― Dave Fischer, Friday, 22 November 2002 04:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― original bgm, Friday, 22 November 2002 05:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― 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
Finished listening to the album. It might be the best one I've heard yet (still need 3 or 4 of the early albums) but definitely the most consistent I've heard, quite a bit heavier I'd say. Really brilliant.
Bought a ticket to their upcoming show. It will be my second time.
Does anyone sit and read the lyrics? Really difficult to follow.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 8 March 2014 22:04 (ten years ago) link
"Candy Gun" showed up in my Spotify discover playlist, thank you for introducing me, Spotify.
― :wq (Leee), Monday, 3 August 2015 22:07 (eight years ago) link
that may be my least favorite song on fetch but it's still great!
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 01:26 (eight years ago) link
Woot!
Saw melt Banana at the garage with DJ scotch egg. Always meant to catch then again. That was 2005 but tonight is the night.
They are doing their own merch. They scare me, slightly.
― koogs, Thursday, 15 June 2017 19:31 (six years ago) link
are they still playing as a duo?
― sleeve, Thursday, 15 June 2017 21:49 (six years ago) link
xp I also saw Melt-Banana at the Garage in 2005 but it was the other night with Narcosis/I'm Being Good/Bullet Union. I saw them a few years ago as a duo around the time Fetch came out. Think that was the 3rd time I saw them? Was thinking of going to see them in Brighton on this tour but timing wasn't good.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 15 June 2017 22:08 (six years ago) link
it's so hot my banana definitely feels like it's melting today
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Thursday, 15 June 2017 22:09 (six years ago) link
xp to self in fact this is documented upthread back in 2005
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 15 June 2017 22:11 (six years ago) link
just the two of them, yes. agata with the facemask and guitar and yasuko doing everything else via midi(?) and that controller thing she uses (one-handed) that looks like a playstation portable.
they were loud and bright and pixel perfect again last night but something didn't click for me and i was paying less attention to what they were doing than to how they were doing it. and the obvious hard work they've put in and all the practice (neither put a beat wrong) just detracted somehow. the 300 other people there seemed to be really into it though.
they were on the merch desk until the support band finished and then spent the interval sorting out their own gear. a minute after they finished agata was back on the desk and yasuko was breaking her stuff down. made me wonder whether the entire tour was just the two of them doing everything on their own (and how lonely that would be).
― koogs, Friday, 16 June 2017 09:08 (six years ago) link
(it's a Numark Orbit - https://www.facebook.com/NumarkOrbit/posts/638933552825050 )
― koogs, Friday, 16 June 2017 09:11 (six years ago) link