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Seasick Steve live in 360 degrees
The blues singer played a gig in aid of homeless charity The Connection at St Martin's – now watch it from every angle
On Thursday 26 May, Seasick Steve headlined the annual Streets of London Concert for Homelessness at the Electric Ballroom in Camden. All proceeds went to The Connection at St Martin's, a specialist centre that provides support to more than 200 homeless people each day. Below you can watch a stream of the show, filmed using Mativision 360-degree technology allowing you to select camera angles, pan across the stage (and crowd) or just leave static to enjoy an intimate set from Seasick Steve, including tracks from his new album, You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks. Enjoy!
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bolobo
31 May 2011 4:07PM
This technology's a great idea but until my broadband's about a thousand times faster it's useless to me. There's only so much buffering I can take.
FrancesSmith
1 June 2011 11:39AM
ok, found the "mute" now i can comment.
this helping homeless charities by playing concerts to help them raise funds is all very well, but the cuts in incapacity benefits that labour started, and now the conservatives are proceeding with, at an even faster rate, will impact enormously on the lives of the vulnerably housed who want to move on with their lives.
appearing "cool" by playing concerts is all very well, but speaking out against these benefit changes would be far more useful for homeless people,
musicians, please note!
tsunamibomb904
1 June 2011 1:16PM
FrancesSmith - what is a musicians job? its to play music. There are people out there already speaking out against the changes, 1 more person speaking out won't help, but musicians can use their skills and talents to raise money and awareness of a charity which is incredibly helpful.
artfulsplodger
1 June 2011 8:58PM
FrancesSmith,
A musician who has built his career on singing and talking about his experiences as a hobo does a gig for the homeless - if he can't identify with the problem who can?
Well done the Guardian for giving the event and the charity the oxygen of publicity it needs. I don't think it needs the tech to catch our attention, but, if it helps, so be it.
And if you're reading this, spare a moment to donate to the charity.
gabrielcasey
1 June 2011 10:54PM
Lays an Jouman, Jawn paw Jawn.............AHH
.....please disembed this auto-playing video. Guardian Music Blog will literally be unvisitable for the best part of a week.
TerminalDecline
3 June 2011 11:17AM
can you tell me when this will fall off the bloody music blog page - the auto play is really annoying.
beermonster
4 June 2011 7:16AM
Artfulsplodger, well put, I think irony is beyond the comprehension of Frances Smith and if she reads this she'll have due right to put her dainty size 6 into her
perfectly formed gob.
Now away from the irrelevant gripes about technology etc. Thanks be to the Guardian for putting this up. Seasick Steve may well turn out to be an icon, he manages to provide a living link to various styles of blues played over the last 100 years and its a genre long since forgotten by all us highbrows. Despite most of our modern rock musical roots supposedly stemming from this complex genre, think Alexis Korner, Graham Bond, John Mayall and the people they spurned, Bruce, Baker, Maclaughlin who influenced later players, we still have little idea of the original blues players and their styles.
Steve manages to encapsulate so many and make them all palatable to modern audiences, each song is different, each style has an identity and the band complement to perfection.
It's not even my personal taste, but this gig and clips are really important - so keep them there and continue to educate the masses. The 'delta' blues stylisation on Wlaking Man is gorgeous.
Love the Guardian.
gabrielcasey
5 June 2011 3:08PM
@Beermonster
Seasick Steve may well turn out to be an icon, he manages to provide a living link to various styles of blues played over the last 100 years and its a genre long since forgotten by all us highbrows.
I'm going to disagree - there is no more classic example of the gentrification of blues culture than when 'us highbrows' assign the meaningless badge of 'authenticity' to this artist or that artist and decide that they are either better or, as you put it 'really important' because we see them as representative of a hidden, mythological tradition. Mr. Steve is certainly old, bearded, and slightly dirty looking, but that does not mean that he is a spiritual corollary of Robert Johnson.
Seasick Steve should be evaluated in musical, not historical terms - worry less about how to 'educate the masses' and more about whether you are genuinely enjoying the music or confusing it with your enjoyment of an imaginative trip through a mystical 'blues' experience more ingratiating to your ego than when you hear some piece of manufactured dance-floor fodder from some skimpily-dressed twenty-something no-talent and guiltily enjoy it.
For my money - Seasick Steve, for all his credible connections (John 'Paw' Jones, Joni Mitchell....etc) makes mediocre music. Love that beard though.
Sillybob
31 May 2011 12:26PM
This guy is a legend, strange to see him at a festival but I loved every bit.