anyone seen the recent fiery furnaces shows? i'm seeing them at town hall and curious what the mix is going to be of old-new material and how grandma's parts are arranged.
― claudius, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)
i'm also quite curious, since i had to miss their mpls show
― sovietpanda (sovietpanda), Thursday, 13 October 2005 01:36 (twenty years ago)
i'm going to the town hall show too. it better be good... ticketmaster socked me for an extra $10 in service charges.
― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)
town hall is a really nice space -- perfect for "theatrical" performers and just small enough that there aren't any bad seats in the house. i hope they make good use of it.
― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)
i saw them last friday night in chicago (where the grandmother herself was in attendance). great show. aside from the "choir" stuff, the pace was a little less breakneck than when i have seen them before. fewer medleys, a bit more arrangements with matt playing guitar. the exception was the stuff from rehearsing my choir, which had the schizoid lilt of other shows i've seen of theirs. at any rate, nothing stopped the arrangements from being/seeming entirely new and different from what is on the recordings, yet very exciting.
the rhythm section (i don't know their names, but i'm pretty sure they're different than when i saw them last year) were more than solid... until the encore, when the bass player simply would not play the right intro to 'don't dance her down'. matt was yelling at him, shaking his head and rolling his eyes, and they ended up stopping the song and starting over. matt seemed pretty pissed and finished the song by chucking his guitar to the stage, and that was the end of the show.
eleanor was using lyric sheets for many of the songs from 'choir'. The kinks are still being worked out to the newer songs. They played only one song, that i'm aware of, from bitter tea.
i'd pay to see them again in a heartbeat.
― the unnamable, Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)
heh, jason lowenstein is the bass player on this tour.
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)
Wow - no shit? I saw them play in L.A., and I first I thought it was him, but then decided it couldn't be, because the guy looked so young - like a 19-year-old Lowenstein clone. (And I saw JL play with Barlow a year or so ago, looking appropriately aged.) Wild.
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 24 October 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)