Bonnie 'Prince' Billy live on late night TV

[blakcpavement]

i hate letterman

[Hellbrokeluce]

Dude is deeply strange...

[schnemaa1]

My opinion, not that good 

[subsamadhi]

@schnemaa1 compared to the hellish crap people listen to these days, this song is brilliant.

[brehnevolent]

Andrew WK on piano!?!? this is so good!!!

[rosshorn812]

2:55 is what makes this such a fucking incredible performance. you don't get the yelling and dancing on a studio recording. every time i watch this video i look forward to the dance and scream

[jas16899]

His name is Will Oldham.

[MrCodyMcG]

he's so anti-climactic that he's climactic haha true brilliance!

[nonameisacat]

Man, what a line-up!

[drgonzo1103]

crazy lineup. fantastic rendition of a great song. oldham has some strangely powerful stage presence.

[wenders99]

Only Conan has the taste and stones to put an artist like this on his show. There is no way NBC would support this kind of music and BPB's performance without the support of O'Brien.

[northkato]

@wenders99 Letterman loves the Holdsteady.

[INERTIAAA]

Day after day, moment after moment.. I long for this song.

[EDOM666DEVORE]

deep stuff. i get this ,great music

[ilooklikeppl]

3 things i love.. BPB, Conan, and Fender amps lol

[sonicyouthinphants]

I love you Will, haha

[brokesd]

Epic ballerina move at 2:57 !

[allyzally]

just fantastic music.

[rosshorn812]

this is incredible. i love the little dancing and yelling he does. what a great performance!!

"and the softest lips ever, twenty five years of waiting to kiss him"- What a line!!

[aimlessalchemist]

This is amazing.

[erocker2020]

may be my favorite voice in music

[atropleo9]

Just brilliant!

[MrAdoy89]

this is why Conan was the best, random great unknown acts, Leno

and Letterman would never have them on.......

[DasHund80]

Matt Sweeney looks like Kirk Hammett!

[SnakeNickkkk]

what a strange sound he has!

[dashofchutmeg]

Do you see Matt Sweeney? I will kiss him on the mouth at the Chavez reunion in October.

[MrBrianojee]

Kurt Vonnegut described the combined effect of artists across all disciplines to bring about the end of the Vietnam war through their work as that of "dropping a flan from a step ladder". This led him to conclude that the new function of art is let you know you are not alone. Will Oldham works for me...

[senevene]

@MrBrianojee Well put

[Gudfala]

Jim White is the perfect drummer

[suricatafari]

!GREAT!

[zarbar2]

Leave it to Conan to do awesome again with his music bits. I love Bonnie!

[spittal69]

Great performence, very different to the album version which is nice.

But with a 'tache like that it's pretty impossible to be bad.

[NippyNate]

Is there a way to get this version as an Mp3, its amazing

[ryanadamsfan1]

brilliant!!!!

[Swingfinger]

For some reason he really reminds me of Nick Cave

[FishRock77]

@Swingfinger Reminds me of Nick Cave also.

[brainmed]

What kind of guitar is PBP playing? I love the short scale neck.

[emmabetts]

@brainmed its an old National, fifties probs

[mossandthesea]

He's cool

[doctrozaimon]

so dramatic version!

...love jim white.

[magesy99]

I really like Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, especiallly live!

It's funny how he forgets the lines of his song here at 2:05

Oh, this is such a grat song!!

[09m]

hahah i love Conan, i cant believe i never saw this!!! amazing.

[rackamdared]

strange form of life, nippynate

[NippyNate]

What's the name of this song?

[DLionel00]

If you've not did yet, you can listen to the album version of this song Strange Form of Life, which is a bit different, but also very interesting! Enjoy!!

[angertwin]

Matt Sweeney from Chavez on guitar, brother on bass, Jim White from Dirty Three on drums and Classicly trained andrew wk on piano. WOW. That is an amazing line up.

[craneflyband]

Jim White is my abso fucking lutely favourite drummer. He rareley misses.

[dresssexyatmyfuneral]

Best band he's got there!

And he's in top form here...

[Duckshirt]

Fucking weird guy?

[nicodeine]

god i love this guy

[subsamadhi]

where is Andrew W.K.? It's hard to tell.

[HIGRecords]

@subsamadhi piano on the left

[mooortje]

woooooow :)

[RichardBLongly]

swaying while warbling. yeah. B\

[myroombirdblack]

what is this small guitar?

[cluckinfold]

wonderful

[mrfumblemitts]

Wow! Just......Wow!

[pete854]

tks for video clips :)

[rodcrime]

Hey Reverend Damaged, I am pretty sure that you are actually damaged because you just posted almost the same comment twice in a row. Get a grip and grow the fuck up faggot.

[apehammer]

Jesus Rodcrime, that's a bit fucking harsh mate. Chill the fuck out.

[zenun7]

hey rev. did post the same message twice,maybe he shitted himself twice lol.

[zenun7]

lol thats funny keep up the good fight my friend

[ReverendDamaged]

BPB changed my life. Was that Andrew WK I saw up there on the piano? That is fucking awesome, I would of shit myself if I caught this live.

[zenun7]

did you crap yourself twice?

[ReverendDamaged]

Yup. I actually tried posting it, and it said "message failed" or something, so I tried again a few minutes after and it said it went through. Didn't know they both did! :)

[jrask]

Sick. Sick. SIck.

[codyincharge]

man I've just started listening to BPB and I'm blown away..

[louieo]

wow

[sprettmunk]

I've been watching this video on repeat for days. Brilliant!

[montrealexpress]

@sprettmunk me too

[cocoandthebean]

Great to see Will getting national air play. He's a genius.

[nonameisacat]

Jim White is incredible, and he pops up everywhere incredible music is made. Saw him playing with Smog in Sydney about a week ago.

[wullamulla]

I saw that gig at the Spiegeltent too - what an incredible touch the man has. Awesome to see him here with Oldham, Sweeney & co too.

[mhotter]

Got to see White and Mick turner back him at Bard quite a while ago - wasn't my fav. show (Get On Jolly is not one of my favs of Billy's overall), but have loved every other time I;ve seen Oldham - gonna see him in May at the Iron Horse again , woo-hoo. Great video, thanks for posting!

[m522280]

Gotta love BPB. I gotta start staying up later! I would've pooped my pants had I caught this while flippin through channels.

[Steamrollergirl71]

Fucking Fantastic!!!!!

[codegaard]

awesome

[aquaticape]

band is paul oldham playing bass, matt sweeney playing guitar, andrew wk playing piano, and jim white playing the drums.