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Jasonaparkes
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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.
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