Moon Cat
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Edited May 08, 2012, 19:12
Comus at the Borderline Photos
May 08, 2012, 19:11
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Here's some pics (quite a lot it transpires) of Comus being very ace at the Borderline recently.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/russellbloor2/
Set on the right for ease of gawpage for the interested.
ps. I realise there's probably a few duplications and so on and, when I feel less cack (got a nasty cold), I shall go and winnow them out. Bear with me, cos my brain feels like bumsludge at the mo' and, halfway through uploading flickr decided to foist it's new uploading system in beta form on me making things more complex for my feeble mind, so I thought, fack it, I'll do the lot for now.
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zphage
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Re: Comus at the Borderline Photos
May 08, 2012, 20:41
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Bobbie Watson looks great, puts the rest of the old farts to shame
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Sin Agog
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Re: Comus at the Borderline Photos
May 08, 2012, 21:11
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Great photos and yep, Bobbie's looks and voice are extremely well-preserved going on Out of the Coma, which I only just sort of liked. It seemed a bit too much like a gentle middle-aged man writing rape fantasies at the behest of his fanbase but not really putting any passion into 'em. There were some pretty moments, like Watson's singing on The Return, but that sax sound and a strange forced feeling bog the record down somewhat for me. Malgaard's got potential, though. I still need to decode it from all the hissing to really form a true opinion but I think I like it.
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naughtynige
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Re: Comus at the Borderline Photos
May 09, 2012, 18:52
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Nice work!
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Kosmischeboy
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Re: Comus at the Borderline Photos
May 09, 2012, 21:35
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Nice pics! :O)
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Moon Cat
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Edited May 10, 2012, 17:01
Re: Comus at the Borderline Photos
May 10, 2012, 16:20
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Thanks chaps. Just stuck the pics of Purson and Fusion Orchestra 2 supporting up as well.
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Kid Calamity
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Re: Comus at the Borderline Photos
May 10, 2012, 16:39
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Very good, squire. That the same venue as the Comus shots?
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Moon Cat
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Re: Comus at the Borderline Photos
May 10, 2012, 17:02
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Thanks. And yes, tis, they were indeed supporting Comus at the same venue Comus played at ;^)
ps do you see what I mean about the Purson lady being designed to do that kind of music. She was 'mazin!
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aether
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Edited May 11, 2012, 00:07
Re: Comus at the Borderline Photos
May 11, 2012, 00:02
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a couple of questions -
is fusion orchestra 2 an updated version of Fusion Orchetsra who did the Skeleton In Armour LP - surely, it is?
whats the new comus like anyone - whats the vibe on the malgaard suite - I'd always imagined it might have some Henry Cow/Third Ear band-isms as those bands seemed to offer a potential trajectory I could have imagined Comus taking
aether
np still hapmoniym 2!
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Sin Agog
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Re: Comus at the Borderline Photos
May 11, 2012, 00:46
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The three new songs sound a whole lot like someone sitting down and forcing themselves to write a song, 'cause you know new albums require new material, rather than the product of a fitful burst of imagination. Nothing about Out of the Coma's dreadful, but you don't get the feeling of someone being in a really dark place and sending us missives from their madness. It's very middle-aged sounding. Malgaard is pretty amazing once you forget about the fidelity- and believe me, it's about as lo-fi as a Les Rallizes Denudes recording from a dictaphone buried deep inside an audience member's purse- and the shifting, sinuous, muscular songwriting of Comus in peak form bursts through; it sounds almost as good as something on that first album. I suppose there's something a little Henry Cowish there- they did have Lindsay Cooper in the lineup at the time I think. I'm actually a fan of a lot of To Keep From Crying, as a wyrd pop-folk album in the vein of Renaissance or The Strawbs, but it easily trumps anything on there. I'm guessing the problem was Wootten felt cornered into recreating First Utterance with these new songs and what we ended up with were three shapeless, hookless indistinguishable ciphers instead. He must have written better material in the last forty years worthy of release. I'm not sure why he settled on those three tracks.
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