Youthmovies: Don't say I didn't tell you

THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS.
THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS.
THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS.
THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS.
THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS.
THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS.
THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS.
THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS.
THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS.
THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS.
THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS.
THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS.
THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS.
THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS.
THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS.
THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS.
THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS.
THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS.
THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS.
THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS.
THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS.
THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS.
THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS.
THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS.
THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS.
THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS.
THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS.
THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS.
THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS.
THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS.

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LJ, there is an american band that you may be interested in called "Chicago". I think many of their albums are out of print, but if you scour the used record shops you might turn one up.

their last album was a bore. i hope they've written some tunes this time round

for some reason the pic makes me yearn for a Bad Manners reunion

xpost: oh, they have. that was the first thing they established in our little chat. also, it wasn't an album, it was an ep. and they played nothing from it. they're moving in the right direction.

I keep getting told about these guys, as they get compared with 65DaysOfStatic quite a lot, but I just can't bring myself to get through any of the albums I have. I'll try another time.

Louis made me bump this in case anyone else actually heard them (haha). Apparently they're good. I don't think so. But THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS

I saw this band a fortnight ago and they bit the big one APART from the trumpeter FFS so, well, I have a foot in Camp LouJag I suppose

I like trumpeters, but I'm not gonna listen to some indie band just because they have one.

they are very genesis-y

The guitar sound is wicked; really alive and electric. Trumpet's very nicely rendered too. Not keen on the guy's vocals. They're alright, so far. I'm not getting the hype though.

I love them. They are doomed. I think I've even managed to bring Kerr round to them. They're total Elvis Telecom bait, too.

It's very very prog. Bits of Talk Talk, bits of Yes. They're like the anti-Battles. (Every time I listen to Battles, I have to take off the album halfway through and put on Yes. I can listen to a whole Yes album and come away with Youthmovies songs stuck in my head.)

THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS is a great headline. I think I'm nicking it.

This thread didn't really go as well as I'd hoped :-\

The album, on the other hand, is superb.

Not really feeling it that much, sadly. Mainly cos of his voice.

they're really bad - i think i saw them at ATP last year and it was like the worst decision i ever made, then made a good one by leaving and gone to the crazy horse to dance.

so dull

I just think there's so much that is exciting here, and I'll be damned if I'm gonna let a slightly fey accent poison my enjoyment.

Also, I've come to the slow conclusion that Surtsey is the best track, but six or seven of these could easily usurp it given my mood. Only TNGIAM, Cannulae and If You'd Seen A Battlefield fall slightly (and only very slightly) behind.

fey accent is good

dullness is bad

"Magic Diamond" (first track of their late-2008 Polyp EP) is just plain stunning.

does it have a trumpeter ffs?

it has multitracked trumpets

I reckon you'd dig some of this stuff JJ. This song in particular is plain epic.

trumpeter would be a much cooler word if it was spelled trumpeteer, and pronounced accordingly

xpost

will investigate

did you listen to that shellac album yet? is pure gold

does not have a trumpeter ffs tho, so be forewarned

bandoneonator

cool, the worry is that they might be a bit British for you but the music itself is really A+

(now I need to check your recs on the lol 2009 rolling art-rock thread oh haha xps)

1000 hurts or something? Will track down.

sorry, mr albini, for the copyright laws i am about to infringe ;_;

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RIP, band nobody cared about

RIP BAND WITH A TRUMPETER FFS

RIP band I saw a bunch in my quest to see every Oxford post-rock (two things you were sick of being associated with) gig 2001-2005

oh no, you changed your name and became a completely different band that didn't exist 2001-2005, never mind

RIP band

so I'm going to their final London gig, and penultimate gig ever tonight

may pour one out

louis - have you ever heard abilene?

http://www.myspace.com/abilenemusic

post rock ish band from chicago, some ex june of 44, regulator watts dudes...

anyway they hit that sorta art late 90s indie rock shit you seem to dig and also...

THEY HAVE A TRUMPET FFS

BOOM

will be on this

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shine on you magic diamonds

gnade play?

yep, was great as usual. played one new song about a winter apartment (i think) that really hit home. came on for 'honey slides' during ymvs encore. other support was 'friendship', a sorta lightning-bolt-gone-shoegaze thingummy

youthmovies are (shortly were) so goddamn incendiary live, makes me wonder whether ken c hates time-signatures

Can't wait to see them tomorrow

Though sad it's going to be the last time. (I guess until they decide to reform in 10 years' time)

So many great shows...

some dude was all 'COME TO OXFORD THERE ARE STILL TICKETS' and I had to say no because my best friend's birthday party is tomorrow and I'm skint as well

but man. will be there in spirit.

am amazed how popular they are, in their own quiet way. there must have been 300 people. absolutely rammed. 300 completely besotted youngsters going buckwild to fucking progressive rock. it may be the death of youthmovies, but it's the birth of a vision.

Yeah. Annoyed that I couldn't go tonight as well (already had tickets for another gig), but they're up there as one of my favourite live bands.

They've always had a pretty good following around the country (except for the odd very poorly West Midlands gigs from early on). It's sad to see so many bands they've influenced do so much better than them, and them struggling on...

so many bands they've influenced

Please expand on this! Without mentioning F***s, obviously. (I know they're good mates with 65DOS, who've made it pretty big themselves)

The demographic for the gig seemed to be slightly nerdy young men (ahem), indie kids and DiS staff members. I was content to drift around all three. Then mosh like a crazy.

Off the top of my head I was thinking of 65dos and also Forward Russia

so maybe just 2 instead of so many

I'm sure there were more... I spent about 2 years just watching bands that sounded like them.

Oh yeah, Forward Russia! Never did hear their second album. First one has some great moments (well, Eleven, the closing track); they seemed less imaginative and more straight-up indie-beat than YMVS - definitely less artful or sublime. Put it this way - only one of 'em wrote my 14th-favourite album of the decade, or adorns any 'Favourite Bands' list I compile.

Am also pretty confident I've heard others like them, but not many who approach their catchy, complex synergy or delirious momentum...

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so should i go see them this evening y/n

dude

it's not every day you get to see a great band go out on top form - can only really think of sleater-kinney in recent years

i've never heard them tho. due to having only been in oxford for like three months

well, they're really, really good, and this will be one of the most emotional gigs you'll have gone to, so I'd say for sure. unless you hate time-signatures.

listening to the record. i'm not sure about it. they seem kind of 'humourless'. this is probably something that would bother me less in the context of a gig than it would on pc speakers in the office.

oh, there was a LOT of good stage-banter last night - the music is often eloquent without showing reams of levity, but in several tracks there's a real wit (this is Good Nature you're listening to, right?)

ok, you were right about this one

RIP

also better late than etc

So yeah live they were fairly incredible: I think their kind-of-amazing chops + obviously, you know, meaning it = more than compensation for some of the failures of craft/tone on the record ... I mean e.g. 'the last night of the proms' being not-quite-clever-enough, or the fact that the phrase "some vellum" is really not singable in the way that that song needs it to be. I mean I feel like the material isn't quite as for-the-ages as it could be: and couldn't help thinking that, you know, in the late 60s/early 70s, they'd be able to devote themselves to playing full-time, and make and write more music, and work past those flaws.

On the other hand, this was kind of fantastic, as a farewell gig — like, intense in a way you do not expect bookish Oxford post-rock to be. They were playing in a circle in the middle of the venue, which meant it was rammed — half the audience ended up on the stage, by the end, with the singer climbing the cabs on the floor to be at their eyeline. The guitarist managed to get punched in the eye during the first song, or something (?), and had blood streaming down his face — after a band huddle towards the end of the set the singer announced "Al's just told me he's not sure where he is." This was, I think, after the song where they passed their guitars to (I think) random audience members. Which obviously seemed like an amazing gesture, at the time. Towards the end of the encore the singer jumped off the cab he was standing on and into the crowd, and he got passed all the way around the circle around the band. After about a minute of it he was frantically gesturing 'put me down' but no one seemed to want to.

Also, after the guitarist got his guitar back he started playing the wrong song, for their last song, and looked really shook, and confused, and started apologising into the microphone, and someone yelled from the stage: you cunts should split up: and there was this really tense moment and then the band cracked up and started playing.

Louis made me bump this in case anyone else actually heard them (haha). Apparently they're good. I don't think so. But THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS

― Frankie, Thursday, 20 March 2008 20:53 (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Is this Frankie Jagger?

I once saw this band while on a few pills. Booooooooooooooooring. (Ok they most probably were alright but so not suited to indie night designated to just jumping around and kissing girls/boys.)

So yeah live they were fairly incredible: I think their kind-of-amazing chops + obviously, you know, meaning it = more than compensation for some of the failures of craft/tone on the record ... I mean e.g. 'the last night of the proms' being not-quite-clever-enough, or the fact that the phrase "some vellum" is really not singable in the way that that song needs it to be. I mean I feel like the material isn't quite as for-the-ages as it could be: and couldn't help thinking that, you know, in the late 60s/early 70s, they'd be able to devote themselves to playing full-time, and make and write more music, and work past those flaws.

These are fair criticisms, although I'd err on the side of describing Good Nature as one of the most realised prog albums of the decade. There are moments of tonal incoherence and perhaps over-elaboration (not that I'm personally against this; you know me) and the songs aren't *absolutely* mindblowing on their own (I'm actually an ENORMOUS fan of 'the last night...' but appreciate that the ending is a bit 'do-you-see' after that frankly immense build-up...also the three songs they *didn't* play off Good Nature in London are arguably my three favourites (Shh... and the last two); the ones they did play range from very good to excellent, though, so no complaints) but the live setting suits their rhythmic and melodic shock tactics, and several of the songs were even better live. TNGIAM especially. Also, Magdalene Bridge, fucking Soandso & Soandso and Something For The Ghosts were huge. Soandso... is the track that I think with a bit of extra craft, a bit of work, could have been some sort of nu-21st Century Schizoid Man for the indie set...as it is, it's fucking great.

The guitarist managed to get punched in the eye during the first song, or something (?), and had blood streaming down his face — after a band huddle towards the end of the set the singer announced "Al's just told me he's not sure where he is." This was, I think, after the song where they passed their guitars to (I think) random audience members.

Apparently he was in hospital overnight! Mild concussion and all. What a trooper. I can only imagine what the vibe was like - it sounds pretty delirious. The song of audience participation is Something For The Ghosts - in the London one they dragged the Kraut-drone midsection out for ages and did some rather wondrous things with their FX pedals - it was GREAT. The drummer's song, though, in all honesty.

Yeah, that was Frankie. Hard zingin' for one so young.

the kid next to me who got passed the guitar was like: "what the fuck! what the fuck do i do!"

also, to a hoy hoy: they were a long, long way from being 'boring' last night (though who knows, maybe there were points in their career when they were) — they were maybe a couple of notches off 'incendiary'

OMG, I hope that Al is alright! He is such a genuine sweetie, totally <3 him.

R.I.P. Youthmovies.

Also a shout-out to Adam Gnade, virtually an everpresent support-act on Youthmovies tours - a very good lyricist, and a particularly affecting vocalist as well. I'll try to keep track of his music.

Al was tweeting from hospital so I gather he's more or less with it...

what a gig.

yeah, Al whacked himself in the face with his own guitar, first song in. then carried on, even though he couldn't really stand at some points.

I'm going to really miss watching them live.