The National’s New Live Concert Film Lands On Amazon Prime This Week

Matt Berninger from The National performs at The 2018 Shaky Knees Festival in Atlanta.
Matt Berninger from The National performs at The 2018 Shaky Knees Festival in Atlanta. Photo by Hector Amador/imageSPACE/SilverHub/REX/Shutterstock (9664566br)

The National’s live concert film will be available to stream on Amazon Prime sooner than you think.

The movie was filmed at the Beacon Theatre in New York over a series of intimate shows. These shows also took place in the major cities of LA, London, Toronto, and Paris. The shows also included guest performances from Brooklyn Youth Chorus.

The film is titled The National: I Am Easy To Find, Live From New York’s Beacon Theatre and will land on Amazon Prime Video on Friday (August 23). It will be accompanied by an EP called ‘The National: Live From New York’s Beacon Theatre EP’, which will be released on the same day.

You can watch the official trailer here:

“Playing a song live for the first time is like pushing it out of a nest, and a lot of them just hit the ground,” guitarist Aaron Dessner says in the trailer. “We all got really emotionally attached to the whole thing — the record and the tour and these shows. Here in New York, we knew this was probably the one chance we were going to have to actually play all the songs from I Am Easy to Find.