What a great song. Felt inspired to play it on piano. Been listening to this on my evening walks along the Hudson River in Jersey City.
I also like to blast it when I’m riding my convertible through Brooklyn along the coastline.
Does anyone know if there has been any talks of releasing Syndicate on cassette tape? I really like the album and I currently have two albums on cassette tape. (Endless Summer and Nocturnal) While vinyl is really awesome, to me The Midnight just screams cassette tapes. I'm I the only one that thinks that?
There aren't enough high quality recordings of The Midnight's concerts so I recorded this way back in the day and came across it while cleaning up some old hard drives. Uploaded for posterity and the fans.
Tyler attended Asbury University in the early 2000’s. From what I understand he dropped out after a year.
One of my friends is getting married on campus today.
Kind of a cool bit of info to know.
Hey everyone,
I saw that someone actually shared this here when the episode first came out, but I wanted to jump in personally as the director and field any questions you guys might have about the show.
Just to give a little background: right before the pandemic hit, I spent some time on the road with the guys shooting this documentary episode. I didn't have a massive production crew with me—it was literally just me running around with an iPhone 11 Pro on a gimbal, trying to capture that massive, neon-soaked energy they bring to their live shows.
We got some really cool access—cramped green rooms, the live sets, and some great sit-down interviews. It’s a pretty raw, unfiltered look at their touring grind right before the world paused. The footage ended up sitting on a hard drive for a couple of years, but I recently finished the series and released it in its entirety.
If you haven't seen it yet, please go check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI-2yBBIlTY&list=PLBVBHn_YlrKk&t=978s
I'll be hanging out in the comments, so if you have any questions about the shoot, what it was like on that tour, or the mobile gear setup, ask away!
Cheers, Shane
It could possibly be music or music adjacent, but idk.
Here's mine ☝️ Thought this might be a fun post.
We'll see I guess.
Cause we got married this summer, me and my beloved wife after nine years being in relationship.
The original plan was that we just travel to California for honeymoon, setting the final stop in Los Angeles. She got her master degree in UCLA, spending two years there and completely fell in love with that beautiful place, and she had always been wanting to go back there with me. Also we could get to the final show of Time Machines North American leg in May.
However, applying for a US tourist visa from China is insanely difficult now, and I've been rejected two times ever. So we changed the plan to hold a wedding ceremony in the end of May, one to be preciously memorized for our whole life.
Then we booked for a lawn in a vineyard nearby, started to design the decorations by myself, wrote the speech words and invited the closest friends and family members of ours. As music lovers, we seriously chose the song played during the ceremony, those could represent our feelings and emotions about our love story. For her, it's no doubt a lot of songs by her favorite Taylor Swift and several by Bad Bunny, Sabrina Carpenter and SZA.
As a The Midnight fan, I chose Prom Night, Brooklyn, Last Train from Monsters, Heartbeat and Loved by You from Heroes, and of course, Los Angeles. The three songs from Monsters reminds me the years with my wife, well back-then my girlfriend and fiancé. The second day we got together was literately the prom night of my collage, I was kinda clumsy and nervous to take her for a dance, but this time I can finally hold her hand, forever. And after she came back from Los Angeles, we started to live together, renting a room, struggling for life, and got through the pandemic, much like the days Tyler sang about his life with Anna in Brooklyn.
And I also included Brooklyn, Golden Gate from Tyler's own album The Floating Years. The two songs were quite different from The Midnight's version in the ways of arrangement and Tyler's singing, giving me the sense of sunny days, fresh meadow and gathering with the beloved ones, which I consider perfect match for the vibe of a wedding ceremony.
The ceremony ended up perfectly, the guests were all amazed by our arrangements and said that they’ve never listened to such beautiful songs from a band called The Midnight, as well as they’ve never been to a wedding of such kind in China ever. Though we didn’t got married under the Golden Gate, but it was surely a good time that Old friends see each other in a different different light.
So I would like to thank The Midnight, my most treasured band, for your beautiful songs, especially big thanks to Tyler for your amazing song and lyric writing, for creating such great emotional resonance with our love story and the beautiful memories every time we played these songs once again. Love you all!
Have any of you listened to Tyler’s solo work at length? I had it on repeat all day on Sunday and I really dig it. It sounds very different and he’s such a good songwriter.
Just my monthly check in to see if anyone is willing to part with any of these. I have rare pressings of vinyl and cassettes to trade if you are interested in that, or just regular cold hard cash.
Hey everyone! I just released my first album as Looking for Luna - Names on the Wall. It’s inspired by The Midnight (of course), but also draws heavy inspiration from Billy Ocean, Midnight Star, brothertiger, FM-84, Go West, Steve Winwood and Chaka Kahn.
It took about 5 years working on it on and off and features a bunch of my friends lending their vocal talents! Jangle Boy is a YouTuber, Justin Young is the vocalist and guitar player of Better Blooms and Loraine, Jeff my life is a fellow synthwave/retro wave artist, Kelsey Rivers is an alternative RnB artist, and Allie Argent is an indie girly.
Pretty much everything music wise was made in-synthesizer, primarily Vital. I played guitar and sang, and the various saxophones and trumpets are sampled one shots and riffs chopped and flipped that I layered with brass VSTs.
I made the art myself in Aseprite! This is the Luna we’re looking for. She and the name were inspired by my youngest daughter outside one night staring at the sky saying, “daddy I’m looking for Luna (the moon)” and basically the whole concept of the project was born from that.
Currently I’m working on an animated album visualizer that I was hoping to release along side it but that probably won’t be done for a few more months (it’s an insane amount of work).
Absolutely NO AI was used at any stage of production of the music OR the artwork.
I hope some folks give it a listen! I’m really proud of it and would love to see what everyone thinks!
Thanks for reading!
Cali guy here, every time The Midnight tours I go to every California show. For the fall tour, I can only make the Sacramento show because of other commitments. I needed more than one show, so I decided to pick a city pretty much at random to get one more show in. I picked Tulsa, only because The Turnpike Troubadours mention Cain’s Ballroom in a song. Can’t wait to see you OK people!
I had the honour to be able to attend a concert a couple years ago of The Midnight. It was, despite my age, the first concert I’d ever been to and it was a blast. I reaaaaalllllyy wanted to get some merch but I wasn’t able to at the time and I am full of regrets but it was beyond my control.
Now I noticed on their website they still have a sweater and poster still available. As tempted as I am I really wanted the tshirt and came across this site and despite its name I wasn’t sure how truly official it was
https://themidnightmerch.com/product/the-midnight-x-chromeo-unisex-softstyle-t-shirt/
I’m not about to get scammed or get knockoff stuff that doesn’t support the band. So was curious if this was legit and anyone knew for sure.
I just really wanted something to commemorate my first ever concert. I will likely see about the poster on their store at the very least.
It was my first concert, it happened to be on my birthday during my first ever trip to visit my friend and just everything combined, I wanted something to remember it by. But also don’t wanna buy stuff that doesn’t support the band.
Thank you to anyone with information and for their help. Much appreciated.
Light Years played over the in house stereo while I enjoyed some fish and chips. Storming outside, good food and amazing music. Overall A+ day!
