A couple years ago now we covered Precious by Depeche Mode on battery powered instruments, shot a video and posted it on YouTube. Since then it’s been, by far, our most popular video, climbing to over 3000 hits (I know, I know, not Beiber numbers but what can you do). It’s also been re-posted and discussed in a couple Depeche Mode fan forums.

So we thought we’d follow it up.

We decided to cover Joy Division‘s haunting tune Love Will Tear Us Apart. We found a cool location (climbed into an archway under a bridge by Mount Pleasant), set up our un-plugged instruments (yes, Steve is supplying the air for the Hohner Melodica keyboard) and went to work. We did it in one take – mainly because Kent couldn’t feel his hands by mid song – got some shots of the surroundings and headed home to warm up.

We sincerely hope you like it!

Before we had even settled in to play a tune, a traveling minstrel struck up a conversation and told us he had been playing the streets since 1984.  He thought it would be a good night if the rain held off.  He played us a song about skinny-dipping in Halifax and in exchange we played him ‘Science’ which is not about skinny dipping or Halifax at all.

At times we had a crowd cheering for us and sometimes we were playing to each other and curious passers-by.  But all in all it was a great night.  Plus we sold CDs which was completely unexpected.  We were mainly out to promote our upcoming show at the Mod Club (event details).

Perhaps this was the highlight:

An excited young gentlemen raved, “These guys are better than Lady Ga-Ga… and they’re free… and they’re all mine!!!  (We had set up next to a MMVA party hosted by Lady Ga-Ga which makes it a little less random).

Hugh snapped this shot while taking an all-natural iced tea break.