The hardest you ever saw someone rock in a onesie: new 'live shows' thread

[Ignatius]

It was a medium-sized club, but it was pretty well packed. I won't be in Indy for good until May. I'll be sure to make a trip or two down to Louisville.

[Dick]

You moving to Indy dogg?  Don't you do like nonprofit work or something?  Grantwriting?  Is there a lot of stuff there?  My wife works in nonprofit type stuff and we were talking at one point about moving back to the Midwest.

[Ignatius]

I've been applying to stuff that comes up on my work related list-serv, but I dunno that it'll come to anything. Lady's got a job doing medical research out there. If in the meantime I have to grind in retail or something while tryna break in, the relative affordability of Indy makes that much more reasonable. Because it's the capital, you get a fair amount of statewide orgs with headquarters in Indy, but I'll let you know the score once I'm out there out there.

[narlus]

diamond dave and evh

[reebty]

I drove three hours each way yesterday to see Wild Flag in a bar the size of a shoebox. Totally worth it. Janet was behind the merch desk afterwards and I got a photo with her, but unfortunately the others were nowhere to be seen. I would have liked to have met Mary. Hopefully there'll be a next time.

[reebty]

so did people hear about Bradford Cox's "My Sharona" incident?
http://www.prefixmag.com/news/bradford-cox-explains-minneapolis-my-sharona-incid/62907/

If it was anything like "My Sharona as interpreted by Faust", it would have been awesome.

[ellaguru]

I drove three hours each way yesterday to see Wild Flag in a bar the size of a shoebox. Totally worth it. Janet was behind the merch desk afterwards and I got a photo with her, but unfortunately the others were nowhere to be seen. I would have liked to have met Mary. Hopefully there'll be a next time.

Yes! maybe my favourite show last year.

[narlus]

Here's my review and photos, enjoy! unfortunately didn't get to see CtK, too crowded and we crossed signals after the show.


http://www.bigtakeover.com/concerts/new-multitudes-with-bobby-bare-jr-the-paradise-boston-friday-march-16-2012

[reebty]

Borisu!

[Killdozersnakeboy]

Borisu!

I saw them tonight in Melbourne. It was quite disappointing. Mostly due the volume being far too quiet. Seeing them again tomorrow night at a much smaller venue so maybe that'll be better. And I also forgot that Boris have a few terrible songs. Certainly some of the more recent (Smile and onwards) stuff is real bad.

[narlus]

yeah since Rainbow it's been a nosedive.

[Antero]

Spiritualized and Mark Lanegan are playing on the same night at two different venues.  Fuck.

[reebty]

The new Heavy Rocks was my favourite album of last year, and Attention Please was in my top 20, so that helped. I don't like Smile much, but I think they only played one song from it when I saw them. Low volume wasn't an issue.

[narlus]

The new Heavy Rocks was my favourite album of last year, and Attention Please was in my top 20, so that helped. I don't like Smile much, but I think they only played one song from it when I saw them. Low volume wasn't an issue.

Heavy Rocks was just re-recordings of older songs for the most part, right?

there are a few decent songs off _Smile_ ("Flower Sun Rain" (though that is a cover, so maybe it's cheating), "You Were Holding An Umbrella," and the long untitled one at the end).

[Antero]

The new Heavy Rocks was my favourite album of last year, and Attention Please was in my top 20, so that helped. I don't like Smile much, but I think they only played one song from it when I saw them. Low volume wasn't an issue.

Heavy Rocks was just re-recordings of older songs for the most part, right?

I think it was all new stuff with the same album title - at least the tracklists are entirely different.

"Korosu" off of the first Heavy Rocks is possibly my favorite Boris song.

[reebty]

Heavy Rocks and Attention Please are all new material except that they share one song in vastly different versions. The latter is more synthy and upbeat than anything the band has done before, and the vocals are all Wata.  New Album is hardly an album and only about 1/3 new, the rest being slick versions of songs from the other two albums with synth flourishes - and much of Attention Please already has synth flourishes.

[narlus]

yeah i was thinking of _Variations_

[monkeypants]

I just got back from seeing The Bad Plus perform Stravinsky's "Rite Of Spring."  It was epic and pretty awesome.

[fishjim]

I just got back from seeing El Radio Fantastique, which was pretty great. Sort of like if Tom Waits was Jeff Mangum, and had an 8-piece cabaret act with accordions and horns.

[narlus]

three nights in a row of awesome music (Swervedriver, Joy Formidable/A Place to Bury Strangers, Wild Flag/Hospitality).


too bad i have hundreds of photos to go through, keyword, process, etc.

[davy]

Just bought my ticket to see Real Estate tonight, but not because of them. Folklore, one of my favorite intermittently active local bands is opening.

[lucky strike]

oh man, i saw todd rundgren recently. had a lot of the old utopia dudes backing him. that geezer can sing! still got it!  saw r. stevie moore a couple of weeks before, and that was awesome too. played with the men. i only watch 60+ year old rockers now

[ellaguru]

J. Roddy Walston and The Business were pretty awesome. Thanks, Jim, for bigging them up last year. Also, Lucero were good too.

[Antero]

Guitar Wolf tonight, motherfucker!!!

[cold before sunrise]

Missed Longwalkshortdock by a day when he played the Hume in Nelson, the Thurs before Easter. Dave King's coming on the 21st for the Telus Snowboarding festival.