Ticket Giveaway: St Vincent & David Byrne at Strathmore, 9/30

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St Vincent and David Byrne have collaborated on an album together and are touring to Strathmore in Bethesda, MD, on Sunday 9/30/12, and ShowlistDC is giving away tickets before they go on sale to the general public this Friday morning! All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post telling me which song from either of their discographies (or a cover!) you’d like to hear them play together, and I’ll pick the winners at random (using random.org) on Thursday, 28 June at 5 PM Eastern. Be sure to use a valid email address when you enter, so I can contact you if you win (and don’t worry: your email address won’t be posted publicly when you comment on this entry and won’t be added to any sort of mailing list). If you’re a hotmail user, please add showlistdc@gmail.com to your address book or no-spam list, as other hotmail users have had problems with emails from us not getting through.

Just in case you don’t know anything about these artists or their collaboration, here’s some more information: St Vincent is the stage name of Annie Clark, who got her start playing with the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens before starting her own solo career with the album Marry Me in 2007. David Byrne definitely doesn’t need an introduction, but here’s a brief summary anyway: he was in the Talking Heads from 1975-1991 and has had an extensive solo career (including several collaborations with Brian Eno) that has included work in theatre and film. (For those interested in Byrne’s writing, he writes lengthy (if infrequent) blog posts on his web site as well.)

Their collaborative album is called Love This Giant and is due to be released on 9/11 via 4AD/Toto Mundo. It includes 10 collaborative tracks and two written by each musician individually, with vocal duties split in half. Antibalas and the Dap-Kings appear on one track as well. Pitchfork recently interviewed Clark about the collaboration, and you can download one of the songs on their web site, LoveThisGiant.com or watch it on the video below. The tour will feature songs from the collaboration as well as songs from their individual discographies, and they’ve lined up a band that includes eight brass players(!), a keyboardist, and a drummer, according to Byrne.

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If you come across this post after the contest has closed, or if you’re not the lucky winner, then you can pick up tickets for $55, $75, or $125 (depending on location), plus service fees, via Ticketfly here, starting at 10 AM on Friday, 29 June.

Contest is now closed and the winner has been notified! Thanks for entering!

69 thoughts on “Ticket Giveaway: St Vincent & David Byrne at Strathmore, 9/30”

  3. “Girlfriend Is Better” is a pers fav, would love to hear how St. Vincent would add to it.

  7. Ooo I’d like to hear them do Knotty Pine, since I’ll never get to hear him do it with Dirty Projectors live. I bet it would be awesome!

  16. I’d love to see them do Naive Melody by the Talking Heads together. I’d also really love to win the pair of free tix!

  21. I’m in!
    What a coup it would be to see him and then Peter Gabriel the following week!!!!!

  29. “Glass, Concrete & Stone” by David Byrne (best case scenario – Annie add a guitar solo)

  33. I feel like David Byrne’s “Wanted for Life” already sounds St. Vincent-inspired. It would be incredible to actually see them play that one together!

  34. “Love —> Building on Fire”… I could see some great harmonizing on that tune!

  35. Her “Actor Out of Work” and his “Life During Wartime.” Would love to hear either.

  36. They should do St. Vincent’s Laughing With a Mouth of Blood! I see a lot of potential there.

  37. St. Vincent’s “The Apocalypse Song”
    Talking Heads “This Must Be The Place”

  38. I’d love to hear them do “Heaven,” but a bit more like Simply Red covered it.

  40. I know it’s their biggest song, but Once in a Lifetime covered by the two of them would be absolutely insane.

  41. Laughing with a Mouth of Blood would be a sweet collaboration. Hell, them playing any song ever written would be great, even Call Me Maybe.

    • Cheerleader by St. Vincent or The Bed, both by St. Vincent

      And Swan Ronson, you’re right, I would be okay if they played Call Me Maybe.

  42. His take on Strange Mercy, I think it has a grove that he would be able to jam with. I would love to hear Psycho Killer, but I doubt he would play it.

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  46. St. Vincent’s vocals and guitars, and David Byrd’s guitar and mixing skills could make a great Portishead cover. A lot of songs from Third – “The Rip”, “Nylon Smile”, “Hunter”…

  47. “What a Day That Was” from the “Catherine Wheel.” It would be interesting to see what the horns in their live show could do for the rhythm.

  48. Life during wartime, apocalypse song, the bed,once in a lifetime,dance on vasaline…..too many to list

  50. If they did something like Heaven together or Crosseyed and Painless, that would just be real nice. Or Byrne could help with a song like Cruel or your lips are red.

    I’m honestly more excited to see their stuff they worked on together.

  56. If there’s going to be brass, make an arrangement of “This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)!”

  58. Thanks for the chance to win tickets! “Wanted for Life” David Byrne & Brian Eno

  63. Honestly, I’m still in love with the songs on St. Vincent’s RSD 7″ so I’d like to hear Krokodil,and I Zimba or anything off of Fear of Music.