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The title is pretty self explanitory. What was the last band you saw? For me, I saw Gwar and All That Remains on Saturday
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I saw the Mull Historical Society. They were ACE. ACE, I tell you!
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I saw Rammstein, supported by Apocalyptica.
DAMN that was an awesome evening. Highlights were when one member of Apocalyptica jumped on top of the drum kit to play a cello solo during the middle of their cover of Master of Puppets, and of course, Apocalypticas announcer guy ("Since Apocalyptica are CELLOS FROM HELL ve play you ze original und ultimate BLACK METAL song...EDVARD GRIEG, HALL OF ZE MOUNTAIN KING!")
Oh, and EVER single Rammstein song. Like during Seemann when one of the guitarists stripped off his trousers to reveal some speedos, and jumped in an inflatable dinghy the roadies slung across the top of the crowd, rowing it across the whole auditorium and back to the stage, amd in Mein Teil where Till wheeled on Flake, the keyboard player, in a giant pot (with a keyboard attatched he would pop out and play) then roasted him in the pot with a flamethrower, which set fire to a pyrotechnic vest he was wearing, after which he ran around stage on fire with firecrackers going off left and right whilst Till chased him round with a giant butchers knife (in which his microphone was at the time concealed).
SO AWESOME.
Next definite gig I have lined up is Cradle of Filth and Moonspell (!!!) but I'll probably go to the Hatebreed concert locally in March, not because of Hatebreed (seen 'em before) but because of CROWBAR SUPPORTING THEM.
After complaining for so long about the fact that nearly all the concerts we got down here were whiny emo bollocks and related scene bands (plus some crap nu-metal) we're suddenly getting The Haunted (might go to that one as well), Crowbar, Cradle and Moonspell locally!
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Dillinger Escape Plan.
there album "Miss Machine" made me its bitch.
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Oh geez, it was either The Clarks or Bad Religion...I think it was The Clarks.
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rammstein are crazy. i was at a kinda festival with hundreds of amateur bands playing on 8 stages. some really good bands among them.
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skinny puppy & otto von schirach, the night before halloween.
fucking crazy shit. ogre was, as üsual, covered in god-knows-what. the video was great.
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the rushes, i think their a local edinburgh band - not very big.
they were fucking excellent, they played kinda indie rock stuff i guess, maybe a bit franz ferdinandish, and they had a good frontman. going to see brendan benson next week - cant wait.
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Last I saw was Breather Resist. A band most people don't think of anything beyond "good" on CD. Live, however, they are goddamn amazing. Slayer references and dead baby jokes ahoy!
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EDIT: Stupid forum bugs.
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I saw Rammstein
I'm not sure if I love you or hate you for that but I'm definatly jealous!
The last band I saw was TOB's brothers one last week but the last big thing I went to was Reading Festival 04.
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I saw Steve Devil & the Relatives, ilyAIMY, and Private Eleanor last month.
You probably haven't heard of those bands unless you're deep into the Baltimore indie scene. I certainly wouldn't have if they weren't all friends of friends.
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Aw man, I NEVER go to concerts. I lack funds most of the time and there's never anything scheduled that I actually want to see when I DO have cash. I go and see bands of friends all the time, but I don't think that counts XD
So that would probably be Bif Naked, but only because a friend's band was opening for her.
Also, the friend's band sucked.
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I went to Ben Folds and Ben Kweller last Thursday. I'm a freelancer for a local webmag (which means they don't pay me!), so we had press passes, and I got to meet Ben Folds!
I know all you metal and hipster people are thinking what a fool! But that was the best show I've been to yet. Especially when he stood on the Steinway. He also played something like a 2 and a half hour set - straight through. I can't even explain the awesomeness.
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I went to Ben Folds and Ben Kweller last Thursday. I'm a freelancer for a local webmag (which means they don't pay me!), so we had press passes, and I got to meet Ben Folds!
I know all you metal and hipster people are thinking what a fool! But that was the best show I've been to yet. Especially when he stood on the Steinway. He also played something like a 2 and a half hour set - straight through. I can't even explain the awesomeness.
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Jamborees, The Baboon Show and two other bands I can't be arsed to remember.
Good stuff.
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last one: strom & wasser
last big one: flogging molly
whee, that show was pretty awesome, i tell you...
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Dillinger Escape Plan.
there album "Miss Machine" made me its bitch.
I probably stand as about the only person on the planet who disliked DEP live. I thought they were awful when I saw them. I wasn't too keen on Poison the Well either. That evening was only saved by the opener, Ephel Duath, who roxored (or should that be jazzdored?) my boxers. The singer kept shoving the microphone into the crowd and as one of the few people not there for either of the other two bands I got to scream 'EEEPHEEEL DUAAATTTHH' into it in my best black metal banshee screech.
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skinny puppy & otto von schirach, the night before halloween.
fucking crazy shit. ogre was, as üsual, covered in god-knows-what. the video was great.
i know you have some spelling issues, but you can at least spell ohGr right, can't you?
to answer the question:
Ministry with Hanzel und Gretyl and Opiate for the Masses.
it blew.
i'm seeing Ani Difranco in 3 days, though, which should be a lot better.
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Ogre = Kevin Ogilvie
ohGr = Kevin Oglivie and Mark Walk
Ogre is a member of Skinny Puppy, while ohGr is Ogre's side-project.
ohGr didn't play on last Skinny Puppy tour.
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I'm not that into the life histories of bands I like.
I guess I was misinformed. I apologize.
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I probably stand as about the only person on the planet who disliked DEP live. I thought they were awful when I saw them.
I saw them live at last years Hultsfred festival here, and based on what I saw, you're crazy. :P
Hell, I bought tickets for them in April, because I had to see them again.
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I just couldn't get myself moving to it. I utterly hate the way DEP will start up a decent groove or melody then just suddenly palm-mute everything and start another one. Some of their songs on CD are ok, but they played all the ones I dislike the most (Panasonic Youth, 43% Burnt etc.). They just cross an incredibly fine border that really puts me off them. I mean, I fucking LOVED SikTh live, even though they didn't play my favourite track (How May I Help You?). Stuff like DEP just jarrs me and puts me off. I gotta admit they got energy, but I just sat it out on a window-ledge at the back then pissed off all my friends who went (mainly emo/hardcore types) for the rest of the evening by moaning how much better Impaled Nazarene would have been.
Also, their pit was full of windmillers. I wear glasses, and I had no-one to give them to. I ain't going into a windmiller pit with glasses. Windmilling transgresses all the unwritten rules of the mosh anyway, but wearing glasses just makes it even more intensely shit.
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I get free gigs too as I'm music ed for our uni paper - so the last 2 weeks have been pretty cool - working backwards...
Sun: Scarlet Soho - the single most disappointing gig I've been to as I used to love this band and they were nothing short of dire.
Fri: LCD Soundsystem - ace, danceable and stuck in a room with loads of hyper pillheads and electroclash fasionistas
Tue: The Others, Brakes, The Cherubs - Brakes = Best band in the world, ever. The Others were just desparate to get more fans - the guitarist literally begged a couple of us to take his number then made us feel guilty for not having bought the album (which is also dire)
Mon: Adam Green - quality cabaret, Adam Green is a dick who doesn't seem to like female journalists
Wed: The Killers, Bloc Party, Futureheads + The Kaiser Chiefs - I really, realy dislike the idea of NME endorsed shows, but it was actually pretty good, even if it was a NO SMOKING gig...
Mon: Death From Above 1979 - insane.
Looking at that, it's no wonder I'm now horribly ill, as that doesn't include the clubs and random drinnking nights..
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Matchbook Romance...
Interpol was the next day; I went to Matchbook Romance.
I hate girls sometimes.
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Last Live show I was... me. I didn't get to see myself, so that doesn't count. However, I watched my support band, so I guess I'll say them: Oddwog. Sounds impressive, until you realise that I was playing at my friend's 18th birthday party, and Oddwog is his band. So, I suck. I then talked with this guy called Mr K who is supporting Venetian Snares next week. Fame. Slightly irrelevant, but fucking sweet all the same.
Before that I saw Heatseeker down the pub, but I know them too, so I guess that doesn't count either. Damn.
Alright then, 65daysofstatic. They ruled with an IRON FIST. OF IRON. It was also in a pub, so half the audience had NO idea what was going on, and the people who had actually come for 65DOS where almost all far too cool to dance. In an effort to get some action, the guitarist says "Could we get a thing going where the people at the back all try and get to the front?" and someone in the audience yelled "That would be Chaos!". It was comedy gold.
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The last show I saw was possibly the worst battle of the bands ever, which is documented somewhere else on this forum. It sucked so hard.
I am going to see Crowned King this Thursday, and maybe (here is hoping) Alexisonfire when they come through again.
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im seeing Alexisonfire March 3rd.
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I saw the Epitaph Tour 2005 the sunday before last. Too bad it was like, the 5 worst bands on that label, my sister dragged me
I'm seeing Damien and Stephen Marley in Orlando next week, Bob Marley's 60th you know.
That aughta be fun.
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man your gonna leave that show smelling like every type of weed there is.
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Went to see The Shins, supported by the Boat People and the Zebras a couple of weekends ago. Thanks to a rediculously long wait for a taxi, I managed to catch the last song of the set, and the encore.
I had "So Says I" in my head for a week afterwards though, so I sorta feel like I got my money's worth.
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Last show I saw was The Pixies (Opening acts Marble Index and The Datsuns). Considering there is no living band that I'd rather go to see, I was quite excited. It was the first concert I'd been to in years. I saw that the tickets were on sale just after I finally got out of the hospital after 3.5 months and two open-heart valve replacement surgeries. It was like karma trying to balance itself out: "Sorry you almost died three times already this year, we'll get the Pixies back together with a tour stop in your area and call it even, 'kay?" There was no way I wasn't going to that concert.
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I saw This Bike is a Pipe Bomb. Woah yeah, best four dollars spent ever.
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I <3 the Pipe Bomb. Did they play Ohio?
My last show? Defiance, Ohio and two local bands.
one local band sucked, the other one, The Pinehill Haints, was this really good rockabily band.
Defiance, Ohio made it okay that I was at a show alone, they were that good. They had this great energy on the stage that, really, is a bit too rare lately.
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Last show I saw was Goatwhore/Himsa/Arch Enemy/Cradle of Filth. The show kinda sucked in my opinion, then again, it was an MTV sponsored tour. Goatwhore wasn't particularly impressive, and Himsa was downright awful. Arch Enemy was by far the best act there, which was sort of surprising for me. They put on a nice set, and the croud was getting into it. I haven't really seen all that many shows, maybe 10 or so, but Cradle of Filth was one of the lamest acts I've ever seen. The show itself wasn't very impressive, as they did a few of their new, terrible, tracks. At one point in the set, Dani asked all the women to throw their bras at him. Yeah, whatever asshole. Anyways, one woman was apparently not particularly fond of Dani, so she threw her bra into his mouth while he was singing, causing a fit of coughing and choking. I laughed my ass off when that happened.
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Last saw Modest Mouse.
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Last show I saw was Goatwhore/Himsa/Arch Enemy/Cradle of Filth. The show kinda sucked in my opinion, then again, it was an MTV sponsored tour. Goatwhore wasn't particularly impressive, and Himsa was downright awful. Arch Enemy was by far the best act there, which was sort of surprising for me. They put on a nice set, and the croud was getting into it. I haven't really seen all that many shows, maybe 10 or so, but Cradle of Filth was one of the lamest acts I've ever seen. The show itself wasn't very impressive, as they did a few of their new, terrible, tracks. At one point in the set, Dani asked all the women to throw their bras at him. Yeah, whatever asshole. Anyways, one woman was apparently not particularly fond of Dani, so she threw her bra into his mouth while he was singing, causing a fit of coughing and choking. I laughed my ass off when that happened.
You're still a lucky git.
I have reports that Arch Enemy are the BUSINESS live (I'm still slightly cut up about not being able to see the Swedish Apocalypse tour with Dark Tranquillity and The Haunted) Cradle I'm seeing in April. I would seriously, seriously love them to be the best thing ever (They were the first metal band I ever loved, and I'll stick by them for all the good times), but I fear I am several years too late. A set-list found on the net confirms this. No Queen of Winter, Throned, no Summer Dying Fast, not even any of their decent newer songs (There's nothing at all off Bitter Suites to Succubi, not even Scorched Earth Erotica). Just a couple of tracks of yawn off Damnation and a Day, some crap like Guilded Cunt and Nemesis from their new 'effort' and, from the reports I've heard, they've seemingly lost the will to live as far as live performance goes. I hope Dani can crank out more shrieks live than he does on Nymphetamine anyway, or otherwise any attempt to perform 'The Principle of Evil Made Flesh' will just be a bloody joke. And fuck, if they weren't even trying I'd Dimebag Dani's midget ass. STOP CHANGING THE LINEUP YOU WANKER.
Sorry, the decline of CoF into commercialism and dross makes me very sad.
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Scarlet Soho - the single most disappointing gig I've been to as I used to love this band and they were nothing short of dire.
I got dragged to this. I got so bored I started pumping all my cash into the It-box (a kinda interactive gambling machine) and started necking as much southern comfort as I could!
baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.
Before that - Feb 5th. Greenday - fcuking fantastic.
Next (I think) - Dropkick Murpheys
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ah... Green Day in the MEN arena a coupla weeks back :)
im going to see feeder in a few weeks though
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FIGMENT!!! WOOOOO!!!!
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Me and a couple friends drove out to the Flywheel in Easthampton on Saturday to go see Cars Can Be Blue. It turned out that CCBB didn't show up, but the Worst Fucking Band In The History of the Universe sure goddamn did. They were called Refuge; it was three obviously college, probably frat, boys playing acoustic guitars. The guy that sang did the overwrought Creed voice and they weren't in tune. They played a song called "Silhouette for a Suicide". Then one of the other guys started rapping. We walked out. It wouldn't have been so dramatic if we weren't the only people there who weren't friends of one of the bands. The promoter/horribly awkward MC guy said "We've still got one great band left!" as we were leaving; I didn't say anything, but my friend Jess kinda snickered a little.
Usually I enjoy shows a lot more. PopFest back in November was one of the best things ever...
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PJ Harvey, waaaaay back in September was the last gig i went to where i was paying more than £7 for the ticket. More than £7 = big name artist in my experience. And a couple of weeks back i saw the guy i befriended in the local irish themed pub play with his local band. They were pretty good.
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I saw Blackthorn (a local- quite celtic-influenced band) the other day. I was going to see my friend play a battle of the bands, but one of the people I was going with forgot his ID and so we didn't feel right leaving him outside.
Blackthorn, however, was excellent.
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I am going to see Crowned King this Thursday, and maybe (here is hoping) Alexisonfire when they come through again.
I jsut saw Crowned King when I went to go see Big D and The Kids Table (last show I was at), a show my friend was promoting. I skanked until I dropped, but CK sucked hard....very hard.
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man your gonna leave that show smelling like every type of weed there is.
No Joke, been to many, many others here in Colorado
Funniest part is my dad, uncle and aunt are going too
This happens to be an "all ages" show
Since my dad's friend films/tapes shows for the Fox Theater and sometimes Red Rocks I guess, I'm allowed in older (18/21) shows as part of his 'film crew'
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Damn, CK were pretty good last time they came to town (opening for the Distillers). Unfortunately about 3 of the opening bands were at the terrible Battle Of The Bands, and they were not the good ones. I am kind of scared.
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Catflea, I apologise profusely for Scarlet Soho. Had I known they were going to be that bad, I'd have let you stay at home, regardless of the need for moral support...
Back on track for gigs - I have Soulwax tomorrow, Kimya Dawson on Friday and Now it's Overhead on Saturday...such happiness!
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Muffy, IM GREEN WITH ENVY! Not only because of Kimya Dawnson, but becuase of your previously listed shows too! *POUTS*
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Dear god I need to move to where any of you live. I have only ever seen 4 legitimately famous bands, and three of those were at the same time...
No one wants to play northwest florida.
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hrm...i'm bad with directions...you stuck in J-ville, too? we actually do get some good stuff...skinny puppy, pigface, professional murder music, concrete blonde...hell, ohgr made this their only florida stop back in '01.
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No, I'm way over by Pensacola. Most everything is just a little to far to go...
I've found myself looking forward to Underoath, and I don't even *like* underoath, but they're better than the average shitty metalcore bands that are playing in the area every damn night.
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my last show was the dresden dolls on 5 february. the one before that was a couple of bands my friends are in - the sparrows and the grshn lifestyle. and then there was bright eyes and jim james last january.
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Last gig was the Bravery supported by the 5 O'Clock heroes at the Fleece on Monday. It was awesome, they hammered through all the songs people are 'supposed' to know, and the new (album) tracks sounded really good. Sam Endicott wished us all a Happy Valentines Day, and commented that this was 'Traditionally my least favourite day of the year. But this year I have a girl to have out with, and that's cool.'
Next gig: Hopefully Straylight Run at the Oxford Zodiac in March. It's a bit of a trek, but I don't think I'll forgive myself if I miss the opportunity to see them live...
Count
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DUDE! I HAVE to go see Rammstein now. Becuase I live in the middle fo nowhere, most decent concerts have been too out of reach for me to be worth it. If and Whenever they tour to Baltimore, Pittsburgh, or nearby areas, I am going, hands down.
I havent been to a concert, to tell the truth, but I want to see Metallica, Rammstein, AC/DC, and Ozzy (hopefully before he kills himself with a massive 'whoops' moment like that ATV)
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I saw Carbon/Silicon, Mick Jones's new band, last night. There an alright band, just standard rock 'n' roll stuff really, but I mainly went just to see him, it was amazing, being one metre away from a guy who was in the greatest rock band of all time.
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Soulwax!
2 hours ago!
And they were ace, and made me dance...there were loads of people in the audience complaining because they were expecting 2manyDJs.
I quite want to see the Bravery, as I got their album today
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The Cramps.
They were GODS
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Eagles of Death Metal, along with the Assrockers and Walking Concert
Wow, that was way back in december, i gotta get out
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Wilco @ Pompano Beach.
from a scale 1 to 10, this concert went to 11.
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last show i saw was in November of 2004, saw My Chemical Romance, Anberlin, Lost Prophets (i think?) and Story of the Year (ugh..)
however, the list of concert's ive missed in my region is much better (since i broke my leg) i've effectively missed:
Straylight Run/Say Anything
Death from Above
Bright Eyes (which i had tickets for!!!)
Broken Social Scene
Arcade Fire..
ugh.... who was the smartass that made bones breakable?
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last show i saw was in November of 2004, saw My Chemical Romance, Anberlin, Lost Prophets (i think?) and Story of the Year (ugh..)
however, the list of concert's ive missed in my region is much better (since i broke my leg) i've effectively missed:
Straylight Run/Say Anything
Death from Above
Bright Eyes (which i had tickets for!!!)
Broken Social Scene
Arcade Fire..
ugh.... who was the smartass that made bones breakable?
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last show i saw was in November of 2004, saw My Chemical Romance, Anberlin, Lost Prophets (i think?) and Story of the Year (ugh..)
however, the list of concert's ive missed in my region is much better (since i broke my leg) i've effectively missed:
Straylight Run/Say Anything
Death from Above
Bright Eyes (which i had tickets for!!!)
Broken Social Scene
Arcade Fire..
ugh.... who was the smartass that made bones breakable?
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last show i saw was in November of 2004, saw My Chemical Romance, Anberlin, Lost Prophets (i think?) and Story of the Year (ugh..)
however, the list of concert's ive missed in my region is much better (since i broke my leg) i've effectively missed:
Straylight Run/Say Anything
Death from Above
Bright Eyes (which i had tickets for!!!)
Broken Social Scene
Arcade Fire..
ugh.... who was the smartass that made bones breakable?
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i'm sorry i posted twice....
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We have a winner!
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Q and not U, 1905, Del Cielo on Inauguration Day.
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Think the last concert or show I saw was a local band called Daytrader over a year ago. Can't recall what the most recent larger show I saw was though. Would need to go find my stack of ticket stubs.
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We don't get a lot of big acts, but we do get some pretty well-known idie acts at the Beta Bar and Club Downunder (the latter run by the university and shows are free with student ID - but I'm not a student dang it).
The last show I saw was Southern Culture On The Skids.. if you get a chance to see SCOTS go see 'em, the show is bound to be a lot of fun.
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Crowned King last night, with a bunch of crap local bands. <3 Crowned King, their trombonist is the entire brass section but he held his own pretty well.
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The Concretes and Frida at the Concorde, about 2 hours ago...
Frida was quality, all coquettish charm and amazing songs, but The Concretes kind of felt a bit flat, like it would be better to listen to them on record...
Then again, Brighton audiences are generally a bit rubbish - all self conscious and not willing to enjoy stuff incase they seem uncool, so that never reflects too well on any gig.
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My Awesome Compilation, Spitalfield and Fall Out Boy at the Cockpit, about 4 hours ago. MAC are my sister's friends' band, the only reasons I went were to see them and to buy their E.P. for £5 (as opposed to the £6-£9 asked in record shops), and they were great as usual, I knew I wouldn't like Fall Out Boy but as I'd bought a ticket I thought I should stay to see them. They were awful so I left at the end of the second song. Now, Fall Out Boy are generally regarded as an emo band, as evidenced by the vast quantities of people with slicked down dyed-black hair and girls' trousers, but listening to them I thought how do you tell the difference between an emo band and a pop-punk band? Is it just that pop-punk bands don't have badly-dressed teenage boys singing along in a melodramatic fashion (one hand on chest, other hand emphatically thrust skyward) at their shows? Because musically they sounded just like a pop-punk band.
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Went to see The Shins, supported by the Boat People and the Zebras a couple of weekends ago. Thanks to a rediculously long wait for a taxi, I managed to catch the last song of the set, and the encore.
That was in Brisbane, yeah? I saw them the following night in Sydney, with 78 Saab. They were great, but somehow not quite as engaging as they were the previous year. And only one new song in all that time! Still, they played just about every song they know, so well worth it.
(That keyboard player's still such a goose....is he on something, or just naturally goofy?)
Last gig I saw was Even and The Suits on Friday night at Spectrum. Even were looking a bit tired, and The Suits absolutely blew them away! I hear Even were in better form last night, though....
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Saw The Earlies siupported by Hem and Jackie Leven tonight, all of which were fabulous folk.
Last night saw The Go! Team supported by DJ Scoth Egg (no, really) and The Pipettes. Only the latter were less than great in this case.
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I'm not sure if a coffeehouse type of acoustic thing counts as a show, but I saw B.J. O'Malley a few weeks ago. She's a country singer from Youngstown Ohio and I love her a whole lot.
Before that, I'm pretty sure it was Reel Big Fish in November. I feel like there should've been something in between there, but if there was, it couldn't have been that awesome if I can't even remember...
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Last band I saw live was last year, Primus. Twas an amazing show.
I want to go see the Residents for their 33rd Anniversary tour, but so far nothing outside of Austrailia is planned. :(
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Last night saw The Go! Team supported by DJ Scoth Egg (no, really) and The Pipettes. Only the latter were less than great in this case.
Noooooo! Pipettes can't be bad! Pipettes are love!
Only because of a certain keyboardist...god, I'm sad.
Anyways... Saw Now It's Overhead last night at the Borderline, I've never had such a mission to get to a gig - train delays, lack of money etc, but
it was so good!
Even though loads of stuff broke and one of the girls wasn't there it was amazing.
It became a bit of a Saddle Creek shmooze fest by the end(post gig), with Michael Stipe thrown in for good measure, and I seem to recall accosting Todd from the Faint..
Should I be concerned that a guy paid £60 for a taxi to get me home, when I didn't even know him? Damn getting wasted at gigs. Was worth it though.
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This past friday I went to a benifit in Toronto featuring solo performances by:
Sarah Harmer
Andrew Whiteman (Apostle of Hustle, Broken Social Scene)
Gentleman Reg
Jason Collett (Broken Social Scene)
Andre Ethier (Deadly Snakes)
Bob Wiseman
Magali Meagher (The Phenomes)
So good.
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Sorry, but at least the impression I got of the Pipettes was of the three girls and a wallpaper-backing band. Maybe I'm just being male...
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My Awesome Compilation, Spitalfield and Fall Out Boy at the Cockpit, about 4 hours ago. MAC are my sister's friends' band,...
Wow, I've totally seen My Awesome Compilation. They played at Truck last year I believe. Quite good too, though with it being Truck I was far too ruined to give you a detailed review. So basically, I'm famous.
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I'm always surprised by how many people have seen/know/like MAC, given that to me they're just a local band, but they are getting quite popular in certain circles these days
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Sorry, but at least the impression I got of the Pipettes was of the three girls and a wallpaper-backing band. Maybe I'm just being male...
No...I see that, and the first time I saw them I was fairly indifferent to the guys - but now my mate's joined, I get kind of protective, I'm just being silly, and I know it's only as I have a silly girl crush :O
Just been to see Hal and the Magic Numbers - Hal were just nice, if not a little bland, but the magic numbers...SOOOOOooooooo good!
Plus, they played the entirety of Fevers and Mirrors over the PA between bands, so I was happy, even if still hungover from last night's exploits in London.
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Every town has better shows than mine.
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Ah Johnny C., how right you are. Crowned King was decent though, I mean, for what we get here. And yeah, Johnny Biggs (trombonist) = kickass.
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I'm always surprised by how many people have seen/know/like MAC, given that to me they're just a local band, but they are getting quite popular in certain circles these days
I think they came near me, or are coming. I've heard about them somewhat.
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The Number Tweleve Looks Like You, their EP release show.
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Last 3 shows
Greenday at the start of the month - Much bouncing up and down trying not to crush little/young folk who got quiet when the band played older songs, great fun though.
Hayseed Dixie last halloween - Much drinking and great fun in a little pub called the Rosin Dubh.
Iron Maiden last christmas - Oww my neck hurts and I really shouldn't have drank so much.
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brendan benson / psychid / fve o clock heroes
five o clock heroes were good, psychid blew me away, brendan benson (who i had gone to see) kicked ass.
http://psychid.co.uk/room512/
http://psychid.co.uk/room512/mp3/room512.mp3
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I saw Ani Difranco for the 8th time the day before Valentines Day. She puts on a fun show.
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Megadeth - Doris Knight Hall - Nov. 22 - 2005
Fucking Sweet.
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I saw Interpol for the third time on Wednesday. It was fantastic
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Yeah, I heard Megadeth rocked pretty hard.
As for this town, we don't get anything good. If you come here it means you're just starting out your career or ending it, haha. Last 'big thing' we had was Loverboy at the bar during the week of Valentines. Other than that we have to drive five-eight hours to see anything. Even the 'punk-shows' we have are ending soon as the local band is doing very well and is going on 'tour'.
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Count yourselves lucky- any good bands that come to DC play in the clubs that you don't want to be NEAR at night, and anywhere safe seems to play shite. Any tips if you're in the DC area?
Show i'm psyched for- Chevelle&Crossfade at 9:30 club
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This past friday I went to a benifit in Toronto featuring solo performances by:
Sarah Harmer
Andrew Whiteman (Apostle of Hustle, Broken Social Scene)
Gentleman Reg
Jason Collett (Broken Social Scene)
Andre Ethier (Deadly Snakes)
Bob Wiseman
Magali Meagher (The Phenomes)
So good.
I WAS THERE! Wow, thats super. Also, how come no one says "tromboner" instead of trombonist?
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Ratatat @ Black Cat, Washington, DC. Just got back from it.
The show was really, really fun. The Black Cat's stage is only about three feet off the floor, and during the first song of the encore, Mike (the guitarist) motioned for folks to come up. I don't think he realized what he was getting into, 'cause within a minute, about half the crowd was onstage, dancing. Everyone stayed up through the encore, at which point Ratatat was overwhemled at what'd happened. So Mike goes "E*vax! I think we should play '17 Years' again!" It'd already been played in the main set, so the crowd went crazy for that. :)
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It was actually the Arcade Fire last November...from then till now there haven't been many good shows except Modest Mouse, which I missed.
I'm planning on going to see Interpol with Q and Not U on March 11, though. And then Cryptopsy in March!!! And then Kreator, Strapping Young Lad, and Death Angel in April!!!
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im going to try and see "the wayriders" next month
hopefully
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biffy clyro @ la boule noire in paris
very loud, very awesome, very biffy, but to elaborate, these guys sound almost limp in some of their recorded stuff, but live they are really intense. i only went to see them for sentimental reasons, i used to listen to 'blackened sky' a lot back in the day, their drummer is rather fantastic.
next show: the arcade fire, huzzah!
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Count yourselves lucky- any good bands that come to DC play in the clubs that you don't want to be NEAR at night, and anywhere safe seems to play shite. Any tips if you're in the DC area?
Show i'm psyched for- Chevelle&Crossfade at 9:30 club
dude, 9:30's good, and the Black Cat is cool, too. I live in Baltimore, and make the trip to DC pretty often for shows.
Recent:
Dresden Dolls
Melvyns
Velvet Revolver, the Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Jimmy Eat World and I got to throw stuff at Good Charlotte. (HFS Nutcracker for those in the area)
Polyphonic Spree
Upcoming:
Fantomas
Firey Furnaces
Tori Amos
Garbage
Melt Banana
Possibles:
Jimmies Chicken Shack
Ravonettes & Autolux
Sparta
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i missed ratatat and the faint and ted leo.
i will go see interpol this month tho. count on it.
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i was hoping to see interpol with blonde redhead, but no luck on getting tickets to those shows. in three cities, even!
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Count yourselves lucky- any good bands that come to DC play in the clubs that you don't want to be NEAR at night, and anywhere safe seems to play shite. Any tips if you're in the DC area?
Show i'm psyched for- Chevelle&Crossfade at 9:30 club
uhhh... 9:30(9:30 is lame though) and the black cat... if you are too much of a wussy for the U street area you're fucked.
Ratatat at the black cat on the 26th of feb.... Their show as intense- for the encore they had a whole bunch of people up dancing on the stage(from the crowd) and after the 3rd song of the encore, mike stroud(the guitarist) was like "uhh...i think the shows over, but i dont know what to do there are all these fuckin people on the stage!"
....whoa rynne totally already posted that janks... if you saw me at the show i would have been the really tall dude with shoulder length hair, but who the hell is gonna remember someone from a show? and was it just me, or did The Doubles suck really badly, and wasnt the lead singer of the cell complex really funny with his hand movements to the cello?
good times.
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Okay, here are the shows that are coming up for me in the window of March 22 to April 22, with ones I have tix for already in bold:
1) Taste of Chaos Tour - March 22, Saskatoon - I am pumped to see MCR and also Killswitch Engage. YES.
2) Death From Above 1979 - April 9, Regina - Okay, aside from the fact that they are even playing Regina, I love You're A Woman, I'm A Machine so when I found out about this yesterday I almost shat myself.
3) The Weakerthans - mid-April, Regina - I like 'em. What?
4) Alexisonfire - mid April, Regina - They were awesome last time and they will be awesome this time, especially since Rise Against is opening. Although I loved Moneen, who used "KC Accidental" for their soundcheck.
YAY!
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Last show I saw was Secret Machines and Moving Units, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
But it only partially made up for my dumb ass sleeping on the couch the night of the Mission of Burma show at the Iron Horse in January. I don't think I'll ever stop regretting that.
Next show is Missy Bly in Albany this Saturday. March 10 is Alexisonfire, and ya, they are really awesome. Saw them in October, and can't wait! Other than that, I'm working on getting Arcade Fire tix for their show in Montreal in mid-April some time. Same goes for Magnolia Electric Company in Boston.
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alexisonfire is playing here like next wednesday at my favorite spot to go. my trouble is that i heard the album, and kinda didn't like it at all. now you guys are saying their show is good. is it worth seeing them?
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I've just been to see Raveonettes, Dogs and the Boxer Rebellion -
I was shitting it, after I threw up on the guy from TBR last time we met, but it all turned out to be very civil, all the bands were really cool (actually, dogs were a bit shit, but never mind) and many people bought me drinks.
The downside, however, was the fact that the Queens of Noize were DJing it - for the uninitiated, QoN are a couple of incompetent female DJs who have made their name by being glorified coke-addled groupies and shagging their way through most of the UK's up and coming 'cool' bands. Not only were they evilling me, they spilt beer over my mate and generally acted like the biggest gimps known to mankind...grrrrrr.
Still a really good gig, though, and Raveonettes played loads of new songs which were ace.
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GWAR (nuff said.)
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Just went and saw Les Georges Leningrad last night in Iowa city. Was a good time, though the several mismatched local openers seemed to go on forever except for the first band who called audience members up to sing as their singer was sick. LGL weren't as over the top as some reports alluded to but they were still quite weird and quite fun. A lot of their songs just turned into insane dance outs with quite a bit of moshing going on. The band were a lot less 'rock' live. Good time. Probably gonna go to Xiu Xiu at the end of the month.
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On Friday night was Straylight Run and The Spill Canvas. The Spill Canvas stole the show by miles.
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Last band i saw live was Capdown... excellent show as always.
Im debating whether to go see the Subways or not tommorow...
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the arcade fire @ nouveau casino, paris
so...good... *swoons*
anyone who'd seen them knows what i'm talking about, those who haven't must gogogo see them.
i am truly in love with richard reed parry, the way he shaked those tambourines...makes me go weak at the knees...*sigh*
and and oh and they played my heart is an apple!!!!!! oh god it was fantastic, i almost cried, gah
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OK, now you're just making me feel really, really bad about the fact that I can't see them this Thursday :(
Saw the Go! Team and Pipettes on Tuesday though, that was fun, I love Pipettes...the first band was The Exit though, and they were all about 12. Literally. Surreal....
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i saw tocotronic on wednesday.... awesome :)
their new stuff is way better than i expected.
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Dude, this is an old thread! Thought I'd ressurect it to say that
I just saw Willy Mason.
And he was amazing. His guitar wasn't tuned, he kept going way way off key, had been drinking since 5 in the afternoon, and was sooooo good for it.
There were a few gimps shouting out dumb stuff, my favourite was
"I want your babies!"
"What? I don't have any"
such a change from the last time he played here and about 30 people politely nodded to his songs...
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I saw Mates of State, Printed Circuit and Cowtown last night. Cowtown were probably the best I've seen them, the added keyboard player and Nash even singing for one song really spices them up. Printed Circuit were pleasant enough but nothing exciting, and Mates of State turned in a damn good (and predictably super-cute) performance. Bloody good night.
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I am from Fargo ND and I saw The Decemberists on Sunday. It wasn't that great, they were sick and the crowd was weak. :( Poor Decemberists, I am sorry that Fargo sucks! Come back plz...
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I saw Kaiser Chiefs on Monday and Tuesday. They were awesome. I'm seeing Bloc Party on Friday. This week appears to be my NME-band-whore week.
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Scout Niblett who opened for M Ward which I walked out on. I see why people like him, but I simply do not.
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CRADLE OF FIIIIILTH
^_^
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Billy Idol. Awww yeah.
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Oh! I want to see Willy Mason so bad. I will in New Orleans with The Decemberists at Twi-Rop-A. Real bad.
I saw Q and not U Monday.
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I went and saw Calvin Johnson (Beat Happening, Dub Narcotic Sound System, Head of K records) play at a local coffee house. It was just him and an acoustic guitar, very informal. It was fun to hear him play his songs and banter about random things. The openers were local and I only saw part of one set, though it was pretty good.
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Hell Is For Heroes and Jacobs Stories at King Tuts Wah Wah Hut. Both bands played stunningly.
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I've never managed to hear Calvin Johnson by him self, just stuff he's done with others.
Urm, last concert was that long ago that I can't remember.
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Last friday, I saw Strapping Young Lad, with Misery Signals, Reflux, and some other band that wasn't that good.
The show rocked, and I got Byron's pick (Fuck yeah)
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The last show I saw was... uh... Jack Johnson... And before that was this horrible hardcoreish show... Which was horrible to put it nicely...
But before that it was the SHINS... if my memories serve... AND THEY WERE BRILLIANT SO YAY...
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my last show was les savy fav and pretty girls make graves
pgmg did karaoke as theyre singer was dead.
it was soo good
i never dance...but to lsf i did
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Billy Idol. Awww yeah.
I saw him live once. He singled me out of the crowd and made fun of me. I still don't know how I feel about that.
Last show I saw was all local, Deathamphetamine (death/grind), Wasteland (hardcore), Northern Aggression (bluegrass), and She Cries When It Rains (emo-parody). The next show I will see will be the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, where, among many, many others, I will see Danzig, Three Inches of Blood, Strapping Young Lad, Nile, King Diamond, Black Dahlia Murder and Cephalic Carnage. I am particularly excited for Danzig, SYL, Nile and King motherfucking Diamond. The unfortunate thing about this fest is that 3/4 of the bands playing suck balls.
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You went to the festival. Curse you sir! (not for jealousies sake. I'm a local, cursing tourists is a good 12% or so of my existence).
On the subject of the festival, I think I may go for one day this year. To see Morrisey. Partly because I quite like Morrisey, partly just so I can say I have.
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I'd be proud if I'd seen Bryan Adams, too, but I haven't, so I can't be.
I did see I Am Kloot on Tuesday though, which was rather a fun night, I advise people to investigate.
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I went to see The Fiery Furnaces last week. It was not at all what I was expecting and I went away a little disappointed. I mean, seeing them play for 40 minutes nonstop while doing various bits and pieces of songs from all of their albums was kind of cool. But I would've preferred full songs instead of just getting 2 minutes of "Blueberry Boat" followed by a minute of "My Dog Was Lost" followed by the end of "Mason City" followed by another 3 minutes of "Blueberry Boat" and on and on and on like this.
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I went to Transistor Transistor, Fuck U Is My Name, Eagle Eye and Mock Heroic last night. Mock Heroic were great, nice and raw performance. Definitely worth checking out if you like a bit of the old screamo. Everyone says Eagle Eye are fully shite so I stayed downstairs drinking, and then FUIMN turned in an okay set. Nothing to get excited by, but it would be nice to dance to I guess. Transistor Transistor were just as dull as last time so after watching a few songs it was back down to the bar.
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I'm going to see Iron and Wine on saturday. I don't know how the fuck he's going to do a live one man show. I mean, seriously.
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Iron & Wine is coming to my town next month as well, but for the price ($17.50) and my admittedly diminished fandom, it's not worth it.
I did, however, see Muse w/ Razorlight on MTVU's Campus Invasion this Sunday. Providence College. AURAL ORGASMS ALL AROUND!! Kickass lightshow, amazing energy, spectacular music. It doesn't hurt that I got Howard's battered drumstick, Bellamy's scraped-up guitar pic, and an invite to hang out with the guys and partake of their impromptu post-show barbeque. Couldnt stay very long, but tis a night to remember.
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Muse is coming here next Sunday and I can't see them because school sucks up waay too much of my time.
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1) Taste of Chaos Tour - March 22, Saskatoon - I am pumped to see MCR and also Killswitch Engage. YES.
2) Death From Above 1979 - April 9, Regina - Okay, aside from the fact that they are even playing Regina, I love You're A Woman, I'm A Machine so when I found out about this yesterday I almost shat myself.
3) The Weakerthans - mid-April, Regina - I like 'em. What?
4) Alexisonfire - mid April, Regina - They were awesome last time and they will be awesome this time, especially since Rise Against is opening. Although I loved Moneen, who used "KC Accidental" for their soundcheck.
UPDATES:
-The Taste Of Chaos tour was kind of disappointing. MCR was good, as was Senses Fail, but Killswitch Engage sucked ass. Also the Used were good ol' cookie-cutter emo-pop (blargh), but at least they had a fantastic light show, as well as a cover of "Under Pressure" that they performed with MCR.
-DFA 1979 was an INCREDIBLE show. First, they had Throw Rag, which is a band that plays music best described as "sailor punk," with not only the costuming and sound but also all the homoeroticism you would expect. It was fun to watch both that and the washboard player. Yes, you read that right. Then controller.controller, who are an amazing band. Ominous but energetic live performance. And of course, DFA1979, who had (during the opening acts) seemed weirdly disconnected from the crowd but proceeded to take the stage and kick the ass out from underneath us. If you can see these guys live, I suggest you do.
-The Weakerthans are amazing. I mean, I hadn't heard that much of their stuff prior to the concert, but it was such an amazing show. The opening bands were awesome: Sylvie, a local band who I referenced in the "share your local band" post, and the Constantines, who sound like what Springsteen would sound like if, instead of like welders and stuff, his target audience was skinny indie kids who like The Arcade Fire. The Weakerthans themselves were fantastic and full of love for the audience and performing, period; the best moment of the show was when they were full-flight, in the middle of a song, just beaming. Also I got interviewed after by CBC Radio3.
-I had to sell my AOF ticket. :(
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Dude, homoeroticism AND washboards?
Suddenly, all other gigs pale into insignificance...
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I'm going to see Of Montreal this saturday. YAY! I suggest everyone give them a listen. Im also hoping that I can get Alkaline Trio tickets for June. CREDIT CARD!
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Dude, homoeroticism AND washboards?
1) The lead singer of it started wearing like a sailor hat, cowboy boots, a checked suit jacket, a black undershirt, and a neon green sailor tie, and by the end it was just him, his underoos, his boots and his hat. He also danced suggestively with the washboard player, and then moved into the crowd, almost completely naked, to stand there like a scenester with his arms crossed and watch the washboard player do a 3-minute washboard solo.
2) Said washboard player was an angry, fat, possibly psychotic man who yelled, tore his undershirt, used his washboard-playin' spoons to throw his underarm sweat into the audience, and owned (as you probably guessed) a washboard with (as you probably didn't guess) two cowbells attached.
Pretty much the best opening act ever.
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I saw the Shins last night and they were fantastic! Unfortunately, the opening acts (The Brunettes and Talib Kweli) were horribly boring. I guess they just got everyone even more excited to see the Shins.
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I saw Figurines and My Friend George tonight, and as that probably won't mean a lot to you folks, I am going to give a somewhat detailed report.
We (me and my little brother) came at 8 o'clock, but the show (the start of Figurines' Denmark tour) first started at around 10, so we were pretty anxious, when the warm-up band My Friend George came on. They were good, a sort of slacker surf rock, is as close as I can put it, both the drummer and the lead guitarist sang and they had a song called 'Happy Tuna', bonus points for that. I'll give them three stars out of five.
Then Figurines came on and they rocked. They play energetic indierock with cryptic lyrics and they were as tight as a very tight thing. The show was near perfect; of course they mostly played songs from their new record Skeleton, but a few old ones from their debut Shake a Mountain was there too. It is ner impossible not to sing along to Ambush with the fantastic line "Chase them down because you are angry". It ended perfect with a steaming version of Debate Cos it's Over. All in all only one minor thing could have been better and that is if they had played Follow the Pioneers, a favourite of mine, I give them four and a half stars plus my soul :)
*wonders if anybody is going to read that*
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Last show I saw was at the Masquerade in Atlanta. It was Days Away (bleh), Hidden In Plain View (eh), Allister (pretty good), and Less Than Jake (fuck yeah!).
I'm going to see Rise Against and Alkaline Trio (I'm so fucking excited!).
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I have Kaiser Chiefs and Nine Black Alps on Monday (yay NME approved indie-schmindie-ness!) and The Tears on Tuesday, which I'm quite looking forward to, as, even though they're pretty limp from what I've heard, it's BRETT ANDERSON and BERNARD BUTLER. TOGETHER.
I never quite got over my Suede fixation.
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I Just got back from seeing Iron and Wine live. Some guy from some band I can't think of right now and Band Of Horses opened for them, which was alright. Iron and Wine was fucking awesome though.
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Guitar Wolf back in Feb. (christ, it's been too long..)
I've already got tickets for Bright Eyes in May and The Slackers in July. The Ravonettes are all over ny this summer so I'll catch them somewhere and I'd like to see Rilo Kiley (since i missed out last time) but I don't think i can take the day off of work..[/img]
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I saw the Decemberists in Austin at the start of the month. Such a fun show.
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Ah, yeah, that's one of the guys who opened for em, somebody from Fruitbats. Did you see Band of Horses with them?
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Nervous Testpilot/randomNumber/65daysofstatic, bitch!
If there was any justice in this world I would be typing this with my nose, as the rest of my bones would have been broken in the world's largest moshpit caused by 65DOS playing a HARDCORE version of play.nice.kids. However, the crowd was not cool enough, or indeed large enough for this feat. So, yeah.
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Tom Vek at the Louisiana last Friday.
Very good, spexy, zombie dancing and hot band.
Sweaty as hell though, the place is like a furnace :(
not a big fan of the support band Fallout Trust, but not too bad I suppose.
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I know I'm kind of late to the game here, but:
I went and saw Calvin Johnson (Beat Happening, Dub Narcotic Sound System, Head of K records) play at a local coffee house. It was just him and an acoustic guitar, very informal. It was fun to hear him play his songs and banter about random things. The openers were local and I only saw part of one set, though it was pretty good.
Holymoly am I jealous. I have the biggest voice-crush on Calvin Johnson. Especially when he sings with Doug Martsch in the Halo Benders. WHOOODOGGIE.
The last band I saw was the Pixies on their reunion tour. Which was AGES ago. I used to go to a show at least twice a month but then the best music venue in town shut down. Needless to say, I was heartbroken.
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I saw Death Cab for Cutie on campus several months ago, and of course it rocked!
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The Pixies at Austin City Limits last fall. It was pretty sweet until I ran out of water in the 100 degree heat and didn't want to abandon my spot 20 feet away from the stage. But once they came out it was all worth it. Sitting through dashboard and all the 12 year olds singing along to "float on" then proceding to talk through every other modest mouse song. The Pixies came on and blew all of those awful memories out of my head.
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I wish. I am in Fort Worth... Austin is so much cooler than Fort Worth.
The only good part of the Dashboard set was when the guy gave a shout out to "all the little people who can't see the stage". Being 6-6 and having a seat on the ground, I felt that this was my call to stand up. My friends and I thought this was hilarious. The 16 year old girls behind me didn't get the joke...
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The Pixies were great at ACL. And the Modest Mouse set was beyond bad. I'm glad I saw them the night before at the afterparty show at Stubb's, it was amazing. Now that I think about it I saw the Pixies three times that year. At Coachella, ACL, and then their gig at Stubb's in October. They were all great.
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That's awesome. Coachella had a sweet lineup last year, it nearly killed me to not go. But with the distance, school schedule, and limitted funds it would have been difficult (and pretty unreasonable) to make the 2000 mile trek or whatever out of Texas.
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The Cramps
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Sage Francis w/The Soliloquists of Sound and Paul Jared.
mmm...underground hip-hop. :)
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That's awesome. Coachella had a sweet lineup last year, it nearly killed me to not go. But with the distance, school schedule, and limitted funds it would have been difficult (and pretty unreasonable) to make the 2000 mile trek or whatever out of Texas.
Holy jesus, I don't even remember how far the trip was exactly. All I know is that I went by myself, driving. From Laredo. Which was a 23 hour drive. Nonstop. I just had to see Radiohead that year. And it was so worth it. I was thinking about going again, but this year in no way compares to last year.
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Saw the Oliva Tremor Control on April 15th, totally amazing.
Saw Keith Fullerton Whitman, Greg Davis and Birdshow Saturday night, also amazing. They all played together for about an hour and 15 straight, backing each other up. whew.
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The last band I saw was the Pixies on their reunion tour. Which was AGES ago.
I saw that same tour, did Pere Ubu play with them at your show too? One of the best shows I ever saw.
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I saw Autolux and the Moving Units play with the Secret Machines, who were just impossibly lame. Autolux's set might have changed my life
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Ephemeron in the middle of the corridor yestruday. Technically a private fan show, but it's all good.
Just me and seven other guys, as he stoud there with bass, amps, drum machine and FX set. Played about 60 or 70 tracks from No Death Til Grindcore, a 45 second Discharge medly, a bass solo with a coke bottle and a 5 min Drone version of S.O.D.'s Milk.
So, so undgeround.
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Sage Francis w/The Soliloquists of Sound and Paul Jared.
mmm...underground hip-hop. :)
mmm... Seeing them in 3 months.
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good! the awesomeness of their show will force you to crap your pants!
enjoy!
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...and you will know us by the trail of dead this past wednesday. me and my friend ben met the guitarist before the show. tod rock SO HARD GAH, one of the best shows i've been to.
along with muse this past saturday. i saw them on the campus invasion thingy with razorlight (who weren't bad, but i love muse way more). muse also rocked - kickass lightshow and everything. also won meet & greet passes for after the show. i can't believe i have a photo with matt bellamy. :) ah.
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Last night was the kaiser chiefs and nine black alps, which turned out to be the indiest of indie gigs and exactly as I expected it to be.
I know I shouldn't be disappointed - I mean, it's not like they were gonna do some kind of prog epic show with fancy lights and naked transexual belly dancers, but...it would have been a substantial improvement.
I think I'm truly reaching the end of my tether with popular indie schmindie schmucks.
Tonight I saw The Longcut and the Little Flames, but felt really shit so sat down in the nexxt room, sticking my head round for long enough to see what they looked like. They sounded really good, I just wasn't in the right mood to appreciate it...
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Idlewild at Leeds Uni (The Kaiser Chiefs were playing Leeds Met, just down the road, and given they're from Leeds and all, Idlewild was impressively well attended)
Only the second time I've seen them, the last was supporting R.E.M. in Manchester (which I witnessed from about half a mile away from the stage), I could have gone to see them in Leicester a while ago but Muse with Hundred Reasons were playing the same night.
Anyway, the sound in the Refectory is shite, but the band more than made up for it with energy and just playing really well, they played a lot of their older songs, which is always good, plus a Neil Young cover ("Looking For A Love"), it's his birthday today or something. Also, I'm feeling a lot better about the standard of their new album, I've decided at least half of it is very good, so that made hearing the new songs a lot more bearable. They did play a wide selection of songs from all their albums, unlike a lot of bands who have a new album out. And you still can't understand a word Roddy says :)
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Brendan Benson and Hal last night at the Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms. Brendan's got such a way with a tune and I was surprised he could make the songs sound so good without a thick layer of production like on the albums. It really annoys me when he's referred to simply as Jack White's mate.
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The Weakerthans and The Constantines played last night. They were really awesome.
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The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers at The Duke Coffee House.
AND!! I just got my tickets for DMB. woot woot. ;)
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Pure Evil Trio were a traditional three piece metal act not fazed by the hardcore stance of the bands to come and crowd awaiting. Nice clean sounds with harsh screaming.
The Stockholme Syndrome played after, and was definitely raising the crowds excitement levels. In my opinion these guys are amazing musicians with a great, different sound to them that equalled the highly anticipated headliners...
The Dillinger Escape Plan. Always one to put on a good show, the guys did not let anyone down. From the start it was mayhem, with half the band flying round the crowd and some hardcore scenesters doing their two-step, mosh scene down to a fine art.
The raw energy and flying guitars proved a most worthy night. And a mention must go to the bass player, Liam Wilson, turned many heads with his pink tight shirt and handlebar moustache. "When did he become an 80's pornstar?" my friend questioned me.
Overall a great night, finished properly with late night coffee, acoustic guitars at nik's, and everyone sleeping on the floor to wake much much later that day.
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Heratic, Brutal Death Metal band down at the biker pub I went to last night.
Brilliant stuff, crushing brutal play, riffs and blasting a plenty. All for head banging goodness. Bassist did loads of Jazz solos for his warm up stuff and in the last track, which was just an extended set of solos, he just did a set of intermixed Jazz Metal solos and Bass versions of guitar tapping solos. All while the guitarist did loads of melodic harmony stuff.
My next really hurts and so do my fingers. Twas great for a local band.
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MC Chris! And he was about 9000 tons of awesome! Too bad I had to sit through two really shitty acts before him, but it was that great it doesn't really matter now.
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I saw The Shins in Asheville on Saturday. It rocked my ass off!
I mean, honestly, I don't think I've been rocked that hard in so long, I had a rock-gasm from all that sexy sexiness.
The Brunettes opened and were a totally awesome example of what happens when elementary school teachers get together to form a band!
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last show i saw was VNV Nation at Alchemy, on new year's eve-eve.
my friends had an extra ticket& it was très cool, except that we had to leave about 15 minutes into the actual show to get the last train to our stop. that and i felt bad for going when some of the under-18's, including me sis RGC and my younger boyfriend-in-law, are huge fans of VNV.
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The Dillinger Escape Plan. Always one to put on a good show, the guys did not let anyone down.
I feel urged to say once again that, with the exception of local bands, and the execrable We Will Be Pilots, DEP are down and out one of the most boring and, well, crap bands I've ever seen. I read a book through most of their set.
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I saw The Shins in Asheville on Saturday. It rocked my ass off!
I mean, honestly, I don't think I've been rocked that hard in so long, I had a rock-gasm from all that sexy sexiness.
I saw them in Austin last fall and it was a great show. It blew me away how exciting and fun their music is live, I don't know what I was expecting, but it was nothing like what I received. Plus I met this awesome chick at the show, which made it even better.
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MFKZT. In my students union about an hour ago. Played for 25 mins of mental Grindcore, plus an awesome Bathory cover. My neck is gone again and I feel sick from the headbanging, it's great.
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The last show I saw was Melt Banana with Ampere and a professional double dutch squad opening for them. I shit you not. It was a fucking awesome good time.
Also I have to second the fact that Dillinger sucks ass live. They used to be pretty good, but the new singer is such a jock I can't even stand it. The last time I saw them he was calling people "fags" and shit. What an asshat.
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I just saw Star Scream, my mate's band at the Concorde, which was cool, they get better every time I see them, and pissed on the other acts playing - one key example being the weird rap/lounge group who played a CD of recorded applause between songs. Seriously. They were like Goldie Lookin' Chain but without the funny bits, or the danceable bits.
But Star Scream were ace.
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Also, MFKZT are hopefully playing my Uni's Summer Formal. Fucking Rock, I'll actually turn up now.
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The Weakerthans and The Constantines played last night. They were really awesome.
Yay!
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Damien Jurado...his new cd is overall a bit weak but I like him overall. Sadly he played half or more of boring songs...oh well, the 1st opener was ok, but the second in some ways was better than Damien, well especially with the set he played....but yeah, the second opener was called 2 gallants which is just 2 guys as name implies, one guitarist and one drummer, with some nice southern playing. I'm not a music snob but I know it was influenced a lot by something, eh specific genre escapes me...anyways, pretty good show mostly. Hmm would post pics here but with the new moddings I fear rebuke and maybe there is a thread for that? *shrugs*
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last show was million dead at the cockpit. fucking awesome. and i got amen, hot hot heat and bravery coming up. rock and roll.
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I saw Flogging Molly with The Briefs and The Dead Pets. The Dead Pets outplayed everyone.
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Vulgargrad, at the Old Bar in Fitzroy. They play "Russian criminal songs" - and they're on again tonight! (Sorta imagine the Pogues, only Russian.)
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I saw REM in Sydney and Melbourne, and it was fucking brilliant. Anyone who says/thinks that they're not as good as they were 10 years ago needs a good kick in the crotch and a ticket to their next gig.
And Bright Eyes were (don't hit me) bloody good as supports as well actually...
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little kids shoot marbles
where branches break the sun
into graceful shafts of light...
i just want to be pure.
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I saw The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower/Manacle/Seven Arrows In Your Bastard Heart last night. Seven Arrows were good, very enjoyable hardcore with quality vocals. Manacle were very impressive, noisy, angular, highly political with a good tune behind it all and they were getting really into it, the singer ending up curled up on the floor as he unleashed some harsh screams. Just my cup of tea. TPTBUTET were alright, not as good as I thought they'd be since I like the Dissertation Honey album. The saxphone didn't sound very good live. And it all ended up with them getting into a fight with my mate after he chucked some water over their singer because of something he said, which is a bit rubbish.
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I've just come back from seeing Darren Hanlon, supported by Jens Lekman. I am a big fuzzy warm ball of indie-pop happiness.
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I saw The Shins in Asheville on Saturday. It rocked my ass off!
I mean, honestly, I don't think I've been rocked that hard in so long, I had a rock-gasm from all that sexy sexiness.
Great description. :)
But you liked the Brunettes? I didn't think they were anything special, but maybe that's just because their microphones were turned up WAY too loud and my section of the audience was sitting in fetal position with their fingers stuck in their ears.
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idlewild w/ sons and daughters supporting, and they both kicked teh asses.
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I saw Built To Spill yesterday, F-ing awesome.
I will post a full review on my site later.
http://www.xanga.com/magnetometer
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Demoncy w/ various guests.
Highlight of the show is when the new vocalist of Demoncy began cutting his arms up with a razor blade. Typical cliche stage BS, but it was still pretty cool.
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I saw Built To Spill yesterday, F-ing awesome.
AARRGH.
I want to see BtS so badly it's driving me insane. They're coming to NYC this weekend but I'll be in Vermont.
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About a week ago, I went to see Crossfade. April Sixth opened, and No Address took the middle slot.
That's right. Start the hatin'. ;)
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Sage Francis w/The Soliloquists of Sound and Paul Jared.
mmm...underground hip-hop. :)
Nice. I'm a student at UF and am involved with one of the student organizations called the HipHop Collective. We had the Soliloquists play at a big annual jam we throw and they really impressed me. Not only do they crank out a sound all their own, but they did it with the energy of twice as many people than were up on stage.
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Saw Murder by Death on Friday night.
Amazing.
Esmerine, a Godspeed offshoot, opened for them, which was also really good. The other band, the Umbrella Sequence, was decent, but nothing too special. Their singer sounded a lot like the guy from Muse. He also wore a backpack for the entire show, which I thought was kinda wierd. But whatever.
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Le Tigre, supported by (hooker) and Gravy Train!!!
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Chevelle played on my campus last week.. twas fuckin awesome, the crowd was small and the pit kicked ass, even though it was full of fratboys talking about how the last good pit they were in was for Taking Back Sunday, and not helping pick anybody up. *grumble*
unfortunately some people from the campus radio station got fired (http://www.diamondbackonline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/05/05/4279b1ff41183) for talking about it, because Chevelle is also playing at the dc101 Chili Cookoff tomorrow, and their managers (who work for ClearChannel, who owns DC101..) didn't want the university to advertise the show, cos tickets were only $10, wheras they're like $35 for the Chili Cookoff. stupid aggafragin'..... *goes into Christmas Story-esque cursing rant*
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The Futureheads - hella awesome!
Oh and before that Idlewild/Sons and Daughters which was good too.
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Saw Theatres des Vampires on the 29th April, supported by Bloody Mary and Faces of Sarah.
Fucking AMAZING. This gig was up there with the good'uns.
Pictures here. Singer is hawt. (http://www.theatres-des-vampires.net/29_april/index.html)
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Well...
it was meant to be a gig double whammy sort of affair last night - two bands, both featuring assholes as their frontmen who I really wanted to wind up, playing different venues. So, we went to the first one, to see Scarlet Soho (I took the moral highground and warned them of my illness so as not to pass it on and infect them), and waited, and waited a bit more, watched them set up the stage, then watched them unset the stage and load up their van.
Apparently, the sound engineer had fallen asleep.
While I don't blame him, that's pretty shoddy. SS couldn't play as they were first on the bill and it meant that if they hadn't, the other bands couldn't.
So, we left the venue and headed onto band mark II on the other side of town, to discover a bald guy with an accordian singing/screaming sea shanties in place of where Miss Black America should be. The venue staff didn't really care that the main band hadn't turned up, it turns out that they'd got stuck in traffic after an accident on the M25...
I can't help but feel that I'm somehow responsible for jinxing those bands and their ability to play a proper gig in Brighton.
Oh well, fingers crossed for VHS or BETA tonight...
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Pictures here. Singer is hawt. (http://www.theatres-des-vampires.net/29_april/index.html)
Aw man, TdV don't dress nearly as crazily as they used to! Where's the lace shirts, capes and bloodstained wedding veils at?
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Just back from seeing Blackeye at my union's Rought Cuts night. Ahhh...two decent heavy bands in one term let alone one year, it's a shock.
Somewhere between early Opeth, Melodic Hardcore and a little hint of Black Metal. Great fun, my neck has been turned to liquid once again and I've got a few brusies from the pits. All good, specially for free.
Also picked up their EP because I'm a nice guy.
EDIT: Though I have to wonder about the mass of people that walked out when they started playing. Probably because they heard it was Metal and where upset when it didnt sound like Korn or Linkin Park.
That and random indie sceners who always turn up, even if they dont like the music. Still, one of them thought it'd be be funny to dance around the edge of the pit like a twat and promotly got Yakuza'd in the face my one of my mates.
And another thing, for having the smallest genre fan-base, MFKZT and Blackeye have had some of the biggest and loudest reactions for anyone at Rought Cuts and the most crowd action by far.
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Just saw VHS or Beta at the Engine Rooms (possibly Brighton's diviest venue) which was surprosingly good - all the indie/goth/electro fashionistas were out in force, but apart from that it was ace. Even though the guitairist spilt his drink over me, but he apologise, which made me forgive him.
Except I'm still ill and really shouldn't be going out AT ALL as now I feel like death, but hey, the band was worth it.
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Attended a show by Projet Orange (they opened for the Tea Party...didn't stick around for them). At the Canadian Tulip Festival (http://www.tulipfestival.ca), not bad.
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Road-Rage 2005
Trivium, Still Remains and3 fucking Inches of motherfucking BLOOOOOOODDDDDD
Man, I don't know how Roadrunner got them to dress so emo for their band photo. I really, really don't.
One of the singers was wearing a Bolt-Thrower shirt, and his 3/4 length trousers revealed that he had a ruined battlefield and swarm of crows tattooed around one leg and a scaffold with corpses-a-swinging on the other.
the other had a beard that could count as a band member on it's own.
Oh man oh man they RULED.
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I always see local concerts, but the last mainstream concert I went to was Alice Cooper. I'm also going to see the Broken Social Scene, Modest Mouse and Metric concert in June. Hurray!
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Eels, baby, Eels.
The Eels With Strings tour is on in Europe but I caught an LA warm-up show before they left. They were awesome. Chet Atkins III (referred to by E as "The Chet") was the BEST EEL EVER and the opening shit was pretty cool. Instead of having MC Honky or some little band open, they played a Russian claymation and a bad-ass 5 minute preview for the upcoming "Rock Hard Times" DVD.
They also came back for 3 encores, the last one at which they played a cover of what was apparently a Prince song. I forget the name. The only depressing thing about the show is that Tom Waits didn't show up and there were some rumors floating around that he would. That guy really needs to tour. Fuck you, Tom Waits, for not touring. Are you scared to show your face, and bellow forth from it at octaves unimagined? I NEEEEEED to hear Fillipino Box Spring Hog live before I die. And maybe Going Out West too.
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I ran from my exam to the station in order to get to RAMBO last night. The sound was a bit oddly quiet for the supports and Duck Stab sounded like they were having an off night, but Jinn made their usual great performance despite some bass problems in the last song. But RAMBO were just so much fun, so many people stagediving, ridiculous costumes and I even got in the pit which I never do these days.
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Saw Murder By Death tonight with a couple local bands. It was fantastic. I love those kids so bad.
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Saw the Panics last night - brilliant band from W.A. (Western Australia, that is), I've only seen them once before, last year when they were supporting Grandaddy, and they were just as amazing as I remember them being.
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Just got back from the Decemberists' show in Detroit.
OMGBESTTHINGEVAR
at one point they made everyone in st. andrews hall sit down. just for the hell of it.
and they were all extremely drunk, and very kooky.
The guy that opened for them turns out to have grown up about a mile away from me.
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I had no idea there was a band named Murder By Death. That's awesicredible.
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They're not actually as good as they deserve to be with that name.
Looks like I can't go to Queen Adreena at the wedgewood rooms on the 24th. Anyone within range want to buy my tickets via the post before I ebay 'em up?
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They're one of my favourite bands. To each their own. shrugs
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The last concert I went to was the Pixies in Camden last December. They kicked everybody's ass at least twice. The last show in general that I went to was on April 24 when I went to see some local bands playing at the rented-out Polish Club. God, that sounds so pretentious. . .
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Mars Volta at the Kool Haus in Toronto... oh fuck, it was awesome
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Oh, man. A little while ago I saw, within the space of a week and all for free, Built to Spill, The Books, and Prefuse 73. Built to Spill was fucking amazing, Prefuse 73 was incredible (openers Battles were damn good, too), and my brain is still too melty to talk coherently about the Books live. They're about 4 times better live than they are on CD, which should be impossible, but apparently isn't.
Also, I was within 10 feet of the action at all of the shows. I was all like "GUBBIDAWOAH".
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The sound was a bit oddly quiet for the supports and Duck Stab sounded like they were having an off night, but Jinn made their usual great performance despite some bass problems in the last song.
That wouldn't have anything to do with The Resident's phenominal album, would it?
(http://www.rzweb.net/images/albums/duckstab.jpg)
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Yup, they're named after it. They sound nothing like The Residents though, I don't think most of them have even heard them but their guitarist is a huge fan.
Actually, what would you recommend as a good starting point with The Residents? I never know what to get with these bands who have massive back catalogues. I'm perfectly comfortable with the bizarre so it doesn't have to be the most accessible stuff, I just wonder what are the career highlights.
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it's been a while since i've been to a show. i think the last was jackalope at this hole in town called 'the drink'. before that, kmfdm on their anniversary tour, back in september at this great little place named 'call the office'.
after that? june 24th. imperative reaction at 'dissent', also here in town. giddies, i am.
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Well, last night I saw Lit and Everclear. Lit were really good, and the covered Pictures of You, which was cool. Everclear... eh. They were good, but nothing like they used to be. You can't lose 2/3 of a band and stay the same, I guess.
And tonight, I saw Flogging Molly. They were fucking amazing, and I still can't believe that they got such a great band to show up at springfest. I have to admit that I don't really know much of their stuff past the last album, but it didn't matter. The music started and the whole crowd was just so into it. I danced my heart out, and I even got to use my rarely brought out jig skills. If people from Alabama just had some manners in the pit, it would have been the perfect show.
We saw a little bit of the Black Crowes after them, but by then me and my friends were exhausted/hurt and they sounded a bit off, so we left after two songs.
All in all, it was a pretty damn good weekend.
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Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. At the Anaheim House of Blues. It was a fine fine show. Third time I've seen those guys live, and they put on an excellent live show.
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I saw A and Instruction last night...
Instruction souned a bit like MCR but without the fun OTT bits or the emo leanings, and A were good, if you like that kind of thing, but I don't.
And, the gig was a no booze one. Grrr.
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How can a gig have no booze? Thats ridiculous...
Okay Im getting a bit ahead of myself here but I'm semi-excited to half relive my Brit-pop days tonight...
So this time TOMORROW, the last show I saw will be the Tears
x
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I'd love a gig with no booze, I get sick and tired of having beer thrown over my. Water is fine, it's cooling, but the beer that gets thrown around just turns into a sticky mess. Sticky floors suck for pits.
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I am actually quite jealous of that, as I love Brett Anderson, and I missed the Tears when they did an instore down here about a month ago...
Tell us how it went!
Oooh, and I think the reason last night's gig was booze free was because it was all ages, and if people aren't old enough to be discerning about their music by liking bands like A, then they're probably not old enough to drink, but that's just my hidious inner music snob breaking out again. I can talk - I like worse bands than that now.
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Oh come on, what's worse than A?
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You do have a point.
But...I still have a soft spot for MCR, so make of that what you will.
It's weird, I bumped into a load of friends who were incredulous about me being at the gig, loudly proclaiming 'Wow, you've started liking good music!'
I had to explain that I was there under duress, for the sole purpose of reviewing it and had no desire to, y'know, enjoy the gig or anything...
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I think that's still above A. There are depths, and then there are depths.
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I was at a Sons & Daughters acoustic instore this afternoon. They were pretty good.
My 28th gig this year... awesome.
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I was at my friend's gig last night. There were three people in the audience that weren't from the bands that were going to play (there were five bands.) It was the worst turn-out ever, and it's difficult to have a good show when your audience doesn't exist. A lot of the bands drove down from Seattle, too, so it must have been even worse for them. What a terrible introduction to the Olympia music scene.
In defense of my city, it was a Sunday night.
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woa ouch...they should all get their friends to come, even if to just show support even if they don't like the music
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I was at my friend's gig last night. There were three people in the audience that weren't from the bands that were going to play (there were five bands.) It was the worst turn-out ever, and it's difficult to have a good show when your audience doesn't exist. A lot of the bands drove down from Seattle, too, so it must have been even worse for them. What a terrible introduction to the Olympia music scene.
In defense of my city, it was a Sunday night.
I've been to a gig like that!
It was lush, as we felt privvy to some private party (it was The Dawn Parade who I love), but I really felt for the band - they'd travelled from Cambridge, didn't get any money for the gig, only a small crate of beer (which they shared with us for coming down to see them) but damn, more people should have come!
The next time they played here, though, the venue was rammed, so not all was lost.
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this weekend i went to see X-sister Z (local for me, which = jacksonville FL) and sister kill cycle (from tampa). there was another band, but they sucked so much that we shall never mention them ever again. aside form the really shitty first band, it was a great show. the folks from both X-sister Z and sister kill cycle are nice people, and very fun, so there was much socialising in addition to the quite enjoyable evening ov industrialised alt.metal. if we can get a ride, my girlfriend and i are goïng to go see the both ov them in tampa.
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Yup, they're named after it. They sound nothing like The Residents though, I don't think most of them have even heard them but their guitarist is a huge fan.
Actually, what would you recommend as a good starting point with The Residents? I never know what to get with these bands who have massive back catalogues. I'm perfectly comfortable with the bizarre so it doesn't have to be the most accessible stuff, I just wonder what are the career highlights.
Their newest album, Animal Lover is a pretty good place to start, although if you can find them, Meet The Residents, The Third Reich N' Roll, Duck Stab, Eskimo, or Not Available are all wonderful and you should pick them up on the spot.
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Thanks! I'll get looking.
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Garbage, State Theater, Detroit, April 27th. It doesn't look like I'm going to see anything this month, which is reprehensible. Oh, well on June 4th I'm hitting up Umphrey's McGee at Bell's in Kzoo, that should be fun.
-sam
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DEADLY SIIIIIIINNNNNERS
Oh fuck yes!
I just got back from seeing Queen Adreena supported by Ariel-X and Solitude.
Solitude were fucking bitching: Industrial Death Metal, very Strapping Young Lad. Brill vocals. Ariel-X weren't too bad either, but I listened to them from the bar.
Queen Adreena are a prime example of a band not designed to be experienced in any other way than live. Amazing! Such antics that Ms. Garside got up to: at one point she was wearing a chair as a hat and skulking behind the guitarist. Then she got on the chair, and was swigging wine and spitting it at the audience as she screamed and cooed her way through a fantastic live set. I need more stuff by them. And indeed, I have more stuff, in the form of limited edition coloured vinyl ^_^
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so i review a cd for ktru rice radio. caribou's the milk of human kindness. i knew they were coming play mary jane's. may 12, 2005 with junior boys and the russian futurists. i want to get the review in so we can get them on the air and introduce some people to them before they play here. review less favorable than internet reviews. with notes on boring parts. then i get listserve email trying to find someone to interview them on air. not me. but tonia does.
so i get on the guestlist and go to mary jane's. get in and see tonia. during futurists and beginnings of juniorboys set. juniorboys start "more than real" and i get introduced to a guy. "devin, this is dan snaith. dan this is devin, he's the guy that reviewed your cd." in less words than that. or at least less words that i can hear over bass. i miss the whole second sentence and most of the first. so i have no idea who this guy is, i'm not hip on knowing what the guys i listen to look like and i didn't hear the name part of the introduction. until he starts talking. "you used the word boring." amongst other words i don't hear. so i realize who this is. but only late enough to where i can't save myself about my mostly favorable review. he had apparently seen the review on his cd when in the station.
so i met dan snaith. and i called the first half of the album he wrote boring.
written by dan snaith except 'subotnick' snaith/keyes/robinson.
produced by dan snaith.
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Goodness, what a lot of italics!
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Kiss Me Deadly. These guys were awesome.
Technically, I was also supposed to see Bloc Party tonight but some asshole decided to clock me in the face halfway through the KMD set and busted the shit out of my nose.
Drunk frat boys should be banned from indie concerts.
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Bright Eyes/ The Faint/ Mars Black last sunday.
This saturday: Blanks 77 and a bunch of other punk bands. yay!
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The Research made the happiest kind of happy music, without being twee...it was LUFFLY.
Unfortunately, didn't get to see it all as me and a mate were putting on a Misery Night in the bar upstairs, which allowed me to play The Decemberists, Nick Cave, Johnny Cash, Interpol, Gram Parsons and Bright Eyes all in the same set, which was rather exciting. Although, for some reason most people were watching the band downstairs.
Seriously, what happened to the days when the scene kids would hang out at the bar and ignore the band? I mean, jeeez, some people...
The night was slightly marred by being mistaken for a hooker on the way back, which was all kinds of horrible, but never mind.
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If it makes you feel better I'll lie and say it happens to me all the time.
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GANG
OF
FOUR
anyone else catch the tour?
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Saw Hypocrisy, Dark Tranquillity, and Soilwork about a month ago in Lawrence, the only really happening city in Kansas.
Hypocrisy was good, Dark Tranquility was naturally incredible, and Soilwork sucked. Basically the pit filled with preps and jocks when Soilwork came out and all the metalheads left. A shame really that they were the headliners over legends like DT. My friends and I drove about 4 hours to get to the show, then wandered around Lawrence trying to find the club, missing Mnemic in the process. My neck hurt for a couple of days, but it was worth it, as few shows as I get to see.
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Soilwork headlined over Dark Tranquillity and Hypocrisy!?
That is everything that is wrong with the modern MDM scene.
Right there.
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Soilwork headlined over Dark Tranquillity and Hypocrisy!?
That is everything that is wrong with the modern MDM scene.
Right there.
Exactly. Commercialism has entered Melodeath, and its not pretty.
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Horse the Band
They're quite gimmicky, but they were insanely nice to me. They offered me a spot up front, off to the side, so I wouldn't get hit being that I was on crutches.
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Just back from Biffy Clyro w/ The Dodgems and Ariel-X and my students union.
Ariel-X where boring, repeat one chord 30 times in a song over one bass note and 4/4 drumming "rock" stuff. Showed odd moments of promise for about 5 seconds before killing it dead. Pretty much a musicial dud. Only slightly good bit was the guitar feed back at the end that sounded like watered down Drone.
The Dodgems, just horrible northern indie "rock", with bad hair cuts. Another musical waste of space that seemed to think squeeling two off key notes made up for the fact they guitarist couldn't play anything else. Despertatly trying to get even the hipsters up from the floor but it didnt happen.
In short, a fine example of why I dont like Indie or "indie" (real or mainstream labled as stuff) and made me very glad I was pretty much being paid to go (free tickets plus was owed drinks and chips).
Biffy where alright, looking like Cuosin It stands ins as usual. At least they could change chords in the middle of songs and play simple riffs and the bassist knew that sitting there strumming the top two strings for an hour is boring. Decent soft/"heavy" set up, nothing truely good but definatly made up for the talent black hole that was the support acts. Certainly at least made an atmosphere and did something with their music.
In other notes, some idiots need to learn the sodding different between moshing in a pit and crushing the people at the front. It could about half a dozen people that knew what they where doing to start a proper pit, rather than gimps just trying to slam into the people at the front like all their mates. But it went ok after that, even if some people seemd braind dead to simple pit politiness.
Over all, I've seen worse shit for free and it could have been worse. The Biffy pits saved as, as they where something fun. I'm glad I didnt pay for it though.
(Oh and if anyone wants to know why I event went...I dragged the Treasurer of the Indie Soc to MFKZT and Blackeye, so I owed him the repsect to turn upto one of his gigs)
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haha... nice review!
My mate's band's played with Ariely X a few times, they think they're rubbish too...
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lol, all I really remember of Ariel-X was some decent-ish sounding bass. I spent most of their set talking about viking metal to this big guy with dreads and a Tyr rune tattooed on his hand.
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the Decemberists, a couple nights ago. The opening person was terrible, but the decemberists put on the best concert i've been to so far.
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Saw Blanks 77 last night, skipped the after party, came back to jersey and saw Hunchback, Theee Bishops, and Brine & Bastards at some bar in Jersey City. Today I'm going to a bbq where I will see Brine & Bastards and Theee Bishops again as well as some other localish band I've never heard.
Yay!
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Saw Anthony Atkinson on Friday, supported by a couple of other local acts: Fred Astereo (pretty entertaining) and the Small Knives (snoooooooore). But I simply cannot why people who pay $8 to see a gig, and then talk really loudly through the whole thing, basically ignoring the music.
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Ted leo and the pharmacists about a month ago in vancouver
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Saw Anthony Atkinson on Friday, supported by a couple of other local acts: Fred Astereo (pretty entertaining) and the Small Knives (snoooooooore). But I simply cannot why people who pay $8 to see a gig, and then talk really loudly through the whole thing, basically ignoring the music.
lololol, I'm trying to imagine a gig where you could talk over the music anywhere but at the bar or right at the back.
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. But I simply cannot why people who pay $8 to see a gig, and then talk really loudly through the whole thing, basically ignoring the music.
Psssh - it's all about being seen/scene at the right gigs! Of course they're not there to enjoy the music, it's just so that they can say 'Oh yeah, I was at that gig' and when asked how it was, can simply regurgitate whatever popular opinion dictates about the gig.
First rule of scenesterism.
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Sigh, I guess I'll never be a scenester . . .
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. But I simply cannot why people who pay $8 to see a gig, and then talk really loudly through the whole thing, basically ignoring the music.
Psssh - it's all about being seen/scene at the right gigs! Of course they're not there to enjoy the music, it's just so that they can say 'Oh yeah, I was at that gig' and when asked how it was, can simply regurgitate whatever popular opinion dictates about the gig.
First rule of scenesterism.
Urgh... I hate it when that happens. It breaks my concentration when I'm thinking of good lines for a review.
And I just got back from Isis. One word: WOW.
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Last show was Star Scream with Shard, Vilette and My Marilyn - 3 of those bands were average, but Star Scream were top banana.
BUT - I thought Brighton Indie Scenesters were bad. Translate that to London, stick in a raging manics fixation and Simon Price striding round the venue with everyone tring to impress/befriend him and it gets really ugly - every person there believes they are someone and won't rest until other people know who that someone is.
Couple that with the fact that I was sandwiched between two exes for the band's set, and asked to DJ alongside the dude from Rachel Stamp and Kitten from Glam-ou-rama and it's a pretty interesting night.
But I now feel bad for bashing Ariel X, as the guitarist was there and was a pillar of sanity and a rather lovely bloke.
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Hey, just because some is nice and specially if just because someone thinks they're nice looking, doesn't mean that have any musical worth or talent.
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Pinback
and sadly, i don't remember the names of the bands who played with them.
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dudley corporation maybe?
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Mars Volta on Tuesday night.
This is the third time I've seen then and I still don't get why people claim they do a bad live show.
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<Cheap shot> Because those people are there to be seen and look at pretty people rather that see music that invloves them standing still, shutting up and paying fucking atttention</Cheap Shot>
Not funny, but I'm tired.
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As of tomorow night, It will be THE BAD PLUS, which I'm sure will be an excellent prelude to this weekend's ultimate saturday jam I will be joining in on. I get to play my rich-ass friend's white and gold Gibson Supreme (it is an angel guitar...)
http://www.lauda-audio.pl/dane/prod/4978/LPSUAWGH.jpg
Orgassssmmmmm.
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Nice guitar. Got more knobs than my one, that's for sure
*Nods sagely, as he knows nothing about the comparative performances/sounds etc. of different makes of guitar*
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Oh jeney, was it them and pitter pat...I think so...
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the last concert i went to was david bowie.
*hides in corner*
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Don't hide, that's awesome!
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hot hot heat
that lead singer's hair is unbelievable.
the next show is either hold steady or neko case.
i think. if not one of those two, then it will be the futureheads.
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Saw Hypocrisy, Dark Tranquillity, and Soilwork about a month ago in Lawrence, the only really happening city in Kansas.
I just moved to Kansas a little bit ago, and even if things are only really happening in Lawrence (course, Westport has some stuff too) there's actually suprisingly alot going on here for.. you know, Kansas.
I'm going to see The Three Businessmen once they get around to like, telling me when their show is.
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89x 14th birthday bash on may 31st. tons of bands there, the ones i saw were the blue van, louis xiv, tegan and sara, motion city soundtrack, and hot hot heat.
hot hot heat
that lead singer's hair is unbelievable.
i love his hair ^_^
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Sightings at the hall mall in Iowa City. Twas skronk tastic, you know it's a good noise-rock show when half the audience run to the back and the other half totally love it. I also have to respect their singer for choosing to play even though he'd had an epileptic attack earlier that day.
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I saw Agent of The Morai, Red Stars Parade, Bendal Interlude, Executive Distraction Tasks, Among The Missing, Snowblood and Red Right Hand earlier. Agent of The Morai were solid stonery sludge with a definite Iron Monkey influence, good performance for a first gig. RSP I missed because I was talking to a couple of guys downstairs (and I've seen them a huge number of times, so missing an RSP set isn't a huge deal), and Bendal Interlude didn't do much for me so I popped back downstairs. EDT had to play without their bassist so sounded a little odd without the low-end, but their new material sounds great and Jamie's use of some pitch-shifted vocals worked out really well. He also threw himself into it more than I've ever seen him do before, crashing into the crowd and writhing on the floor. Among The Missing were easily the most fun band of the night, ripping out a mix of hardcore, sludge and metal with a damn good sense of humour.
Snowblood were where things got really interesting though. I don't think they played anything from their first album, it was all new material presumably from their upcoming new one. Intense, textured and very moving, shifting from quiet post-rock territory to crushing grooves and shredding screams, with Peet of Red Right Hand joining in on vocals for the last track. Very uplifting and exhilarating, but Red Right Hand put paid to all that. They battered the crowd with their brutal droning doom, it was like being slowly beaten with a lead pipe. Even with earplugs the noise was almost unbearable by the end. Draining in its power, and the perfect bleak accompaniment to Snowblood's more hopeful take on things.
Best gig I've seen in quite some time.
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System of a Down supported by the 80's Matchbox B-Line Disaster.
I'll give 80MBLD their due, they're better live than they are on CD. Still not overly keen on them though I must say.
As for System, fuck pretenses at not being a poser, I loved it. I was very into System 'back in the day', their brand of heavy guitar, Grrring and slightly hard to interpret political lyrics are tailored to wanky 14 year old socialists just getting into hard rock. I haven't got the new album, though I have heard it, so not all the songs were familiar with me, but I was slightly suprised to notice that, though I hardly ever listen to them now, I still new all the words to their old songs.
Quality nostalgia.
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The Rakes, last set a Dot to Dot festival in Nottingham this weekend.
The best thing about DTD, apart from the bands, was Stu, who I'd introduced to QC turning up in his TEH t-shirt and saying someone had recognised it as QC. Awesome :)
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Some "show" (more like coffee shop acts in a bar) nearby put on by a person wanting to find someone for their band but also just hosting for anyone to join up together which seemed like a good idea...if anyone would come...some people came not many...she played and was okay, singing with her acoustic guitar, but so so straight forward lyrics which are rarely acceptable to me and mostly so so music. Next girl did not sing and only played guitar and was amazing...she played songs where you would swear it could not just be her playing. There was some other band after that but me and my friend had enough so we left. This "show" was called bandwriter's night where, as i said, people get together who want to be in a band...well it happens once a month but I think I won't go again. Meh.
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a friend of mine was at a Manowar show, which I unfortunately could not afford to attend, but I'd like to share something really awesome he quoted from the show:
At one point, Joey was giving a speech, and some woman was screaming in the audience. He pointed at her, and said, "Hey, if you don't shut up, I'm going to fuck you in the ass." At which point, she screamed back, "Yes, fuck me!" and he responded with, "No. Because that man standing next to you is your boyfriend, and he's my brother of metal. The best thing you can do is go home, spread your legs like an eagle spreads his wings, and let your man fuck you hard, and fast. And when you cum, you scream 'Manowar'.
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MGF (Machine Gun Fellatio), a couple of months ago at the Govenor Hindmarsh in Adelaide
Rocking gig
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I saw Porcupine Tree last night with That 1 Guy and The Magic Pipe. He was a much better preformer than Porcupine Tree. He played a cowboy boot. The guy with the really fuzzy hair was neato nonetheless. We clapped for a really long time in unison, and with our collective powers compelled them to play two more songs. Yay says I.
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Well, my friend just ordered us some Reel Big Fish tickets.
The gig is months away though.
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ted leo and the pharmacists last night
again with the hair (this time on the bassist)
openers were the oranges band
is roman still in that band? is he still in spoon also (i saw spoon on sunday for like ten minutes, realized i still hate the hell out of them and left)?
the recap for the last couple of weeks is:
ted leo - good
spoon - bad
futureheads - awesome
neko case - skipped
hold steady - fine, but not worth the 11:00 pm wait since i had to work the next day
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Saw Hypocrisy, Dark Tranquillity, and Soilwork about a month ago in Lawrence, the only really happening city in Kansas.
I just moved to Kansas a little bit ago, and even if things are only really happening in Lawrence (course, Westport has some stuff too) there's actually suprisingly alot going on here for.. you know, Kansas.
I'm going to see The Three Businessmen once they get around to like, telling me when their show is.
Where in Kansas? Lawrence I guess? We're probably the only people in the state who read QC. ;)
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The Evens, last night.
I've got to say, that was awesome. I hadn't even heard them before last night, but my friend Dan called me up and said, "Do you want to go see Ian Mackaye's new band?" and how do you say no to that? It was in a pretty small club, and there was a great vibe in the room, something very personal about the whole thing.
When they played Sara Lee I kind of started to crack up though (my friend used to think that was my name... it's funny to me.), and Ian kept giving me this weird look...
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Where in Kansas? Lawrence I guess? We're probably the only people in the state who read QC. ;)
I live down in Overland Park, but I travel to Westport and Lawrence whenever I get the chance. I would be at Wakarusa right now, but I was broke. >_<
Damned cousin. He's at Wakarusa. I'm going to poke him.
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Head of Femur, Dr. Dog, Architecture in Helsinki about half an hour ago. HoF was decent and AiH didn't dissapoint at all (though I wonder at their choice to perform a Randy Newman cover), but Dr. Dog was just not interesting. Imagine a combination of the worst aspects of Peter Frampton, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and The Eagles, mix in a humanoid Electric Mayhem, and you might have an idea of what they sounded like.
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Lawrence Arms. brendan was sloppy, drunk, but for the mood, which was a local party, it couldn't have been better.
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Goddamnit. I hate you. The Larry Arms NEVER come here, and I wasn't in town the last time they came...almost 2 fucking years ago! They're one of my favourite bands and I'd kill to see them :(
But on the bright side....ALKALINE FUCKING TRIO in.....2 days!
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Went to a gig featuring Danny Howells and Deep Dish the friday before last. I realise not many folks on here are into dance music, but oh my fucking god... The crowd was in an awesome mood before Danny even started his set, and by the time he was fifteen minutes into it the air was electric. Three hours of amazing tech house, followed by Ali and Sharam getting on the decks and delivering some of the most bass-heavy groove-laden deep house I've had the pleasure to hear. It helped that the sound system was good enough that I could feel every low-range decibel travelling from my feet up through my balls, my spinal cord and into my brain stem. :) Staggered out of the club around about six in the morning.
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I saw Wilco four days ago. They kick more ass then I can really describe in written words. And they played with the roots! Basically, Nels Cline is a guitar hero of the first order, Jeff Tweedy is more and more of a rockstar every day, and I Am Trying To Break Your Heart is one of the best songs of all time. If you like them at all, make sure you see them on this tour.
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2nd annual Independence Jam. Not as great as last year was but Pinback was why I went, this being the 9th time I've seen them. Nada surf was not bad. (seen em before). The Raveonettes I was sleepy at the time and I think they did a bad sound job for them I think...I walked out on Rocket from the Crypt after third song. Kasabian opening...so so, that club foot song only one I'd want to hear again though I already knew this before.
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Built to Spill, except not. They were sold out of ze tickets.
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I just got back from Summerslam in Saarlouis in Germany. So very, very good. La Quiete was crazy, everyone went insane and invaded the stage, such a great atmosphere. Eaves were good too, but like Daitro it was too hot too appreciate them properly. Really want to see them both again now. Oxes had us cracking up and getting really weird looks from loads of German guys who couldn't understand the jokes, Analena rocked out, Tantrum were a surprise with their really excellent Hydraheady type stuff and Playing Enemy ripped it up. The people were lovely, the beer was good, the weather was great and it was a damn fine weekend.
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I saw Towers of London last week.
I don't care if they're supposed to be funny, but they ponced around outside the venue with their terrible hair and sunglasses, one of them ended up in the ladies toilets and they put on a truly terrible show.
I also resented being stuck in a venue filled with 80s punk throwbacks and people who still find guns n roses to be culturally relevant...
Did see The Research a while back though, who made me happy as they were all smiles and keyboards and brilliance...the only thing that would have made them perfect would have been a tapdancing drummer, but you can't have it all...
Deadzilla were odd, kind of Cabaret Noir but cool all the same...
And The Dirty Social Disorder and the Deadbeat Descendents, who I tried so hard to like as they were my mate's bands, but...yeah.
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trio last night rocked the casbah !
awesome show
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For a second I thought you meant "The Casbah" cause I just came from there, it being an actual venue here by the airport. Planes flying really close landing or taking off.
Saw Enon with Thunderbirds are Now! and opener. Opener was not bad besides repeating lines too much and in too many songs.
Thunderbirds rocked though I almost decided to not buy anything from them when the little punk singer spit water at the crowd. Usually I would not mind so much but I was borrowing someone else's digital camera.
Enon was great too though their new CD cannot match High Society. Still I bought it and got a vinyl single, a shirt and a poster. (merch whore am I) Poster was free though since it was the display, yay. I got one of the thunderbird CDs that I got free since one of the band members remembered me being there way early (before the bands came) and so told the guy selling to give it to me free.
Rob Crow of Pinback was there and he remembered me as I am the early guy at his shows too. Talked with Kenseth of Pinback too who was there and Emily of Bunky (local but they are on sufjan steven's label now) and she knows me too since I email them. It's nice when you are not just another random fan to them.
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i saw as i lay dying, throwdown, all that remains, and winter solstice a couple months ago
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I just saw Unwed Sailor Thursday Night at The End in Nashville. I always like seeing them and i got my favorite spot: front and center stage. they played 2 or 3 new songs along with a ton of their back catalog. they were set up different then when i saw them in 2002-2003... the bass player was surronged with keyboards and thrashed around in the little 'pen' made when the keys boxed him in. the drumming was ace as always and the rhodes was especially sweet on this occasion. Damn... it was worth getting in bed at 1:30, then getting up 3 hours later for an 8 hour workday.
a local band opened and played some awesome instrumentals in a 5 song set, which reminded me a lot of explosions in the sky dynamics with bass riffs from modest mouse 'moon and antarctica' (the bass was a little more datached and played a counter-role... it was also more punchy and actually played like a bass, unlike the guitar-like style of EITS guitarist/bassist)... this local band (who i didn't catch a name for) has 4 members. they were set up just like EITS, the rhythm guy played a telecaster and rocked out a lot... the middle man played a rickenbacker hollowbody and played most of the lead. a lot of repetitive single note phrases that the rhythm would harmonize with every now and then... the bassist was stage left and layed down pretty good rhythm on his pbass
then some shitty band that sounded like 3 doors down. i fucking hate bands like that... they get up on stage, and the singer basically wears a les paul for looks and every now and then bars a chord or two on his drop-d tuned guitar. that, and his voice was worse than i've heard in a long time... they were called "fear and trembling" or something to that effect. everyone cleared out after the opener because this band sucked so bad... once they were done, somone stuck their head out the door and yelled "Unwed Sailor is gonna play now!" and it filled up quick.
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Iron Maiden. It rocked.
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Awesome local band called Homeroom. www.ilovehomeroom.net Night before it was Jucifer, and my favorite local band, Avenge Vegas. www.avengevegas.com
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Kraftwerk at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles.
I win.
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I went to the Plan-it-X on the 4th.
I think there were about 12 bands. I missed a few due to some train tracks hijinks, but I did get to see three of my absolute favorite bands:
Ghost Mice. They place completely aoustic, don't even use mics. And the thing is, you can't even tell. I'll resist a rant about other bands letting the music overpower the lyrics, but it was refreshing to be able to make out every word for once.
Defiance, Ohio. They're just so fun to see live, and I know almost every one of their songs by heart now.
This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb. It was about 1:30 in the morning by the time they played, and I'm sure Terry and Rymodee were exhausted because they'd been working at their restaraunts pretty much the last 12 hours, but you caouldn't tell. And I danced at a show for the first time. The only complaint that I have is that they didn't play Johnny.
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I went to a festival in Toronto and it was amazing!
Modest Mouse
Broken Social Scene
Do Make Say Think
Metric
Most Serene Republic
... and another couple acts that I wasn't really a fan of
but otherwise ... AMAZING
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Just saw Scout Niblett for the 2nd time and it was great of course, minus the drunken chattering frats. Still glad I went to this show instead of built to spill.
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Spent my weekend in the local fest Ruisrock and saw Rammstein, Flogging Molly, The Hives, The Ark and Teenage Fanclub. Also Fantômas but they were bleh. Overall, the festival was abso-focken-lutely great.
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Iron Maiden. I expected more...
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I went to summerfest in milwaukee on 7/7 and saw:
The Frey - bleh
The Pixies - Awesome! Such a fun time, great set, they played 25 songs!
Weezer - They only played one song off of pinkerton! Over half their set was from the new album. Their set was a little over half the time that The Pixies played and THEY WERE THE HEADLINERS. I fucking hate them now. Bastards. All the frat kids were dancing away to "Beverly Hills"! Bah.
Death Cab For Cutie: Caught the end of their set, really really good! I like them much better live than on the album, there was a lot of energy in the air.
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Skin on Wednesday.
She got on the bar. Silly girl. Not that I'd say that to her face, cos y'know, despite the sweet voice she's fuckin' scary! :D
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I went to a festival in Toronto and it was amazing!
Modest Mouse
Broken Social Scene
Do Make Say Think
Metric
Most Serene Republic
UGH. i really wanted to see that show. i am potentially seeing metric and broken social scene early next week, i just need to get tickets. i am so bad at getting tickets, i missed the hillside festival two years in a row.
last concert i saw was dredg/ blood brothers.
i am seeing a local show tonight, the chesire smile.
and i am seeing the stars in december <3
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My last was also the recent Blood Brothers tour. Missed every other band on the bill, but I don't mind. Dredg, mewithoutyou, and Coheed and Cambria do nothing for me. Way too many little kids there. Too bad they didn't play at the Mesa Luna again. With bands that don't...you know, suck.
Going to see !!! in just over a week! Excitement!
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Bright Eyes in Fargo, really good other than the drunk assholes yelling at Connor the whole fucking time. I mean normally I wouldn't care too much but I mean it affects him!
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The intarweb just informed me that I missed a bunch of Def Jukies at Bottom of the Hill in San Fran by...two hours. Fuck fuck fuckety fuck fuck fuck. Aesop Rock, Cage, some other dudes. *bangs head against monitor, which, being a 6-year old CRT, bangs back*
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Bright Eyes in Fargo, really good other than the drunk assholes yelling at Connor the whole fucking time. I mean normally I wouldn't care too much but I mean it affects him!
Ugh, that happened in Portsmouth this year, some hardcore punk guy was shouting at him to do an older song, even telling him 'Here I know how it goes, it starts out D...'
danjkfvsljsSTFU!!!
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Saw GZA from Wu-Tang with Swollen Member and I Self Devine at the Chop Suey here in Seattle. I recommend GZA, what an awesome performer.
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last night i saw the Spinto Band. excellent on album, but they seemed to rush through the songs live. :\
if you haven't heard 'em and you like indie pop/rock, download somethin immediately.
i recommend Brown Boxes, Oh Mandy, and Mountains.
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Spent my weekend in the local fest Ruisrock and saw Rammstein, Flogging Molly, The Hives, The Ark and Teenage Fanclub. Also Fantômas but they were bleh. Overall, the festival was abso-focken-lutely great.
There's no fucking way that The Hives are ever better than Mike-Pattony Fantômas goodness.
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Going to see !!! in just over a week! Excitement!
sooooo jealous!!!
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Bright Eyes in Fargo, really good other than the drunk assholes yelling at Connor the whole fucking time. I mean normally I wouldn't care too much but I mean it affects him!
Ugh, that happened in Portsmouth this year, some hardcore punk guy was shouting at him to do an older song, even telling him 'Here I know how it goes, it starts out D...'
danjkfvsljsSTFU!!!
It's the worst I just wanted to smack him in the face, sure most other artists would just ignore him or brush it off but I mean Connor was getting visibliy annoyed I thought he was going to just take off, he stopped 'lua' half way though to ask him to stop yelling at him.
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Hey;
I'm just writing some words before I leave cause I'm going to Maximo Park and the New Pornographers right now =p [in 20 minutes]
Well its still a future one, so the last one were The White Stripes in Düsseldorf - and now I'm off to Frankfurt with one of my Lady Friends >->
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^ That's so weird, I was just readin my friend Pete's lj who was at that :) He has good pictures:
http://abstractboy.co.uk/maximopark2.html
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Saw GZA from Wu-Tang with Swollen Member and I Self Devine at the Chop Suey here in Seattle. I recommend GZA, what an awesome performer.
That sounds great. Except for Swollen Members, they don't really do anything for me. GZA and I Self Devine would be more than enough though.
Last show I saw was DJ Hype last night. It would be fair to say he rinsed it out. More rewinds than you could shake a stick at. And tomorrow I see Mogwai, so my hearing better recover while I sleep tonight.
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I saw the cat empire last night.
UN-FUCKING BELEIVABLE. they played for 2 and a half hours, great set. The energy was just amazing, the music was brilliant.
For those that don;t know they are an aussi band that joined because of their jazz origins but got into cuban/latino and hip hop as well.
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Death Cab and Stars @ Stubbs BBQ in Austin.
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Bright Eyes in Fargo, really good other than the drunk assholes yelling at Connor the whole fucking time. I mean normally I wouldn't care too much but I mean it affects him!
Ugh, that happened in Portsmouth this year, some hardcore punk guy was shouting at him to do an older song, even telling him 'Here I know how it goes, it starts out D...'
danjkfvsljsSTFU!!!
yeah, at the bright eyes show it was kind of like that... except there were straight-edge kids yelling at conor because he was drinking (and by drinking i mean d-runnk). and then before he even started, he was yelled at to sing something from fevers and mirrors, even though it was the digital ash tour and he didn't even have the guitar in his hand yet.
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Bright Eyes in Fargo, really good other than the drunk assholes yelling at Connor the whole fucking time. I mean normally I wouldn't care too much but I mean it affects him!
Ugh, that happened in Portsmouth this year, some hardcore punk guy was shouting at him to do an older song, even telling him 'Here I know how it goes, it starts out D...'
danjkfvsljsSTFU!!!
yeah, at the bright eyes show it was kind of like that... except there were straight-edge kids yelling at conor because he was drinking (and by drinking i mean d-runnk). and then before he even started, he was yelled at to sing something from fevers and mirrors, even though it was the digital ash tour and he didn't even have the guitar in his hand yet.
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The last show I went to was my own. The other bands we played with were wierd as hell. One of them was like a bad version of Rilo Kiley with a drum backing track and a guitar player who wanted to be in ACDC.
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it is built to spill.
next monday it will be of montreal.
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I saw the Dead Pets for the fourth time on Saturday. It was probably one of the best gigs I've been to despite the fact that the support bands were pretty crap.
I don't think they're capable of playing badly.
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Last show I went to was This World Fair, with White Light Riot and Epic Hero. That was a damn good show, I thought.
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Last show I saw was Kayo Dot + Gregor Samsa + a couple of local Richmond bands. It was purty durn sweet.
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Last show I saw was some local rock/punk thingamabob. Had a pretty good time. Also I'm seeing Modern Life Is War next week, along with some excellent supporting bands (Jakóbínarína, Momentum and I Adapt). Can't wait.