Lightning Bolt at the ICA this Friday

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I was in the second row, andrew.

my flatmate was in the first row and is in the NME picture this week.

wow.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 18 April 2004 00:29 (twenty years ago) link

just wow.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 18 April 2004 00:30 (twenty years ago) link

I can't decide if I'd like them on record. I really enjoyed the set I saw at ATP, but that's partly cos of the atmosphere of the place, and that it was a live show (there are loads of bands, like Mogwai, Part Chimp etc that I'd prefer to listen to live than at home).

I wished I managed to get a copy of that dvd though.

― jellybean (jellybean), Sunday, 18 April 2004 00:36 (twenty years ago) link

they are bad on record.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 18 April 2004 00:37 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, that's what I'd imagine the record to be.

It's like this other group i saw a few weeks ago, called Hella. They were amazing to watch live, mainly cos the guitarist and drummer were awesome musicians, but listening to them at home would drive me mad.

― jellybean (jellybean), Sunday, 18 April 2004 00:39 (twenty years ago) link

hella are bad, period. I think.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 18 April 2004 00:43 (twenty years ago) link

prog-hardcore innit.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 18 April 2004 00:44 (twenty years ago) link

i dunno. I quite enjoyed them live, but that's partly just cos of watching them perform, and seeing their guitar playing and drumming.

but i really don't know how to compare all these noisy duos based on one listen.. they all sound roughly the same.

― jellybean (jellybean), Sunday, 18 April 2004 00:47 (twenty years ago) link

lightning bolt:

first album: noisy, scrapy -> second album: more melodic, songy.

hella:

first albums: melodic, tom lehrer tunes innit -> latest album: scabrous noise.

hella want to be (what) lightning bolt (were). lightning bolt want to be hella. I think. roughly.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 18 April 2004 00:51 (twenty years ago) link

so they should just meet in the middle, and form one messy 4 piece band.

imagine the noise from those shows..

― jellybean (jellybean), Sunday, 18 April 2004 00:53 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.laserbeast.com/photos/index.html

pictures of UK shows here! point out ilxorz

― Lil' Fancy Kpants (The K is Silent) (ex machina), Monday, 19 April 2004 17:05 (twenty years ago) link

ah, you can't see me in those. I'm on the other side of the camera for some of them.

― jellybean (jellybean), Monday, 19 April 2004 17:22 (twenty years ago) link

two of my flatmates and one friend are in them. I'm in this one but only so little of me (bottom right: 3 (?) heads in is half my sweaty head).

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 19 April 2004 17:44 (twenty years ago) link

no photos of london shows though :-(

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 19 April 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago) link

sometimes lightning bolt are my favorite band.
you have to see them live.
but their records keep getting better and better.

hella blow.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 19 April 2004 20:53 (twenty years ago) link

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