yeah i like Horse Lords but Needlegun was my shit
― some dude, Monday, 2 May 2016 14:55 (eight years ago) link
this riff \m/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKlpzSYhr0M&feature
― de l'asshole (flopson), Monday, 2 May 2016 15:00 (eight years ago) link
my favorite needle gun set of the first iteration (mike, max, jack, gram):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw7vUyJlo3Q
― flappy bird, Monday, 2 May 2016 15:58 (eight years ago) link
when i saw them it was way more rawk
― de l'asshole (flopson), Monday, 2 May 2016 16:44 (eight years ago) link
re: two drummers and sax above, and this should be in the thread anyway. I think this is Wildcat Strike off the first record (and drum-->sax switch around 4min).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p58eEgyQ3rE
― city worker, Monday, 2 May 2016 18:35 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzHK4oo1GLI
― scott seward, Friday, 6 May 2016 15:20 (eight years ago) link
great show
― de l'asshole (flopson), Friday, 6 May 2016 15:24 (eight years ago) link
is that youtube ok to share?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 6 May 2016 16:01 (eight years ago) link
i could have driven to mass or vt to see them this past week but i am old and have to job :(
― Francis Ford Cupola (contenderizer), Friday, 6 May 2016 16:05 (eight years ago) link
you can share that video as long as you give credit like this:
VIDEO COURTESY OF Sam PunkrockHobbit Jem Hadge
― scott seward, Friday, 6 May 2016 16:12 (eight years ago) link
it's all that he asks really. and if you want to see almost every great weird show in western mass over the last couple of years, check out his channel.
― scott seward, Friday, 6 May 2016 16:13 (eight years ago) link
Thanks, will do!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 6 May 2016 17:03 (eight years ago) link
yeah, tip appreciate, scott!
also, got my LP of this from the nice northern spy people today. came with an eye-scorching screenprint thing and looks boss.
― Francis Ford Cupola (contenderizer), Friday, 6 May 2016 18:35 (eight years ago) link
unfortunately the opening arent my friends cool noise band but some jazz skronk wankers... bleh
It does seem like they could have used more help booking their tour. One of the places they are playing in the Bay Area is like, the worst place to see a show in the wanky-bad-free-improv no one shows up because it's boring places (as opposed to douchebro/overpriced drinks type worst places)
― sarahell, Friday, 6 May 2016 19:02 (eight years ago) link
I'm a little concerned that the place they're playing in Seattle is way too small, given that the show will probably get written up in alt-weeklies as a can't-miss.
― JoeStork, Friday, 6 May 2016 19:04 (eight years ago) link
^^ more proof of my theory.
― sarahell, Friday, 6 May 2016 19:06 (eight years ago) link
To be fair it's a rad space and Andrew Bernstein played there a few weeks ago but they might be underestimating their audience.
― JoeStork, Friday, 6 May 2016 19:09 (eight years ago) link
yeah, the band played this space in Oakland that I sometimes help my friends book when they toured out here last (two years ago?), but it can fit 50 ppl tops, and the friend who's on the lease would have had a major panic attack dealing with that many people and the "unwanted attention" that would attract as the space is basically a house.
― sarahell, Friday, 6 May 2016 19:13 (eight years ago) link
they probably would have played at my store last year but i'm taking a break and the local music store across the street is doing regular shows. which is cool. i got a little burnt out on all the shows we had. the music store is in a HUGE old bank building with a big old safe and everything. two spots for music. the back for loud stuff and the main room with a zillion foot ceiling for quieter stuff. tony pasquarosa and pg six played that room 2 weeks ago.
my wife just rented the floor above my store though and i might use that in the future for music. it's 2000 square feet of space.
― scott seward, Friday, 6 May 2016 19:35 (eight years ago) link
my friends neel (bromp treb) and ted, olivia, and matt (curse purse) opened for them here.
― scott seward, Friday, 6 May 2016 19:36 (eight years ago) link
they were originally listed for a house show in Portland (I'm 99 percent sure), but have since bumped up to an appropriate/good venue.
― alpine static, Friday, 6 May 2016 20:30 (eight years ago) link
they're playing a basement here on monday, which is likely to be way too smallalthough last year they opened for liturgy so they played a relatively normal venue (for liturgy)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 6 May 2016 20:37 (eight years ago) link
coincidentally, Zs are playing here yesterday and today
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 6 May 2016 20:38 (eight years ago) link
― scott seward, Friday, May 6, 2016 12:36 PM (1 hour ago)
I think I have met them too! i think they just played here in Oakland recently?
― sarahell, Friday, 6 May 2016 20:46 (eight years ago) link
there weren't that many people at the show in Montreal. would have been a crowded basement show but a thin-to-regular draw for a thursday night at a bar. seemed poorly promoted (no involvement with major indie promoters, just a facebook event and a handscrawled poster in the 5-block vicinity of the venue) + we don't really have an anglophone alt-weekly anymore.
― de l'asshole (flopson), Friday, 6 May 2016 20:52 (eight years ago) link
neel was recently in cali. you know chris and jess, no? they were all in fat worm together.
neel and curse purse just got back from europe. they played some shows together there. even iceland!
― scott seward, Friday, 6 May 2016 21:05 (eight years ago) link
yes, and yes! wow!
― sarahell, Friday, 6 May 2016 21:06 (eight years ago) link
i heard about the mpls show via a local music scene-y message board, wouldn't have seen it anywhere else. not sure how that poster even found out!
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 6 May 2016 21:39 (eight years ago) link
GT - and it's not listed on the Eagles calendar, which looks fairly up to date. need confirmation, don't want to miss them.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Friday, 6 May 2016 22:25 (eight years ago) link
it's on the northern spy website with more info:http://northernspyrecords.com/shows/
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 6 May 2016 23:23 (eight years ago) link
cool, thx!
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Friday, 6 May 2016 23:52 (eight years ago) link
i never reported back about this show! i am so glad it was at the diy space! what a fun experience and i was not the oldest person there or even the oldest woman. the only serious issue was that it was packed beyond reason, and i was standing about 12-15 in front of the bass/amp which was cranked to the point of drowning virtually everything else out. i thought maybe it was just me, but i asked around and that was not the case. from what i could hear, they sounded awesome and even played a short round of solos good times
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 17 May 2016 20:36 (eight years ago) link
12-15 *feet, at the most
Just started listening to this. Sounds v good so far: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Horse_Lords/Live_at_WFMU_on_Gateway_To_Joy_with_Donna_7262016/
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 03:49 (seven years ago) link
New mixtape coming, new interview here:
http://thequietus.com/articles/21987-horse-lords-interview
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 16:42 (seven years ago) link
https://horselords.bandcamp.com/album/mixtape-iv
― sleeve, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 16:45 (seven years ago) link
btw that WFMU set Sund4r links above is really good
anyone have a chance to see them with Roedelius & Wume last weekend? i keep wondering how that show was but i don't know anyone who went.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 16:47 (seven years ago) link
Wume are sick
― flopson, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 16:57 (seven years ago) link
I didn't get to go to the show but it turned out not to be Horse Lords because one of them couldn't make it (they refuse to try and play their stuff a man down). The rest of them did a weird electronic set.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 17:06 (seven years ago) link
xxp
i was at that show. horse lords were doing a kind of different set than i've seen from them before. no drummer, +1 bagpiper. extra drone. bagpiper walked through the audience at one point making for a cool phasing effect.
Wume was solid as per usual.
Roedelius was great. i'd never heard his solo stuff, but it was basically a quiet, subtle, spacey, psych thing that you would expect from a dude from Kluster. he finished with some more straightforward, melodic keyboard pieces that were beautiful. good night out.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 17:08 (seven years ago) link
ah, ok, that would explain the different set.
xp
― circa1916, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 17:09 (seven years ago) link
bagpiper!! i saw yoshi wada recently and he had a bagpipe and there was a full-regalia trad bagpiper too. i was sitting on the floor and when they walked into the room it was MAGICAL. amazing.
i love roedelius -- was wondering if he played more piano stuff or what. his compositions are so...idk how to put it...clear?
i don't blame them for not playing their horse lords material without a drummer -- it wouldn't sound like them anyway, so why try?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 17:34 (seven years ago) link
Quietus interview is very good thx Ned
― flopson, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 17:34 (seven years ago) link
Happy to share it!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 17:39 (seven years ago) link
the show was sweet, horse lords initially dropped out but I'm glad they threw something together with only 2 days' notice. owen's guitar playing in particular was great. Roedelius' set was mostly laptop/electronics, with a bit of electric piano at the end. he was hilarious, stood up at the end of his set and said "So no one's going to bring me a Schnapps?" Then he took his iPhone out and made everyone give him a standing ovation as he filmed it lol
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 17:47 (seven years ago) link
really digging Mixtape IV right now, looking forward to whatever they do next.
― sleeve, Thursday, 16 August 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
the 1st album and Mixtape #1 are on Bandcamp now
― sleeve, Thursday, 27 December 2018 19:50 (five years ago) link
Playing on a bill with Mdou Moctar in DC next week.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 January 2019 04:46 (five years ago) link
oh man, what a bill. wish those two would tour the whole country together.
― alpine static, Friday, 4 January 2019 04:48 (five years ago) link