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Arab Strap last Friday:
Songs:Ohia were announced to support them, but didn’t show up. The S:O dates in Germany & Holland have been cancelled shortly before they should happen
James Orr Complex opened instead, a guy with his guitar singing a number of quiet introverted songs, which was also fine.
Arab Strap …I downloaded some songs of them & were trying to get into them, but my impression that they’re weird and not my cup of tea remained, so I even threw them out of my shared folder on soulseek (which is a bad decline in my world)
Fortunately Spaceboy convinced me to see this show, and I was fascinated from the first song on, it all was completely different to my impression of the records. I thought it was all electronic with someone ranting around about frustration, but in real, they were 7 guys, even with violin & cello and I was drowning in their overwhelming sound right from the start.
Their music is melodic, melancholic, emotional & also a bit weird. Most of the songs they played were from the latest record, Monday at the Hug & Pint, and I bought the album at the gig (I have to have the albums I love in real
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I only regret that I didn’t also buy the 2003 live album Arab Strap @ the Cunted Circus, which is a great recording of one of their recent gigs, and it’s sold only on the tour.my sister get married…she let out a big whoohoo after the i do’s… a genetic trait
after the reception saw some pals get shusshed in the middle of pressure drop at a very swank hotel…they played a benefit to help a 14 year old girl get a swank new electronic wheel chair…they were told to turn it down during pressure drop… of course they turned it up
made more than 29 thousand dollars thru auction and entrance fees
it was a very dave clark 5 experience, black shiny setof black pearl drums right up frojnt/…
"Voodoo Girl" wrote:my sister get married…she let out a big whoohoo after the i do’s…I like your sister
saw lake trout and some wild icelandic dudes on halloween in baltimore. pretty crazy, they had evil dead 2 playing over lt’s set. at the after party (lt’s drummer is a sorta friend) one of the crazy icelandic dudes passed out behind a table. good times. gbv next week, liars on the 28th, ted leo next month
Belle and Sebastian w/Rasputina
The Pagaent, Nov 5, 2003Yeah, two bands nobody else in the FreakScene could give two shits about. But B&S are certainly number 3 or 4 on my top five bands list (they compete for postition with Fugazi), and they only tour once every 16 years, so I hadda go.
First downer of the night was having a friends car break down, meaning my favorite girlie and I now were three. I tried my damndest not to make him a third leg, but still. . .
Opening act was Rasputina. Two girls with cellos and a hairy dude on drums. I’ve been hearing nothing but good about this band for the past few months, which is why I was rather dissapointed.
They weren’t bad by any means, when they ‘rocked out’ they were pretty damned good. The singer has a strong voice and the cellos fill out both melody and bass pretty well. But much of the stuff felt like "lets write a song" and "aren’t we weird, we wrote a song about Howard Hughs."
I was a bit apprehensive about Belle and Sebastians set, I’d read many bad reviews describing the benad as "shambling," "messy," and "having ten minute pauses between songs."
The band took to the stage as an absolute fucking army. The core of the band is seven or eight, and on this night there were at least twelve people on stage at any time. The line up was (right to left, front to back, no names because these fuckers never get photographed) Trumpet/Bass, guitar/bass, Guitars/vocals, vocals/guitar (and he sometimes went back to the Keyboards, Stuart Murdoch I presume?), Violin/flute/keys/vocals, Somtimes cello. Behind the guitar army was a drum set, a hammond organ, an old rhodes piano, and another keyboard. Behind that mess was a string quartet. Confused yet?
The band started off with a freeform jazz odessy, and then went into a set based heavily on their new album. They did play "Photo Jenny" (my favorite), "Dog on Wheels," and a few other old ones. Also included was a cover of ABBA’s "Dancing Queen" with nervous guest vocals from a random audience member. The occasional in between song banter was funny enough (possibly because the Scottish accents made them almost unintelligable). The band espoused their love of Chuck Berry and the Cardinals (no shit, they’re in St. Louis), lampooned the venue as looking like a place Elvis would perform in while in Las Vegas, and requested we tell them our party pieces. I think they were looking for requests, although somebody used it as an excues to toss a bra onstage. Which prompted the following exchange
"I’m colourblind, wha’ colour is it?"
(audience yelling) "It’s brown"
"Oh, how indie, tha’s very noice."
The band’s set was quite short, with a single encore of "Judy and the Dream of Horses." I was in the car by 11:00.
All things told, a small part of me feels like I should be dissapointed, but mostly I feel sorta warm and fuzzy.when they played in dc, they tried to cram two ($30) shows into one night. steward "got sick" after a bunch of complaints. i like b&s, but i am bitter.
Malc-just because B And S and Rasputina does`nt get mentioned much here does`nt mean that there is`nt somebody here that likes them
I have 1 B and S album(Fold You Hands Child…;it was also one of my fave albums in 2000)and 1 Rasputina album(Thanks For The Ether;has some cool cover songs like Melanie`s Brand New Key and Lil Green`s Why Don`t You Do Right(which was done more famously by the woman that`s my avatar ) did you know they opened for Marilyn Manson some years back?).
Thanks for the review
i have like 4 or so b&s albums and bought dear, catastrphe waitress the day it came out. YOU ARE NOT ALONE, MALC
I have all the B&S albums except the Storytelling Soundtrack. Actually, I don’t have the new one yet but I’ve ordered it. My favorite is "If You’re Feeling…" followed by "The Boy with the…". One of my favorite bands, though I’m not as into them as I was a few years ago. Saw them in 2001 in San Francisco. I was kind of disappointed with the show, but it was okay. Their gimmick was to do a different cover at every show/city. For us they played "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" by Scott MacKenzie, which I enjoyed. Their next stop was Portland, which was also September 11th, and I hear they played "Turn Turn Turn" by the Byrds and everyone was in tears.
11/7/03, The Casbah
BROADCASTThey sounded really good live. I was kind of wondering since they do have a pretty strong electronic sound. The drums were great and much more deep…or "full" sounding. The bass as well. They played a lot off the new album, and some of the hits off "The Noise Made by People." And Trish Kennan is damn cute.
guided by voices with the oranges band, recher theatre, towson, md 11/10/03
missed most of the oranges band, but whatever. gbv played for just under 3 hours (two encores). played alot of the fan favs, its really amazing, i’ve seen them like 6 times, and they always play like 10 songs i’ve never heard before. along with another 10 i’m meh on 20 great ones, and 20 out-of-the-park homeruns. and yeah, 60 songs is not an exageration.
bob banter highlights: ragging on sonic youth: "i like to rag on bands you aren’t allowed to rag on. why can you rag on the beatles but not sonic youth? we’re cooler than cool."
we are on a lable called mat-A-door (big applause) a very prestegious lable. we used to be on tvt (boos) apparently not so prestegious labelset list:
Idiot Princess
She Goes Off At Night
Finks
Queen Of Cans And Jars
My Son My Secretary My Country
I’ll Replace You With Machines
My Kind Of Soldier
Christian Animation Torch Carriers
Back To The Lake
Get Back
Red Ink Superman
Bull Spears
Things I Will Keep
Dirty Water
Best Of Jill Hives
As We Go Up, We Go Down
Little Lines
A Trophy Mule In Particular
Apology In Advance
Secret Star
Beg For A Wheelbarrow
Game Of Pricks
Mix Up The Satellites
Main Street Wizards
Love 1
Storm Vibrations
Shocker In Gloomtown
Watch Me Jumpstart
From A Voice Plantation
Skills Like This
The Brides Have Hit The Glass
Get Under It
Hey Aardvark
Murder Charge
Buzzards And Dreadful Crows
Harrison Adams
Cut-Out Witch
Of Mites And MenENCORE:
Useless Inventions
Mascara Snakes
Tractor Rape Chain
Echos Myron
I Am A ScientistSECOND ENCORE:
Hot Freaks
Alone, Stinking, And Unafraid
Glad Girls
Teenage FBInext: either le tigre or liars
Have you seen the new GBV video w/local (St. Louis) legend Beatle Bob? I about had a coronory when he popped up.
I’m gonna get slaughtered for this -Robbie Williams.
But hey, what can you do when someone you care about wants you to come. Nothing that’s what. So I went. It didn’t suck. But it was strange. Not used to big concerts like that, 13.000 or something. I’d been drinking heavily to try to numb myself, which was a good thing, because about halfway through I got sort of a vision of Marilyn Manson entering the stage and tearing Robbie to pieces, taking over the whole thing. That would have been so awesome. All those people coming there to see Robbie, but instead they’re treated to a brilliant night of Mansons escapades. So the rest of the night I kept on screaming for The New Shit and Use Your Fist Not Your Mouth when all the others where screaming for Angel. I am a happy freak.
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