Mountain Goats in London

i will put an email in to my editor and see if i can get a review. you did have runner up single of the week so it might be easier and won't die this time. i never collected kill fee on that show because of guilt!

see you soon!

(most pubs close at around 11pm but maybe not at the ICA, would have to check on that)

http://www.4ad.com/themountaingoats/news/~new-album-intima/

after the last time i saw them i swore i wouldn't miss another london show, but i fear ebay prices will be insane :-(

Woohoo! 3 UK dates & a new album!

http://www.mountain-goats.com/archives/2007/11/high-heresy-1.html

Bah, I'm in Glasgow on 8th/9th December but back home on 10th.

Which song will be the RINGLE!!!!!?

monkey song (2007 remix)

I was there. Infectiously enthusiastic performance, A+, will definitely go to more tMG shows. Only got into them around The Sunset Tree so v pleased to get four songs off that.

The other acts were all kinds of interesting. One guy doing Scottish trad folk songs on guitar, unaccompanied except for one song where he had a guy playing tambourine and a girl playing what looked like a zither or dulcimer, but was played with a bow and sounded like a regular fiddle. Started off like a regualr folk song but by the end had descended into a maelstrom of guitar noise, dissonant fiddle, and the woman screaming like a banshee at the top of her voice. It was hard to keep from laughing, which sounds mean but really I think it's great when music produces that kind of intense reaction, regardless of whether one is on the same wavelength as the perofmers or not.

Yeah, I saw them too, really good, fantastic venue too, couldn't believe I'd not been there before. Alasdair Roberts was really good, wasn't so taken by the other two acts though.

*hopes for a show in belgium soon*

Wow, yeah, that looks like a good setlist! "Cobscook Bay" blew me away when I saw him play it a few months ago.

so anyone else thinking of going tonight? i am considering it but will probably back out if nobody is keen.

(I found out about this in today's Metro...don't let it be said that free papers are completely worthless!)

that i didn't go to the glasgow gig last year is a source of irritation and woe.

Going, where, when?

(and if i were in london, i'd categorically be there tonight.)

Where?

the ULU near Goodge Street

at 7

yes, I see, now:
http://www.barflyclub.com/ULU/whatson/event/19324.aspx

£13.50!

If this means that the geezer, John D, is in town, then I would be happy to see him and hear his US election views in person for a change.

yeah the price was my reservation too, if yr reading j0hn, don't expect me to buy a t-shirt or anything ;-)

sold out no?

xpost (ah well)

you miserable sods. i don't think that's so bad at all.

screw u metro

(unless this is one of those "on the door only" jobbies)

It's true, that all prices are relative, and we live in an age of increasing prices for eg basic groceries anyway. One can afford this price, probably.

And if the John D geezer was reading then I would most definitely not want to say anything hurtful about his work, and 'that's way too expensive!' might come into that category.

But if I was playing somewhere and it was £13.50, would he go? ... Nah, I doubt it.

i want to go and it's so close to work that i can hang around until the doors open and try my luck on the door/outside. i will be royally pissed off if i miss this though.

(In fact if I was playing somewhere and it was free, I guess he still probably wouldn't go)

i'm goin'.

so will tickets be available on the door?

as i said i'm going to go along and find out. unless you feel like giving them a call and reporting back?

£13.50 seems quite reasonable for a London gig these days! I also found out about this in the Metro this morning but I'm working in Brighton today so I'm not going to make it. Plus I'm already going to 2 gigs this week as it is.

Thinking about it, but I'm tiiiiiiired.

gogogo it will be awesome

I know, man, I know, but I played three sets of tennis this morning and now I'm back in flannel pants just barely strong enough to type.

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i134/dgoobl/fattennis.jpg

me, earlier

I saw him a few years ago in Madison and it was only like $7 or something, but I'm telling you it's worth it, John puts on a good show. (I'm trying to remember how to convert fancy L's into fancy S's in my head but it's not working, thougth I seem to remember that 13 quid would get you, what, two meals at Burger King? JD's worth at least three!)

LIBERATION CRUTCH!!1

srsly will tickets be available at the door, with barfly events there normally are but i wanna check

no idea; ulu site points you to barfly page that sez sold out

you could phone up and ask

yes LOUIS PLS PHONE UP AND ASK AND GET ME ONE. Or, y'know, I could do it.

to answer mein own question, it's completely sold out but they'll know about returns after 5.

any last glimmers o' hope?

you could webmail J0hn and see if you can get guestlisted, I guess

yeah, but i also need to leave work now so i cdn't check to see if there was a response

ah well

just called. no returns. tempted to turn up and see if anyone has any spares but i'm not sure if i'm tempted enough.

sounds like a longshot, that

mailing J0hn would be longer. ah well, serves me right for dithering.

It were great. Dude is so energetic and enthusiastic, he's just a joy to watch. Slapping his face in the middle of - oh I forget which song - and the sweat flying off, shining under the stage lights - beautiful! Didn't seem like a particularly long set but it was all gold.

Damn. I ended up staying in, watching The Seven-Year Itch, and eating a whole bag of potato chips.

Living all these years in a shit college town I expected to go see A Guy And His Acoustic Guitar and be, at best, moderately moved (already big fan of TMG by this point), and was completely knocked over by his energy and for a lack of a better word charm. Probably too many open mic nights at the What's Up Lounge in (clink-clank noise) Mankato, Minnesota, but I was really surprised by how much forward motion and winning interplay you can get out of just John and a bass player.

september 9th at the koko. Have for once been pretty diligent and sorted out tickets well in advance. Suggest fap.

i'm goin. nearly bought two sets of tickets due to pre-senile forgetfulness, luckily the second time i went through the same ticket agency and they were kind enough to warn me of my duplicate purchase.

this was a fantastic show.

It was wonderful. Mr Darnielle was looking very sharp also.

Right then, anyone else going?

Yeah but my printmaking course doesn't end till 9. Need to find out when they're actually on from.

Doors at seven? I reckon you'll be OK.

still waiting for Texas dates.. waiting patiently.....

Depends how close you are to the venue. Koko's website says headliners are usually 8:30 - 9, experience says a bit later than that, but not much.

A+++ would see again.

does any band have two joyous audience singalong anthems that are more affectively opposed than 'this year' and 'no children'?

btw these guys are the best. especially in these hard times, daddy

was cool how 'foreign object' became a singalong anthem as well