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TheFuriousWombat:
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:
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:

--- 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).

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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:
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:
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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