Unfamiliar Stars from The Lucksmiths

Unfamiliar Stars

from The Lucksmiths

DVD

View Unfamiliar Stars trailer: youtu.be/pWXPs-_gCwQ

Please note, this DVD is an all-regions disc in PAL format. The excellent folks at Matinée Recordings of California are doing a pressing in NTSC format. If your country uses NTSC, you should point your browser Matinée-wards: matineerecordings.com/item.php?item_id=137

Find out if your country uses the PAL format: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL#Countries_and_territories_using_PAL

Filmed at The Lucksmiths' farewell show at Melbourne's Corner Hotel on August 29, 2009, Unfamiliar Stars is both a captivating concert film and a definitive end-of-the-line document, standing tall among the best of the band's vast discography. Directed by Natalie van den Dungen (The Tote Documentary), the film captures the final bittersweet airings of many Lucksmiths favourites as witnessed by a full house of hometown fans, friends and family. Clocking in at a total of thirty-three songs, the swansong performance is the culmination of farewell tours across Europe and Australia, and finds the band in vintage form, cherry-picking pop gem after pop gem from their sixteen-year career and filling the gaps with a double-dose of irrepressible Lucksmiths repartee.

A short documentary of the band's final months rounds out the package. Darkening Doorways presents an intimate view of The Lucksmiths in rehearsal, in the recording studio and throughout their farewell tour.

And here's a look at the final show set-list:

1) A Hiccup in Your Happiness
2) Good Light
3) A Downside to the Upstairs
4) Synchronised Sinking
5) Myopic Friends
6) Camera-shy
7) Stayaway Stars
8) Untidy Towns
9) The Golden Age of Aviation
10) Take This Lying Down
11) Successlessness
12) Great Lengths
13) Song of the Undersea
14) Under the Rotunda
15) Requiem For the Punters Club
16) Frisbee
17) Macintyre
18) Punchlines
19) Weatherboard
20) Broken Bones
21) The Chapter in Your Life Entitled San Francisco
22) Self-Preservation
23) California in Popular Song
24) Smokers in Love
25) Fiction
26) Caravanna
27) A Sobering Thought (Just When One Was Needed)
28) Sunlight in a Jar
29) T-Shirt Weather
30) Midweek Midmorning
31) The Great Dividing Range
32) The Music Next Door
33) The Year of Driving Languorously