Jane
|
Re: Your Last Live Five
May 03, 2007, 16:41
|
Nick Harper at the Bear Hotel in Marlborough last Sunday
Deep Purple at Wembley Arena last Saturday
Bob Dylan at NIA in mid April
Focus at the Arts Centre in Swindon in March
10cc at Oxford New Theatre in March
:-)
So much more live stuff to come this month, too!
J
x
|
Hunter T Wolfe
|
Re: Your Last Live Five
May 03, 2007, 17:03
|
Tinariwen, Brighton Komedia
Dogntank/White Hills/Burning Idiot Noise, Brighton Engine Rooms
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club/Mainline, London Astoria
Camera Obscura/Monkey Swallows Universe, Brighton Komedia
The Horrors/Neil's Children, Brighton Concorde 2
All good and all within the last month!
|
Stevo
|
Re: Your Last Live Five
May 03, 2007, 18:11
|
Dime
slightly glad I didn't make the trek if the sound in London wasn't great.
|
Dog 3000
|
Edited May 03, 2007, 18:56
Re: Your Last Live Five
May 03, 2007, 18:52
|
In order from most recent -- not much stuff coming through town lately.
1. Local show headlined by Faghat and db pedersen (probably the 2 local artists I play most frequently on my radio show; I got to "DJ" between sets too! A very trippy evening on a Thursday night with perhaps 25 paying customers.)
http://www.myspace.com/faghatband
This dude is a THROAT SINGER! He performs with just a bass & delay pedal to make loops, and gets a suprisingly full sound -- his new album is pretty damn cool, check out "At Seven Tenths":
http://www.myspace.com/dbpedersen
2. Yo La Tengo - you know & love 'em, always put on a very good show.
3. "Van Aid" gig featuring Excene Cervenka & The Original Sinners. Her backup band includes her husband & a couple members of local group Knuckeldrager (a "drag race rock" instrumental band that look like Big Daddy Roth characters come to life) -- it was the Knuck's van that broke down when both were on their last national tour. Skip the audio files and watch the video instead:
http://www.myspace.com/knuckeldrager
4. Ladyhawk (from Canada) - sorta like if Uncle Tupelo dropped the country influence in favor of Crazy Horse.
5. Split-CD release party for The Suit & Colony of Watts, more local bands. The Suit is this 3-bass, no-guitar band I keep raving about. They've got a couple* really good songs and a great live sound, but their sporadic recordings (officially just 2 comp tracks + 1/2 a split CD so far) haven't translated what's good about them all that well. * The Suit tracks especially worth a listen are called "Double Crossed on Planet Love" & "Escape Pod" -- unfortunately neither of these is currently up at their myspace page.
http://www.myspace.com/getinthesuit
|
Davey_B
|
Re: Your Last Live Five
May 03, 2007, 21:40
|
|
Stevo wrote: Dime
slightly glad I didn't make the trek if the sound in London wasn't great.
Thanx.... yeah wouldn't recomend the Koko though I've heard the sound was better from the balconies but near the stage it was too boomy.... the least satisfying Neubauten gig I've seen though still better than a lot of bands manage...
Dave B
|
Jasonaparkes
|
Re: Your Last Live Five
May 05, 2007, 17:38
|
*a silver mt zion - Oxford Zodiac, an hour and forty minutes of mindblowing stuff, with a few stand-up moments of banter, but sadly no time for 'God Bless Our Dead Marines' since an indie disco was pending!!! Can't wait for the live album - the support was shite (post rock sung by a Kevin Rowland style singer, one tune managing to sound like the Bluebells played by Interpol!!). Last time I will go to the Zodiac prior to its Carling makeover...
*Melvins/Big Business/Porn - an excellent evening at the Barfly, Porn very enjoyable blend of noise, sort of jazzy Sabbath with industrial bits, Krauty rhythms, odd timing, and feedback. Big Business weren't that mindblowing, especially with some so so guitar from Dale Crover, but it all came together on the last song when they flip from BB to Melvins with the arrival of Buzzo. Pretty much all of (A) Senile Animal, The Bloated Pope from Pigs of the Roman Empire, a sort-of-Houdini medley and a vast take of The Bit from Stag. It all ended on some covers, a brilliant version of Alice Cooper's The Ballad of Dwight Fry (which the Melvins recorded for Lysol) and an odd Buzzo-less cover of Lady in Red by Chris De Burgh!!! A twin military drum rhythm, some industrial noises and the bassplayer Joady singing Lady in Red reggae style. Actually quite wonderful!!
*Thea Gilmore/Erin McKeown - in Stratford. Two for one. The latter is a bit Suzanne Vega, but not bad and the former is great stuff - her guitarist (partner too?) pulled lots of Townshend moves. Some of the audience were irritating - folky folk. The jigging woman in front of me particularly.
*The Shins - in Wolverhampton. Really really bad. Their back catalogue is quite decent, but for some reason they chose to put trebley guitar everywhere, have the vocals horribly mixed & play fast. The crowd loved it. To be fair, the encore was an improvement, with a decent stab at The Past & Pending, a raucous cover of Someone to Care About by The Modern Lovers & a rocking So Says I. An encore does not equal a gig though!!
*The Little Flames - again in Wolverhampton and with some bloody awful supports, especially the ones who thought they were the Stone Roses (the little flames took the piss by playing I Wanna Be Adored's bassline during the soundcheck!). Since no one turned up, they played for the least time possible - still 7 or 8 songs of punky/Beefheart fun.
|
Moth
|
Re: Your Last Live Five
May 07, 2007, 00:20
|
Yep, J'll be at that one & Northampton.... Just me (and CE) for Gloucester.
love
Moth
|
