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Mar. 9th, 2004 03:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99Went to see Gorky's Zygotic Mynci supporting Yo La Tengo on Sunday. Gorky's were kinda low-key but it's all cool. Plus one of their new songs sounded like a less laidback Air, which is good.
Plus, wheee I finally got to see them. Which has only taken me about 8 years. Anyway I was about 40p short of getting their album so one of the bar staff just gave me the 40p. The guy at the stall says there's a cash machine at the end of the road so I went and got the money, bought the CD and gave the barman his 40p back. I did try and give him a little extra but he wasn't having any of it. So cue me amazed at the decency of general people. Which means I've been on a manic trying to help people rampage. I'm quite scary when I get like that.
On to Yo La Tengo, none of whose stuff I'd heard before but they sounded good. Like a less edgy Sonic Youth. And damn if the front man was funny. As were the other two. There were badgers and making fun of backing singers. And five people drumming on one stage (the 3 in YLT and two co-opted members of GZM).
Lots of fun and De Montfort Hall is fantastically clean inside. It was quite interesting to be at a small scale gig and not in an arena like the other two big gigs I've been to.
And to finish, I'd like to recommend both bands.
Plus, wheee I finally got to see them. Which has only taken me about 8 years. Anyway I was about 40p short of getting their album so one of the bar staff just gave me the 40p. The guy at the stall says there's a cash machine at the end of the road so I went and got the money, bought the CD and gave the barman his 40p back. I did try and give him a little extra but he wasn't having any of it. So cue me amazed at the decency of general people. Which means I've been on a manic trying to help people rampage. I'm quite scary when I get like that.
On to Yo La Tengo, none of whose stuff I'd heard before but they sounded good. Like a less edgy Sonic Youth. And damn if the front man was funny. As were the other two. There were badgers and making fun of backing singers. And five people drumming on one stage (the 3 in YLT and two co-opted members of GZM).
Lots of fun and De Montfort Hall is fantastically clean inside. It was quite interesting to be at a small scale gig and not in an arena like the other two big gigs I've been to.
And to finish, I'd like to recommend both bands.
