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Sam Roberts Band - Graveyard Shift - Collider

Here is the second installment of the Hotel2Tango Sessions. From our album Collider, the song is Graveyard Shift. What you see and hear was recorded live off the floor. Once again, thanks to Howard Billerman and Dave Pawsey for helping us put this together.

Longtitude - Sam Roberts Band

A couple of months ago, we went into Hotel2Tango studio in Montreal to record and film a live-off-the-floor video for a couple of songs from Collider. The first installment is "Longitude" and another will follow in the weeks to come. Lizzie Powell, who performs the song on the album, came out of the woods, leaving behind her dogs and songs to rekindle the fire with us. Dave Pawsey is behind the camera work and editing and the sound was captured by the illustrious Howard Bilerman. Enjoy -- SR

Sam Roberts Band - Without A Map

This summer I was approached by Sam Roberts and the band about the possibility of directing a music video for their latest album, COLLIDER. They wanted to do something different, not a predictable performance video, so I had the freedom to do something I thought would be exciting. I spent a week listening to the album while reading the lyrics and riding the subways of New York. I wanted to explore the struggle of urban life through an unlikely character, and one of the ideas I proposed was the portrayal of an urban beekeeper. As a documentary filmmaker, I wanted to show a day in the life of this person. My neighborhood, the border of Williamsburg and Bushwick, was an ideal location. These streets have witnessed an unstoppable gentrification, so I wanted to shoot some of the abandoned buildings before they're swallowed up. But I had to find an actual beekeeper, someone who deals with the struggle of urban life every day. For weeks I went to hive inspections with New York's tight-knit beekeeping community and at the last minute, found the perfect lead. The first shoot was on one of New York's typical 100 degree summer days. Sweating under the sun, we filmed our beekeeper effortlessly tending to her hives on their Brooklyn rooftop. It was starting to come together, but the beekeeper needed to have a dramatic encounter to elevate the story. Sam and I had worked on a video years ago, a gritty urban tale, and he wanted to evoke a similar emotion. We decide to plunge her into an encounter with a dark force. By the end, the video had transformed into a sort of short film. I can thank Sam for pushing this project into the realm of something truly different.

Right after I made my first documentary in the late 90s, I was living in Montreal and met Sam and members of what would eventually become the Sam Roberts band. The first music video I ever did was for them, an underground version of Brother Down, unreleased at the time. I also made a few video installations for shows of theirs in Montreal and Toronto. After moving to Brooklyn in 2000, I focused on documentaries, often about music. I went on to work with artists as diverse as seminal Brooklyn rock band Oneida to hip-hop legend Tragedy Khadafi. This summer, I released MAKE, the documentary that inspired Sufjan Steven's last album. My current project, WITHOUT ART, is an analysis of the pollution of contemporary art.

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I Feel You - Collider - Sam Roberts Band

The official video for "I feel You" off the latest Sam Roberts Band album Collider.

The Sam Roberts Band are:
Sam Roberts (lead singer, guitar)
Dave Nugent (lead guitar)
Eric Fares (keyboard, guitar)
James Hall (bass)
Josh Trager (drums)

Find the Sam Roberts Band Online at:
http://www.samrobertsband.com/
https://www.facebook.com/OfficialSamRobertsBand
http://twitter.com/#!/Samrobertsband

Video Directed by Dave Pawsey

More About Collider

"On this record, I tried to bring the songs back to my own personal fears; I wasn't necessarily trying to come up with songs that were going to speak for everybody. It doesn't necessarily have to follow my life to the letter — it's more about thinking of what your life would be like if you had just done this, or if you had just done that, and how this could've taken you to a darker place, or that could've taken you to a better place. Nevertheless, you always find yourself walking the line."

Read the full Album Bio here: http://www.samrobertsband.com/albums/Collider/

Listen to songs at the following SRB links

01. The Last Crusade - http://bit.ly/qDyvsC
02. Without a Map - http://bit.ly/qbwJ9X
03. Let It In - http://bit.ly/nczLmB
04. Graveyard Shift - http://bit.ly/p1kcNP
05. No Arrows - http://bit.ly/qiwiEM
06. Longitude - http://bit.ly/ojwK8i
07. Streets of Heaven (Promises, Promises) - http://bit.ly/pY6NHk
08. Sang Froid - http://bit.ly/oMyV9v
09. Twist The Knife - http://bit.ly/pRjvo
10. I Feel You - http://bit.ly/mT9flG
11. The Band Vs The World - http://bit.ly/pQg6Gr
12. Partition Blues - http://bit.ly/nTl8X5
13. Tractor Beam Blues - http://bit.ly/o5wxC8

I Feel You - Lyrics

Act I

All or nothing
Love is war
Take everything
You want more
Ebb and flow
Unsteady beat
No surrender
No retreat
All or nothing
Love is war
Remember who
You're fighting for
Never get what you came for
I feel you
And that's for sure

Act II

Been walkin' straight
Been walkin' narrow
Shot through the eye
By Cupid's arrow
Don't know if I've seen the real you
But I feel you

Chaos reigns in Atlantis
Under the sea
Like some praying mantis
She's got eyes for me
You're waiting for someone to reveal you
But I feel you

All or nothing
Love is war!
Takes everything
It wants more
All or nothing
Love is war!

Remember who you're fighting for...

Now you spurn my advances
Like some beggar on fire
Say you're not taking chances
On a fool and a liar

You think this fog will conceal you
But I feel you

Last night I dreamt that Leonard Cohen
Handed me a bag of money
Said my Achilles heel was showing
But I didn't find it funny
He said "Beware of those, who might steal from you"
I said "I feel you"

All or nothing
Love is war!
Takes everything
It wants more
All or nothing
Love is war!
Remember who you're fighting for....

I'll give you anything you want
No pretending, no more
It's all or nothing, this is war

All or nothing
Love is war!
Take everything
It wants more
All or nothing
Love is war!
Remember who you're fighting for....

All or nothing
Love is war!
Take everything
It wants more
Don't go hiding anymore
Remember who you're fighting for