Darkroom/Interscope Records artist Billie Eilish, accompanied by her brother and chief collaborator FINNEAS O'Connell, performed an intimate acoustic set for a room of excited fans and friends in The Blue Room at Nashville's Third Man Records November 6th. The set was recorded live on Third Man's direct-to-acetate system (a 1955 Scully lathe, previously homed at King Records), and the vinyl recording was available only at Third Man retail locations in Nashville and Detroit.
Fans will had access to two versions, both extremely limited: a green vinyl edition available at both Third Man Records locations in Nashville and Detroit and an extremely limited amount of black & blue split-color versions, featuring one-of-a-kind splatter artwork created by Eilish during her evening spent at Third Man headquarters, available at the Nashville storefront exclusively. Watch footage of Billie making the jackets for the latter version HERE.
It was a big year on the charts for six-time Grammy-Awards nominee Billie Eilish. The 17-year old singer, songwriter and musician debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with her album WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? She scored her first No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 with “bad guy,” which has since become the longest-running Hot 100 top ten hit by a female artist in the last century, amassing more than 3 billion global audio streams across all platforms, and climbing to No. 1 at Top 40 and Alternative radio. WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? is now the highest-selling debut album of 2019 and biggest North American debut album of the decade (male, female or group), shifting 313,000 units in its first week and hitting No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart for an additional two nonconsecutive weeks. Billie has now earned more than 24 billion combined career audio and video streams, while her 2020 WHERE DO WE GO? World Arena Tour sold out of 500,000+ tickets within an hour of on-sale, beginning March 9, 2020.
One month ago, Jack White and his crew over at Third Man Records invited chart-topping pop singer and Teenager of the Year Billie Eilish to play a secret show in TMR's Blue Room. As noted by arts editor Laura Hutson Hunter in our live-review column The Spin, it was a delightful and intimate show featuring acoustic performances from Eilish and her brother and collaborator Finneas O'Connell, all of which was recorded live to acetate by the Third Man crew.
Today, White's boutique label has announced that two versions of the Eilish recording will be released this Friday, Dec. 6: a green vinyl edition, which will be available at TMR's locations in Nashville and Detroit, and a black-and-blue split-color vinyl edition, which will be available exclusively at the Nashville storefront. The latter version will feature jackets with "splatter artwork" created by Eilish herself at Third Man HQ. As a matter of fact, you can watch the 17-year-old singer splitter-splattering her way through all of those jackets in the clip above. Good times.
Again, both versions of the release will be available IRL only — both of Third Man's locations open at 10 a.m. on Friday. Eilish will bring her Where Do We Go? World Tour to Bridgestone Arena on March 27, but tickets to that are already sold out.
