Nicole Atkins The Tower Live Sideshow Alley

Nicole Atkins performs The Tower live for ABOUT THE EPISODE When we arrived at Huron street we were a bit confused, a guy dressed in full knight s armour shouting at the east river was being shot by a small camera crew right where we were planning to shoot Nicole Atkins. At first we thought he was part of Nicole s entourage, but then realised that Nicole wasn t there yet. We were hoping that he could stay, but he had some other castle to defend. So many cameras I feel like we re in a firing squad. When Nicole arrived with her coguitarist Irina Yalkowsky, they set up a Fender Vintage Deluxe Reverb Amp on a long lead to a little generator hooked to a car battery parked around the corner. It looked like a desperate attempt to keep someone on life support as the trucks of Brooklyn rolled past threatening to ruin all sense of sound on this then they started playing. Th