The Whiles · 30 clips
The Whiles Live Video Archive.
Twenty years of The Whiles onstage—release shows, rehearsals, festival sets, television sessions, tribute nights, and covers—preserved by the people who brought cameras.
Play one video from each show, then open the rest of that set without leaving this page. Original YouTube credit remains with every recording.
Cover spotlight · The Who
A Quick One, While He’s Away
For Brett Helling.
We played this at Helling Yeah!, a two-night benefit and memorial for our friend Brett Helling at Natalie’s in January 2016. Brett was a gifted musician, a huge supporter of The Whiles, and the heart of the Cabdrivers. He died by suicide in 2015.
Brett had a habit of jumping onstage with us to sing “A Quick One, While He’s Away”—most memorably at ComFest in 2013. Playing it without him at Helling Yeah! was part tribute, part catharsis. We miss him dearly.
We also covered one of Brett’s own Cabdrivers songs in his honor. That performance belongs here beside the music he used to join us onstage to sing.
Filmed by Stephen Carney for CarneyVision.
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Hummingbird
The Whiles at Natalie’s album-release show on June 19, 2026. Filmed by CarneyVision.
Open on YouTubeAlbum-release show · 2 videos
Natalie’s · June 19, 2026
Two songs from the night Hummingbird and the re-recorded Colors of the Year arrived.
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Full set · 6 videos
Rumba Cafe · February 17, 2024
The Whiles’ February 17 return to the Rumba Cafe stage, preserved by CarneyVision.
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Two-song set · 2 videos
Helling Yeah! II · 2017
Two performances from the second Helling Yeah! gathering, captured by CarneyVision.
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CarneyVision notebooks · 5 videos
Columbus · 2016–17
A run of Mercury Ghost-era songs gathered from the CarneyVision archive.
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Ace of Cups · 1 video
May 1, 2015
The Whiles perform a Sleepers Wake favorite at Ace of Cups in Columbus.
Complete performance shown above.
Treehouse · 4 videos
January 29, 2010
New songs making their first appearances during a winter night at the Treehouse.
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Other stages & sessions · 8 videos
Festival, television & covers
Independent recordings, television sessions, festival footage, and covers found across the wider archive. The featured Workbook TV session is a rare surviving document of an era with very little video.
A distinctive performance from a period of The Whiles that was seldom captured on camera.
Another distinct snapshot of The Whiles onstage, now preserved as a visible part of the archive.
Original upload ↗Every member of The Whiles was part of the Marathon band at this point—and remained involved through 2025. This Beatles cover captures the project before it grew into the annual production it became.
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Newly added · KOBO · 1 video
November 10, 2012
A cannon.fm presentation of The Whiles at KOBO in Columbus—a substantial onstage document from the period around Somber Honey.
Complete performance shown above.