Eels with Strings - Live at Town Hall

Eels with Strings - Live at Town Hall

98 mins | Music | Sept. 2, 2007

You never know what you'll get when you attend an Eels concert. One year it's vocoders and synthesizers, the next it's gritty garage rock. Cut to 2005: Eels leader Mark Oliver Everett, aka E, releases the highly acclaimed Blinking Lights and Other Revelations double album and assembles his most ambitious version of the EELS yet: a seven piece band consisting of Everett backed by a string quartet and two multi-instrumentalists juggling lap steel, guitar, upright bass, mandolin, saw, melodica, celeste, pump organ, piano, and a trash can and suitcase drum set. Having brought this elaborate show to Boston the night before, can the Eels get to New York, play Late Night with David Letterman, and perform their concert at the legendary Town Hall, which is being filmed for a concert film -- all with grace under incredible pressure? The answer is yes, and the proof is here!

Eels with Strings - Live at Town Hall

98 mins | Music | Sept. 2, 2007

Eels with Strings - Live at Town Hall
You never know what you'll get when you attend an Eels concert. One year it's vocoders and synthesizers, the next it's gritty garage rock. Cut to 2005: Eels leader Mark Oliver Everett, aka E, releases the highly acclaimed Blinking Lights and Other Revelations double album and assembles his most ambitious version of the EELS yet: a seven piece band consisting of Everett backed by a string quartet and two multi-instrumentalists juggling lap steel, guitar, upright bass, mandolin, saw, melodica, celeste, pump organ, piano, and a trash can and suitcase drum set. Having brought this elaborate show to Boston the night before, can the Eels get to New York, play Late Night with David Letterman, and perform their concert at the legendary Town Hall, which is being filmed for a concert film -- all with grace under incredible pressure? The answer is yes, and the proof is here!
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Original title Eels with Strings - Live at Town Hall
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Cast

Mark Oliver Everett

as Himself (Vocals, guitars and keyboard)

Big Al

as Himself (Upright bass, autoharp, keyboards, melodica)

Julie Carpenter

as Herself (Violin, mandolin, percussion)

The Chet

as Himself (Trashcan, suitcase, saw, lapsteel guitar, guitar, mandolin, melodica, keyboards, upright bass)

Ana Lenchantin

as Herself (Cello, percussion, vibrator)

Heather Lockie

as Herself (Viola, percussion)

Paloma Udovic

as Herself (Violin, percussion)