Taxijam

It was a cold and miserable May afternoon in Whitechapel. Thankfully, Flaming Lips brightened everyones afternoon with a little back and forth with our cabbie, Brian. Take it away guys!

Eliot Paulina Sumner , also known as Coco, is an English musician recording under the band name I Blame Coco. I Blame Coco’s debut album, The Constant was released in the UK on 8 November 2010. She is the daughter of musician Sting and actress/producer Trudie Styler I Blame Coco at Secret Garden Party, 2010 […]

Mali’s finest Kora player gave us the pleasure of closing our at Field Day 09 sessions. A true gent with an incredible story to tell, Toumani Diabate should be hailed around the world as on of the great African musicans..

A trip across Paris in a van. Lost drumsticks. A cafe you’d never expect to visit before the age of 60. An hour of waiting, and then, voilà–a few notes on the harmonium, a grand piano, a heavenly voice. Sigur Ros on a Take Away Show.

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After selling out London’s Roundhouse the previous night, we caught up with a very hungover couple of dudes from the awesome Band Of Horses! (www.blackcabsessions.com)

Sometimes we tell ourselves that no, the band is too famous, too important, that their label would never let them do a Take Away Show. We have a fantasy list: Radiohead, Tom Waits, Chuck Berry, Cat Power. Wilco. They announced their date at Olympia in Montreal just after I had touched down in the city. […]

“We had been playing cat and mouse for months. We attended the same shows in Paris, talked a little, mentioning maybe we could do something together… to then see them leave, become huge, and even more intriguing, elusive. It took eight months for this Take Away Show to happen, for them to be free just […]

A friend’s friend let us into an abandoned wing of the Grand Palais. There were empty spaces, as if abandoned at short notice, unreasonably high ceilings. The perfect place for the Fleet Foxes. takeawayshows.com / myspace.com/​fleetfoxes

The mighty Weezer running things in the back of taxi while Marble Arch and Edgeware Road fly by. ‘Memories’ is taken from their brand new album ‘Hurley’. credit: www.blackcabsessions.com