snoozeville
Ross Grady
No, not Stereolab--though I will attribute part of my fun time to being
just overtired enough to continually lose my balance while trying to
dance. I love that feeling of almost just pitching forward or backward
uncontrollably and then catching yourself.
The songs which sounded most like recorded songs were least interesting.
King Kong sucked rocks.
UI were all right, though I was very glad not to be listening to their
record, because watching them rock out was just interesting enough.
Without the variety of stimuli I don't know how well the music might have
held up.
But no. The real Snoozeville is austin.music. My god. Those of you who
occasionally gripe about how dull this here newsgroup is are hereby
banished to austin.music until you come to your senses. Geez. The two
biggest threads are about mandatory bicycle helmets (they save lives,
they do, but not so much as mandatory courtesy and smart driving by
automotive types) and whether or not the Butthole Surfers are sellouts,
or if they are sellouts who ROCK.
Punctuate that with nonstop blather about stuff for sale, or "cover band
wanted" and what you get is 10,000 times duller than even our dullest
days. So thank your lucky stars and remember: this fucking Usenet group
is one of the best there is. You kids rock, Draxx included.
Go listen to Analogue. There will be Polycarp Sunday afternoon, 1-3 p.m.
WXDU Durham 88.7/103.5.
In the middle of Downtown Durham there is a building owned by one of Jay
Huber's cronies over there at the Employment Law Review, and he's renting
chunks of it out for cheap artists' space, and the ground floor will be
occupied for a month or so starting on June 21 by some crazy Chicagoan
and his friends and their art.
and Jimmy Kellough has made the tiniest Modern Art museum known to man
in the basement--one room, maybe the size of the average bedroom, with a
low ceiling. It has its own entrace on the backside of the building and
will be open on Sunday afternoons starting in June as well, I guess, and
will have an installation by Bryant Holsenbeck featuring her bottlecap
collection.
That is all.
Ross
Chris Welbon
On Thu, 23 May 1996, Ross Grady wrote:
> King Kong sucked rocks.
Ah HAH. I decided not to go since I'd seen 'em in the fall, and they'd
been just like they were 2 years ago at that place on Rosemary whose name
escapes me. (Some of you might remember the time period. The show was
after one of the Phillies' 4 wins in 6 games over the
then-underachieving-on-top-of-overconfident Braves in the NLCS. Woo!
Faded glory rocks!)
Seems to me like KK has lost its edge since Old Man On The Bridge. Can
anybody who was Wednesday's and last fall's shows compare them? Gotta
find out if Great E is just waxing poetic here....
So how packed was the Cradle, anyway? The other reason I stayed home was
that I figured it was just going to be a sardine can; more often than
not, those shows blow, AFAIC.
Fantango
Ross Grady
Nate has caught the duplicate-checksum disease from Gary.
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> Todd Morman <tmo...@email.unc.edu> wrote:
>
> >Stereolab was very nice, not as good as the last two times I saw them, but
> >very good nonetheless. I liked the saccharine pop songs less than the
> >grooves [...]
>
> Yeah. Yep. I liked the way they pounded their grooves into the middle of
> my skull.
>
> My one complaint with the show was the implementation of the early start
> time. It's not listed on the schedules, and I made the mistake of not
> looking at or even touching my ticket (which seems to be the only place
> where the projected 9pm start was listed) until I approached the door. So
> I missed Ui, who I'd been looking forward to seeing. I'd normally love the
> early time, but I think it should be advertised a bit nore than it was. At
> least it should've been on the schedule handouts. It was for the Robert
> Earl Keen shoe of the night before. Anyway, I love the Cradle and I'll
> stop bitching.
>
> About Ui the recorded act, they got a lot of press in Simon Reynolds two
> post rock articles and the fallout from such. Their regular studio album
> is horrible neo-sub-funk. Their remix album is spacey and pretty great.
>
> Killfiles (post)rock. Mine has made alt.music.chapel-hill a much better
> place for me to wander through.
>
> Nate Florin spo...@email.unc.edu http://www.unc.edu/~spooky
Todd Morman
Chris Welbon <ch-s...@ripken.oit.unc.edu> wrote:
>On Thu, 23 May 1996, Ross Grady wrote:
>> King Kong sucked rocks.
>
>Ah HAH. I decided not to go since I'd seen 'em in the fall, and they'd
>been just like they were 2 years ago at that place on Rosemary whose name
>escapes me.
Was that when it was Rosie's Good times? I missed that show, but I'm
having a hard time being sorry; King Kong *really* sucked Wednesday. Just
three of them (no keyboard), sounding like some horrible barrock, no
humour, very little interesting. It was either one of those jokes on the
audience ("jesus, can you *believe* they're clapping for this shit?") or
just a really bad band. Even the heybahoobahabba song was dull.
Stereolab was very nice, not as good as the last two times I saw them, but
very good nonetheless. I liked the saccharine pop songs less than the
grooves, except for that last one, which got kind of wanky-dull, like Yo
La Tengo can get sometimes, towards the end. Still, Stereolab can move me
like few other bands, and they seemed so cute and cool up there--even a
bit nervous, that it was hard not to like them. Neat off-kilter rhythms.
>So how packed was the Cradle, anyway? The other reason I stayed home was
>that I figured it was just going to be a sardine can; more often than
>not, those shows blow, AFAIC.
Wasn't too bad up near the front, crowded, sure, but not sardine-like. UI
(the couple of songs I heard) were good, groove-y and bassy. They
would've made a much better intro to Stereolab than KK.
todd next show I'm looking forward to is Polvo morman
Nate Florin
Chris Welbon <ch-s...@ripken.oit.unc.edu> wrote:
>> King Kong sucked rocks.
>
>Ah HAH. I decided not to go since I'd seen 'em in the fall, and they'd
>been just like they were 2 years ago at that place on Rosemary whose name
>escapes me. (Some of you might remember the time period. The show was
>after one of the Phillies' 4 wins in 6 games over the
>then-underachieving-on-top-of-overconfident Braves in the NLCS. Woo!
>Faded glory rocks!)
7 1/2 games back, and we're still in May, Mr Welbon. Keep that in mind.
I saw that show and it was greater than this one. It's funny, I remember
connecting the Braves losing with that, like I remember watching the
Braves losing to Toronto while Shrimp Boat played. hmmmm....
Nate Florin
Todd Morman <tmo...@email.unc.edu> wrote:
>Stereolab was very nice, not as good as the last two times I saw them, but
>very good nonetheless. I liked the saccharine pop songs less than the
>grooves [...]
Yeah. Yep. I liked the way they pounded their grooves into the middle of
my skull.
My one complaint with the show was the implementation of the early start
time. It's not listed on the schedules, and I made the mistake of not
looking at or even touching my ticket (which seems to be the only place
where the projected 9pm start was listed) until I approached the door. So
I missed Ui, who I'd been looking forward to seeing. I'd normally love the
early time, but I think it should be advertised a bit nore than it was. At
least it should've been on the schedule handouts. It was for the Robert
Earl Keen shoe of the night before. Anyway, I love the Cradle and I'll
stop bitching.
About Ui the recorded act, they got a lot of press in Simon Reynolds two
post rock articles and the fallout from such. Their regular studio album
is horrible neo-sub-funk. Their remix album is spacey and pretty great.
Killfiles (post)rock. Mine has made alt.music.chapel-hill a much better
place for me to wander through.
Nate Florin spo...@email.unc.edu http://www.unc.edu/~spooky
Chris Welbon
On 24 May 1996, Nate Florin wrote:
> >escapes me. (Some of you might remember the time period. The show was
> >after one of the Phillies' 4 wins in 6 games over the
> >then-underachieving-on-top-of-overconfident Braves in the NLCS. Woo!
> >Faded glory rocks!)
>
> 7 1/2 games back, and we're still in May, Mr Welbon. Keep that in mind.
Hey, It's in my mind, and their chances are out of my mind. I'm not
worried; they will do about as well as everyone expects...
I think, BTW, the name of the joint was Smoky Joe's, or something along
these lines.
If there really were only 3 people in KK this time, that's bad. Glad I
stayed home. Another 1st-album-unequalled situation. Ah well.
And 10-4, good buddy, on the comments about early start times. Not only
are they often badly publicized when they exist, they're usually only
stuck to when they are badly publicized, and ignored when they're widely
announced. Can't win.
Fangango
Nate Florin
Chris Welbon <ch-s...@ripken.oit.unc.edu> wrote:
>I think, BTW, the name of the joint was Smoky Joe's, or something along
>these lines.
Smokin' or Smoking, depending on who you ask.
Nathaniel Paul Florin, esq.
Ruby Sinreich
Chris Welbon wrote:
>
> So how packed was the Cradle, anyway? The other reason I stayed home was
> that I figured it was just going to be a sardine can; more often than
> not, those shows blow, AFAIC.
>
Way too fucking packed. I couldn't see and could barely move. After
spending about 1/2 hour weaseling my way up near the front where I could
see a *little*, I found that I couldn't breathe (lot's o cigarette
smokers sucking up MY oxygen and spitting out toxic fumes) so I resigned
myself to listening from outside and breathing oxygen and taking
accasional stints inside for beer and entertainment.
Maybe that's why I didn't quite love the show...
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