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sally_maria) wrote2024-10-10 09:17 pm
sally_maria) wrote2024-10-10 09:17 pm
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Happy Octenth!
Several years ago on a livestream someone told the Longest Johns that their music was 10/10 or as their text to speech put it - October 10th. So fans decided to celebrate Octenth and I wanted to share 10 of my favourite Johns videos, starting with yesterday's collab...
Once you know the in-joke, you can spot it in this very English video for an American folk song.
This one is also from the US - when you have a sudden snowfall, it's a good time to film a winter song from the Great Lakes. Such powerful acapella harmonies.
Of course you also have the wonderful original songs - a seriously fun one about the time you find yourself in a job you're really not qualified for.
This is one of their very best. A powerful original song about death and survivor's guilt, they're currently working on a community version - look on thelongestjohns.com/communityprojects for how to join in.
This one is recorded with their friends from El Pony Pisador, the Catalan shanty/folk group, singing the Stan Rogers Canadian classic. This was one of the first videos of theirs I saw, and I wanted to watch it over and over.
For the last year or so, they've mixed fullout music videos with stripped down covers from their back garden studio, like this beautiful version.
And videos recorded on location
Christmas 2023 they were summoned at short notice to fill on the Jingle Jam charity livestream organised by Yogscast - yes, the ones that did Diggy Diggy Hole... They played for a couple of hours, and pushed the total up by about £40k, when they agreed to sing a new original from the album that came out this year. The music video for that is also great fun, but I think this version really shows their spontaneity and love for performing. (The Llandoger is a historic pub in their home city of Bristol.)
And an encore - another original, possibly my favourite. There's no official video for this one, but this was filmed at one of their US shows earlier in the year, when Adam Chance, of my other favourite band Home Free, stood in for Robbie, who was having visa issues.
!Flashing lights warning!
Once you know the in-joke, you can spot it in this very English video for an American folk song.
This one is also from the US - when you have a sudden snowfall, it's a good time to film a winter song from the Great Lakes. Such powerful acapella harmonies.
Of course you also have the wonderful original songs - a seriously fun one about the time you find yourself in a job you're really not qualified for.
This is one of their very best. A powerful original song about death and survivor's guilt, they're currently working on a community version - look on thelongestjohns.com/communityprojects for how to join in.
This one is recorded with their friends from El Pony Pisador, the Catalan shanty/folk group, singing the Stan Rogers Canadian classic. This was one of the first videos of theirs I saw, and I wanted to watch it over and over.
For the last year or so, they've mixed fullout music videos with stripped down covers from their back garden studio, like this beautiful version.
And videos recorded on location
Christmas 2023 they were summoned at short notice to fill on the Jingle Jam charity livestream organised by Yogscast - yes, the ones that did Diggy Diggy Hole... They played for a couple of hours, and pushed the total up by about £40k, when they agreed to sing a new original from the album that came out this year. The music video for that is also great fun, but I think this version really shows their spontaneity and love for performing. (The Llandoger is a historic pub in their home city of Bristol.)
And an encore - another original, possibly my favourite. There's no official video for this one, but this was filmed at one of their US shows earlier in the year, when Adam Chance, of my other favourite band Home Free, stood in for Robbie, who was having visa issues.
!Flashing lights warning!