The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music's Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It's the same spirit — stripped-down sets, an intimate setting — just a different space.

Bobby Carter | October 26, 2021
Decked in a hoodie, cargo pants and coveted sneakers, a slimmed-down and clean-shaven Ed Sheeran stands surrounded by bookshelves and a host of world-class musicians. He’s flanked by music director to the stars, Adam Blackstone, who assembled the band and handled bass guitar duties. After opening this Tiny Desk (home) concert with his latest single, “Shivers,” Sheeran introduces himself and proceeds with more hits, new tunes, and a surprise throwback.

The English singer-songwriter may appear acclimated to a live band, but it’s a pretty rare occasion. For more than a decade, Sheeran’s become revered for ripping down stadiums, but usually (and remarkably) it’s just him, a guitar and loop pedals.

The material released so far from his upcoming album, = (out Oct. 29), leans heavily into the ’80s pop sphere and provides glimpses into Sheeran’s personal life during his time away. Here, he debuts “Overpass Graffiti,” an uptempo ode to the endurance of long love. “Visiting Hours” is a heartfelt dedication to his close friend and mentor, Australian record executive Michael Gudinski, who passed away in March.

Although most of the setlist honors =, Sheeran veers momentarily to take us to church with 2014’s “Make It Rain” from the TV show Sons of Anarchy. The choir only takes up a smidgen of physical real estate, but their voices manage to engulf the entire space, propelling the song to another stratosphere. He closes the performance with a quiet storm version of his summer single “Bad Habits.”

SET LIST
* “Shivers”
* “Make It Rain”
* “Overpass Graffiti”
* “Visiting Hours”
* “Bad Habits”

MUSICIANS
* Adam Blackstone: musical director/bass
* Terence Vaughn: keys
* Tim Stewart: guitar
* Clay Sears: guitar
* Brian Frasier-Moore: drums
* Rayfield Holloman: pedal steel guitar
* Whitney Smith: vocals
* Raphael Smith: vocals
* Melissa Best: vocals
* Antia Coach: vocals
* Melany Watson: vocals
* Kyron Elcock: vocals
* Raymond Mason: trombone
* Michael Leonhart: trumpet
* Sam Greenfield: saxophone

CREDITS
* Video: Chadrick Fellers, Jeremy Ivory-Chambers, Porous Porousfreak
* Audio: Tyrell Ace Clark, James Hardy-Martin, Douglas Touré Harris

TINY DESK TEAM
* Producer: Bobby Carter
* Video Producer: Kara Frame
* Audio Mastering: Josh Rogosin
* Tiny Production Team: Bob Boilen, Bobby Carter, Maia Stern, Sofie Hernandez-Simeonidis
* Executive Producer: Keith Jenkins
* Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann

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Stephen Thompson | December 5, 2022
Belgian dance-pop superstar Stromae puts on one of the best live shows in the world — here’s a two-song set from 2015, presented as evidence — but his stage presentation is tough to strip down. To say nothing of the light show, Stromae’s throbbingly impeccable arrangements involve the extensive use of pre-recorded tracks, all of which are frowned upon at the Tiny Desk. So, given a simple three-word assignment (“no preset sounds”), his team set about re-creating Stromae’s music so that it could be performed in real time.

This involved more gleaming tech than we could have ever imagined when we launched Tiny Desk concerts nearly 15 years ago — veritable banks of laptops, mixers and synthesizers, with multiple producers working out of frame — but damned if every sound in this set wasn’t crafted and played live on the spot. Stromae and his team had to come a day early for hours of setup and rehearsals, and even the band’s clothing was handpicked from the singer’s fashion line, but what they produced felt loose-limbed and organic in the spirit of the series.

It helps that, as heard on this year’s outstanding Multitude, Stromae’s songs draw from a deep well of lived emotion. Backed by three members of the Bulgarian women’s choir Yasna Voices, Stromae kicked off his set with “L’enfer,” a wrenching acknowledgement of suicidal thoughts. The song’s chorus, translated to English, reads, “Sometimes I’ve had suicidal thoughts and I’m not proud of it / Sometimes you feel it’d be the only way to silence them / All these thoughts putting me through hell.”

From there, Stromae’s song selections conveyed lighter moods, but even his most danceable tracks contain undercurrents of darkness and conflict: “Santé” is a toast to those who can’t celebrate, “Alors on danse” (from 2009’s Cheese) embraces dancing as a way to drown out life’s hardships and “Mon amour” attempts to reassure a lover against a backdrop of infidelity and dysfunction. On its own, each track is a heady cocktail of painstaking craft and hard-won joy. Taken together, they form a portrait of a world-class showman at the height of his powers.

SET LIST
“L’enfer”
“Santé”
“Alors on danse”
“Mon amour”

MUSICIANS
Stromae: vocals
Manoli Avgoustinatos: keyboards, charango, vocals
Yoshi Masuda: keyboard, vocals
Simon LeSaint: drums, vocals
Florian Rossi: keyboard, vocals

Yasna Voices NY Bulgarian Women’s Choir, directed by Vlada Tomova
Mimi Berkova
Larkin Grimm
Vlada Tomova

TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Bob Boilen
Director/Editor: Maia Stern
Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin
Series Producer: Bobby Carter
Videographers: Joshua Bryant, Maia Stern, Pierre Kattar, Sofia Seidel
Production Assistants: Jill Britton, Alanté Serene
Tiny Desk Team: Suraya Mohamed, Marissa Lorusso, Hazel Cills, Kara Frame, Ashley Pointer, Teresa Xie
VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann

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Live at the Amsterdam Arena in the Netherlands

Sorry to hear the occasional cough or small other noise, I didn't realize my microphone was on during the stream.
Otherwise, just enjoy the concert.

00:00 "This house is not for sale"
6:19 "Raise your hands"
11:31 "Knockout"
15:55 "You give love a bad name"
20:23 "Born To Be My Baby"
26:00 "Lost Highway"
30:26 "Because We Can"
34:42 "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead"
41:57 "Runaway"
47:33 "We Got It Going On"
52:20 "Someday I'll Be Saturday Night" (Acoustic)
57:10 "Bed Of Roses"
1:06:11 "It's My Life"
1:10:09 "Captain Crash and The Beauty Queen From Mars"
1:15:33 "Roller Coaster"
1:19:39 "Wanted Dead Or Alive"
1:25:04 "Lay Your Hands On Me"
1:32:50 "Keep The Faith"
1:41:47 "Bad Medicine"
1:51:47 "Have a Nice Day"
1:56:05 "Livin' On A Prayer"

3rd Upload attempt
This is currently the most complete best quality upload of the Full 1964 Concert in Melbourne (and finally in correct order). Video has been AI upscaled & audio has been remixed in stereo. Also featuring archive footage of the beatles in Australia. Enjoy!

#thebeatles
#live

NGCB

If you would like a high quality MP3 of the concert you can email me for the link.
(On 3/16/17 I made a new version of the mp3, same quality but the old one had an issue where some audio players wouldn't play it, the new one doesn't have that problem.)

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“Intro” 0:24 - 2:00
2. “By the Way” 2:03 - 6:25
3. “Scar Tissue” 6:26 - 10:10
4. “Around the World ” 11:06 - 14:57
5. “Maybe” (cover by John Frusciante) 15:10 - 16:33
6. “Universally Speaking” 16:58 - 21:01
7. “Parallel Universe” 22:27 - 27:00
8. “The Zephyr Song” 27:38 - 31:23
9. “Throw Away Your Television” 31:50 - 37:29
10. “Havana Affair” (Ramones cover) 38:03 - 40:07
11. “Otherside” 41:20 - 45:35
12. “Purple Stain” 45:52 - 49:48
13. “Don’t Forget Me” 51:18 - 56:18
14. “Right on Time” 56:50 - 58:56
15. “Can’t Stop” 59:26 - 1:04:11
16. “Venice Queen” 1:05:48 - 1:11:47
17. “Give It Away” 1:12:18 - 1:16:47
18. "Jam" 1:22:27 - 1:24:12
19. “Californication” 1:24:14 - 1:29:42
20. “Under the Bridge” 1:30:02 - 1:34:16
21. “The Power of Equality” 1:35:17 - 1:39:15

August 23, 2003 Slane Castle, Ireland
Artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers

Fully audio and video were remastered by Daihen Chu & EASTeam
2020-2024
Incl. ENG + VIE Subs
PLAYLIST:
00:00 Introduction
00:48 WELCOME TO NEW YORK
05:30 NEW ROMANTICS
11:10 BLANK SPACE
20:21 I KNEW YOU WERE TROUBLE
29:53 I WISH YOU WOULD
33:43 HOW YOU GET THE GIRL
41:17 I KNOW PLACES
48:21 ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS STAY
53:13 YOU ARE IN LOVE
01:03:13 CLEAN
01:12:01 LOVE STORY
01:20:02 STYLE
01:25:35 THIS LOVE
01:31:29 BAD BLOOD
01:35:46 WE ARE NEVER EVER GETTING BACK TOGETHER
01:42:59 ENCHANTED/WILDEST DREAMS
01:49:32 OUT OF THE WOODS
01:59:40 SHAKE IT OFF

I had to post this now that they're gone.