The King Left | Piano’s, NYC | 7.17.2008
THE KING LEFT played round 2 of their 3 week residency at Piano’s last night. The show debuted a new multimedia experience created by Matt Dunn, who also directed their video for “The Storm In The Teacup.” The presentation was strung together abstract clips of black and white video that was accentuated by the changes of the music. The visual element brought some new life to King Left favorites like “By The End, Juggling Wolves” and “Brant.” They also played a cool rendition of P.J. Harvey’s “A Perfect Day Elise.”
One offbeat moment of the night came when a “random dude” walked in selling weird flashing trinkets (seen below.) Now the show was an benefit for Autism research, so a) did this dude pay to get in to sell flashing trinkets and b) were the proceeds of flashing trinket sales (I saw at least one sale) go to benefit Autism research? The answers of these questions will likely remain unknown.
The King Left finish their residency next thursday at 9:30pm at Piano’s. Check out more photos after the jump.
