What an amazing way for The Strokes to end their tour for the year – Nikolai wrapped in a Brazilian flag, Fab talking Portuguese to the crowd, yeah seriously their gigs in South America always seem such fun.

I was unable to record this as the stream wasn’t working in the UK but I have found the show on YouTube, see the videos below

Setlist

01 New York City Cops
02 Heart In a Cage
03 Machu Picchu
04 The Modern Age
05 You Only Live Once
06 Is This It
07 Under Cover Of Darkness
08 Someday
09 You’re So Right
10 12:51
11 Reptilia
12 Alone, Together
13 Automatic Stop
14 Gratisfaction
15 Juicebox
16 Last Nite
17 Under Control
18 Hard To Explain
19 Take It Or Leave It

Live Photos: Fall 2011: Planeta Terra Festival, Brazil

Audio

Download the audio of this show

Videos

Download Videos .  Thanks to Gabriel for the high quality.

The Strokes played their penultimate show of the year at Personal Festival in Argentina

Unfortunately the live stream for this show was appalling so I couldn’t watch or record it. However, I do have audio courtesy of Florenciaos

The guys brought back a few classics for the setlist including 12:51 and HIAC. I adore the beginning of 12:51 with the crowd going crazy.

Download : The Strokes at Personal Festival (Audio)

Setlist

01 New York City Cops
02 Heart In a Cage
03 Machu Picchu
04 The Modern Age
05 You Only Live Once
06 Under Cover of Darkness
07 Is This It
08 What Ever Happened?
09 Someday
10 You’re So Right
11 12:51
12 Reptilia
13 Alone, Together
14 Gratisfaction
15 Automatic Stop
16 Juicebox
17 Last Nite
18 Hard To Explain
19 Take It Or Leave It

Live Photos: Fall 2011: Personal Festival, Argentina 

Videos

You Only Live Once

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A round up of news/updates you may have missed

Photos

Added quite a few candid photos from the past few weeks including Albert at the premieres for Anonymous and The Rum Diary and Nick DJing at the All Saints/Not For Sale Hollywood launch on October 24

Also some pictures from the Corona Capital Festival last month.

Voting time

Vote for The Strokes in the Best Alternative Band category at the MTV European Music Awards, today is the last day!

Also NME have a best album of the last 15 years poll running so don’t forget to show Is This It some love by rating it 10/10

Live Streams

There are two live streams this coming weekend

The Strokes at Personal Festival (O4 November 2011)

When: 23:20 (Local Time – Buenos Aires) / 22:20 (East Coast) / 19:20 (West Coast) 02:20 (UK) / Other Time Zones 

Live Stream : Watch it here

Recording :  Update: The stream quality is appalling so its very unlikely I will be recording it, sorry!

The Strokes at Planeta Terra Festival (05/06 November 2011)

When: 01:30 (Local Time – Sao Paulo) / 23:30 (East Coast) / 20:30 (West Coast) / Other Time Zones

Live Stream: Watch it here

Note: It seems like the stream is only for Brazil /other Latin American countries and possibly the US so I will not be able to record it which really sucks so if anyone can do it please let me know either here or on Twitter.

Misc

After Stereogum did a  cover/tribute album for Is This It earlier this summer it seems like Rock N Beats  has done its own version with Brazilian bands! More information at their site

Toxic Radio the new domain of the Hard To Explain forum has been down the the last few weeks but fear not it is now back!

The Strokes played Mexico for the first time in 5 years on Friday night. Despite Nick having to sit down due to a broken foot judging by the clips emerging on You Tube he still managed to rock the hell out.

Setlist

01 New York City Cops
02 Heart In A Cage
03 Machu Picchu
04 The Modern Age
05 You Only Live Once
06 Under Cover of Darkness
07 Is This It
08 What Ever Happened?
09 Someday
10 You’re So Right
11 12:51
12 Reptilia
13 Alone, Together
14 Gratisfaction
15 Automatic Stop
16 Juicebox
17 Last Nite
18 Under Control
19 Hard To Explain
20 Take It Or Leave It

Live Photos: Fall 2011: Auditorio Banamex, Mexico

Videos

Brief clip of Julian mentioning Nick’s injury

Machu Picchu

The Modern Age

The second day of the Pearl Jam Festival provided yet more collaborations. I honestly love it when The Strokes perform with other people it always add in an extra element of fun and the guys clearly have a blast.

Julian joined QOTSA on stage during Sick Sick Sick – the song that he performed backing vocals and guitar for back in 2007. QOTSA singer Josh Homme returned the favour and came out for New York City Cops, as well as Eddie Vedder singing on Juicebox again.

Finally Julian (having a busy night) sang backing vocals on Pearl Jam’s Red Mosquito.

Overall sounds like another great night and I’m sure anyone at the concerts this weekend had a blast. I’m so jealous of anyone who went BTW ha

Videos

New York City Cops with Josh Homme

Download: video / audio

Pearl Jam’s Red Mosquito with Julian Casablancas

Download: video / audio

I haven’t found a video for Sick Sick Sick yet but will add it to this post if I do

Photos

Once again thanks to  Jeff Ansari for a lot of  coverage of the weekend

The Strokes at PJ20 on Sunday
Julian on stage with QOTSA 
Live Photos: Summer 2011: Pearl Jam Festival Day Two

Interviews

1.48 into this clip you can see Nick and Albert talk about Pearl Jam, Nick who I think along with Julian is the biggest fan of the band in The Strokes is clearly ecstatic to be playing at the festival