Watch Bright Eyes perform ‘Dance And Sing’ on ‘Colbert’
nme.comBright Eyes stopped by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Wednesday night (April 13) to deliver a performance of ‘Dance And Sing’ – watch it below.The song – which Conor Oberst and co.
performed with a full band and a miniature orchestra – features on the band’s 2020 album ‘Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was’, which marked their first full-length project in almost a decade.The performance on the late night talk show comes as the band prepare to reissue all nine of their studio albums along with a ‘Companion’ EP featuring new recordings of songs from the original release plus a cover version from an artist they found particularly inspiring at the time.They will kick off the campaign on May 27, with their first three albums – ‘A Collection Of Songs Written And Recorded 1995-1997’, 1998’s ‘Letting Off The Happiness’ and 2000 LP ‘Fevers And Mirrors’.Watch Bright Eyes on Colbert below:Last month, Bright Eyes covered Elliott Smith‘s ‘St.
Ides Heaven’ for their ‘Letting Off The Happiness: A Companion’ special release.In February the band shared new recordings of ‘Falling Out Of Love At This Volume’, ‘Contrast And Compare’ featuring Waxahatchee, and ‘Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh’ with Phoebe Bridgers from the six-track Companion EPs.“It’s a meaningful way to connect with the past that doesn’t feel totally nostalgic and self-indulgent,” frontman Oberst said previously of the series. “We are taking these songs and making them interesting to us all over again.
I like that. I like a challenge. I like to be forced to do something that’s slightly hard, just to see if we can.” The band have also announced a series of UK, Ireland and shows in Europe kicking off in London on August 30.
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