CAMERA OBSCURA in 4K - FULL SHOW (1 of 2), MAIN SET - THE CONCERT HALL, TORONTO - SAT JUN 1 2024

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Official Website : https://www.camera-obscura.net/
Tour: NORTH AMERICA 2024 (promoting their new album LOOK TO THE EAST, LOOK TO THE WEST)
Indoor Venue: THE CONCERT HALL, TORONTO (capacity 1244)
Opening Act: Photo Ops

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 SETLIST:
00:00 band entrance
00:55 1.Liberty Print
06:18 2.Let's Get Out of This Country
09:51 3.Pop Goes Pop
14:37 4.Tears for Affairs
18:38 5.Teenager
23:02 6.The Light Nights
27:55 7.Big Love
31:06 8.This Is Love (Feels Alright)
34:40 Tracyanne's story time
35:58 9.Forests & Sands
40:55 10.Come Back Margaret
44:50 11.We’re Going to Make It in a Man’s World
49:48 12.Look to the East, Look to the West
54:58 13.The Sweetest Thing
59:41 14.French Navy
1:03:31 15.Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken
1:07:22 16.If Looks Could Kill

MEMBERS:
📸 TRACYANNE CAMPBELL – Lead Vocals, Guitar, Percussion
📸 GAVIN DUNBAR – Bass
📸 LOUIS ABBOTT (fill-in for LEE THOMSON) – Drums, Backing Vocals
📸 KENNY McKEEVE – Guitar, Backing Vocals
📸 DONNA MACIOCIA – Keyboards, Backing Vocals
📸 TIM CRONIN - Trumpet, Percussion

Forests & Sands being played live in Toronto, it doesn't get any better than that!
Thank you to the band and their staff for a wonderful show! 🫶

BIOGRAPHY: (courtesty of Mark Deming at allmusic.com https://www.allmusic.com/artist/camer...)
Hailing from Glasgow, Camera Obscura were formed in 1996 by lead vocalist and guitarist Tracyanne Campbell, percussionist John Henderson, and bassist Gavin Dunbar. After playing out with a handful of guest musicians, Camera Obscura expanded to a quartet with the addition of guitarist David Skirving, and in 1998, the group issued their first single, "Park & Ride" on the indie Andmoresound label. In 2000, Lee Thompson joined Camera Obscura as their full-time drummer, and Lindsay Boyd signed on as keyboard player. In 2001, Skirving left the band, and Kenny McKeeve became their new guitarist. As they became better known, they were frequently compared to Belle and Sebastian, and B&S leader Stuart Murdoch was recruited to produce their debut album, 2001's Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi. The album earned praise from John Peel, who invited the group to record a live session for broadcast on his BBC show, and the single "Eighties Fan" became a modest hit. In 2002, Lindsay Boyd parted ways with Camera Obscura and Carey Lander took her place behind the keyboards, while Nigel Baillie also joined the band, handling trumpet and percussion.

The group themselves produced their second album, 2003's Underachievers Please Try Harder, and further established their melancholy, unassuming sound. Its release (on the Elefant and Merge labels) was followed by an international tour covering Great Britain, Ireland, and the United States.

For the recording of their third album, Let's Get Out of This Country, the band traveled to Sweden for two weeks to record with Concretes' producer Jari Haapalainen. The results were a batch of reverb-drenched songs that took influence from Motown, vintage country, and heartbreak. It was released in June 2006, and features one of the band's most popular tunes, an answer song to Lloyd Cole's "Are You Ready to Be Heartbroken" titled "Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken." It was featured in the film P.S. I Love You, the TV series Friday Night Light, and did a great deal to boost the band's profile. In 2009, Camera Obscura were signed by the celebrated U.K. label 4AD, and released My Maudlin Career, in April of that year. The success of the single "French Navy" helped push the album into the Top 50 of the U.K. album charts, and the Top 100 in America. (The song also became the theme of the U.K. cooking show Come Dine with Me). The year saw another lineup change for Camera Obscura as Nigel Baillie left the band to spend more time with his family.

In 2015, Camera Obscura canceled a tour of the United States when Carey Lander was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a form of bone cancer. Lander's bandmates rallied around her, helping support an online campaign to raise both funds for treatment and awareness of the disease, but on October 11, 2015, cancer claimed Lander's life. The band went on hiatus afterward, with Campbell recording an album with Danny Coughlan and releasing it in May of 2018 under the name Tracyanne & Danny. Later that year, Camera Obscura reunited to play the Belle and Sebastian-sponsored Boaty Weekender with Donna Maciocia on keyboards and backing vocals. They decided to record another album, and after being derailed by COVID-19, began writing, with Maciocia (who was now a full member of the band) helping out. They brought back Haapalainen to produce and stripped away much of the reverb of previous albums while adding some subtle electronics and pedal steel guitar on the way to delivering a set of country rock-influenced songs dealing with the evergreen topics of love and loss. Look to the East, Look to the West was issued by Merge in May of 2024.