--------------------------------------------------------------------------------new one! new one! -- CharlieNo4 (charlie_iven...), December 4th, 2003. (later)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 4 December 2003 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 4 December 2003 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)
Chris Geddes is the geekiest human being alive.Isobel really is as lovely as everyone says.
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 4 December 2003 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 4 December 2003 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 4 December 2003 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 4 December 2003 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)
"Fans Only" is an amazing artefact, if for no other reason than it really is the mimsiest, twee-est, geekiest cardiganfloppyfringefest I've ever had the pleasure of watching. It's fucking brilliant obviously, especially the Portuguese TV interview!
Fans will *genuinely* love every last second - although the omission of the fab BBC documentary narrated by the bloke who did Mr Benn is glaring to say the least - and non-fans/hataz, when forced to watch it at gunpoint, will find their mills literally overflowing with grist.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 4 December 2003 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 4 December 2003 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)
Think the interview may be in Brazil, as they were doing the Os mutantes song and everyone knew it.
Mr Moore should come to this thread and tell us about the rare instrumentals that crop up if you linger in the scene selection bit.
― chris (chris), Thursday, 4 December 2003 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 4 December 2003 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 4 December 2003 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― chules (chules), Thursday, 4 December 2003 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 4 December 2003 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 4 December 2003 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sonny American (Keiko), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 5 December 2003 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)
this is an excellent suggestion. when you try to buy it they should say "Do you like Stevie Jackson's songs (other than that one that sounds like the Mavericks)?" and if you say no the shopkeeper will say "Not today".
― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 5 December 2003 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 31 January 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)
What's this Magnet article making Isobel out as a monster? Btw - I can assure her fans that she looks lovelier than ever these days. She's ditched the little girl look and is much more elegant and grown up looking. Her own records aren't much cop, but she's been playing with Alisdair Roberts, so it's good to see her getting into darker folk avenues.
― stew, Monday, 31 January 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)
― everything, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)
― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 00:45 (twenty years ago)
― keith m (keithmcl), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)
- that blonde girl's absolutely horrid off-key butchering of Gal Costa/Os Mutantes' "Baby". The string players must have been going out of their minds.- the incredibly half-assed ending to "Boy With the Arab Strap" (one of my favorite songs of theirs) at Coachella, where Stuart can't decide if he should stop playing the piano, makes up some lines that don't fit (or rhyme), and then the guitar played some crappy blues riffs and aped trad-rock "solo" moves. Excruciating.
I kinda wish I was back in dog latin's position, when my enjoyment of some totally great/ingenious songwriting was not obscured by more, er distasteful distractions.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)
err... Caetano Veloso!
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 01:03 (twenty years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)
― Miles Finch, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 10:28 (twenty years ago)
don't worry about it.
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)
Re: twee, hipsters etc, had anyone seen this essay, about Wes Anderson, at N+1 http://www.nplusonemag.com/neato.html ?
It concludes:
The failure of 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou' may just be a sign—along with last year’s dud Belle and Sebastian album—that the Age of Twee is finally over in hipsterdom. Come to think of it, I’ve been seeing a new breed of male around Brooklyn lately. He’s put on some weight, gotten burlier, more menacing, and grown a beard. He drinks harder and he’s been stealing the pretty girls from the effete indie boys. The trucker hat is gone, and his hair’s starting to thin. He looks, well, sort of like Charles Manson.
Cripes!
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 11:22 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)
vs.
http://www.nodata.org/honey/sinister/picnics/May2001-ThePrimrosePath3.jpg
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 11:33 (twenty years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)
― Miles Finch, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)
high five?
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)
'Stay Loose' on the other hand, sounded better than ever when I listened to it the other day.
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)
I should add that Stevie Jackson is playing a solo set as part of a Tsunami Benefit at the Glasgow Uni Research Club on Feb 12. The lovely Sky At Night are also playing, as well as the meh Red Bee Society. Stephen Pastel and Gerry Love DJing. Tix from Monorail, min £5 donation.
― stew, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)
― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)
I missed s. jackson's go but heard he had friends in. justin currie.
I think, gigs, like that one, show who the real artists are.
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)
I can't believe I ever renounced belle & sebastian.
what a fanny.
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)
― darin (darin), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)
Isobel was the one with stuffed animals. She left the band some time ago, though not over the stuffed animals issue, I don't think. No one else has stuffed animals, apart from that dog on wheels of Stuart Murdoch's, but I haven't seen him play with that for some time.
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)
― darin (darin), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 01:01 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)
― stew, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)
Were you at the same ones as me?
I think you were!
― KeithW (kmw), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)
I can't find Katrina's contribution to this thread.
We talked about this thread in real life last night, you see.
― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 12:18 (twenty years ago)
I didn't know the drummer was married.
― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)
bad acoustics and 13 minutes of nothingness when isobel had trouble with her double-bass that first night. the way everyone used to swap instruments every other song used to make sets seem disjointed too. not helped by the way that 'howling mad' murdoch seemed to be the only one there that didn't know all the lyrics. and stevie's singing.
but when they were good they were great. and live was the only place you could hear a lot of their better(?) songs. their 'reel around the fountain' was sublime in glasgow / edinburgh.
― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)
― KeithW (kmw), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)
― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)
I should start charging for use of that Primrose path to the everlasting bonfire photo. Who's that bloke between Mrs Vicky & JtN?
― Mooro (Mooro), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)
10/18 people in that photo (+ the one behind the camera) now or one-time ilxors. Curious.
― Mooro (Mooro), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)
Tit for tat.
― Mooro (Mooro), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)
I too would very much like a copy of Reel Around the Fountain from the QMU show if anyone has such a thing.
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 3 February 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)
personally, I think this is pretty infectious lol
website http://laserbeast.com/
there's only two of them, that's proper mint, hmm I'm a fan after just knowing there's two of them, he does guitar with his mouth lmao mint
― Reviewer: Sir Potomus (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (ex machina), Thursday, 3 February 2005 00:24 (twenty years ago)
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 3 February 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 3 February 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 3 February 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)
dug this out last night and it was the second night, the cello and closer to 8 minutes than 13. was right about the acoustics though - dreadful and echoey.
girl behind me in edinburgh (the day after QMU) was taping gig (ineptly) so theoretically a copy of their 'reel around...' exists but i doubt it'll ever see the light of day. these were the days before minidiscs and mp3s.
― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 3 February 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)
― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 3 February 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)
― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 3 February 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)
I like some bits on 'Fans Only', I just can't remember which ones they are.
I don't know anyone who has a copy of that cover of 'Reel Around The Fountain'.
― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 3 February 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)
I was at the Primrose Hill picnic pictured above, but no-one ever photographs me. Except me, obv.
― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 4 February 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)
― KeithW (kmw), Friday, 4 February 2005 00:40 (twenty years ago)
― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 4 February 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 4 February 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)
― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)
For some strange reason this has been cracking me up all morning.
― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)