Slimmy Unplugged is the debut live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 by Portuguese singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 Slimmy

Slimmy

Slimmy, born Paulo Fernandes, is a Portuguese singer/songwriter who combines various genres of rock, especially electro rock. He has an irreverent visual look and an addictive musical style and has achieved mainstream success after an appearance on the Portuguese soap opera Morangos com Açúcar. He...

. It was recorded on 19 and 20 of June 2008 at Tertúlia Castelense. It was released and available through Optimus in a limited digital edition during the months of November and December 2008 at the Optimus Store, for a price of 2€.

Background

By the end of 2008, Optimus presented a new format of concerts, starting in December, at the Optimus Store house of music that opened in Porto

Porto

Porto , also known as Oporto in English, is the second largest city in Portugal and one of the major urban areas in the Iberian Peninsula. Its administrative limits include a population of 237,559 inhabitants distributed within 15 civil parishes...

 at the time. These special performances for 100 guests only, had floor space designed especially for events related to music. Deliberately restricted, these concerts had the objective to ensure a more intimate and familiar, especially in thinking most devoted fans of each guest artist.

For each of these concerts, Optimus offered 50 double tickets, which would be allocated through the site musica.optimus.pt and to the customers who subscribed to certain services or features.

Slimmy

Slimmy

Slimmy, born Paulo Fernandes, is a Portuguese singer/songwriter who combines various genres of rock, especially electro rock. He has an irreverent visual look and an addictive musical style and has achieved mainstream success after an appearance on the Portuguese soap opera Morangos com Açúcar. He...

 performed on two days: on 19 and 20 of June 2008. The album was released and available through Optimus in a limited digital edition during the months of November and December 2008 at the Optimus Store, for a price of 2€.

Performances

Although information about the track listing of the concert is available anywhere, there are some sources that says that the album featured 13 tracks and that the following songs were part of the set list for the show:

• "Show Girl"
• "Bloodshot Star"
• "Night Out" (later included on Be Someone Else
  Be Someone Else
  Be Someone Else is the second studio album by Portuguese singer-songwriter Slimmy. Saul Davies was first set to be the producer of the album, however, such collaboration wasn't possible and Slimmy started working on the album with his longtime producers Quico Serrano and Mark Turner...
  
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• "Coming and Going Around"
• "Game Over"
• "People in Cars"
• "True Love"
• "Dumb"

Personnel

Taken from Slimmy's blog.
Performance Credits

• Paulo Fernandes – main vocals, guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Paulo Garim – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Tó-Zé – drums

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format
Optimus Store	November 2008	Optimus	Digital Download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...