Beggar release ‘Compelled To Repeat’ live in studio session

BEGGAR have released a special live in studio session!

Titled Compelled To Repeat: Live At Buffalo Studio, the special live in studio video showcases the London-based band performing their debut full-length album, Compelled To Repeat, in its entirety.

Unable to tour, unable to fulfil their booked album launch shows, BEGGAR, along with the rest of the world, stood still and then retreated to their homes to enter lockdown. As reality dawned that their hopes and dreams of touring their debut release were shattered, the band fuelled by frustration and determined to play tracks that had never been performed live before, entered Buffalo Studio, London in December 2020 to record a live session of the whole album.

With live engineer JB Pilon at the helm, shot by Sam Finney and mixed and mastered by Wayne Adams (of Petbrick with Igor Cavalera), the result on this first anniversary of the album’s release is an inside look at what a real, raw live in-studio performance from the band looks like.

Watch Compelled To Repeat: Live At Buffalo Studio here:

Speaking about the live in studio session, vocalist/bassist Charlie Davis says, “we made this video to celebrate what we love about playing music. We had some pretty bad timing when we released Compelled to Repeat last year because it was completely crunched by lockdown, which landed pretty squarely a week before the release date. Our album launch tour bit the dust along with all of our other gigs in 2020, and we ended up in different places, doing different things, unable to play together.

So we wanted to grab what time we could with each other towards the end of 2020 and make something to celebrate the fact that we managed to get the album out in the first place. Working on and releasing Compelled to Repeat was a really positive time for us and we wanted to punctuate the dead year that followed with something cool to take away from it – and we hope this comes across. We had invaluable help from Sam Finney who expertly shot and edited the footage, from JB Pilon at Buffalo Studios where it was all filmed and recorded, and from Wayne Adams who mixed and mastered the audio. All things considered it looks and sounds awesome and was a ton of fun to make!”

Compelled To Repeat is out now via APF Records. Like what you’ve heard? Check out our feature with the band here!

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