Jail "No Sky Oh My My" (16.1 MB) Corral Room Madison, WI April 4, 2008

Time for a slight change. When I started shooting in widescreen at the beginning of 2007, there were no widescreen iPods and YouTube didn't properly support the 16:9 aspect ratio. Those things have both since changed (YT still doesn't actually support 16:9, but it does automatically letterbox now). So, as of this clip, I've moved from pre-letterboxed 320x240 to native widescreen at 480x270. I chose that size because I was pretty sure it would play on the iPod Video, but I'll be doing some testing to see if I can go a little bigger. You should notice somewhat better picture quality at this resolution, but any changes should be transparent if you're not watching on a widescreen display.

So, this show. We zoomed over from the High Noon as soon as Vampire Weekend finished, and got to the Corral Room just as the band before Jail was tearing down. My only previous Corral Room experience was my first Karmella's Game show a few years ago, which I failed to record because it was so dark. Nothing's changed since then, except that now I know how to lighten up a dark image without losing too much detail. Case in point, this clip has been lightened up considerably and, despite the occasional weird color shift, it looks pretty much fine.

There's a new Jail record out soon, and presumably the songs from this show will be on it. For the most part they're more insistent than the earlier material, with a generally fuzzier sound. The crowd -- I'd guess a mix of Madisonians and transplanted Milwaukeeans -- seemed to dig it, so hopefully it won't be years again before they're back.