Topic: Last show... (Read 19889 times)

SleeperCylon · « **Reply #50 on:** 17 Aug 2007, 21:20 »

I just went to Nickel Creek with Fiona Apple. Just got back from it like an hour ago.

It was interesting. I assumed 'Nickel Creek with Fiona Apple' meant Fiona Apple would come on, play her set, then Nickel Creek would play theirs.

Instead, it was basically a two and a half hour Nickel Creek show where Fiona Apple came up and sung like seven or eight of her songs, with Nickel Creek as her band playing bluegrassy versions of her songs.

It actually made some of her songs more enjoyable, and it was a really interesting take on Criminal.

I think this is the kind of thing bands should do at live shows. I hate it when bands just play down their latest album's tracklist. Bands should do something new and unique with their music. Nirvana Unplugged, for example, is a great example of this because they played so many Meat Puppets songs on it. And Brian Wilson is great because Smile just sounds way better live than on that studio version. Bob Dylan is great because he's constantly re-imagining his old classics with his new style, and he has almost a completely different setlist every show, so every show is different.

This is the kind of show I might actually listen to a CD of, if it came out.

KvP · « **Reply #51 on:** 19 Aug 2007, 03:52 »

Last show I went to see was Sage Francis with Alias, Buck 65 and some slam poet named Buddy Wakefield opening. I was there for Buck, and hung out with the guy for the duration of Sage Francis' setlist.

I either missed Pinback coming through or they aren't coming to Colorado. Fuck.

Luke C · « **Reply #52 on:** 24 Aug 2007, 03:21 »

My new last show:

Tool (supported by Russian Circles) at Manchester Apollo.

Freakin' sweet gig.

SusurrusIgnoramus · « **Reply #53 on:** 24 Aug 2007, 06:47 »

Allison Krauss and Union Station two weeks ago. Their live shows sound EXACTLY like their albums. They are THAT technically sound. And, before that? Sleepytime Gorilla Museum in June. Not exactly technically sound, but they still know how to ROKK!!!!

valley_parade · « **Reply #54 on:** 24 Aug 2007, 08:39 »

Against me! are in noho on the 6th. I might go.

pilsner · « **Reply #55 on:** 24 Oct 2007, 07:16 »

I saw Stars yesterday at the new Music Hall of Williamsburg (used to be North 66) and they have mysteriously gone from disappointing live (see: Summerstage 2006) to completely rock solid. Highlights included Torquil festooning himself with lights for Genova Heights and Amy & co. throwing flowers into the audience throughout. I find that the material on the new album is their strongest yet. And, yeah, they totally finished with Calendar Girl.

So if you were holding off on seeing them because of past live experiences, I suggest giving them another try.

valley_parade · « **Reply #56 on:** 24 Oct 2007, 07:19 »

Lawrence Arms/American Steel/The Falcon/Sundowner

What a fucking GREAT show that was.

a pack of wolves · « **Reply #57 on:** 24 Oct 2007, 07:40 »

Unsane. It was one of the greatest sets I've ever seen in my life. They played everything you'd have wanted them to, they were intense as shit while doing it, they were obviously genuinely pleased to get such a good reaction and to be playing, it was in one of my favourite venues, the sound was fantastic, tons of my friends were there... basically, it was one of those gigs where everything is absolutely perfect.

Katherine · « **Reply #58 on:** 24 Oct 2007, 08:29 »

I saw Ted Leo + The Pharmacists a few weeks ago. I missed most of Georgie James opening which is too bad, I liked what little I did catch.

The last show I saw before that is pretty much the best concert I have ever been to: The Threadless Grand Opening party with Hey Mercedes. I can totally die happy now having seen them live.

valley_parade · « **Reply #59 on:** 24 Oct 2007, 08:59 »

I'm starting to think TL/Rx is one of those bands that I'll never get to see, no matter how much I want to. The same goes for Against Me!. The timing's never right.

pilsner · « **Reply #60 on:** 24 Oct 2007, 09:41 »

Ted has done at least 5 shows in NYC so far this year. I think I've been to three of them, and I didn't even particularly like Living With The Living. You should time a trip to NYC with his next show

Katherine · « **Reply #61 on:** 24 Oct 2007, 10:01 »

The first time I saw Ted was in NYC, they opened for Death Cab for Cutie at MSG. They were great there but I liked seeing them in a smaller venue much better.

pilsner · « **Reply #62 on:** 24 Oct 2007, 10:08 »

Definitely. The Knitting Factory show that I've written about before where Ted "left his larynx on the stage" is still the best I've had, followed closely by all the times I've seen him at Irving Plaza. I've gone to the South Seaport free shows that he's put on for the last couple of years, but since you can't really hear Chris Wilson, his brilliant drummer, the music loses a lot. He gave a suprisingly intimate show at McCarren Park Pool this year though -- I guess because the acoustics there are almost like a bandshell. Shame that last I heard they're going to be filling it with water.

Liz · « **Reply #63 on:** 24 Oct 2007, 10:46 »

I also saw Ted Leo about a week and a half ago. It was a fantastic show.

This past Sunday I saw The Microphones/Mount Eerie with Modernstate. Also playing were Reporter (who kinda sucked) and Riesage (a local guy that's really good). All for $5. Oh hells yes.

amok · « **Reply #64 on:** 24 Oct 2007, 11:30 »

You bastard

Ted cancelled his UK tour just before he got to me. Jealousy+

Last show for me was Destroid/Painbastard/SITD on Saturday. One of the best of the year so far.

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #65 on:** 24 Oct 2007, 14:37 »

Let's see, I saw two shows in two nights at Smog, a converted garage here on campus. I saw Twin (awful), Yip-Yip (awesome), and Gowns (unbelievably beautiful. Their album 'Red State' was playing on my ipod throughout the summer so seeing them live was a real treat).
The next night I saw a 5 band show: Upsilon Acrux (Very cool mathy-post rock), Child Abuse (Mathy hardcore), Made in Mexico (not sure how to describe them but really good anyway), Aa (Pronounced Big A Little a. Imagine if Animal Collective decided to become a tribal drumming group in the distant future and that's sorta what these guys sounds like. Another band I was really looking forward to seeing based upon how great the album of their's I heard was), and, finally, Ruins (fucking immensely over the top and brilliant Japanese noise rock). All in all they were two fantastic shows with only a couple detracting elements (Twin was terrible and Aa's set was cut short).

carrotosaurus · « **Reply #66 on:** 24 Oct 2007, 14:51 »

Dylan's touring band back from the "Love and Theft" era was fantastic.

My last show was one I played, and I was in all three bands. Does that count?

The last big show I went to was probably Wolf Parade, which was awesome. Those guys rule the stage.

a pack of wolves · « **Reply #67 on:** 24 Oct 2007, 22:05 »

Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 24 Oct 2007, 14:37

Let's see, I saw two shows in two nights at Smog, a converted garage here on campus. I saw Twin (awful), Yip-Yip (awesome), and Gowns (unbelievably beautiful. Their album 'Red State' was playing on my ipod throughout the summer so seeing them live was a real treat).
The next night I saw a 5 band show: Upsilon Acrux (Very cool mathy-post rock), Child Abuse (Mathy hardcore), Made in Mexico (not sure how to describe them but really good anyway), Aa (Pronounced Big A Little a. Imagine if Animal Collective decided to become a tribal drumming group in the distant future and that's sorta what these guys sounds like. Another band I was really looking forward to seeing based upon how great the album of their's I heard was), and, finally, Ruins (fucking immensely over the top and brilliant Japanese noise rock). All in all they were two fantastic shows with only a couple detracting elements (Twin was terrible and Aa's set was cut short).

I am intensely jealous, I'd love to see Ruins. This also prompted me to find out what Gowns sound like. Nice, and I can imagine it working even better live than on record.

dancarter · « **Reply #68 on:** 25 Oct 2007, 01:29 »

Last show was Skinny Puppy with White Mice and Otto Von Schirach.

Otto is something very strange. He wears a verrrry cheap superhero outfit with diapers and a Tonto/Robin mask. He uses all these cheap light up props while he twiddles on his computer and yells a bunch. I guess his album title, Maxipad Detention is a pretty good indication of what his act was like.

Stranger still was White Mice who played very thick, very loud noise. All well and good but they did so while wearing incerdibly lifelike mouse masks that had exposed brains, light up twinkly eyeballs, and twitchy noses along with bloody labcoats.

Skinny Puppy was amazing, though I expect this much to be a given. The sound was good, they played a lot of old stuff (though nothing from Last Rights, poo!), and had a much more stripped back, though no less effective show. Ogre is scarily charasmatic. He sucks everybody up without really saying much until the encores.

On a side note...pack of wolves, that Schiele icon(I say icon as I can't remember what the damn things are called...my brain just sort of failed) is fantastic.

a pack of wolves · « **Reply #69 on:** 26 Oct 2007, 13:41 »

Why thank you, I do like a bit of the old Schiele. I always thought it was a pity that the Rachels album Songs For Egon Schiele was so lacklustre.

Your description has made me want to see White Mice all the more, that sounds amazing. Otto Von Schirach intrigues me too.

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