the Futureheads tonight at the Bowery Ballroom. Anyone here goin'?

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I have one ticket, but am trying to scare up another for my friend Sean. In any event, though, I plan to be there. Come find me. I'll be wearing a t-shirt with this on it (shockah):

http://www.wintergardens.plus.com/images/empirebg.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

You will be the opposite of disappointed.

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

you're not going anywhere with that shirt on.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

I think I am going, waiting for PR dude to confirm

― W i l l (common_person), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

C'mon...such a poor turnout? I was hoping ILX nation would be there for this. Look for me by the bar.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

I'd love to be there but, you know, it sold out and everything.

― dan. (dan.), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

same here.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

I waited like one extra day to get tickets and it sold out.

― S!monB!rch (Carey), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

me three

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

pretty good

― noizem duke (noize duke), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 07:37 (twenty years ago)

shows where more than 5 people show up = suck.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 07:38 (twenty years ago)

Some pics from last night....

http://homepage.mac.com/alexinnyc/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2005-02-23%2005.04.38%20-0800/Image-6BC3C324859A11D9.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/alexinnyc/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2005-02-23%2005.04.38%20-0800/Image-6BCC9784859A11D9.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/alexinnyc/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2005-02-23%2005.04.38%20-0800/Image-6BCCAFBA859A11D9.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/alexinnyc/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2005-02-23%2005.04.38%20-0800/Image-6BCCBB9A859A11D9.jpg

(that's the very tall W i l l and m'self.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

Can't type at the moment, but it was a great show. The could not be any tighter (the band, I mean....in a "playing live" capacity, by the way).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

I like a bit like a retarded pirate in that picture.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

That LING JOK shirt is the best thing about that picture. When you get a chance, can you email the pics to me (the address below works)? Thanks dude

― W i l l (common_person), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

I believe the back of the head right in the middle of the center amp in that second picture might belong to me. I had lotsa fun. Second time seeing them in a few months.

Also saw Elijah Wood and Albert Hammond Strokes in the audience, and I am in love with the keyboard player from the Shout Out Louds.

― Maciej, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I saw them (Frodo and `fro-headed Stroke) there too. And the Monkey Butt Sex twins (for those of you who know who they are).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

That token female keyboard player was kinda cute but, c'mon, I don't think she even opened her mouth once! (though maybe she doesn't speak English)

― W i l l (common_person), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Was she as cute as the female keyboard player in Acid Mothers Temple?

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/europe/sweden/flag/Flag.GIF
VS.
http://www.fourlakes.k12.wi.us/japanese/flag.jpg

― W i l l (common_person), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

How were Shoutout Loud and Highspeed Scene (if they indeed did open for the Futureheads)?

I'd like to hear more about the show (it's not often I see Alex In NYC "gushing" about a new band).

― alex in montreal, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

And the Monkey Butt Sex twins (for those of you who know who they are).

ha. they are good friends of mine. i got them into the futureheads.

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 5 March 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

So I am listening to the album now. I think they sound way more like the Jam than like XTC or the Gang of Four. Am I completely nuts?

― xhuxk, Thursday, 10 March 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

they can be derivative of all three, can't they?

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 10 March 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

Maybe I haven't heard enough early XTC, but I can't heard much of them in the 'heads at all

― W i l l (common_person), Thursday, 10 March 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

Do people *say* they sound like the Jam, though? To me it seems obvious, but everybody seems to say XTC (which I hear a little but not too much) and the Gang of Four (which I don't hear at all).

― chuck, Thursday, 10 March 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

My friend Matt said, and he's good people

― W i l l (common_person), Thursday, 10 March 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

The XTC is in some of the stops and starts and structures and harmonies. But yeah, the Jam seems much closer -- especially vocally.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 10 March 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

Actually, now I'm noticing that the (early - first/second/maybe third) album XTC stuff (not an insult -- their first three albums are the only ones I ever had much use for) seems to come more toward the end of the album; I kinda hear it now I guess. Gang of Four? Um, maybe a bassline here and there, or the one or two times when the guitars get a bit noisy? I'm kinda stumped on that.

― chuck, Thursday, 10 March 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

He totally *sings* like Paul Weller, though, as far as I can see.

(There's one song, toward the end, that has a really cool prog-punk sort of break in it; could almost pass for the Tubes or Sparks maybe.)

― chuck, Thursday, 10 March 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

by the way, jaime lowe reviewed the bowery show here:

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0510,sotc1,61880,22.html

I don't get the Clash comparison at all either, though.

― chuck, Thursday, 10 March 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

Do people *say* they sound like the Jam, though?

I hear way more XTC than Jam in there (the Jam were never quirky). I don't hear any Clash in there.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 10 March 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

To me, they sound too prissy to be Clash like, not prissy enough to be XTC like, just prissy enough to be Jam like. (Or something.)

― chuck, Thursday, 10 March 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

I think prissy is a pretty good way to describe them, actually.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 11 March 2005 02:13 (twenty years ago)

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