Beautiful acoustic 3 song Tiny Desk Session. Adventures In Your Own Backyard, Words In The Fire and Into Giants.

The band performs Into Giants live on Canadian national television CTV Canada AM (with Erika Angell).

Brilliant new Killian Martin video with Adventures. Could as well have been the video clip for the song.

Since the embed seems to be not working, watch it here

Brilliant, beautiful video of 7 songs from Cabaret Sauvage.

April 29, 2012 - Botanique, Brussels, Belgium

The band played a sold out show at the Botanique in Brussels. During the soundcheck, Patrick met the blind and mentally challenged boy Lou, who wrote a song for Patrick. They played it during the soundcheck and the gig. A video of the song can be seen below.

SETLIST

Lighthouse 
Blackwind
Step Out for a While
Quiet Crowd
Words in the Fire
Into Giants
The Things You Do 
Strange Crooked Road 
Big Bird in a Small Cage (solo piano)
Morning Sheets 
Adventures in Your Own Backyard
Noisy Sunday 

Encore  
Luscious Life 
Sit Down Beside Me (with The Barr Brothers) 
Freddy’s My Friend 
The Great Escape 

VIDEOS

April 28th, 2012 - Melkweg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The Wiki entry for this gig can be found here. There was a trumpet player from the Royal Dutch Concertgebouw Orchestra, who played with the band for Lighthouse, Into Giants and Adventures In Your Own Backyard. The Barr Brothers joined the band for Sit Down Beside me, making the total amount of people on stage NINE! Patrick joined The Barr Brothers on piano earlier that evening for the last song of their supporting gig.

SETLIST

Lighthouse (with trumpet)
Blackwind
Step Out for a While
Quiet Crowd
Words in the Fire
Into Giants (with trumpet)
The Things You Do
Strange Crooked Road
Big Bird in a Small Cage (solo piano)
Morning Sheets
Adventures in Your Own Backyard (with trumpet)
Noisy Sunday

Encore  
Luscious Life
Sit Down Beside Me (with The Barr Brothers)
The Great Escape 

VIDEOS

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Strange Crooked Road

Adventures In Your Own Backyard

Interview with Blare Magazine

Five-part interview with FaceCulture

Prior to starting out the tour, Patrick Watson sat down with Holland’s FaceCulture for a lengthy interview.

April 24, 2012 - Cabaret Sauvage, Paris, France

On April 24th, the band played the Cabaret Sauvage in France.

SETLIST

Lighthouse 
Blackwind 
Step Out for a While 
The Quiet Crowd 
Words in the Fire
Into Giants 
The Things You Do
Strange Crooked Road
Big Bird in a Small Cage (solo piano)
Morning Sheets
Adventures in Your Own Backyard
Noisy Sunday

Encore 1
Luscious Life
Sit Down Beside Me

Encore 2
The Great Escape
Drifters

Videos

The Great Escape

The Things You Do + Strange Crooked Road

Step Out For A While

Quiet Crowd

Into Giants

Into Giants video + New Quebec dates in September!

The band have just made a big announcement. They launched the video for Into Giants, which can be seen here. It’s a really nice vintage video featuring Patrick, the band and Erika Angell.

In other news: the band have launched a new set of dates in the province of Quebec in September. Check the full list below:

09/20/12 New Richmond, QC || Salle de Spectacles New Richmond *
09/21/12 Rimouski, QC || Salle Desjardins-Telus * 
09/22/12 Baie-Comeau, QC || Théâtre de Baie-Comeau *
09/23/12 Sept-Iles, QC || Salle Jean-Marc Dion *
09/26/12 Drummondville, QC || Salle Léo-Paul Therrien *
09/27/12 Sherbrooke, QC || Théâtre Granada *
09/28/12 Gatineau, QC || Musée de la Civilization * 
09/29/12 Gatineau, QC || Musée de la Civilization *