they were spellbinding last night by the way - dusk on a lawn outside a gallery, a summer evening but cool and grey because it’s Tasmania, the group throwing shimmering, churning static drones over a bunch of people on distanced rugs, 1/4 in rapt attention, the rest eating, nattering, wandering. I’d normally be irritated but the music was so environmental it didn’t detract from the feel, a bit like that Spacemen 3 live piece in the arts centre.
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 30 January 2022 00:23 (two years ago) link
sounds so good - i have only seen the necks outdoors once (also at dusk, in the quadrangle at Sydney Uni) and it was superb - there’s something about the music interacts with the surroundings for sure
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Sunday, 30 January 2022 01:04 (two years ago) link
*how the music
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Sunday, 30 January 2022 01:05 (two years ago) link
ReR Megacorp still has their ongoing "£5 a CD" sale (need to order a minimum of 4, free shipping), which includes 6 of the 8 CDs in the Necks boxed set (the exceptions being "Chemist" and "Aether" - which happen to be two of my favorites from them) plus three more: "Vertigo", "Body" and "Three".https://www.rermegacorp.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Store_Code=RM&Screen=SPECIALOFFERSSo if you get them all, that's 9 Necks CDs for $60 (USD) - free shipping, no sales tax.
Also - don't sleep on the (Necks drummer) Tony Buck album "Unearth" - it has the trademark Necks slow-build but it snowballs into something really intense, dark, thick and complicated. Check it out here: https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/unearth
― ernestp, Sunday, 30 January 2022 02:10 (two years ago) link
Great tip enstp thank you
― Tib, Sunday, 30 January 2022 08:58 (two years ago) link
I just caught them at the recital centre in Melbourne and they were great. But Hobart sounded truly magical.
― cooldix, Sunday, 30 January 2022 09:53 (two years ago) link
I just searched the ReR site for "Necks": https://www.rermegacorp.com/...and noticed they actually also sell the physical boxed set there for 60 pounds (8 CDs, although the product listing incorrectly says 7 CDs). And they sell "Chemist" and "Aether" individually (and "Sex", "Mosquito/See Through" double set, "Aquatic" and "Open") but those aren't on sale. 60 pounds = $80 (USD).
― ernestp, Sunday, 30 January 2022 15:42 (two years ago) link
Damnit now the Brisbane set I went to seems positively boring! not really though, great set, don't know if they played the same material in melbs/hobart but the 10-15ish minute mark of the second set took my breath away. playing with those two simply chords on the piano but so beautiful my god.
― hrep (H.P), Sunday, 30 January 2022 23:46 (two years ago) link
Cor, that £20 for 4 CDs is a steal - thanks for the heads-up, ernestp.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 4 February 2022 11:27 (two years ago) link
The Necks are my most comically tragic "miss every time" band. I think I was supposed to see them 3 or 4 different times over the years, twice with actual tickets in hand, but something came up every time (most recently, the thing that "came up" was the pandemic!)
― Bloody Snail, Saturday, 5 February 2022 00:34 (two years ago) link
I took the deep dive and got the 8CD set, loving it
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 22:49 (two years ago) link
(well, a digital version, but still)
Townsville is WAY underrated.Agreed!― toby, Wednesday, January 26, 2022 2:48 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
Agreed!
― toby, Wednesday, January 26, 2022 2:48 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
Heard this one for the first time a few days ago and I'm obsessed. It has the mystical sunny ambient vibe of Aether with the sonic purity of the piano/bass/drums live setup. Of course the one I sleep on turns out to be one of their best
― J. Sam, Saturday, 18 February 2023 19:56 (one year ago) link
open is fucking incredible yoga music lmao. it almost has this really distilled essence of, like, rock music to it in parts, a neu! vibe.
kind of weird but cool seeing transit in rock mag eoy lists this year.
― ꙮ (map), Saturday, 18 November 2023 04:18 (five months ago) link