They reunited again on October 12, 2019, and played live at Alo House Silver Lake. Their next performance was the Save Music in Chinatown benefit concert in Los Angeles on October 19, 2014, the first public performance of the band in 13 years. The camera closely follows a pizza delivery man on his scooter as he zips through traffic, his figure wrapped in the hues of city lights. Then on October 3, 2013, (Klinghoffer's birthday) the band reunited and played live at the Hard Rock Hotel in Palm Springs. The film draws viewers in with a kind of urban poetry. Thus, the film combined the most significant aspects of neorealism, depicting the poverty of Italy. Just previous to the Red Hot Chili Peppers' release of I'm with You, Klinghoffer and Forrest performed songs live on the latter's radio show in July 2011. The Bicycle Thief as a Prominent Neorealism Work The Bicycle Thief (1948) was made when the economy of Italy was slowly beginning to improve, and the neorealist movement was starting to fade. The band played a livestream concert in September 2020. Adapted from a novel by Luigi Bartolini, the quiet tragedy of a fathers desperate hunt for a stolen bicycle that he depends on for his work has a fable-like. In 2020, for the 21st anniversary of the album, the band announced it would be reissuing the album on vinyl and the album also appeared on Spotify for the first time. For the 10th anniversary of the band in 2009, a live album, The Way It Used to Be (Live), was released on Bob Forrest's website. Their only studio album is You Come and Go Like a Pop Song, released in 1999, and re-released with modified track listing and artwork in 2001. This was Klinghoffer's first recording experience and he contributed guitars, keyboards, and on some tracks the drums. After Goldenvoice's Paul Tollett offered him a deal he and Klinghoffer recorded The Bicycle Thief's debut, joined on the album by Kevin Fitzgerald ( Geraldine Fibbers). After a break from the music industry after the demise of his previous band, Thelonious Monster, Forrest started jamming with Josh Klinghoffer (a friend of Forrest's girlfriend's brother) and in 1997 they played a covers gig and Forrest started recording demos on a four-track. The Bicycle Thief is an American alternative rock band fronted by Bob Forrest.
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