"How good are they LIVE?" in the last 12 months on 100 (as of 9/23/24)
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Real Live Certified
Artists are Real Live Certified if their live shows have broad critical acclaim
Critic Consensus
Based on 16 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that The Books is rated as an entertaining live performer, with many notable strengths. The Books concert reviews describe live shows and performances as lyrical, punchy, entertaining, and energetic.
The story of The Books began in 2000, when Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong met through a friend in New York City. Sharing similar interests but different backgrounds in acoustic music and found sound, Zammuto and de Jong took their sonic experiments to the studio.
Has Performed With
High Places
Critic Concert Reviews
Dallas Observer (USA)
April 7, 2011
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The Books
The Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth
April 6, 20011
Better than: taking a musicology class at the University of North Texas
Augmented by a third, and sometimes a fourth member, the duo known as The Books thrilled a packed and energetic audience for 90 minutes last night at the Modern Art Museum of For
Their newest release The Way Out was brilliant but how they were going to translate that into an entertaining live set; I just couldn’t anticipate this happening successfully.
Every song in their Vancouver set lyrically dealt with some aspect of heartbreak and sorrow while Tobias Nathaniel roused unsettling emotions on a digital piano from his first note.
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