Turnstile Rocks Tiny Desk with Stage Diving and a Horn Section

Ahead of their Never Enough tour kickoff this Monday (9/15), Turnstile stopped by NPR’s Tiny Desk for a unique and reimagined set of songs from the upcoming tour.

Unlike their previous Tiny Desk appearance—filmed remotely during the COVID lockdown, with frontman Brendan Yates behind a Rhodes keyboard—this time the band performed in the actual Tiny Desk space, delivering a full, in-person experience. Yates took center stage, backed by the core band as well as guest musicians: Troy Long on piano, and a horn duo featuring Tobias Moody on saxophone and Theljon Allen on trumpet.

They opened the set with the horn-driven “Dreaming,” then moved through stripped-down, reworked versions of “Sunshower,” “I Care,” “Never Enough,” and “Birds.” The title track was transformed into an elegant piano ballad, while “Birds” retained enough of its raw energy for Brendan to pull off what NPR calls the first-ever stage dive in Tiny Desk history. (For reference: Soul Glo reportedly sparked the desk’s first mosh pit last year.)

The audience was clearly into it, especially during “Birds,” where fans could be heard shouting along. The entire set was a refreshing, genre-bending take on Turnstile’s material—and well worth a watch.

Check it out below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylL-SSRDyJc