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redfiona99Or Saturday at Summer Sundae.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/leicester/hi/people_and_places/music/newsid_8918000/8918008.stm The Nice-Man in the Tie-Dye is the chap in the first picture.
Saturday was both more hectic and less hectic than Friday.
I started out by hanging out with physicists. There was a mini-reunion of the physicists in the year above me and since I know a bunch of them, I went along. It was fun.
I got back to Summer Sundae to see Autohype - http://www.myspace.com/autohypeuk which is what lead to the lead quote. The intro for "Make Love" (video here - http://www.youtube.com/user/demontforthall#p/u/20/PchqrDv6Zt0 sound quality of video poor, sound quality live was good, I don't know why) did feature the nice tie-dye man encouraging us all to tell the people we want to sleep with that we should. All without swearing I hasten to add. Still, given the number of children present, me and E who I was watching with did expect at least one tyke to ask that of a parent.
(Also, Make Love is a fantastic track, because the singer's voice, while not traditionally good, manages to convey feeling very well.)
Then came the Moulettes (www.myspace.com/moulettes), who, in one of the funnier moments of the weekend, were introduced as a pirate-folk band from Manchester. Their very first words once they came on were "we're not pirate folk, and we're not from Manchester". They were, however, good. And they had a basoon, and a cello, and costumes to die for.
We were faced with a choice between Diana Vickers, one of the non-winners from X-factors past, and anything else, and we went with anything else. Nothing against her, although, when we caught a glimpse of her as we were making our way through, mostly she needs feeding. She's stick thin. I mean, I was about the same distance away from her as we were for Autohype and I know two of them are stick thin, and she looked thinner.
The instead wasn't brilliant either, Laura Viers, who plays middle of the road twangy guitar stuff that claims to be folk. Not bad, just boring.
I caught a bit of the Leisure Society (www.myspace.com/theleisuresociety) in between. Interesting stuff. Would like to have heard more. Acoustics in the Musician Tent were fantastic.
Next band up were Tunng (www.tunng.co.uk). They were fun. Ought to have been my sort of thing, but weren't quite.
After Tunng I wandered back to the physics reunion. Ran back in time for the Fall.
OMG!!! I've seen the Fall live. And I didn't know they were playing until Friday.
If you like them, the Fall are awesome, all tight as a drum rhythm section and post-punk angular and, to pinch a phrase from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
evilgmbethy body music. Their lead singer, who is a Mancunian sneer stretched out to be human shaped, doesn't really believe in intelligible lyrics and you can pretty much read what you want into them (the new album is called 'Your Future, Our Clutter' which could be read any number of ways).
I love them. However, they're totally a 'your millage will vary' band. Totally needed to be seen as well, and the enclosed space (the indoor stage is DMH, so the sound quality was, again, immense) suited them perfectly.
Having spoken to E about how bands interact with the audience and how they don't etc, it was fun to see this legendary band having no interaction with the audience whatsoever. My favourite bit was, because of me being short, and tall people being attracted to the space right in front of me, I couldn't see a lot every now and again, so I looked around. Because of the positioning of the lights, Mark E. Smith's shadow was projected onto the walls, looking nothing less than Nosferatu the musical. It was beautiful.
Also funny was walking out. There were two men (probably brothers, looking at them), mid to late forties, who'd been in there with me. They were walking home with their wives/sig. others. One of them was a huge fan and the other hated it. This conversation is near as verbatim:
Brother 1: Just listen to him.
Brother 2: That was amazing.
B1: It was something.
B2: Mark E. Smith, he just doesn't care.
B1: That's good, because otherwise he would have given up a long time ago.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/leicester/hi/people_and_places/music/newsid_8918000/8918008.stm The Nice-Man in the Tie-Dye is the chap in the first picture.
Saturday was both more hectic and less hectic than Friday.
I started out by hanging out with physicists. There was a mini-reunion of the physicists in the year above me and since I know a bunch of them, I went along. It was fun.
I got back to Summer Sundae to see Autohype - http://www.myspace.com/autohypeuk which is what lead to the lead quote. The intro for "Make Love" (video here - http://www.youtube.com/user/demontforthall#p/u/20/PchqrDv6Zt0 sound quality of video poor, sound quality live was good, I don't know why) did feature the nice tie-dye man encouraging us all to tell the people we want to sleep with that we should. All without swearing I hasten to add. Still, given the number of children present, me and E who I was watching with did expect at least one tyke to ask that of a parent.
(Also, Make Love is a fantastic track, because the singer's voice, while not traditionally good, manages to convey feeling very well.)
Then came the Moulettes (www.myspace.com/moulettes), who, in one of the funnier moments of the weekend, were introduced as a pirate-folk band from Manchester. Their very first words once they came on were "we're not pirate folk, and we're not from Manchester". They were, however, good. And they had a basoon, and a cello, and costumes to die for.
We were faced with a choice between Diana Vickers, one of the non-winners from X-factors past, and anything else, and we went with anything else. Nothing against her, although, when we caught a glimpse of her as we were making our way through, mostly she needs feeding. She's stick thin. I mean, I was about the same distance away from her as we were for Autohype and I know two of them are stick thin, and she looked thinner.
The instead wasn't brilliant either, Laura Viers, who plays middle of the road twangy guitar stuff that claims to be folk. Not bad, just boring.
I caught a bit of the Leisure Society (www.myspace.com/theleisuresociety) in between. Interesting stuff. Would like to have heard more. Acoustics in the Musician Tent were fantastic.
Next band up were Tunng (www.tunng.co.uk). They were fun. Ought to have been my sort of thing, but weren't quite.
After Tunng I wandered back to the physics reunion. Ran back in time for the Fall.
OMG!!! I've seen the Fall live. And I didn't know they were playing until Friday.
If you like them, the Fall are awesome, all tight as a drum rhythm section and post-punk angular and, to pinch a phrase from
evilgmbethy body music. Their lead singer, who is a Mancunian sneer stretched out to be human shaped, doesn't really believe in intelligible lyrics and you can pretty much read what you want into them (the new album is called 'Your Future, Our Clutter' which could be read any number of ways).I love them. However, they're totally a 'your millage will vary' band. Totally needed to be seen as well, and the enclosed space (the indoor stage is DMH, so the sound quality was, again, immense) suited them perfectly.
Having spoken to E about how bands interact with the audience and how they don't etc, it was fun to see this legendary band having no interaction with the audience whatsoever. My favourite bit was, because of me being short, and tall people being attracted to the space right in front of me, I couldn't see a lot every now and again, so I looked around. Because of the positioning of the lights, Mark E. Smith's shadow was projected onto the walls, looking nothing less than Nosferatu the musical. It was beautiful.
Also funny was walking out. There were two men (probably brothers, looking at them), mid to late forties, who'd been in there with me. They were walking home with their wives/sig. others. One of them was a huge fan and the other hated it. This conversation is near as verbatim:
Brother 1: Just listen to him.
Brother 2: That was amazing.
B1: It was something.
B2: Mark E. Smith, he just doesn't care.
B1: That's good, because otherwise he would have given up a long time ago.
