― Nick Mirov (nick), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 17:57 (twenty years ago) link
― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:11 (twenty years ago) link
― NA. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:29 (twenty years ago) link
Uk please also thx
― itchy bits (itchy bits), Monday, 28 February 2005 00:18 (nineteen years ago) link
Saw 'em tonight at Dante's in Portland--as always "RRAGG" was the third song they played--I somehow think that's kind of hilarious. (Maybe it's because they also like looking at the crowd right after it to see who's never seen them before, because they're the people who have expressions on their faces like "did they just do that?") They also pulled out a cover of Devo's "Uncontrollable Urge." If there's a guitarist who uses pedals more expressively these days than Agata, I don't know who it would be. And I am very sure there's not a better English-language lyricist whose native language isn't English than Yasuko Onuki.
― Douglas (Douglas), Sunday, 15 May 2005 07:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: the rebel sound of grits and bacon (latebloomer), Sunday, 15 May 2005 07:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― nathalie's baby (stevie nixed), Sunday, 15 May 2005 08:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 15 May 2005 08:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― shieldforyoureyes, Sunday, 15 May 2005 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― A homunculus of Darby Crash, .... created for the purposes of *EVIL* (ex machina, Sunday, 15 May 2005 15:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― original bgm, Sunday, 15 May 2005 15:33 (nineteen years ago) link
I only own Cell-Scape so far & fear I may never see them live :-(
I concur, that solo record is worth picking up. Fun and even pretty in parts. Also reminds you just how unfathomably great & out-there his riffage in the group set-up is.
xpost - I like that outro... more ambience than noise tho?
― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 15 May 2005 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: the rebel sound of grits and bacon (latebloomer), Sunday, 15 May 2005 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link
True... but it's a fine line, I suppose.
Teeny Shiny is like Cell-Scape v0.7. Pretty solid, but still not quite the amicable merge of pop and grindcore it should be.
― original bgm, Sunday, 15 May 2005 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― shieldforyoureyes, Sunday, 15 May 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link
Nov 6 2005 8:00P Pavillion Theatre Brighton UK,Nov 8 2005 8:00P Fleece and Firkin Bristol United Kindom,Nov 9 2005 8:00P Medicine Bar, Custard Factory Birmingham United Kingdom,Nov 10 2005 8:00P Garage London United Kingdom,Nov 11 2005 8:00P AC2 Manchester, United Kingdom,Nov 12 2005 8:00P Oran Mor Glasgow United Kingdom,Nov 13 2005 8:00P The Georglan Theatre Teeside/New Castle United Kingdom,Nov 14 2005 8:00P Nottingham Trent Uni. Nottingham United Kingdom,Nov 15 2005 8:00P Clwb Ifor Bach Cardiff United Kingdom,Nov 17 2005 8:00P BBC session London United Kingdom,Nov 18 2005 8:00P tba Leeds United Kingdom,Nov 19 2005 8:00P The Adelphi Hull United Kingdom,Nov 20 2005 8:00P Garage London United Kingdom,Nov 21 2005 8:00P tba Southhampton United Kingdom,
bought my ticket for 10th november yesterday. phear me.
― koogs (koogs), Saturday, 8 October 2005 10:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 8 October 2005 10:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― marcg (marcg), Saturday, 8 October 2005 10:45 (eighteen years ago) link
It is banana yellow.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Saturday, 8 October 2005 11:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Don King of the Mountain (noodle vague), Saturday, 8 October 2005 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― shieldforyoureyes, Saturday, 8 October 2005 21:01 (eighteen years ago) link
(support slot last night was DJ Scotch Egg doing his usual GameBoy Gabba thing. divided the audience somewhat but i loved it)
― koogs (koogs), Friday, 11 November 2005 09:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 11 November 2005 09:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Friday, 11 November 2005 09:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― MESTEMA (davidcorp), Friday, 11 November 2005 10:31 (eighteen years ago) link
My ears ringy. It's all good. I don't need to hear ever again.
― THIS IS THE SOUND OF ALTERN 8 !!! (noodle vague), Saturday, 19 November 2005 23:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 24 November 2005 00:00 (eighteen years ago) link
I think they're a little disappointing on album, but the live show is amazing.
― Mickey (modestmickey), Thursday, 24 November 2005 02:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mickey (modestmickey), Thursday, 24 November 2005 02:31 (eighteen years ago) link
They covered Uncontrollable Urge & Neat Neat Neat, which was fun. So glad I went (I had to go on my own, as I suffer from a distinct lack of noisecore loving friends).
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 24 November 2005 09:53 (eighteen years ago) link
the BBC session mentioned above will be broadcast by Rob Da Bank, i think this thursday evening. (ie tonight)
― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 24 November 2005 10:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― nancyboy (nancyboy), Thursday, 24 November 2005 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― shieldforyoureyes, Thursday, 24 November 2005 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic/exposed/meltbanana549p01.shtml
― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 8 December 2005 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-YEAH!! (fandango), Thursday, 8 December 2005 19:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Thursday, 8 December 2005 19:58 (eighteen years ago) link
On their sixth full-length studio release Melt Banana exercise a hitherto undetected area of their musical musculature: the "rock" region. Summing up an entire album, and one as diverse as Bambi's Dilemma, with such a pedestrian qualifier is risky business, agreed, but it seems to fit like never before. The band, of course, refuses to accommodate any such pigeonholing: "Maybe it is rock, but maybe not. We just make whatever we want. We just follow our own instincts!" The truth is MxBx makes music as they please, relying solely on their own maverick talent to get them where they need to be. Bambi's Dilemma's eighteen tracks careen from extreme, fastblast attacks to more serene moments (usually reserved for nonalbum releases) to the band's revolutionary new, guitar and bassless "Theremin-core".
― fandango, Thursday, 5 April 2007 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango, Thursday, 5 April 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― xox, Thursday, 5 April 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dominique, Thursday, 5 April 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango, Thursday, 5 April 2007 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― m the g, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― xox, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― shieldforyoureyes, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― rio natsume, Friday, 6 April 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― koogs, Monday, 23 April 2007 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link
Theirs remains one of the most amazing shows I've ever seen. There was this palpable ENERGY winding through the crowd that felt like you could've easily been swallowed up by the sea of bodies and would've been utterly menacing if the overall vibes hadn't been super-positive. It was like being in a venue-wide mosh pit comprised entirely of your family and loved ones.
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Thursday, 6 June 2024 17:15 (one week ago) link
“Backing band” is a bit impersonal; Rika was their bassist for about 20 years before she left, or was dismissed, I don’t actually know what happened there. I hope it wasn’t a Janet Weiss-style shitcanning.
I saw them on that 2010 tour as well, and then again a few years later as a duo, and yeah they were better as a full band to me. I wouldn’t go out of my way to see them again. I am looking forward to the new album, though.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Thursday, 6 June 2024 18:51 (one week ago) link
Saw 'em last night and can confirm it was awesome. Most energetic & punk live experience I've had in years. Never had the chance to see them as a fully-live unit but I also don't feel like I missed out on something. Maybe I did! But I'm more than satisfied with what I got--it was magic
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Friday, 7 June 2024 20:04 (six days ago) link
Was that in Baltimore? Haven’t been to that place and wasn’t able to make it up there
― curmudgeon, Friday, 7 June 2024 20:06 (six days ago) link
Philly was last night, Baltimore is tonight. Which I was gonna get tix for but it was sold out by the time I got to it. :(
― circa1916, Friday, 7 June 2024 21:19 (six days ago) link
I have to decide between Melt-Banana and Prolapse, they are playing the same night. I was going to see Prolapse but then the new album announcement... Also I can just walk down the sea front instead of getting a train to London, I think Melt-Banana might win this one
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 8 June 2024 02:31 (five days ago) link
correct choice imho
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Saturday, 8 June 2024 06:20 (five days ago) link
but I just played Psychotic Now by Prolapse and now I don't know anything any more. I might have to flip a coin
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 9 June 2024 02:33 (four days ago) link