Saturday, May 07, 2005

Some shows I've seen recently...

I saw Phoenix at the Crocodile on April 18th. I just reread that sentence and even I don't know what it means. Apparently Phoenix used to be the backing band for Air, until they started to put out their own records. They had a sweet album called United in 2000 or 01 which was really eclectic and tuneful. Then they released an album called Alphabetical more recently which in comparison sucks balls. They must have been depressed at the time. I think maybe they were going for a more cohesive sound so that whole record sounds depressing and muted. Part of why I like the first album so much is the variety. Still there are hits on both of those. I think they had a club hit with a song called "If I Ever Feel Better". Michelman calls these guys France's Maroon 5. Ouch. They're slightly better than that but I see where he's coming from. They put on a solid solid show. Sound was great.

Last night I went to check out Sloan also at the Crocodile. The Minus 5 opened and I must say that Peter Buck looks way gay-er than I thought he would in person. I guess if you hang out with Michael Stipe for thirty years it's bound to happen. The Minus 5 had great country-ish songs and a lot of stuff that was just punk sounding. They were also very tight and loud. Sloan came on later and seemed overwhelmed that so many people had turned out to see them, especially with Gang of Four playing at the Showbox on the same night. I must say their set disappointed me. I guess it's hard when your songs involve so many harmonies to get them to sound straight live. They should murder their sound man. Either that or canonize their engineer becuase their voices seemed WEAK live except for the bassist who was all world. All you could here was guitars and their weak voices barely sneaking through. If you didn't know the songs you were fucked. I knew about a third of them so things were okay. Their guitarist with the short spiky hair was on blow. I bet my internet life on it. He came out for the encore rubbing his nose profusely and then challenged the crowd to be more like Vancouver in terms of audience participation. Yeah, let me just go get my mini and my fresh heroin needles. Vancouver is bullshit. There were some really faggot ass Canucks (no Americans act that gay) standing in front of me at the show. They were singing all the songs whilst gazing into each other's eyes all night. Their girlfriends (I don't get it) weren't that into Sloan and didn't understand why their men were being so gay, leading to the girls leaving for the bar in the back and the Canadians to hold each others arms and dance fruity. Then they kissed with tongues...I mean probably later that's what happened.

2 Comments:

At 5:59 AM, Blogger Andrew said...

What do you think about people calling Vancouver "Van-Groovy?" (btw, Swiss people LUV Vancouver, for some reason. They think the city itself is beautiful. I almost fell sorry for them.)

 
At 11:53 PM, Blogger Warren said...

Van-groovy is an awful nickname for Vancouver becuase it makes no fucking sense. It sounds like the Swiss need to go to Seattle. It's like Vancouver except (a) it's prettier and (b) it's in the US of F'n A.

 

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