3underscore
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Pearsall said:
Just drop Akufen "Quebec Nightclub" or anything off that EP, innit. Most fun tunes to identify those that follow the bassline to dance - it's like musical statues.
worst musical experience?
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Just drop Akufen "Quebec Nightclub" or anything off that EP, innit. Most fun tunes to identify those that follow the bassline to dance - it's like musical statues.
Pearsall said:
odd - someone asked me if i had anything 'we' could dance too when i was playing dancehall once .
later when sean paul was played in the context of dodgy r and b she was wriggling like a freshly caught eel .
that's the kind of mysterious paradoxes that life throws at us sometimes i guess.
yeah ok... I was djing at this festival last year... and for some reason decided to smoke a ton of ganja right before - the first time in like, 6 months of not getting high at all.
it was middle of a hot day, around1 or 2 PM, and I was so stoned out of my fucking mind I kept getting the outlets and plugs and equipment confused, and finally when it was all working I did a terrible set... train wrecks all over... dead bodies strewn across the stage...
awful. just awful.
it was middle of a hot day, around1 or 2 PM, and I was so stoned out of my fucking mind I kept getting the outlets and plugs and equipment confused, and finally when it was all working I did a terrible set... train wrecks all over... dead bodies strewn across the stage...
awful. just awful.
blunt said:
Yep I saw him and remember practically nothing, I think I left half-way through. Amazing people thought he was one of the most significant acts of the 90s. Now he's not even a fart in an ocean. Total and utter SHITE live. Be interesting to see any re-apraisals of his work now it's nearly 10 years after the fact. Amazing how English 'critical darling' bands post-1985 have become so horribly redundant (and awfully dated) over time!
My Bloody Valentine were a total shambles live as well. They couldn't hold a beat even with a drum machine!
And don't get me near Primal Scream live!!!
On the positive though, Jesus and Mary Chain were a great rock act, as were Ride, Spiritualized were fucking amazing when I finally got to see them about 3 years ago, as to were Goldie, Basement Jaxx and Chemical Borthers (but they didn't hafta play coz its all fucken DAT!!)
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mms said:
the 'do you have anything i can dance to' request used to really annoy me, but then i realised that it means 'can you play something i know' which is always a pretty easy request to satisfy
-> not a paradox, cos she obviously knew sean paul and not the (obscure?) dancehall you were playing before...
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bassnation
the abyss
mms said:
wicked turn of phrase there mate!
3underscore
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confucius said:
Absolutely the case for the whole EP, IIRC. Yet would still probably not keep the person asking for less bass happy, even though meeting their every requirement.
worst live experience recently is the dude from 6 Organs of ADmittance solo at Arthur Fest. I was in the auditorium holding down the seat for Merzbow, and had to suffer through this bucket of donkey piss. the earnest, affected emotional song writing, the tortured, self-consciously theatrical delivery, this was rich white-boy blues at it's most inane and insufferable.
a few songs into the set I started making faux sobbing and crying sounds... pretty fucking funny but I guess you had to be there.
a few songs into the set I started making faux sobbing and crying sounds... pretty fucking funny but I guess you had to be there.
Tweak Head
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Acid Mothers Gong at Royal Festival Hall a year or so ago. I'd heard that AMT were a great live band and having seen them recently I can vouch for that (those guys Know How to Rock), but this was absolute shite. OK, not the best venue for that I know but it would have sucked in any venue. Daevid Allen and some old hippy woman from Gong just wailing, but in a smug way like they thought it was really "important". I probably would have stayed just to watch Kawabata but the missus looked to be in physical pain so we left. We weren't the only ones.
The evening was redeemed by seeing Damo Suzuki before hand (preceded, bizarrely, by the Incredible String Band).
Also, New Order know how to put on a bad show.
Oh ... Nick Gutterbreakz ... too much information!
The evening was redeemed by seeing Damo Suzuki before hand (preceded, bizarrely, by the Incredible String Band).
Also, New Order know how to put on a bad show.
Oh ... Nick Gutterbreakz ... too much information!
Tweak Head said:
i went to that gig and i thought the incredible string band reunion was worse - hanging on one poor woman (perhaps a massive and talented fan it seemed incredibly twee and a big strange .
damo was just pretty average without the powerhouse of can behind him and 15 odd years in the wilderness.
thing about gong /acid mothers temple is that i remember them playing in my city hall - every weird kid from miles around went there and the afterparty was in the warehouse oposite my house .
it was full of nocturnal people - you don't see em out during the day, old mad dreads, people with teapot hats on their heads etc multicoloured humans who led the psychedelic life for better or worse, - people were sleeping outside afterwards all week , so... seeing them at the royal festival hall was lame to start with in comparison. But there was a japanese girl keyboardist who didn't seem to do much with a permanent spliff in gob and bowl haircut like some wicked old tankgirl cartoon, if anything she kept me engaged. i did like david allens rabbit ears tho.
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Tweak Head
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Yeah mms you're right the venue didn't help. The Japanese girl you mentioned (I think it was Cotton Casino) annoyed the hell out of me. At one point some bloke came on stage, probably her boyfriend not some random guy from the audience, and they were snogging on the stage.
Again, not the best venue to see Damo but we saw him again later in the same week at the Borderline and he was fantastic. I think it's a little unfair to say he's been in the Wilderness since Can days. He's basically on a permanent tour, where he plays with different bands each time. Going to see him on 5 Dec at 93 Feet East in Brick Lane, where his band includes Makoto Kawabata from AMT and someone from Mars Volta. Small venue, cans of Red Stripe, a cheap curry to line the stomach ... should be a good experience.
Again, not the best venue to see Damo but we saw him again later in the same week at the Borderline and he was fantastic. I think it's a little unfair to say he's been in the Wilderness since Can days. He's basically on a permanent tour, where he plays with different bands each time. Going to see him on 5 Dec at 93 Feet East in Brick Lane, where his band includes Makoto Kawabata from AMT and someone from Mars Volta. Small venue, cans of Red Stripe, a cheap curry to line the stomach ... should be a good experience.
I, too, saw Tricky live in 1997, in NYC...total darkness onstage for most of the set, the music utterly pointless and awful (I say this despite the fact that <I>Pre-Millennium Tension</I> still gets played around my house quite a bit), and he had some useless rappers as his opening act (the guys from that Grassroots EP, I believe). Jeru Tha Damaja was on between the lame-ass rappers and Tricky, but even he didn't really have his shit together. Awful, depressing show.
Worst musical experience of the last five years, though, had to be Jandek's NYC live debut. Bad poetry, worse organ playing, backed by a great band (Loren Connors, Matt Heyner, Chris Corsano) who I'd have gladly paid to see free of the Man From Corwood's aimless bleating.
Worst musical experience of the last five years, though, had to be Jandek's NYC live debut. Bad poetry, worse organ playing, backed by a great band (Loren Connors, Matt Heyner, Chris Corsano) who I'd have gladly paid to see free of the Man From Corwood's aimless bleating.
Diggedy Derek
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Acid Mother's Temple I really think are one of the greatest live bands I've ever seen; but their kind of scuzzy psychedelia is never really going to work in the RFH, it's just too sterile. But trust me, live they have been astonishing almost everytime I've seen them. Cotton Casino's vocals are very nice, but apart from that she doesn't seem to add much.
All their live albums seem to be rubbish though, even worse than most of their studio albums. They just take the piss with how many albums they release, too, no quality control whatsoever.
All their live albums seem to be rubbish though, even worse than most of their studio albums. They just take the piss with how many albums they release, too, no quality control whatsoever.
Diggedy Derek said:
with AMT the line is sometimes very thin, and sometimes very, very clear.
I like what they stand for but recently witnessed 4 of them making absolute fools of themselves, not to mention inviting every stereotypical insult against hippies imaginable, on stage at the Terry Riley 70th birthday event. avoided buying there music except there's this one calm record called Mantra which is a nice listen.
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