Peter Broderick Concert: some videos & thoughts to give a glimpse of the concert

Here are just a few videos to give a flavour of the Peter Broderick concert. It was wonderful. These should give a glimpse of what it was like.

Peter Broderick plays the piano, violin and guitar, and his voice ... oh and the saw. Most of the songs from the evening were from the album 'Home' and his new EP 'How they are'

The concert began with a screening of Efterklang's album length film An Island. Which was amazing. I've put up a little description here.

Peter Broderick began with his voice, then moved to the piano. Making beautiful melancholy quite short songs. But his piano songs often build to intensity. He often switches between instruments recording a loop of himself playing and then playing it back and scampering off for his violin to accompany himself. Perhaps the most affecting is when he does this his voice, often harmonising to a couple of his own loops (see 'below it). What you don't know from the albums is that he's actually funny. He's also very playful on stage. He wandered through the crowd playing a folk song singing with his violin. All this brings a lightness to offset the otherwise melancholy tone of the songs.

Some songs are delicate, others achingly beautiful, others begin one way and escalate in intensity (at one point he broke a piano key!).

I was spellbound for the whole performance. I was in wonder at the creativity that God's created us with. We're capable of such beauty, and humour, and i was left with the phrase ringing in my minds ear 'we're drawn to beauty like moths out of the dark'. I got a sense of the shining out of the image of God in us through the mess of ourselves and the world. You get a sense of both in the performance as in the song 'human eyeballs on toast' speaks of the inhumane treatment of battery chickens, and the brokenness of a relationship that's run aground in songs like 'not at home'. Jesus came to rescue us, to lift us out of the miry mud and put us gently down, our feet in a broad and open place as we gather round him, in who there is no darkness at all.

The first two are on the piano, then the wandering violinist and finally two on the guitar and violin.





then he jumped off the stage and played this ...