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Gig 'whores

Started by actwithoutwords, April 18, 2007, 09:34:44 PM

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Analrapist

I went to see Architecture in Helsinki tonight. It was dope!

I'm now going to see Suzanne Vega (again) in London in a couple of weeks.  Anyone else going?

The Argus

I saw Andrew Bird at the Scala tonight.  If you're a fan I'd highly recommend you go see him, he was superb.  Also the support acts St Vincent and Dosh were also very good.

Neil

I just read this thread for the first time in a week or so and was clicking to page two in order to say "Go and see Andrew Bird."  And you've been and gone and done it.

Don't think I'll ever get to see Animal Collective.  Or Pere Ubu, or a whole host of others.

One of my last.fm pals mentioned that there's a jazz festival in Cork in a few months...checked it out, and Mose Allison is playing!!  FUCK!  But how on earth do you get anyone to go to a jazz festival with you...in Cork.

djtrees

If anyone is in Liverpool then you must go and see Mugstar, Big Joan and Quack Quack tonight (Saturday 23nd) at the Everyman. I know I will be, I'm dead excited cos I had forgotten about this gig.

It will be marvellous, three of the best live bands I've ever seen all in the same room.

wherearethespoons

I'm not much of a gig goer. I think the last one I went to was Lemon Jelly a couple of years back. However I definitely wont be missing Underworld on their next tour. I've bought tickets to see them in Norwich in October. Can't bloody wait.  Anyone else going to be catching them?

Go With The Flow

As well as seeing Enter Shikari three times before the year is out (22 July at St Albans, 21/22 October in Leeds and Manchester respectively), I shall be seeing Alexisonfire in Manchester on the 14th of November. I will also be going to the ChipTune Fest in Liverpool on August 8th, with : (, sabrepulse and three other artists!

Nuts 'n Gum

I went to The New Pornographers at the Borderline - very good, the venue was so hot, the sound was alright - couldn't hear enough keyboard i don't think, and they played a very good setlist. highlights being My Rights Versus Yours (which i didn't really like until that point), and The Bleeding Heart Show.

So yes, they're great indie pop, go see them.

chocky909

After no gigs for ages I saw Arcade Fire three at Brixton Academy 3 times in March. Great stuff. Anyway, it whetted my gigatite and I've bought tickets to Mogwai at Somerset House in July, Of Montreal at the Scala in August and Interpol at Alexandra Palace at the end of November. Mogwai is in 'surround sound' apparently. Cor.

Abbatoir worker

Got tickets for The Exit festival in Serbia then Benicassim in Spain.  After that just got tockets for Interpol at the Empress Ballroom in Blackpool in November... decayed splendour, anyone?

Murdo

Very tempted by that Interpol gig in Blackpool. We've decided to not bother going on holiday and are now going to see Sonic Youth and Smashing Pumpkins in Glasgow and Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls singer) at the fringe instead. Then at the end of the year the Manics in Manchester.

Abbatoir worker

Quote from: Murdo on June 25, 2007, 09:30:55 AM
Very tempted by that Interpol gig in Blackpool. We've decided to not bother going on holiday and are now going to see Sonic Youth and Smashing Pumpkins in Glasgow and Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls singer) at the fringe instead. Then at the end of the year the Manics in Manchester.

Get in there soon, all the London shows are sold out already!  We're getting a B&B and doing all the seaside in winter bleakness, saw the White Stripes there a couple of Januarys ago and nearly got blown into the sea.  The venue is fantastic, perfect for Interpol.

Abbatoir worker

Just got tix for Napalm Death week on Saturday, what are they even like nowadays? I don't know... my boyfriend wants to go so it's a present to him really...

boki

Quote from: Abbatoir worker on June 27, 2007, 10:59:50 PM
Just got tix for Napalm Death week on Saturday, what are they even like nowadays? I don't know... my boyfriend wants to go so it's a present to him really...

I saw them at Download - it was pretty much everything you'd expect. Fast, brutal, don't know what song they're playing but enjoying it anyway.  I was inspired enough to make my way into the pit, but I don't like their records.   They closed with a messy cover of 'Nazi Punks Fuck Off' which could've been anything, really - nowhere near as focused as the one they recorded for Virus 100.  Best bit was when they suddenly threw 'You Suffer' in shortly after playing a song and Barney joking, "You've got to watch out for our epics!"

Abbatoir worker

Thanks Boki that actually has me looking forward to it!

boki

Shane's hair will amuse you if nothing else!

Don't suppose anyone else is going to the Heavy Industry all-nighter at Corsica Studios in London on Saturday?  One room's techno and the other's dubstep, with the mighty Mancunian grime crew Virus Syndicate headlining the latter.

Sov

I shattered a vertabrae in a Napalm Death pit, fucking brutal live band.

actwithoutwords

Some kindly soul has offered me a ticket to the Sunday of the Latitude Festival in Suffolk, which is sold out.

The Arcade Fire
The National
Jarvis Cocker
Andrew Bird
The Rapture
Final Fantasy
Camera Obscura
Howling Bells

All on one day. Admittedly, some of these clash, but still, superb.

djtrees

Quote from: boki on June 28, 2007, 05:57:02 PM
Shane's hair will amuse you if nothing else!

Don't suppose anyone else is going to the Heavy Industry all-nighter at Corsica Studios in London on Saturday?  One room's techno and the other's dubstep, with the mighty Mancunian grime crew Virus Syndicate headlining the latter.
OOh report back on this if you would, I was thinking of getting them to come and play one of our nights in Liverpool, but I'm not sure how good they are to be honest.

boki

They were really good the couple of times I saw 'em before, especially at Bloc Weekend.  I can't claim to really know anything about the grime or UK hip-hop scenes, so I couldn't tell you how well they compare to anyone else, but they're certainly entertaining. Really ought to pick up their new album at some point, hopefully there'll be some sort of merch stall there.

The Argus

Had the lovely experience of checking my bank account yesterday and finding more in it than I expected so I bought tickets for Animal Collective, The Fall, and Field Day 2007 (which looks like it'll be great).

Has anyone seen The Fall's new line-up?

On a separate note: Do any of you regularly go to gigs alone?  If you do, is this out of choice or just a from general lack of (likeminded) friends?

actwithoutwords

Field Day looks fucking amazing. I'm out of the country though, which is gutting.

I do often go to gigs alone alright. It's a mixture of both reasons really. Unless I have a friend who really wants to go to something, I tend to just go on my own. On various occasions I have brought people who I think might like the artist in question, but worrying about whether they are enjoying it or not impinges on my own enjoyment of the gig. So I just find it easier to bowl alone. Some of the best gigs I have been at have been on my todd. It does sometimes get tedious waiting around for the headline act to come on though. But you can often get chatting to like-minded weirdo loners.

The Argus

Quote from: actwithoutwords on July 03, 2007, 03:15:23 PM
On various occasions I have brought people who I think might like the artist in question, but worrying about whether they are enjoying it or not impinges on my own enjoyment of the gig.

I get this alot.  Not just with gigs though - almost whenever I'm introducing a friend to something they've never seen/heard before.

I've been going to alot of gigs alone recently and although it's not really out of choice (moved to London relatively recently), I do enjoy it.  However, I have a tendency to drink too much and then end up having to scoot to the toilet midway through the headline act thus losing my well deserved spot.  The Scala is the worst venue for this - you lose your place in there, it's lost for good.

Lord of divs

Yeah I have seen the New Fall line up when the played the Hammersmith Palias this year, the version of Blindness they did was insanely heavy.

Just saw Isis supported by Boris at KoKo in Camden i(f any of you whores Know of them) and they were also fantastic, spent most of it on the balcony looking down on the bands the first time ever I have not been down front in the crowd.  Do any whores prefer this style of watching a band or are you all hardcore crowd users?

Murdo

I always liked being up in the top bit at the Astoria and now always try to get tickets for the balcony bits at the sides of The Academy in Glasgow. I've spent more than enough time with people's armpits/hair/fags/beer in my face at gigs to do me for a life time. I'd probably agree the atmosphere is not the same but for sheer comfort it's worth it.

boki

I've got a feeling one of you will be at this:

QuotePickled Egg Records presents....

a.P.A.t.T.
Directing Hand
Dragon or Emperor
Stig Noise Soundsystem

The Basement Bar
Wellington Street, Leicester
Wed July 18th, 8:30pm (prompt start!)
£6 / £5 concs
www.pickled-egg.co.uk

a.P.A.t.T.
Some bands are just damned impossible to classify: a.P.A.t.T. are a 6-peice amalgamation of all that has come before & all that will slowly catch up in the end. Beyond genre defying: every instrument and style you can think of, mashed up together in jaw-dropping live performance.  The experimental and chaotic beeps, buzzes and blips of a.P.A.t.T, (described on the BBC Merseyside website as sounding like "Frank Zappa having a fist fight with Mighty Mouse" ) have steadily built up a growing army of admirers.  They were featured on the promotional video for Liverpool's 'Capital of Culture' bid, and have recently staged a multi-media installation called 'Quartet', featuring four films projected whilst the band performed alongside. As if this wasn't enough, they even found time to compose the incidental music for the BBC Radio Merseyside alternative music show, PMS.
a.P.A.t.T. officially began with the completion of a full C90 minute cassette tape back in 1998. It was decided from the off-set that the way the music was formed on this tape (disjointed, non-specific, omni-style) was to influence the revolving multi-instrumentalist approach and dictate the 'anti-hierarchical' line-up of the act.  It was not until 2002 and the introduction of digital recording techniques that a.P.A.t.T. were to make an 'official' release.  Following several line-up changes, software changes, hardware changes, various support slots and a Danish tour, a.P.A.t.T. teamed up with London label, Lowsley Sounds, to release their first full album, (L.P.) (2004). Although hopes were high for this release and it sold well, a.P.A.t.T. were never satisfied with the final outcome.  2006 saw more line-up changes and the continuation of the recordings for that "perfect album".  To that end,  "Black and White Mass" will be released on Pickled Egg Records in the late summer of 2007.

"Oh I don't know, there are no words for this. a.P.A.t.T are so easy to listen to when they really shouldn't be; it should just be a mess.  Right now it's some kind of minimal organic synth, and delicate singing of paradise and people coming to harm, or was it just a false alarm, as it all builds up so, so deliciously once more. Hey look, track one is called 'The Man Returns From HereAfter With a Future Flower': that really explains it all, a future flower. My CD player says there's 66 tracks, the CD cover says 8, I heard at least 103 (or maybe it was just one long piece?). They're a band, don't go thinking this is some wise-ass cut-up studio nerd; a whole gang of them in masks and anti-radiation suits or something like that. Hey look, if you want something challenging, something beautiful, something different, something violent, something soothing, something like you never heard before then this is where you need to go this week" SEAN ORGAN - Organ.com - Eclectic Music Magazine/webzine

"a.P.A.t.T. are a motherfucking experience. Probably the only UK band i can think of to come up with their vision of the dark, vicious and fuck me, rather scary vision of the ACID PUNK dropped onto us from the visions of Gibby from the Butthole Surfers. We love them. You need to hear this. It's insane" Alan Mcgee (Creation/Poptones)

www.apatt.com


Directing Hand
Alex Neilson is one of the most accomplished and prolific drummers on the UK underground scene, having performed with Scatter, Bonny Prince Billy, Alisdair Roberts, Richard Youngs, Jandek, Lucky Luke and Tarpis Tauli, amongst others.  Directing Hand is essentially his solo project, though he has enlisted help from such like-minded compatriots as Christina Carter, Isobel Campbell, and Scatter/Nalle's Chris Hladowski. 

The current Directing Hand line-up – consisting of Vinnie Blackwall on improvised vocals, cello, harp and harmonium and Neilson on drums and psaltry – represents the group's starkest and most all-devouring incarnation to date.  Skilled in the black-art of ecstatic improvisation, Neilson Blackwall journey into verdant fields of free-psych-drone, delicate bubbling-noise, twisted folk, and the triumphal free jazz  melodies of Albert Ayler.
Drummers have always been the revolutionary agents of musical change; switch up the beat and you reconfigure time, reconfigure time and you re-draw reality. In Neilson's playing there is truly no past or future, simply Now over and over. Just one movement of his hands and then the next. And in a historical/cultural moment that feels as oppressively 4/4 as 2007, it feels like a revolution.

Dragon or Emperor
"DoE are a bass and drums punk/jazz/metal powerhouse, with a spontaneous feel that frequently threatens to spill over into hysteria. This is partly down to Stewart Brackley's monstrous distended fuzz bass riffs, but has more to do with his wild evocation of what it might sound like if Yamataka Eye found himself trapped inside the body of David Thomas" [The Wire]

"You call it Lightning Bolt. I say I have no conception of what such tight-knit formation drumming mans, and go for older - the James Brown-insired yeh-yeh groove of The Make Up, given a metal makeover. Someone mutters 'math rock', but I flinch, indicate that no way are these frenetic twists and turns, these plum-in-mouth spasm vocals humourless. 'Formerly Volcano the Bear, you know', you smugly remark, 'and Songs of Norway'. I shrug, and rave about the way this enormous, near hallucinogenic duo remind me of prime '76 Pere Ubu, thus indicating my overbearing age once more. Sigh. Fucking seriously mighty" [Everett True, Plan B]

Stig Noise Soundsystem
"Their noise is remarkable as it is original: crazy melodies played at odd tempos with brass instruments held in the hands of what apear to be lunatics. Stig are the kind of band that the word cult was invented for. Weird, wonderful and Hardcore" [Kerrang]

"Crazy noise, granted, but nothing quite prepares for the flamenco-featuring random meandering, enthusiastically ploughing through unhinged rhythms, bewildering Henry Mancini-isms and Mclusky spikiness"  [Drowned In Sound]

"Stig rule. What an awesome band! Someone should knight Stig, just so's they can stick the sword in the Knight-ees FACE!"  [Akira The Don]

"...Jesus Christ STIG is some fucked up shit... this is all over the place chaos!!! Samples, beats, brass, Hawaiian guitars, heavy guitars, random noise and tons of other shit I cant describe!! The pace is constantly changing ...crazy, crazy shit. Definitely very punk etho's in its approach: very free and experimental and quite obviously not giving a fuck what people think. At times theres a slow reggae feel, then its kind of big band music, then its totally fucked up noise, then even more fucked up noise, then its like lounge music... you just gotta hear this because I cant describe this properly.  [www.nofrontteeth.co.uk]

www.stignoise.com

Go With The Flow

I thought that was a djtrees gig, for a sec. Go and see Stig Noise Sound System, they're great!

boki

Yeah, it's kind of a Class A/Pickled Egg soundclash innit.  Quite handy, 'cos I was considering a trek up north-west for a Class A night, but they're coming to me instead.  Well, just past me.

Dragon or Emperor are cool, too - just bass, drums and a lot of yelping.

djtrees

OOh that should be a good gig, hopefully. I think we will be on first so if there are any sad souls that want to see 6 people make a big noise with some instruments then get in early.

Mr Boki you will definitely have to come to a Class-A gig they are usually marvellous, if you want to leave it for a few months you might be in for a special treat around November/December time. *wink nod etc*

And cheers Mr Flow, I'm blushing here.

hencole

Right I'm off to my first gig in about 3 years tommorrow. I'm going to see Brian Jonestown Massacre who I know absolutely nothing about other then there was a thread last year about a documemtary they featured in. Anyone seen them? Any good?