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• #2203
Anyone in Ipswich or nearby want tickets for Pom Poko this evening ,they are playing at St Stephens Church (St Stephens Ln, Ipswich IP1 1DP) - can't make it and have 2 tickets
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• #2205
Somehow tonight was even better??
Cant fathom doing them again
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• #2206
Meeting a couple of very old friends in Vigo on Thursday for this. It's essentially an all-star tribute show but I still can't wait, my fave band of all time, their music still gives me chills after forty years. Anyone going to the London show?
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• #2207
Fu Manchu tomorrow in Camden, going to be rad. They’ve been doing it so long they’re tight as it gets.
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• #2209
Radio City 50th anniversary show was great. Very weird without Alex but so much love in the room, great versions of the songs.
Chris Stamey is the special sauce guy, he probably knows all the songs even better than Jody. Speaking of Jody, I can't believe he's in his 70s, his drumming is incredible and he still looks like a young fella. Pat Sansone played most of the Strat bits really well and has got a great voice in that higher pitched Alex/Chris register. Mike Mills was a revelation, he was great on vocals. Jon Auer rocked out a bit too much for my liking but he's always great, he wrote Definite Door, Solar Sister and Flavour of the Month so he gets a pass.
If you're on the fence buy a ticket, a really moving experience in places, chills up the spine, two hour show so great value for money.
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• #2210
well im absolutely destroyed but i managed 6 nights,
Glasgow Vertigo was my favourite, followed by London Infinity Land, but all 6 were incredible
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• #2211
Won some tickets to go and see Los Bitchos this evening - they've been on my 'must see' list for ages now so that's handy.
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• #2212
Protoje and Tippy I last night, awesome.
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• #2213
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Live and singing at Rough Trade East on 01/12.
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• #2214
Richard Dawson at the Ivy House in December would be a hell of a gig. Unfortunately I already have a gig booked.
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• #2215
He played Supersonic in Birmingham earlier in the year - I'd be up for seeing him again, but that's my wife's birthday, so better not ...
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• #2216
He was pretty good as support for Lankum at Hammersmith Apollo on Saturday and it would be really good to see him in a smaller space. We're going to Fontaines DC in Dublin that weekend though
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• #2217
So, saw Lemonheads last year, and Evan Dando looked like he was holding things together, apparently now married and living in Brazil or somesuch and off the gear. Saw him solo last night, guy is an utter fucking casualty - utterly shambolic, losing his way in songs, forgetting words, just clearly off his head. At one stage he spent a few minutes making a crap paper airplane out of what might have been a setlist. Was with a friend who's another unfortunate drug addict, and he couldn't believe Dando was on the stage in that state (altho tbf Dando didn't disappear three-quarters of the way through the gig to score like my mate did). Real shame.
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• #2218
What a loser. Back in the early noughties a couple of mates of mine were invited to his suite at the Hilton, he was in London for a few days to record a song that was gonna play out the credits in a movie. He should've been in the studio but spent the whole time getting high in the hotel with a procession of indie faces and hangers-on. My mates stayed for a couple of days, unsurprisingly the song didn't get recorded. #csb
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• #2219
Saw Nick Cave last night.
Not sure how I ended up going. I’m not a fan…in the sense that I’m aware of his work but haven’t really sat down with it. So I thought why not? Why not go in pretty much cold to see an artist who is supposed to be hot shit?
OK definitely hot shit. Presence, charisma a voice, the bad seeds, the band - that band!
The rythmns and tones the breakdowns and the crescendos.But he doesn’t like a song that resolves itself does he? It’s about the narrative arc I guess.
That’s the bit I find hard to hang onto, I’m traditional in that sense it’s all unfinished to me. Polished and crafted and real but open ended. I get that’s the point, like I get a joke that doesn’t quite tickle me to belly laugh.So yeah was good, probably won’t listen to his music again on purpose though
Ok I like the Birthday Party and still do
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• #2220
I'm going tomorrow. Wasn't planning to, as I've seen him every tour for donkeys and don't really like the Warren Ellis era, but my wife's very keen, and he's always very good live, particularly when he lets the Seeds do their thing.
Your thinking on the songs I agree with - most of the recent work (and he's playing the whole new album) is meditations on a vibe, exploring love and grief, which is usually very pretty, but I still want him to be metaphorically downing moonshine by the bottle, murdering innocent women and howling at the moon while the Seeds fill the place with their racket.
Basically, guy needs to get his Grinderman hat on for a while.
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• #2221
Going to see Felice Brothers at the Electric Ballroom tonight, should be good.
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• #2222
Ok I like the Birthday Party and still do
I feel so fortunate to have seen them so many times when I was a kid, they made me into the idiot I am. I went to the first few Cavemen and Bad Seeds shows but lost interest pretty quickly, I (wrongly) blamed him for breaking up The Birthday Party, turned out it was Mick's fault! Amazing to see the reach he has now, he's come a long bloody way.
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• #2223
Saw Amyl and the Sniffers last night at the Roundhouse. Great gig. Fantastic live band. Can see what all the hype is about.
Loads of the audience could have been 'on here'
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• #2224
I was a little sceptical about the new wild god stuff but seeing him again doing tupilak was a bit if a revelation . The new live production is something else.
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• #2225
I'm a bit over Cavey now. It's got to the stage where it's always the new stuff (which gets less attractive every tour) plus Tupelo, Red Right Hand, Ship Song, Weeping Song, From Her to Eternity. Which sound great, but I've seen it 'nuff times. Still, OH loved it, so worthwhile.
Also, with the Israel/coronation/pals with Gove stuff, think I'm done. Wish I'd gone to Amyl instead, but can't take 2 trips to Ldn in a week.
Off to see Seth Lakeman this week with the Kitty Jay 20th Anniversary our. Where did all the years go?
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