12.06.11My set from Field Festival 2011 is streaming at the bottom of this post. Check it out if you couldn't make it to the festival itself or if you haven't seen me live yet and want a reason to.
Pre-showFor Postscript, his set at Field Trip Festival was important for a number of reasons. The first being that it was the first time that he had ever been given a chance to perform at a festival, and that he was given an hour long set came as an additional shock added on top of this. The second, that it would be his first show since the release of his debut album ‘Welcome To The World’, which now meant that more people had heard from his music, giving him more pressure to reach up to the stands that were made via the editing and use of auto-tuning at certain points within the album. However, Postscript isn’t showing the signs of this at all, looking calm and collected whilst preparing himself along with his live band which for this show only also contains his friend, and new and upcoming acoustic pop guitarist Aaron Marks, and hip-hop percussionist Derek Baker. Along with a collection of others taking the roles of bassist, and keyboards/samples forming a steady set live band to perform.
Watching Radio Vine perform from the side of the stage, Postscript gains an insight into the sort of crowd that is at the festival. People just going crazy regardless of the genre or tempo of the song, creating an almost club like atmosphere, giving signs of normality of Postscript, who begins his final vocal warm ups and prepares himself for the hour of music that he hopes will impress both the crowd, and the artists and bands featuring throughout the festival over the two days.
ShowBefore Postscript goes onto the stage, the members of the live band all walk onto the stage as it dims down and screams from the crowd are heard, chanting for Postscript to enter the stage. The band start the high electronic keyboard loop, which echoes across the crowd for roughly a minute, whilst smoke fills the stage. Gulping, Postscript runs onto the stage as the electronic loop builds up into a dubstep drop, and the stage lights flash on.
“HELLO FIELD TRIP FESTIVAL!” Postscript shouts over the noise from the crowd, who have been going wild at the use of a dubstep sample to open the set.
“ARE YOU READY FOR POSTSCRIPT?”, Chants from the crowd are head back (mostly being YES!),
“OKAY, LETS GET THIS EVENING STARTED THEN, YOU ALL SHOULD KNOW THIS TRACK. IT’S CALLED WELCOME TO THE WORLD!”
The sound of the introduction stop suddenly as the simple electronic keyboard returns, increasing in speed until the crashing of symbols rings over the electronic beat, and Postscripts grime vocals can be heard along with the hip-hop drum beat that follows the crash of the symbols, a slight use of distorted guitar and the electronic grime based beat. This live version of the song differs from the studio version in that regular drum equipment has replaced the use of tribal based sounds that feature within the album. Midway through the song, the music changes to a electronica based sound, as Postscript jumps onto the railing spreading him from the crowd (causing a serge of people to come towards him), as he makes the crowd chant along with him “Welcome to the world, looking down its not so fun!”, the crowd do this as the song comes to a close and Postscript returns to the stage and briefly talks with the crowd.
“Wow. Hello you crazy fuckers! You sure do know how to make a man feel welcome! So basically, this next song that you NEED to go mad for is called Monster, make some fucking noise!”
Upon announcing that Monster would be the next song performed, screams from the crowd go extreme. The club like electronic beat along with the fast use of snare drum begin, with Postscript fist pumping the air, encouraging the members of the audience to do the same. As the majority of the crowd follow this, Postscript’s sung vocals start, along with more of a background bass electronic beat. During the chorus of the song the beats are mixed together, creating a live mash-up of the instruments behind the vocals from Postscript. As the use of bass guitar and the electric guitar from Aaron Marks comes into play Postscript invites the two musicians to come towards the front of the stage, and all three jump simultaneously in time with the music as the song finishes to the applause and cheers from the crowd .
“My special guest musician on guitar is a close friend of mine” explains Postscript,
“He’s been getting pretty popular recently, so you might have heard of him. Give it up for Aaron Marks!” a roar from the crowd with cheers and clapping leaves Aaron blushing and waving in thanks back at the crowd.
“Anyway” continues Postscript
“lets get this set moving. You all need to go as crazy as you can for this song, it’s called Shot Yourself!”Upon announcing Shot Yourself, the synth sample of a violin starts, with the snare drum being use occurring significantly earlier than in the studio version. This introduction goes along until the Nintendo sound effect come in and the single snare drum turns into a slightly quicker hip-hop beat as Postscript raps. As the song progresses towards the dubstep drop, Postscript stands on the rail separating the crowd again and shouts
“are you ready for this guys?”, and then as the drop occurs he jumps into the crowd, as they all start there attempts of dancing/moshing to the song.
The song then quickly progresses to the second song which uses similar samples, although also contains digital drums thus meaning that only samples are used throughout the song. Postscript makes his way back to the stage crowd surfing, and starts rapping along to the song holding the microphone out to the crowd at the end of each verse for them to chant the final line back to him. The song is brief and ends quickly as Postscript shouts over the cheers of the crowd
“That last song was Breeze, next is a song is one of my personal favourites. Get hyped up for Magic Spells!”The booming club based electronic beat immeditly gets the crowd moving and screaming as it is Postscripts main chart hit, before progressing into the faster and less bass originated beat. Postscript runs around the stage singing the vocals of the song, with the crowd singing it back almost as loud as he is. As the song reaches the end, the Harry Potter sample echoes across the crowd who all quote it back after it has finished at the request of Postscript who smirks at this, aware that the crowd are loving him and boosting his confidence significantly, as cheers from the crowd are heard, leaving him from his thoughts.
“So, I’ve got two more songs for you sexy people tonight. Both of them are more acoustic based, so if you’ve got a lighter or a phone wave them around or whatever and just get involved!” Aaron Marks walks with his acoustic guitar and stands next to Postscript, playing the opening chord
Lower With Clouds whilst Postscript sings in a low tone of voice to add to the effect of the soft guitar sounds which drift across the festival stage and into the crowds who are doing as requested by Postscript and waving some form of light around. During the progression of the song, Postscript requests for the crowd to sing the song instead of him, creating a chanting effect which creates a different tone for the song. As the chords become more upbeat Postscript and Aaron both start to move around the stage more, and the crowd join in with this movement as the outro of the song finishes and progresses immediately into
Who Needs Sunshine.
The hip-hop drums start after a few seconds of the chord played by Aaron, as Postscript raps in a fast manner over in time with the drums. During the progress Aaron’s vocals are used and Postscript signals for the crowd to chant, giving an echoed effect, with Postscript then continuing to rap. As the song comes to a close Aaron begins singing his main part of the song in front of the whole crowd whilst Postscript briefly steps away, giving Aaron his shot at the lime-light, before coming in at the end and adding his own fairly average toned vocals before the song finishes.
Postscript quickly shouts over the cheers from the crowd
“Thank you Aaron for providing the guitar and vocals tonight, and all of you guys for coming and seeing me, it means the world. Up next is one of my good friends MattY go fucking crazy for him. He deserves nothing less. Goodnight!” before leaving the stage to the applause from the crowd.
SetlistIntroduction Instrumental
Welcome To The World
Monster
Shot Yourself
Breeze
Magic Spells
Lower With Clouds
Who Needs Sunshine (Featuring Aaron Marks)
