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  • @dunlaoghaire...I think it's time you sat down, had a nice cup of tea and let your medication take hold before you're allowed near a keyboard to type such nonsense.

  • I'm a big fan of lisa and obviously Nick Drake, but this is an awful, affected abomination. Why is she singing like that... bwak ide dwaaawgy... goneing ome and i dunt wunnit no

  • Lisa was in conversation with Bob Harris over the weekend ( still on iPlayer) & explained her reasons for performing the song in the way that she did. It's worth checking out. She also performed songs from Passenger, which are on here in live versions already. See Bing lounge/Kink radio channel.

  • good cover but the contortions are a little odd

  • lame - can't cover nick drake - no matter how avant garde you pretend to be. great effort obviously, but it hurts me to see others try to play drake.

  • @0rstutzman0

    Crap. You clearly have no idea. She's genius, you're a bore

  • Genius, absolutely genius. This is one of the best Nick Drake songs, everything about it is just perfect. Lisa's effort to make this sound as beautiful as the original but with a little bit of her in it is just perfect. Nick is a lost genius and I hope we won't lose Lisa.

  • This is inspired by the swans cover isnt it?

  • @icepic1984 nick drake

  • she is awesome!

    

  • LOVE THAT GIRL

  • Pretentious? I dont think so, just cause shes playing an instrument u've never seen doesn't maker her pretentious! This has me in tears btw. I have depression and its perhaps the worst that can happen to a human being. But this rendition spells triumph in the face of despair and sadness. Her chant at the end is just heartbreaking. Long live Nick Drake.

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  • Is this Bjork's daughter or something? Haha

  • What is the name of that instrument she is playing?

  • @MCDG1 It's a harmonium made by Jas

  • Really interesting cover. It takes the tired, resigned tone of the original and flips it on its head into a refusal to give up. I still prefer the Nick's, but it's refreshing to hear a cover that is essentially diametrically opposed to the original work so well.

  • Well that was spellbinding!!

  • concert absolutely stunning every artist did justice to his songs. If only we could have more of this, they all really stepped up to the plate

  • where did you find the video recording? i want a copy, can't find it anywhere. saw the show recently and i'm still blown away, can't get this out of my mind cheers

  • YESSS!!! Saw Lisa perform this last night (13/11/2011) in the Melbourne (aust) version of Way to Blue - her 'Wild Angel' interpretation was fanfrickingtastic!! Multiply this video by a thousand to get an idea of how powerful it was. It was kind of Bjork meets Nusrat meets power and perfection!! Thank you Lisa, thank you Nick.

  • Dear god visited his grave last year, now In haick is really alive ha :)

  • Glorious.

  • i love how she celebrates the black dog at the end. its our only revolt against it

  • @J0ELtheNOOB

    Well said.

  • Stop breathing with this song

  • nick is from near my hometown of solihull. i have so much pride that one of the greatest songwriters and guitar players same from my hometown. he deserves so much more recognition

  • @hi0u50fd Wow, is that ever the truth. I started listening to Nick's music in 1969 and was totally blown away then and am to this day. He's gotten a modicum of recognition in the last few years, but he absolutely did deserve so much more. One of the best ever - rest in peace, gentle soul.

  • Muito bom, lembra muito o que Edie Vedder faz. parabéns mesmo, estavamos precisando de músicos assim!

  • Don't know where you were at on this, but I know where I was at.... Thank you sweetness!

  • nope, the reverb is just right

  • does anyone feel like there is way too much reverberation going on here?

  • all along the watchtower...valerie...any other instances of cover versions being better than the original until this?

    has she done northern sky?????????????

  • Amazing!

  • Nicely strange! I like this girl. I love her voice. And she plays so many instruments. Hmmmm.

  • She is gorgeous and talented, and I want to steal her outfit...

  • @SiriRawrs Never has that dress looked so good. She is stunning!

  • Next thing Lisa will be covering Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

  • @hhold If anyone (who is not Jeff Buckley) ever pulls off a good Nusrat cover I will love them forever.

  • She is amazing!! wow such energy!

  • Completely in a trance! Eek and Mi dancing around like crazy dogs...

    (You saw where she wears her ring?)

  • @MsEekhoorn I did! Dance with mi, dear butterfly...

  • Lisa rulez, and Nick rulez!!! ^^

  • Holy ****! Best thing I've heard this year, hands down (been a Nick Drake fan for ~15 years). Truly haunting and emotional....

  • sorry but thats a pretentious instrument, and actually sounds terrible, if that was done on strings it would sound much nicer

  • @theblahman What instrument is that?

  • @MissBethiya That accordion type thing

  • @MissBethiya

    a harmonium

  • I want so badly to like her solo, but I think she was so much better with Damian Rice. I'm really disappointed.

  • Cajón peruano! Qué hermoso! Me encantas Lisa!!!

  • Sorry, Doesn't work for me.

  • thank you

  • What's she playing?

  • Nope. Sorry. Sometimes, you got the leave well the hell enough alone. Why? Why do this to a beautiful song. I understand in making the cover your own but what the hell is this?

  • to me, she renders the song differently by showing the conquering w/in the suffering. something we all do... fight to overcome that which would otherwise overcome us. as i hear it, her rendition is a tribute to that end. an offering of nick's song back to him, a man who surely would have wanted nothing more than to overcome. her love and care emanates. i can only imagine he would have appreciated it and been proud. Xx

  • @violinmama100 beside the music comments like yours make you tube a great treasure!!

  • A true sign of a good artist is creativity and Lisa shows great creativity here in her interpretation of this song. Good job Lisa and keep experimenting. You are bringing much joy to many people who love listening to your music.

  • Pretentious....

  • I actually discovered Lisa Hannigan because of this cover. Shame the rest of the show was pretty terrible.

  • unbearable show, she destroyed this song

  • Thanks Lisa for doing a beautiful job of Nick Drakes's song!!!

  • Wasn't sure after the first moments if i was gonna to enjoy this cover, but wow. looking back, her eerie entrance is quite fitting for where she took the song with the accompaniment behind her. so full of life as compared to Nick Drake's version. but I've been feeling positive lately, so today, this take fits the mood.

  • very good

  • Nickś is more Blues and this folk.. so you cant compare it at alle! -- I am a huge nick drake fan. and also lisa... Lisa is a happy kinda person, with warmth, Drake was a depressed individual... so why at all compare.. YES its a cover.. but come on.. take it for what it is.. MUSIC! AND THE REALLY GOOD KIND!!!

  • WOW

  • This girl is pure power of nature.She is fantastic!

  • why does she sell out the barbican doing this when the master himself couldn't sell out a cafe?

  • @justaddcorn There were several musicians there of greater weight and longevity than Hannigan on the tour with her ash she would probably assert herself.

  • She´s got the music in her. Amazing!!!

  • Its got loads of feeling which is the most important thing, regardless of the style. I like it.

  • Lisa is soooo special!

  • why is this good? i love the nick drake version. this sounds like if bjork had played the jodie foster role in nell and covered this song. the song is about despair,not drunken irish jigging

  • @dvet8o where is it said this cover is about drunken irish jigging ?

  • she should be a capella ... the irish jig shit kickin in is damn silly.

  • @theblahs wheres the irish jig in this ? i dont see it. ?

  • @zeppirl well it starts at around.. oohh 1:39. It's not even irish jig, it's strait up pap adult contemporary tunes.

    Track should be her voice, her little instrument and her cute little stomping foot.

  • Bravo!

  • Nick Drake is my all time favourite musician, and i want to marry Lisa Hannigan. Hearing her sing his song makes me so sad/happy. She's beautiful in every way. In and Out.

  • The only thing that could have made this performance better is if she had drug out the corpse of Nick Drake and PISSED IN FUCKING HIS EYEHOLES!

  • I don`t know what these people in the audience are on. Have you ever seen such a boring lacklustre crowd. I know if I was in that audience, I`d have been going friggin nuts. Amazing performances apart from the dodgy guy in the polkadot shirt.

  • Absolutely beautiful.This is whats missing in music today,a true non commercialized talent.I dont even listen to the radio anymore,its what they want you to listen to is the reason.A+ perfomance by Lisa,incredible.

  • Best cover of any song that I have EVER heard. She should MOST CERTAINLY release it as a single!

  • yea, i for one,couldn' love her more

  • Yea , you're intitled to your opinion???wrong place ,wrong time,but???I'm just a Lis FAN,,,AN I JUST LOVE HER INTERPRETATIONS,,,Yea covers are risky, but she does her own thing?.. like it or leave it?......AN I LOVE IT, AN HER VOICE, AN HER BODY,AN HER DANCE....

  • Beautiful. She's taken a song drenched in desperation and made it jubilant.

  • I want to live in this world she just created for me.

  • @goofysmartypants Please go there!

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  • Thanks to Mick for reminding me about this

  • this beautiful interpretation of Nick Drakes song reminds me of The Tea Party...

    maybe something like "sister awake"?

    Greetz

    KK

  • @smitty618 It's meant to be the wail of someone afflicted by the black eyed dog of despair and depression - did you check her other work at all before you made such a judgment?

  • @smitty618

    you call that fucking awful? :/

    please just remove that fucking awfully retarded comment!

  • @smitty618 Fuckin awful is your comment you piece of shit.

  • @punkpop102 Calling me a piece of shit because I have low opinions of her voice. Get a grip.

  • @smitty618 fucking awful are your ears.. dont know about music!! she's talented and HAS a great voice, she's worked a lot and doesn't deserve your stupid comment, you wacker ass hole find something else to fuck

  • @Musiikki93 what the fuck, why are you calling me an asshole because I hate her voice, it's a subjective opinion, the comments aren't always for constant praise, they can be for criticisms as well (i.e her voice). You also need to get a grip.

  • @smitty618 it's just you can't say "fucking awful" and i know an opinion is subjective.. but you can't be such a rude guy saying that ! ! .. you could have said "i don't like her voice because blaa" or "i hate it.." but what you said is rude nobody deserves to be treated in that way

  • @Musiikki93 haha yeah rather like how you were rude to me, rather hypocritical, no? But ok, I will give constructive criticism. I think her accent is too strong for this song, and I just don't like it.

  • @smitty618 apologies for the rudeness.. I don't want to be hipocritical It's just I got angry with your first comment.. don't do it again please haha ;)

  • @smitty618 .....your entitled to your opinion but i`m sure that many if not the majority would totally dissagree with you.lisa is brilliant.

  • @smitty618 you should check out some of her other stuff if this isn't your thing, she's actually got an incredible voice

  • second only to Scott Matthews PERFECT day is done in my view

  • I've never seen her with this much energy, it's quite a sight, and I wish she would never stop :D. Amazing performance, just tremendous passion and Joy. One for the books my friends.

  • Simply beautifull

  • awesome expression of Nickhilism. i dont want to go home.

  • awesome expression on of Nickhilism. i dont want to go home.

  • Thank you for giving me the chance to hear this. This stuff keeps me going!!

  • Great.....!!!

  • She's amazing. She holds an off tempo and creates a a lead up to the crescendo for 1 minute and 45 seconds, while singing perfect vocals. There is no end to her talent.

  • wow...so compelling... incredible performance!

  • My friend and I went to this gig. He fell in love about 30 seconds into this performance!

  • Does anyone know where I can watch the whole of this? Thanks :D

  • Magnificent O_O

  • Does any one know how to get this on mp3 / cd as been looking for ages on internet and so far nothing is out there on the market as far as i can find.......please help, thank you

  • what is the instrument she is playing?

  • @oasisxo A Harmonium!

  • @bryanseale MUST HAVE! thanks so much for answering my question :D

  • @MarleyyBrooke No problem at all!

  • Just watched this concert and it was all going along nicely and then this happened! Totally blew me away. What a fantastic arrangement and performance.

  • An astonishing, revelatory, spine tingling version. Superb.

  • @quemo2009 This was a concert of about a dozen different singers. Do you expect them all to bring their bands on stage?

    The Songs of Nick Drake: Way to Blue which was shown on BBC3. "Geesh", big thumbs down for you for not knowing what you were talking about.

  • COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLL

  • YES! THIS is it!

  • Brilliant!

  • This was the best performance of the night in my opinion. I cannot usually listen to this song as sung by Nick Drake because it seems to be intruding on his pain. Lisa Hannigan's performance took the song to another level. So powerful! She should release it as a single

  • Wow, Lisa's got an incredible energy here... Leaves you speechless. :o

    She's come a long way since being a backround singer for Damien Rice, being dumped by him really was the best thing that ever could have happened to her. His loss is the rest of the world's gain! :D

    Thank you very much for uploading!!! If it's not too much trouble, would you mind uploading the rest of the Way to Blue performances that Lisa was a part of?

  • @sasainsf are you sure he "dumped" her. i heard she left to make her own cd and do her own thing and he had a hissy fit about it

  • @bleeb129

    I am sure that it was him who kicked her out of the band as he admitted it in his Dec. 2010 interview with the Irish music magazine "Hotpress", you can find the scans of the interview in the eskimofriend forum's Damien Rice board on page 7, title of the thread is "Possible new Damien interview". The interview is pretty much a retrospective of the last ten years since O came out.

  • @sasainsf your right. i just checked it out again. i read about her on wikipedia and it said there she left to pursue a solo career. but your right, i read someplace else where she was quoted as stating her told her her services were no longer needed. very strange

  • @bleeb129

    Like I said: his loss is our gain.

    I have to admit I wasn't quite sure if I thought that she could make it on her own when I had first read the news on their split. But she turned out to be such a talented artist and handles all the attention she gets so easily and with so much grace... She put all the doubters including me to shame ;)

  • This is an amazing arrangement and performance. To render such a death-haunted song with this rooted, earthy vitality - strange catharsis.

  • A hang(wo)man unledded?

    When I hear something that touches these Musical Boxes I just know I am gonna love it: Nick Drake; Bjork; Led Zeppelin & PJ Harvey.

    Check out the MIGHTY REARRANGER herself, Lisa Hannigan re-inventing Drake's Black-Eyed Dog for four gorgeous, fey minutes of pure modal delight....

  • FANTASTIC!!!! :) PURE TALENT

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