On April 29th 2012 Fink and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra collaborated for a stunning one-off performance in Amsterdam’s prestigious Concertgebouw to a sold out crowd. Watch him performing ‘Yesterday was hard on all of us’ below:
we did something so few artists of any calibre ever get to do – play with one of the worlds greatest symphony orchestras… maybe just once… maybe just for one night… but we did it… 3 guys who met in the Holly Bush in 2005 to talk about recording some music for Ninja Tune were walking offstage of the Concertgebauw with flowers… strangely we analysed the gig like we do any other gig when we got backstage – Guy thought he was rushing a bit on Yesterday, I thought Berlin was a little stiff, was PD a bit slow? – but then we had to kinda check ourselves… what were we talking about?… however it went, it went, and it went awesome… that was that – and before we knew it we were in the Conductors ante-chambre via a secret passageway (just to add to the bodice-ripping drama of it all) drinking champagne, shaking hands and doing the equivalent of a backstage scenario at a gig – only with all the lights very firmly on, no-one is wasted, and we’re the youngest people in the room…
The Concert is available to view as an ipad app and includes tracks such as Berlin Sunrise, Trouble’s What You’re In, This Is The Thing, Perfect Darkness, and more:
