Video: Los Campesinos!: "Death to Los Campesinos!" (Live on "Tubridy Tonight")
The Welsh band with the punctuation-bedecked Spanish name made their live TV debut over the weekend on, you guessed it, Irish TV! Yup, when not bringing the 1990s back with Deerhoof, Los Campesinos! found time to play the new single from the Cardiff group's forthcoming debut album Hold On Now, Youngster..., on Dublin-based RTÉ Television's "Tubridy Tonight". "Death to Los Campesinos!" seems a hair slower here than on the record-- wait, these kids get nervous?-- but the boy/girl shouts, slanted/enchanted guitars, glockenspiel, and other backing give a good feel for how unusually tight the indie-pop septet can be live. Gareth and Aleksandra Campesinos! trade lyrics that sound like a LiveJournal entry with some actual self-awareness and aesthetic sense, rejoicing in expression: "I'll be ctrl-alt-deleting your face with no reservations." As long as it's not shift-delete.
Video:> Los Campesinos!: "Death to Los Campesinos!" (Live on "Tubridy Tonight") [scroll down]
[from the "Death to Los Campesinos!" single and Hold On Now, Youngster!; due 02/18/08 and 02/25/08, respectively, on Wichita/Arts & Crafts]