Posts by Damian Christie
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n00b camping? I learned something today.
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I love papers past!!
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Cracker: Dinner and a Show (Everybody’s…, in reply to Samuel Scott,
Pixies have never had any banter. ..
...New Order however…..haven’t they always been notoriously shonky live?
You're probably right Samuel, and I'm probably guilty of not being better researched for what I should expect. My New Order hopes were raised by various people's accounts of great gigs/that BDO gig etc, but perhaps the people that really enjoyed that were the sort of people who still really loved Monday's gig, or were mashed, or both. Not saying they're wrong, just that I look for different things. Banter maybe, musicianship perhaps, but enthusiasm, always...
Sounds like I would've loved the Bon Iver gig. I'll do me research next time :)
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Cracker: Dinner and a Show (Everybody’s…, in reply to Rageaholic,
Was that happening all night, or did I go at an unfortunate time between cup supplies?
It happened from the time the bigger cups ran out, which seemed to be about 1/4 way through the show, until the end, as far as I could tell. Ordering three beers, and being told to chug the remnants of each (which would’ve added up to most of a beer), I didn’t think it was rocket science when I suggested that a fourth cup might hold all the remains… tuh-duhhhh. It certainly wasn't very responsible hosting to suggest otherwise...
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Cracker: Dinner and a Show (Everybody’s…, in reply to Greg Wood,
Damian: Pixies play their first ever gig in New Zealand at the Powerstation, a venue so perfect and intimate and energising that it felt like they were actually playing in my heart -- and you didn't like it?
...yeah, it really should've been good eh, all the elements were there. The Pixies, The Powerstation. Unfortunately the emotionless going-through-the-motions, here's-this-album-in-order-track-by-track, don't-expect-any-conversation thing kinda got to me, as much as I enjoyed seeing the Pixies play live. And I think that's part of the dichotomy here: it's perfectly possibly to have a really enjoyable time seeing your favourite band playing badly/averagely/without spirit etc. I was utterly underwhelmed by the Pixies' live gigs here, while my friends were bouncing off the walls because they'd seen the Pixies. Can't fault the sound, singing or musicianship however, just the lack of any dynamic.
The question I think is somewhere in between "was it a good gig?" and "was it a good Pixies gig?"
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Cracker: Dinner and a Show (Everybody’s…, in reply to Stephen Judd,
Fark, we'll never get the Standard believing our working class credentials if you keep this up, Damian.
Seriously, if you manage to hijack this thread into an angry discussion about class... ;)
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Cracker: Dinner and a Show (Everybody’s…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I don’t know why anyone would go to a live gig and complain that the toons don’t sound just like they do on the platters.
Yeah Craig, and as you note, that's not my point, and for the record (or rather, for anything other than the record), nothing bores me more than a band doing pitch-perfect renditions of songs with nothing in between. Interpol were the worst example I've seen for that, playing the songs precisely, with no talking or interaction or generally giving a fuck in between. Crowded House on the other hand - and they're far from my favourites musically - were absolutely amazing both times I've seen then in the past 20 years, for chopping, changing, chatting...
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Thanks Stewart - and yeah I did enjoy it, despite how it might have sounded. The pork was amazing, and hearing good songs played badly was still better than sitting at home. I know what you mean about service etc, although a good waiter will always note that you have no knife and fork when the food gets plonked down, or that you have empty plates sitting on your table when they take your drink order. That requires no communication between anyone and anyone else, just eyes.
I'm hoping they might have just been a couple of staff members down that night.
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"But I expected them to be rough as guts"
Rough I can handle. Disinterested, not-so-much. And to me the second makes the first less forgivable.
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I got all excited and went to check out Ian's website... now I'm even more intrigued...
