The National
Lebreton Flats
RBC Bluesfest
Ottawa, ON
2022-07-17

Recorded by: palm0014

Lineage:   iPhone 11 mics>Voice Record Pro>Logic Pro X>48/24>xAct
Boosted all tracks by 10 dB
Location: 25 feet from left speaker stack

Setlist:

01 - Intro music (I Can't Forget [Leonard Cohen]
02 - Don't Swallow the Cap
03 - Mistaken for Strangers
04 - Bloodbuzz Ohio
05 - The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness
06 - I Need My Girl
07 - This Is the Last Time
08 - Slow Show
09 - Apartment Story
10 - Light Years
11 - Ice Machines
12 - Day I Die
13 - Tropic Morning News (Haversham)
14 - Pink Rabbits
15 - England
16 - Graceless
17 - Fake Empire
18 - Mr. November
19 - Terrible Love
20 - About Today

Notes:
This was the last night of Bluesfest and I had A LOT more room than the Rage Against the Machine concert that brought in 30,000 people a few nights before.  It was a quiet Sunday night in comparison.

The National were fantastic as always and the crowd reciprocated.

A funny story during Graceless: 

I had a perfect spot for recording The National.  No one around me for ten meters, perfect spot near the pa speaker.  Awesome.

ANYHOW, the show is going on and at one point Matt Berninger gets off the stage and starts walking along the rail towards me.

33 year old me not taping would be thinking â€œHeck yeah!  Heâ€™s coming closer to me!â€

43 year old me is thinking â€œAh man, I hope he isnâ€™t coming too close to me.  This might mess up my recording!"

Sure enough, he hops the rail and heâ€™s a foot away from me.  In the span of three seconds Iâ€™m swarmed with a hundred people around me!  All I can think about is â€œMatt Berninger, you just ruined my solid recording with all these people screaming!"  Haha!

I exited the crowd quickly and they all had moved on anyhow following Matt.  

I realized that my priorities have quickly changed as soon as I started trying to capture the moment on a recording!

Enjoy!