From yesterday's London Lite, a review of The National's gig at The Astoria:
I DON'T like rock music and I don't like the scenesters/uncouth people who play it, but I was dragged to this show as it was my friend's birthday. Perhaps I liked these guys as they have a violin on stage which shows they have some kind of credibility. They had nice lyrics, kept in tune, and they aren't that shouty. They seemed like nice men as well. A pleasant evening.
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 25 May 2007 10:11 (nineteen years ago)
geir taking a busman's holiday
― m coleman, Friday, 25 May 2007 10:16 (nineteen years ago)
They seemed like nice men as well.
Bless. I imagine this was a reader review rather than one by the paper's critic.
― chap, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:07 (nineteen years ago)
you're obsessed dom!
― 696, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:08 (nineteen years ago)
They seemed like nice men as well. A pleasant evening.
Obviously someone had an experience with a dildo or two after the show.
― humansuit, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:10 (nineteen years ago)
They had nice lyrics, kept in tune, and they aren't that shouty. They seemed like nice men as well. A pleasant evening.
This part is actually excellent music writing since it perfectly captures the completely unnecessary, yet ultimately innocuous music of the National.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:11 (nineteen years ago)
oh whatta zinger
― David R., Friday, 25 May 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)
they have a violin on stage which shows they have some kind of credibility
I like the way this seems to imply that the violin itself confers the credibility. No one needs to even play it; it can be just displayed on a chair, emanating cred.
― Jon Lewis, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)
All I know is every elementary school play I was in or saw featured an untouched piano hogging serious stage real estate, and there was no cred to be had anywhere. DESPITE my sterling performance as Penny #13 in a President's Day spectacular.
― David R., Friday, 25 May 2007 14:31 (nineteen years ago)
You can find reviews like this in most issues of Jazz Journal.
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)
Ha, kind of like when I wound up having to see Old Crow Medicine Show - they had three "banjos" on stage at once that I'm pretty sure were actually banjitars (I was a bit far away) and they were just strumming them like guitars. "DINGADANG DONG, WE GOTS BANJOS"
― Hurting 2, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:09 (nineteen years ago)
Banjo Cred: totally underrated.
― David R., Friday, 25 May 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)
hahahah hurting. i know entirely too many people who enjoy old crow medicine show. not that they're really all that terrible; i just love the hippie mystique of pickin' n grinnin' and bein' all old timey and whatever. they love it. they grow beards and wear overalls and learn to play the banjo.
― Emily Bjurnhjam, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:30 (nineteen years ago)