I did. Tuesday night at the Cake Shop in NYC. One of the best shows I've seen in years. They're playing Union Hall in Park Slope tonight, followed by shows in Boston and New Haven, then back to the UK. I saw them when they came here last year and it was good, but this was something else entirely. Jangly, angsty, angular, punk, post-punk, just rock and roll, whatever, they destroyed. They played Which Hi-Fi?, one of my favorites, and it made the recorded version sound like easy listening. Original Prefects guitarist Alan Apperly is joined by teenage guitar sensation Matt Wood for the ultimate guitar attack, like the Magic Band, the Fire Engines and Television in a danelectro blender. Bassist Steve Lowe and drummer Daren Garrett ex of Pram just kill, and Robert Lloyd, well Robert is Robert. He ran into the audience, scared people, went out for a smoke while the band was still playing, performed Eno's Hear Come the Warm Jets on a Kazoo...predictable as always.
Do yourself a favor if you're in one of those cities and check it out.
http://myspace.com/nightingalesmusic
― dan selzer, Thursday, 8 March 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)
one year passes...
I just saw the Nightingales AGAIN on yet another trip to the states. Here's what I wrote on my blog:
UPDATE: Just got back from seeing the Nightingales second NY show on their limited tour of the states. They are perhaps the greatest live act in existence right now. Throw the Velvets, Captain Beefheart, Faust, Television, Link Wray, The Fall etc in a blender, pulse it on the “punk rock confrontation” and “post-punk angularity and angst” settings and you’re halfway there. They have one more show in Boston, so make the trip.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 8 March 2008 07:59 (seventeen years ago)
one year passes...
Apparently Robert Lloyd was so pissed when they played the other night that he lay down on the stage and had to be woken by an audience member. Got through about four songs. 'The band were really tight though' my friend assures me.
― Abbe Black Tentacle (GamalielRatsey), Monday, 27 April 2009 19:45 (sixteen years ago)
i wrote about their appearance at the Part Time Punk festival in november here:
http://acuterecords.com/blog/?p=52
― dan selzer, Monday, 27 April 2009 22:56 (sixteen years ago)
We're playing with them in the UK in July. The time before last when we played with 'em Robert was fairly well gone and spent much of the set in the audience waving a mop and bucket around!
― Dr.C, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 08:33 (sixteen years ago)