About
Welcome friends and music lovers
Here lies the website of From the Basement - A sort of music show / labour of love produced by a small group of dedicated individuals and with the sound produced by me.
The whole emphasis of the show is about being artist friendly and making our bands as comfortable as possible so that they can give great performances without the usual agony of TV promo which everyone has to do but no one seems to enjoy. TV world is a pretty hostile environment for your average musician to have to walk into and bare his soul on cue.. It also doesn't hurt that a lot of the people we've filmed are friends or people we've worked with before so they trust us and know that we understand what recording music is about as well as making good TV.
All in all I think it all adds up to something unique and special which I don't feel happening anywhere else in either the music side of mainstream TV or online.
My own personal goal is that in the future some of these performances might be seen as the truest representation of the state of their artists work, captured in a way that lets their talents speak without the interference of presenters, or audiences. That is what I feel when I watch Talking Heads or Bill Withers on the Old Grey Whistle Test, that they are most definitely playing for me, not someone else in the room. If we can even touch on that kind of directness and quality then I think the whole project will have been a success.
Nigel Godrich
Artists
Aimee Mann
Albert Hammond Jnr
Andrew Bird
Architecture in Helsinki
Autolux
Band Of Horses
Beck
Cold War Kids
CSS
Damien Rice
Delta Spirit
Eels
Envelopes
Father John Misty
Feist
Fleet Foxes
Foster The People
Free Blood
Gnarls Barkley
Iggy and The Stooges
James Yorkston
Jamie Liddel
Jarvis Cocker
Jose Gonzalez
Keiren Hebden (aka Fourtet) and Steve Reid
Laura Marling
Mark E Smith And The Fall
Mercury Rev
Moby
My Morning Jacket
Neil Hannon
Operator Please
PJ Harvey
Queens Of The Stone Age
Radiohead
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Scissor Sisters
Seasick Steve
Shearwater
Sonic Youth
Sparks
Super Furry Animals
The Dead Weather
The Happiness Project
The Kills
The Raconteurs
The Shins
The Shortwave Set
Thom Yorke
Thundercat
White Denim
White Stripes
Willis Earl Beal
Zee Avi