DC tonight: NOISE AGAINST FACISM

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anybody going to this? rapidly changing lineup, but it seems like at least to live and shave in LA and double leopards will be there, along with some other bands...

― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Also in D.C. tonight is Q and Not U at the Sanctuary Theater for an anti-inauguration ball. Their live shows have been insanely good recently (complete with cover of "Galang").

― Chuckling at the Tomkat's Marquee (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Down with faces!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

if there are still tickets available i'm probably gonna go to this. mainly for Mirror/Dash but i'm curious to see all this other noise dude stuff.

― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Ned ha ha!

Will FUGAZI be there??

― target practice, Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

Is Andrew WK still singing for Sonic Youth? Let us know how it is. I seriously considered going.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

im not sure, but i really hope hes there in some capacity (TLASILA/mirrordash/AWK the band). ill provide a report tomorrow...

― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Is Andrew WK still singing for Sonic Youth?

eh? hadn't heard about that, but when I last saw TLASILA, he was their drummer and did a fantastic job.

― eman (eman), Thursday, 20 January 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

I just got my ticket! here's what the Black Cat site says btw:

THUR JAN 20- NOISE AGAINST FASCISM: MIRROR/DASH (Kim Gordon/Thurston Moore), THE BELIEVERS, METALUX, DOUBLE LEOPARDS, 16 BITCH PILEUP, MONOTRACT, NAUTICAL ALMANAC, BUZZARDSTAIN (Nate Young/Twig Harper), CHRIS CORSANO/PAUL FLAHERTY, TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN L.A. (Rat Bastard, Don Fleming, Chris Grier, T. Moore, Tom Smith, Ben Wolcott, Andrew W.K.), MAGIK MARKERS $12 mainstage 8:00

I know the Mirror/Dash thing goes way back (at least to the Sister liner notes), but are the shows they're doing this week (in Philly and NYC after D.C.) the first time Kim and Thurston have performed as a duo like this? I can't recall for sure hearing about them doing Mirror/Dash shows before, I'm pretty curious about what they'll be playing.

― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 20 January 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

I'm friends with, like, 75% of those people, and this still seems like a major drag to me. What facism???

― Overbite (Roger Fidelity), Thursday, 20 January 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

This thread would be much better if it read NOSE AGAINST FACISM.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 20 January 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was a protest against the Factory label.

― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 21 January 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

The Q And Not U Anti-Inaugural Ball Show will also feature Pretty Girls Make Graves and the Blood Brothers, I think.

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Friday, 21 January 2005 03:01 (twenty years ago)

Nose Against Facism! Starring Les Claypool! Pete Townsend! Charles De gaulle! Jimmy Durante!

― don, Friday, 21 January 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

How about NOISE AGAINST FATISM?

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Friday, 21 January 2005 03:08 (twenty years ago)

xpost - Serge Gainsbourg!

― eman (eman), Friday, 21 January 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

BRIEF TOTALLY AMATEUR CONCERT REPORT!

first and foremost, andrew wk is alive and well and totally fucking ruling on drums for TLASILA.

THE BELIEVERS
- somewhat boring, histrionic rotating-position band. maybe i just wasnt warmed up yet...

METALUX
- awesome electronics/guitar/triggered-swords duo. first song was definitely as close to sabbath as the evening was gonna get. vocals were a little off-putting, but whatever. totally worthwhile.

DOUBLE LEOPARDS
- awesome! totally cool, nice people making a shitload of racket, primarily with their voices - really enveloping rather than jagged, but supersuper loud nonetheless...

MONOTRACT
- eh... sounded like faith no more to me. which is ok. but not that great.

16 BITCH PILEUP
- i was tired and had to sit down.

MIRROR/DASH (Kim Gordon/Thurston Moore)
- mostly lame. some good-ish guitar noise, but kim shoulda been down with the poetry readers on the back stage.

NAUTICAL ALMANAC
- fun as shit - these guys always have a fucking blast playing - its so obvious.

BUZZARDSTAIN (Nate Young/Twig Harper)
- honestly, i dont know if these guys played.

CHRIS CORSANO/PAUL FLAHERTY
- my friend described them as sounding "just like every other NY skronk band". whatever. it was tonic to hear some different instrumentation this evening. just enough of a palate cleanser before magik markers and TLASILA.

MAGIK MARKERS
- like DoubleLeopards, a little more warmth to their sound than most of the other bands. what a full sound they have with only 3 people, too! the lead singer was pretty intense, but in this way where it was really easy to get wrapped up in her piss/vinegar spirit. good spirit! last song was really great with heavy tribal drumming.

TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN L.A.
- THE WOOLIEST NOISE BEAST OF ALL. JESUS CHRIST, THESE GUYS WERE INCREDIBLE. whereas the band/audience flailing at this one animal collective show struck me as sort of disingenuous, basically the exact same thing happened here, but i got really caught up in it. but i was really in a bad mood before i even got to that animal collective show, so whatever. i love you, animal collective. andrew wk pwned on drums, and the goddamn army of noisemakers in front of him just made this mountainous, pulsing organism of squally, screechy, thunderous sound. they struck me as the most human/humane/humanist act of the night, and i really liked that.

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 21 January 2005 07:13 (twenty years ago)

my friend described them as sounding "just like every other NY skronk band".

tell your friend they're from massachusetts.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 21 January 2005 07:16 (twenty years ago)

zing!

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

thanks for that rundown, Peter, it was hard for me to keep track of which acts where which throughout the night. were Chris Corsano/Paul Flaherty the drums/sax duo? I thought they were great, maybe kind of generic avant skronk but really intense and probably the best part of the night besides TLISILA, who were just insane.

that one guy from TLISILA, I guess Rat Bastard, who kept introducing and talking between bands, and wouldn't stop ranting about how industrial music needs to die? that was weird.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 21 January 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

Rat Bastard once told a friend of mine never to live in NYC because it would maker her "face droop and vagina get wider."

― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 21 January 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

16 Bitch Pile-Up are playin' here tonight; they're a good band. Kinda double leopardsy but less vokillz more pedal/lectronics action. fuck a monotract. magik markers are very good.

― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 21 January 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

triggered-swords

Explain please.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 January 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

they had these wooden prop swords, which were connected to electronic triggers, such that when they hit something with the swords, the processing would change - i think they were linked to pedals. anyway, they were dressed in these fucking awesome dresses, and i talked to one of them after the show, and she was extremely cordial. im in love with her.

also, rat bastard was awesome. he told DC to drop its industrial connections, and kept telling them to play can and the silver apples. it was awesome - i started screaming "CAAAAANNNN!" in support of his thesis. i dont hate industrial or anything. but cmon. CANNNNN!

where were you standing, al?

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 21 January 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

earlier in the show I was standing off to the left, maybe not near the bar but about that far back, and then for the last couple bands I was closer to the stage on the right.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 21 January 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

Rat Bastard looks and talks like he should be a Darrell Hammond character on SNL.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 21 January 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

His other band, The Laundryroom Squelchers, are totally great.

― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 21 January 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

what would have made the tlasila show in DC perfect would have been if kid rock played with them. rumor has it that kid rock played with in their very recent michigan shows... since kid rock got booted from the inauguration rock show...

how right would that have been?

(or wrong, but who cares?)
m.

― msp (msp), Friday, 21 January 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2005/01/its-song-i-hate.html

― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 22 January 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)

Is:

"Magik Markers were alright. It was during their set that it occurred to me that almost every single I saw that night included at least one fairly attractive woman. So much for the noise dude stereotype!"

a fair assessment? They've been recommended to me by a few people and I can't really track anything of theirs down.

― Chandra Wilson, Saturday, 22 January 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

well, I didn't really say anything about their music there, did I? just that they were "alright" and that the girls in the band were cute. like Peter said upthread, when the drums got going their last song was the best, but overall I wasn't really into it, just because the one girl on vocals seemed to be trying to sound as awkward and inarticulate as possible and it kind of took me out of enjoying the noise. at the end of their set she said "we're the Magik Markers, and if we have a band, why don't you?", which I think was a pretty fair assessment in itself.

― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 22 January 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

I'm not trying, I just sound that way.

― Elisa (Elisa), Thursday, 17 February 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

Elisa, don't feel bad:
Some of Al's '200 favorite singles of the first half of this decade'
14. Avril Lavigne - "Complicated"
15. Talib Kweli - "Get By"
16. R. Kelly - "Ignition"
17. Monica - "So Gone"
18. Dr. Dre f/ Snoop Dogg and Nate Dogg - "The Next Episode"
19. Memphis Bleek f/ Jay-Z and Missy Elliott - "Is That Your Chick?"
20. Trick Daddy f/ Trina, Co and Duece Poppito - "Shut Up"

21. Juelz Santana f/ Cam'ron - "Dipset (Santana's Town)"
22. N Sync - "Girlfriend"
23. Baby f/ The Clipse - "What Happened To That Boy?"
24. Vanessa Carlton - "One Thousand Miles"
25. Jay-Z f/ Beanie Sigel and Memphis Bleek - "Change The Game"
26. Outkast - "B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)"
27. M.O.P. - "Ante Up"
28. Nivea f/ R. Kelly - "Laundromat"
29. Kylie Minogue - "Love At First Sight"
30. Britney Spears - "Toxic"

― Dave Piper, Thursday, 17 February 2005 06:32 (twenty years ago)

MM ROCKED GLADTREE!

― Tim Wilson Kamper, Thursday, 17 February 2005 06:34 (twenty years ago)

The Magik Markers are one of the most engaging acts I've seen years. I'm pretty excited to see what they have up their sleeves next.

― Jake A., Thursday, 17 February 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

I really like Magik Markers. Pete is a goof.

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

haha, Dave, who are you and what's your deal? I do feel a little embarrassed about making a dismissive remark about a band and then one of them apparently seeing it and responding, but that's kind of always a risk with ILM (or really the internet in general). I'm not embarrassed about my taste in music, though, so cut-and-pasting a bunch of songs I like and am not ashamed of liking is kind of a weak attempt at a personal attack. ok, I like pop, revoke my noise card.

― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

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