On Saturday night, Sufjan Stevens returned to the site of his BQE suite — the Brooklyn Academy of Music — for the latest installment in the BAM Takeover series. Suf was listed only as event curator, selecting rising composer Nico Muhly and St. Vincent among others to regale an audience comprised of, as some attendees told me, “drunken hipsters.” Sounds about right. My friend Kathryn twittered that Sufjan did make an appearance after all, joining Annie Clark (who called Stevens “Sufjams”) on a rendition of Phil Collins’s “In The Air Tonight.” Cue the two day YouTube searching frenzy. All we’ve come up with is a 30 second clip, which is too short but still worth a listen because Sufjan + Phil Collins is sorta right in our wheelhouse.

Apparently Annie’s new set up includes two drum sets, which Chryde told me resulted in a pretty powerful tom-drum intro and the night’s best moment.There was a proper camera crew in the house, so we should have some longer vid soon.

Comments (5)
  1. oh that’s awesome. also i’m liking your use of ‘wheelhouse’ lately

  2. jingles  |   Posted on Sep 29th, 2008

    brutal quality!!! sometimes words are worth more than pictures.

  3. Brian   |   Posted on Sep 30th, 2008

    When is sufjan going to stop screwing around and do another album? i mean Illinois came out in 2004 and its almost 2009! come on man! (And the Avalanche was just B-Sides, and im not counting that christmas crap)

  4. andy  |   Posted on Sep 30th, 2008

    what was the point of posting this video?

  5. kyle  |   Posted on Dec 22nd, 2008

    the “christmas crap” rules!

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