Neil Shah - Pianist/Vocalist/Composer

These are a few photos from my recent tour in California. I’ll post more as time permits. I’m pretty sure Sumul took all these photos.
View of the city from the Coit Tower.
Asking an adoring fan in Chinatown to keep quiet.
Quintessential Golden Gate Bridge view.

Death Cab for Cutie and Franz Ferdinand are currently touring together and I caught them this past Friday night at the Hammerstein Ballroom.
The two band have been taking turns closing the show and Franz Ferdinand closed this show. Franz has a ton of energy live—every song driven by a four-to-floor dance beat. They […]

I saw Coldplay perform at Nassau Coliseum last night. It was a great show—exactly the same show I saw at Madison Square Garden 6 months ago—and the latter fact left me feeling a little empty. Even the parts of the tunes that sounded like they were improvised or embellished on the spot turned out to […]

I caught Iron and Wine at Webster Hall last night. It’s the second time I saw them there, but this show was way different than the last. The breadth of their musical palette is amazing.
First of all, this show was part of a tour promoting Iron and Wine’s new album with Calexico, entitled In the […]

Time is flying. I saw U2 on the 22nd, a couple days before thanksgiving. I’ve been to a thousand small venue shows over the years (literally), but only a handful of stadium shows. It’s a completely different asthetic, and pretty amazing.
U2 on Novemeber 22nd at Madison Square Garden
The mass of cheering people pretty much serve […]