Monday, October 08, 2007
night windows
On the bright side, I didn't find myself being the guy at the show who was yelling "booooooring" every time they played a down tempo number. They're not boring, you're slow, asshole.
Anyhow, more than seeing the Weakerthans again, I was pretty excited to see the Last Town Chorus. Megan Hickey and her slide guitar were backed up by a lone acoustic guitarist for most of the set, although they were joined by Stephen Carroll and Jim Bryson (who was a Weakerthan for the evening) for a couple numbers. Despite the limited instrumentation the country-folk meets shoegaze thing that characterizes the record was still in full effect. She's also got one of those voices that could prop up songs that are far less well composed than the ones she writes. I think the whole set was a bit too low key for most of the Friday night crowd, but I was in a pretty low energy mood, so it was more than fine with me.
On an unrelated note, Ladyhawk has a blog.
now playing: Robert Johnson - Love in Vain
night windows
I'm not overly fond of the new Weakerthans record. It's not bad per se, but I certainly haven't had it on repeat. I'm sure that's part of the reason that I wasn't overly excited about their performance on Saturday night at the Commodore either. They're still really tight live, and as a group they're probably the most affable musicians in Canada, but a set that leaned so heavily on their last two records left me mostly waiting for them to drop in the occasional "oldie." And I hate being that guy at shows.
On the bright side, I didn't find myself being the guy at the show who was yelling "booooooring" every time they played a down tempo number. They're not boring, you're slow, asshole.
Anyhow, more than seeing the Weakerthans again, I was pretty excited to see the Last Town Chorus. Megan Hickey and her slide guitar were backed up by a lone acoustic guitarist for most of the set, although they were joined by Stephen Carroll and Jim Bryson (who was a Weakerthan for the evening) for a couple numbers. Despite the limited instrumentation the country-folk meets shoegaze thing that characterizes the record was still in full effect. She's also got one of those voices that could prop up songs that are far less well composed than the ones she writes. I think the whole set was a bit too low key for most of the Friday night crowd, but I was in a pretty low energy mood, so it was more than fine with me.
On an unrelated note, Ladyhawk has a blog.
now playing: Robert Johnson - Love in Vain
Labels: show recaps, the last town chorus, the weakerthans
2 Comments:
i heard parts of the new, unmastered Ladyhawk album. from the little i heard it sounds great. Faces of Death will be on it. Also, a new coworker of mine filmed a documentary (!) of the making of the album. it's currently being edited and awaiting rights approval and stuff
this is unrelated to your post, but was an interesting article I just read comparing Spoon to the National:
http://pageblank.blogspot.com/2007/06/on-national-vs-spoon.html
Some of the claims the author makes are absurd, but it's interesting nonetheless
