Bright Eyes And Neva Dinova - 'One Jug Of Wine,...
Before he settled into life as the the folksy liberal conscience of indie America, a kind of Iraq invasion Dylan, Conor Oberst used Bright Eyes to make music that was angry, liquour-drenched, paranoid and – if anyone dare say it anymore –...
Bright Eyes: Shepherds Bush Empire, London,...
Over the cacophonous dischord of Beelzebub’s personal string section tuning up for a performance of The Evisceration Concerto, a motivational therapist, recorded down a phone line, attempts to heal the Empire’s wounded soul. “Go back through...
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“Well,” said the cabbage-eared NME snapper to your faithful correspondent following Bright Eyes’ sensational, heartstring-snapping Glastonbury performance the other week. “That was a bit shitty and evangelical, wasn’t it? He looked like...
Bright Eyes: Cassadaga
If there’s one rock specimen in mortal need of stamping out, it’s the morose singer-songwriter. Its tyranny can be seen all over our once-pure landscape: Nutini, Morrison, Blunt et al, sit smug as Britain’s biggest artists. If Nick Drake –...
Bright Eyes: Bowery Ballroom, New York;...
Far be it from us to judge anyone by their haircut, but Conor Oberst sure looks like a hippy these days. Perhaps not quite the sandal-wearing, camper van-driving, bullshit-spouting kind from bygone eras of slack personal hygiene, but certainly one...
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He’s back! Having sat seething on the sidelines while Brandon Flowers ransacked the Americana thesaurus on ‘Sam’s Town’, Conor Oberst returns to show him how it’s done. “A squatter’s made a mural of a Mexican girl/With 15 cans of...
Bright Eyes : Somerset House, Tuesday July 12
You have to feel a wee bit sorry for Conor Oberst. There he is, spending his best years as alt.indie’s drunken boy in the bubble, his manifold wobbles and personality disorders providing a never-ending stream of comfort food for a generation of...
Bright Eyes : WC1 ULU, Wednesday Nov 17
If Conor Oberst (aka Bright Eyes) wasn’t an atheist before recent political events in the US then you can be damn sure he is one now. Tonight, Oberst performs a song that he wrote earlier that day, entitled ‘When The President Talks To God’...
Bright Eyes : Lifted Or The Story Is In The...
How much does Conor Oberst really suffer for his art? When this compelling, self-conscious and exceptionally long album ends, it's hard to tell what Oberst, 22 years old and Bright Eyes ' unsteady pivot, actually feels. Is this country emo or...
Bright Eyes : Letting Off The Happiness
As album titles go, 'Letting Off The Happiness', is as blackly ironic as they get. By track two, old Bright Eyes himself, Conor Oberst, has got drunk, buried his brother, considered suicide and ruminated on a dreamless coma. So far, so...
