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Father John Misty was born Joshua Tillman to an evangelical Christian family in Rockville, Maryland. Despite being a “pretty aimless kid”, in his words, from a young age Tillman was taken with the idea of being a performer. However, since secular music was forbidden in his house, the closest thing to it that he could aspire to be was a pastor, which was his ambition until the age of 17. That was the age he was at when his parents allowed him to listen to secular music that had a “spiritual theme”, leading him to discover albums like Bob Dylan’s “Slow Train Coming”, which completely changed his life.
Tillman was already musical, having learnt the drums as a child, and then picked up the guitar at 12. Once he was able to listen to the albums that influenced him most he began to write songs, and then at the age of 21 he moved from his native Maryland, to Seattle, Washington in 2002. One of his first demos found its way to Seattle based singer-Damien Jurado, who was so impressed that by the age of 22, Tillman was opening for him on tour. After extensive touring and distributing his demos at shows for free, independent label Fargo Records released Tillman’s first solo album “Minor Works” in 2006, along with his albums “I Will Return” and “Long May You Run” in the same year as a double disk set.
In 2007, another album of Tillman’s was released called “Cancer and Delirium”, meaning that Tillman was an artist who’d released four studio albums of entirely original material in two years. For such a prolific artist, it’s a testament to his creative spirit and lack of ego that he’d then join Fleet Foxes the following year as their drummer, without any involvement in their writing process. Despite him touring with the band extensively, his solo albums still got him signed to Western Vinyl in 2009 where another two albums of his were released the same year. He stayed touring with Fleet Foxes until 2012, when he played his last show with them, changed his stage name from J. Tillman to Father John Misty and made a break for the mainstream.
Since then he’s become something of a songwriter’s songwriter, still releasing stellar solo albums, touring the world to ever increasing crowd sizes and working with everyone from rapper Kid Cudi to Parks and Recreation actress Aubrey Plaza. He’s the kind of artist that could have found success whenever he started, and we should be thankful that we’re around to see his prime. Highly recommended.
Live-Bewertungen
Thursday February 26th. Village Underground. Father John Misty. It’s the three amigos and the twin towers tonight. After the usual pre gig banter revolving around music and football it’s off to a sold out Village Underground. The venue is essentially a long thin railway tunnel and by the time we get in the place is heaving with tall thin beardy blokes and we take a perch at the back on the elevated section.
Josh Tillman latterly the drummer of the Fleet Foxes or the ooeeaaah band as I called them has ventured on his own under the Father John Misty moniker with two fine albums after what could politely be described as a number of dirgey ones under his own name.
This new character and that’s what it is, is a compete contrast to the introverted hairy drummer hiding at the back of the stage behind his kit. He has metamorphosed into an extravagant front man who dances maniacally all over the stage and into the crowd in something of a cross between Basil Fawlty, Jarvis Cocker and a giraffe.
His humour shines through the whole set not just in his clever lyrical word play but the between song banter too. This can often be awkward with other performers but he handles hecklers and particularly a crowd surfer with equal disdain. With the latter commenting that when he wrote Chateau Lobby in C for two virgins he hadn’t envisaged a tall man with a beard in a leather jacket on someone’s shoulders coming toward him.
He makes ironic comments around this greatest hits set but with one night already sold out in Shepherds Bush later this year a second one added his new found appeal cannot be questioned.
It’s a good mix of songs from both albums and his voice shines through even on the electric numbers. My personal favourites the Richard Thompsonesque ‘I’m writing a Novel’ and the thrashy ‘Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings’ stand out but special mentions for ‘Only Son of the Ladiesman’ and ‘Strange Encounter’ from the new album. It’s a tight six piece band with the excellent David Vandervelde (check out his album ‘Waiting for the Sunrise’) on guitar.
A great night for an artist whose star is starting to shine in his own right.
garyw66
Imagine standing 15 feet from the gloriously bearded Josh Tillman as he tells the crowd about how humanity has forgone the beautiful unicorn. He makes wisecracks about the crowd, who's clearly there to see the next act at the music festival, but they still eat it all up and fall in love with his soulful singing, with his sassy personality, with him. Then he kisses the unicorn. The crowd goes wild. That was Lollapalooza 2013. If that's Father John Misty at a music festival, I'd love to see what he can do when he has the place to himself. Josh Tillman, originally of Fleet Foxes fame, is constantly satirizing modern music in his live performances, but his music is still undeniably spectacular - as good if not better and more heartfelt than that of his albums. His performance style can get a little intense at times (for example, at Lolla, he wrapped his microphone cord around his body, singing "someone's gotta help me dig" on "Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings." Several audience members were visibly shaken by his performance, as you could see from the baffled looks of their faces on the jumbo screen). Regardless of his occasionally overzealous tactics for crowd entertainment, or for his own, Father John Misty has an impressive stage presence, better than any act I've ever seen live. Tillman's constant witticism, blatant disregard for rules (drinking and having a smoke right on stage) and overall couldn't-care-less attitude make for an extraordinarily entertaining show, one that's certainly not to be missed by any fan of folk and fun.
mary-kate-brogan
After an extremely creepy intro with gurgled vocals over the PA and a stage bathed in blood red, the show opened with the aforementioned “Everyman Needs a Companion”. A crowd, still stunned by the sword-wielding duo Tess & Dave, were a little slow getting to their feet, but when Tillman suggested everyone stand, that’s just what they did. It was almost dizzying to look up at the rows of fans stacked above us in the opera house. It was immediately evident the show would be much different than the solo, acoustic one I saw at the Bluebird Theater in 2012. As the swirling lights came to a halt, and “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings” was performed by mere shadows, there was a level of professionalism that was absent at that last show. It went beyond just production value; the superior sound was one thing, but the way he held himself was most impressive. The first half of the set was heavy on Fear Fun material (the same songs he performed four years ago) but this time the songs were able to breathe because they weren’t drown in the obnoxious, condescending banter we were subjugated to when he opened for Youth Lagoon. The Father John Misty persona was still in full effect as he danced around like a lounge lizard, before falling to his knees during “When You’re Smiling and Astride Me”, but he played the part with real purpose and he was able to do so without hurling insults at the crowd. - See more at: http://ilistensoyoudonthaveto.com/2016/04/10/father-john-misty-ellie-caulkins-04-09-16/#sthash.cSmkjgkG.dpuf
kmartini
FJM provides one of the best shows I've ever had the pleasure of attending. The stage is filled, the crowd is packed and the music is a religious experience.
The gig itself was great. The venue was relaxed and open with food provided (but why you'd bother I don't know...). I've heard it took upwards of two hours to get served for a pizza there, though I mean, really, what did you expect? Waiter service? If you're at a concert to sample the cuisine you need to reconsider your choices imo.
Opening for FJM were The Orielles, Hookworms and Edwyn Collins. The first two were great - Hookworms especially (Check out their track 'Negative Space' if you haven't heard of them), and Edwyn Collins was cool too, with James Kirk (if I'm not mistaken the original guitarist from Orange Juice) nigh-on stealing the show with his solo parts.
Not to be outdone, Josh followed James with the best show I've seen him do ever. Accompanied by the usual supsects (no, not the covers band), FJM provided beautiful guitars and magical vocals with an exceptional group of musicians behind him.
Ultimately it was an amazing gig that I can't have enjoyed any more. To those that I've seen moaning about food queues, get over yourselves. To those moaning about people talking during sets, move away from the fringes of the crowd into the middle sections, where there was nothing but singing. To those moaning about people smoking at an outdoor gig; stop.
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My partner and I caught FJM's very first show in Montreal at Le Petit Campus in.... 2012 I believe it was?
A tiny bar (100 capacity, if that!), tucked away on top of a much bigger one, it was an intimate show to say the least. He even played drums for his opening act, Har Mar Superstar.
When he got on, he was pretty disheveled, wearing a tan/brownish wife-beater and punctuating his set with witty repartees - chatting with the audience and largely being quite clever and quick... albeit a very dry and caustic.
He went through the entirety of Fear Fun, and finished with Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings. He shredded his way through the song, distorting it and growling in the mic as if he did not very much enjoy playing his mega-single and was uncomfortable with the fact that fame was just around the corner.
It was a very human show, and we walked away thinking how we had just caught him at the right time, before the whole Misty bubble blew up. We were right: the next gig in Montreal was as opener for the Walkmen at the Corona Theatre (much,much bigger venue) and he was super polished... as if he'd made peace with his newfound fame.
We've seen him 4-5 times now. We'd love to catch him again in London!
jflappas
some people in the audience had maybe never been to a show before. some people in the audience maybe didn't know that massey hall is a beautiful, historic venue that deserves their respect.
i had to watch the show through cell phone screens (of which he pocketed an especially intrusive one) and struggle to hear the man, whom i had paid money to hear, over the girls in front of me screaming WOO and I LOVE YOU! at any serene, quiet moment. he commented on this ("you have bad timing") when someone screamed WOO-YEAH!!! after the lyric "they put me to work in a government camp".
outside of this yes, father john misty is a gifted entertainer. the updated arrangements of songs from FEAR FUN were great and the NIN cover during the encore was a very awesome surprise. hopefully all the music festival patrons he's recently won over will find some other flavour of the week to hop onto and we'll get our charismatic cult leader back on the next tour.
PS. bonus points for growing his hair and beard out again.
stacey-mccool
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samuel-janes
Caught him at the Walt Disney Concert Hall with an entire Los Angeles Philharmonic to back him up. Honestly wasn't very impressed.
He didn't really even greet the audience until four songs in. His stage performance is reminiscent a lurpy, Willy Wonka-esque, even more spastic impression of Elaine from Seinfeld.
You'd expect a mostly drab singer with good relatable lyrics to emphasize the volume of his own vocals, but instead we heard a muffled beard practice its own ventriloquism with a human dummy.
He mentioned toward the end of the set that he wouldn't be performing an encore and even made fun of the concept of leaving the stage only return minutes later.
But then he did it anyway only after we had already left our seats and the 15 year old Disney employees guarded the doors from any returning patrons with the useless programs they continually spent the entire evening trying to shove down our throats.
What a joke.
Cool looking venue though.
aar-jay-soria
El recital fue uno de los mejores que viví en mi vida!
No sólo porque la música de Father John Misty me atraviesa el alma, me hace sentir que tengo un lugar, contenida. Creo que habla el espíritu de mi generación, de descontento con lo establecido y de absoluta protesta, con toda la contradicción que puede tener un ser humano que tiene algo que decir.
Su música se siente real, comprometida, sincera. Canta excelente en vivo, los músicos que lo acompañan y el saben lo que están haciendo. Se siente íntimo, catártico, por momentos dulce, y mágico. Y su performance sobre el escenario es única: todo lo interpreta, su cuerpo habla, te mira a los ojos y te interpela interpretando cada una de sus canciones de forma divertida, contagiosa e intensa. ¿Qué más puedo decir de un artista tan completo que incluso sabe bailar con sus manos?
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