      live session Feb. 2012

10-14 = BreakThru Radio live session 
      April 2013

SAMPLE: "The Box" (live session 2011) 

So photogenic, I'm including a photo collection

Best of the Rest

Various Live Sessions

2010-2013

FM, soundboard, web streams
      (quality range VG to Ex-)

 

01 Found Love In a Graveyard 

02 The Box

03 Bury Me Alive

04 Beachy Head

05 The Fountain

06 Come On Over

07 Starry Eyes (acoustic)

08 Stephen (acoustic)

09 Broken Toy (acoustic)

10 Beachy Head (acoustic)

11 My Heart Beats

12 Found Love In a Graveyard

13 Wedding Day

14 Teenage

15 My Heart Beats

16 Come On Over

Track info:

01 = BreakThru Radio live session Fall 2011

02 = Amazing Sessions late 2011

03 = Insound live session 2011

04 = 100 Club live 2012

illustration by Mandy Newham-Cobb 
for Sessions from the Box

        (courtesy of Matt Houghton)

05 = Amazing Sessions 2012

06 = WBEZ-FM, Chicago, IL live set 2012

07-08 = FD acoustic session 2010

09 = HeartstringsTV 2013

10 = Bandstand Busking 2011

11 = KEXP-FM (Seattle, WA) live session Feb. 2012

12-14 = Sessions from the Box, 

             Portland, OR 2012-05-21

15 = Madrid, Spain 2013 (courtesy of numerocero)

16 = South Street Seaport, NYC 2013

        (partial audience rec.)

ROB SEZ: So damn talented, catchy & cute, Veronica Falls had a LOT going for it during its 5-year lifespan. Starting out in Glasgow bands like Sexy Kids, Roxanne Clifford (vocals, guitar) and drummer-vocalist Patrick Doyle teamed with guitarist James Hoare and friend Marion Herbain (bass) to form Veronica Falls in 2009. They relocated to London and found success in the indie pop world, releasing many praiseworthy singles and two albums. Musically, think 1960s-era harmony vocals accompanied by strummy, Velvet Undeground style guitar and drums, and you're getting pretty close. With a penchant for morbid themes mixed with sunny chords (typical song title: "Found Love in a Graveyard"), reviewers and musos like me resorted to phrases like surf rock/pop/goth/punk to help folks get a feel for this utterly charming band. For me, the group was at its best playing live, although I also dig the studio recordings. Alas, Veronica Falls splintered in 2014, apparently due to a combination of divergent musical interests and fatigue. Sadly, 2018 brought news of the death of drummer Patrick Doyle at age 32, presumably dashing my hopes for a reunion for good.

                              

MP3@320

Learn more about Veronica Falls' music at Pitchfork, Wikipedia & AllMusic