LCD Soundsystem Pays Tribute To Shane MacGowan With Live Cover Of The Pogues “Fairytale Of New York”

According to brooklynvegan.com, December 10 was the last show of LCD Soundsystem‘s Tri-Boro Tour, where the band performed 12 shows at three different New York City venues. The tour ended at Queens’s Knockdown Center and during the performance of “New York, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down,” LCD Soundsystem paid tribute to the late Shane MacGowan,who died on November 30. The band covered The Pogues’s holiday classic “Fairytale of New York” where drummer Pat Mahoney sang the tune along with Nancy Whang on piano before crashing back into the noisy ending of “New York, I Love You.”

To help capture the magical  moment, an audience member went on social media to post a video of the performance with the captions: “Danced Myself Clean again last night! Best LCD show yet!”

The Knockdown Center shows were different from the Brooklyn Steel’s and Terminal 5’s shows on the Tri-Boro Tour because LCD Soundsystem had  the opening act Nation of Language encouraging everyone to stick around for the afterparty with DJs in two rooms and James Murphy’s restaurant Four Horsemen hosting a natural wine pop-up.

The other songs LCD Soundsystem performed at their concerts was “Us v Them,” “Home,” “Someone Great” and “Tonite” before ending things with “All My Friends.”

LCD Soundsystem Set List

Us v Them
American Dream
I Can Change
You Wanted a Hit
Tribulations
Yr City’s a Sucker
Daft Punk Is Playing at My House
Other Voices
Oh Baby
Home

Set Two:
Jump Into the Fire
Someone Great
Losing My Edge
Tonite

Encore:
One Touch
New York, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down w/ “Fairytale of New York”
Dance Yrself Clean
All My Friends

 

Photo Credit: Sharon Alagna

Cait Stoddard: Hello! My name is Caitlin and my job is writing music news stories and reviewing metal music albums. I enjoy collecting vinyl, playing video games, watching movies and going to concerts.
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