― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link
* being an NJ resident, that might be worthy of having my license revoked or something.
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link
but of course virtuosity don't matter much at all, so it wasn't just that: the setlist was awful. they would play one song with vocals, and then one long, instrumental jammy monstrosity, and then another vocal song. it gave the set NO momentum (NOmemtum), even though the audience ate up the jammy shit, even though they were only playing two motherfucking chords (i think the nearly all-female audience gave them the benefit of the doubt just cuz they were women; no way would a male band jerking off on stage like that have gotten any love, and rightfully so).
basically the impression i got was that the lead singer has been in many bands before, but all of them primarily men, where her talents were underutilized and she was, most likely, seen as Just The Girl. so now she has her own band with other women and she's trying hard but she's just way above their level. it was like seeing a high school band where you can tell one of them is gonna devote his/her life to music even if it means working in guitar center while the rest will move on to office jobs, cheap sex or drugs once the whole thing falls apart.
there wasn't any grace to their performance. the album works cuz it's understated and easy and mellow and stoned and all of those qualities. but live, they wanted to be THE ROCK BAND and holy fuck did they whiff at it. the two people i attended the show with (both women, btw) hated it. but we honestly seemed to be the only ones.
(the show was at the knitting factory in nyc two weeks ago, fyi)
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link
anyway, I think I'd like electrelane's new album if I cd bring myself round to buying it but that album cover is awful. I saw them live, playing the new material, and they were v. v. good. wht songs shd I download maria, as a taster of the best of the album?
― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link
and yes, the frontwoman is the talent in the band obviously. when she just grabbed the sax and started blowing, i was wowed.
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 24 September 2004 04:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 24 September 2004 05:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 24 September 2004 07:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Flyboy (Flyboy), Friday, 24 September 2004 08:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Taxi Dancing in the Soft Prison (Ben Boyer), Friday, 24 September 2004 19:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 24 September 2004 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link
You'd think after time #2 or #3 you'd learn your lesson ...
― gloryinjesus, Friday, 24 September 2004 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh no! The bassist is a girl who was in the year above me at school. and is a very, very nice person, she is quite tiny though, so maybe that's why.
― jellybean (jellybean), Saturday, 25 September 2004 00:48 (nineteen years ago) link
The other thing is Le Mans and that other Spanish band that aren't Le Mans.
I'm going to see them tonight, anyway, as long as it isn't sold out.
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link
btw I like The Power Out a lot more than Stereolab, or at least most Stereolab. It sends me.
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 16 May 2005 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link
Yes! Well, on "Enter Laughing," anyway. Can't quite put my finger on which VU songs this sounds like.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 16 May 2005 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 16 May 2005 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link
Mia Clarke is like Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo was 15 years ago. The coolest guitarist in the world. She's like this tiny rock fairy with a guitar that's almost bigger than her. More importantly I must say that I think she's the most beautiful human being I've ever seen. Whenever she'd move the hair that fell over her face and smile shyly(she has a great smile) to the crowd I melted. I think we made eye contact once! I am so completly in love with her and I will never EVER complain when girls go crazy for male rock stars. I get it now! I UNDERSTAND
― Lovelace (Lovelace), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lovelace (Lovelace), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lovelace (Lovelace), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link
there's another electrelane thread, isn't there? i'm sure i posted on it. hmm.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link
I have just discovered their album "Axes"... christ, this is great. I was a bit surprised by how straight-down-the-line they were with their up-and-at-em rock sounds, given that I usually expect Wire cover stars to be all noodley and inaccessible. Being straight-down-the-line is a good thing, mind... it's like the rock version of being anti-rockist.
The cover of "The Partisan" is my new favourite tune.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― myopic_void (myopic_void), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link
we raced together! i think electrelane put on the better set that night, IMHO.
― mts (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― el juan (el juan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― el juan (el juan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruairi Wirewool (Ruairi Wirewool), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/CWOJHHyMWa_/?utm_medium=copy_link!!
― willem, Saturday, 13 November 2021 22:53 (two years ago) link
oh wow
― bovarism, Saturday, 13 November 2021 22:56 (two years ago) link
\m/
― mookieproof, Saturday, 13 November 2021 22:57 (two years ago) link
They’ve been hinting at this for a while now but really cool to see how many people are excited on the socials.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 13 November 2021 23:17 (two years ago) link
hell yeah
― JoeStork, Sunday, 14 November 2021 00:04 (two years ago) link
Yes!
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 14 November 2021 01:44 (two years ago) link
Vg
― plax (ico), Sunday, 14 November 2021 17:26 (two years ago) link
I only just saw that they're getting back together (after they popped up in my Pandora), and they're a band that I am willing to get COVID for (if they're even considering a tour).
― we talkin bout praxis (Leee), Monday, 22 August 2022 21:39 (two years ago) link
I’d love to see them live!
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 22 August 2022 22:11 (two years ago) link
yo, i just discovered this band! they are so great!
― budo jeru, Sunday, 9 April 2023 03:13 (one year ago) link
otm
― mookieproof, Sunday, 9 April 2023 03:30 (one year ago) link
Power Out and No Calls have aged very well. They seem more distinctive, even more in their own little sound world, than in the 00s
― Terrycoth Baphomet (bendy), Sunday, 9 April 2023 03:51 (one year ago) link
Axes as well!
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Sunday, 9 April 2023 03:56 (one year ago) link
this show is so great...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR63neoReGQ
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 9 April 2023 09:11 (one year ago) link
Haven’t seen anything more about the reunion but Verity Susman has a new band Memorials that’s releasing a double album and touring the UK this spring.
― JoeStork, Sunday, 9 April 2023 14:27 (one year ago) link
With Matt from Wire.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 9 April 2023 16:02 (one year ago) link
lol that Susman's website link to her band actually leads to memorials (dot) com, to buy funeral related items.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 19:12 (one year ago) link
Pretty into the Memorials albums on first listen!
― JoeStork, Monday, 22 May 2023 16:12 (one year ago) link
happy 20th to the power out
― mookieproof, Friday, 26 January 2024 23:19 (seven months ago) link
Still love it and listen to it regularly.
― fajita seas, Saturday, 27 January 2024 01:32 (seven months ago) link
New EP from Verity’s new band, Memorials
https://memorialsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/centre-pompidou-ep
It’s lovely!!
― Premises, Premises (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 7 April 2024 19:19 (five months ago) link
I saw them supporting Stereolab last year. tbf I didn't enjoy it that much but I had dragged a friend along who hadn't even heard Stereolab before so I was probably too focused on trying to make sure my friend was having a good time than enjoying the gig (he did in fact love Stereolab esp the last half of the set when they played the longer songs, so I probably shouldn't've worried)
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 7 April 2024 23:08 (five months ago) link