Joanna Newsom at Somerset House (Unreleased song)

Joanna Newsom performing a new, untitled song at Somerset House on 20th July 2008. Before playing this song she commented that "it's not like people can put recordings of this song and place them in some sort of metaphysical forum for other people to see and comment on..."; so I thought she was giving me permission to record it on my phone. Sorry if I got the wrong end of the stick, Joanna.

Apologies for the shoddy quality of the footage, it's an old phone now, although since it was just Joanna and a piano - and the audience was completely silent throughout - the recording is pretty clear.

Apart from when Frankie makes an inappropriate comment in the middle. Tsk tsk.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• alternative
• folk
• indie
• joanna
• newsom
• somerset
• house
• harp
• 20th
• July
• 2008

[taxlossdave]

Thanks everybody for the really positive comments (not that I wrote this song or anything). I'm glad you all seem to like it. I only hope Joanna doesn't mind this being on the interweb!

[bornofthorn]

baby birch

[CaptainTangent]

Tori Amos in that she's a genius and nothing else. That's like saying 'Mozart much' at a Bach gig.

[booboonah]

tori amos much?

[paulsbjim]

Dammit, I wish I'd been there! Really nice song.

[Auraleus]

absolutly sweet!!! xD

[digopc]

what a great gig that was! x

[biggabob]

Just a fantastic night, the lyrics of this song have stuck with me already, so beautiful.

[Decom5]

Thanks for sharing this, in agreement with all the other comments, last night was truly wonderful to witness and be part of such a completely rapt audience. :)