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Gigs you've been to and your thoughts.
Inlander:
You missed a pretty good show! Though not as good as their show at the Corner when they were last out here in 2006. Only about half the band were there, but Kevin Drew said that hopefully it won't be another two years until they're next out here, and that when they next come to Australia they'll try to bring some "girls and horns" with them.
I saw Feist at the Prince in St. Kilda a couple of nights ago. It was a pretty awesome gig, so much so that instead of writing about it here I think I'll do a fuller review and put it up on the music blog.
Shadows Collide:
I was at both Feist and Broken Social Scene. Last night the best song was a new one for me, the one named after a Mexican town they like. That, or Cause=Time.
Does anyone know why Feist wasn't there at all? At her show, she said she would be pissed if the others weren't at her show. She was particularly amazing on Tuesday when she performed my favorite song of hers "The Water" on piano. Great show.
muffy:
--- Quote from: Ishotdanieljohnston on 26 Feb 2008, 07:59 ---i just got home after Okkervil River, and man, what a fucking show. i actually half want to go to a bad show so as I have somethign more unpredictable to say, but I'm on a real streak. They played everything you'd want them to play and with such ferocity and energy. You know you're watching a good show when they seem to be having as good a time as you. What can I say, it was sheer craftsmanship.
After I was having a few beers in a bar and the band wandered in, so I went and spoke to Will Sheff, came across as a really nice, humble man. We shook hands and i left him to the rather lovely looking lady who'd taken an interest in him.
My girlfreind took over 300 photo's so I might post a few of them in the next couple of days. Tommorow I'm seeing Broken Social Scene so I'll report back after that.
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I saw them a couple of years back, and they were absolutely spectacular - I went to the show not having heard them on record, yet every song was immense and had a way of pulling you in straight away - Will Sheff kind of sings like a sober Tim Kasher...also, met them then and they were among some of the nicest, most sound people ever, and gave me a copy of Black Sheep Boy - I'm gutted that I missed them on their more recent outings, though :(
Other good gigs recently (ish):
Furthest Drive Home/Tellison/The Maple State - Erring to the generic side of emo-ness, but still a sign that the genre hasn't wiped itself out entirely, all of the bands had enough oomph to sound awesome on stage. The audience credited their efforts by standing rigid and staring the ENTIRE TIME. I think I was one of about two people attempting to move.
Tonight Is Goodbye - kind of disappointing - Largely because all-ages gigs are either: full of people desperate to see the bands, who are young enough not to have cultivated the kind of polite disdain for the musicians on stage and dance like their lives depend on it (the good kind), or the kind of all-ages gig where you walk into a room full of 15 year old scenesters-in-training who turn and stare because a) you're a foot taller than them and b) you're not kitted out in the kind of clothes they sell in the catalogues that come with Kerrang! magazine. It would have been ok if the band were special enough to detract from it, but, they weren't.
The Good Life - I've never seen Tim Kasher so pissed on a stage. Or on an amp. Or skating round the venue on said amp. Still pretty immense.
And, I'm missing MGMT tomorrow because it's sold out and my blagging skills have deserted me, missed I Was A Cub Scout last week because I was putting on a club night (which the drummer later came to - woop!), missed Grammatics because they cancelled...
BUT - seeing This City/Data:Select:Party next week and The Ghost Frequency the week after.
Hat:
Man, Broken Social Scenes performance at the Brisbane Laneway was pretty average in terms of the songs they played, I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as the last time they came out, but with that said, the finale of "It's all Gonna Break" was amazing. There was some kind of technical malfunction but the way they played around it and worked it into the song was brilliant, and seeing Stars and BSS back to back was great. I actually enjoyed Stars performance more than Broken Social Scenes actually, which I didn't expect at all, considering they seemed to sound a bit dead at first, but by the end of their set I was going nuts, and then they closed with "Your Ex-Lover is Dead"
I actually bailed for Feist because it was just too many people and I didn't know enough of her songs to bother so I kind of retreated to the smoking area to calm down and shake some of the acid out of my head, since there was nobody in there.
I wound up hearing some of CYHSY, which was nice, but I bailed before the presets just because I couldn't be fucked by that point, I was having trouble keeping my head together and I left to get pissed.
Earlier in the day, I also managed to see Damn Arms and Okkervil River, both who were utterly fantastic.
Really the weirdest thing about Laneway was just how many people I haven't seen in ages that I ran into, and the fact that I didn't remember any of them. Apparently I am a lot more memorable than I am capable of remembering people.
Lummer:
YOU GUYS
I'M SEEING DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN TOMORROW
I'LL PROBABLY DIE IN THE MOSHPIT
NICE KNOWIN' YALL
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