Thursday, December 06, 2007
oh sailor
I'm striving to make this blog your go to source for two day old music commentary.
As mentioned yesterday, Shindig! wrapped up on Tuesday night and Fanshaw doomed herself with the Shindig curse, by taking home top spot (only kidding about the doomed part).
No disrespect to the SSRIs, but I was pretty surprised to find out that they beat out Petroleum By-Products (second photo). In fact, even though I liked Fanshaw's set the best (which was even better than the previous week), I still would've put money down on a By-Products win.
A big thanks to Ben Lai and CiTR for another great year. And a special thank you to everyone that I swore at during jokes for beer after my punchlines got called week after week... all seven of you.
This Friday, Ok Vancouver Ok, Rose Melberg, Lala, Collapsing Opposites, the Unreliable Narrator, Chris-a-riffic, and Hymn for Her Little Man are at Little Mountain Studios... which is right by my house now.
A week later on the 14th at the same place, Organ Trail, A Relative Distance, Lost Lover's Brigade, Fanshaw, and Grayscales play. Darren from the Trail promises that the band will be thoroughly unpracticed... but they've got new tunes and a new line-up to debut.
Atlas Sound are at Pat's on March 5th.
Sex Attack! are at 1/2 Alive on December 21st.
Bend Sinister are at the Media Club tonight.
Telus just called me at work to day my home internet should work now. After my failure to properly set a line on Shindig, I'm offering 5:4 that my modem still won't receive a signal when I get home tonight.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
checkerboard
The thing about my picture taking (ne photography) is that I'm lazy. As you can see above, if I had bothered to move back two feet that photo of Liv and Johnny might be half way decent. I illustrate this point to help explain why there are only Fanshaw photos up. When Adjective. (don't you forget the period) andBroken Greenbelt Schools Music ProjectCollective Scene were on the front of the stage was kind of crowded, and so while both bands are generally fairly easy on the eyes, I was sitting too far back to take any snaps, and I couldn't be bothered to wade my way any closer.
Adjective have chops, but they also wear their influences prominently on their sleeves. Whether or not that's okay with you probably hinges on how much you like Joy Division... if they had a girl in the band. Although, it should be noted that I haven't seen Ryan break into seizures on stage yet.
Perhaps it points to the fact that I'm a miserable, misanthropic curmudgeon, but I can't really get into the Greenbelt Collective. My patience for bands that project unrequited, childlike joy for more than 5 minutes at a time is reserved for few acts, and the quota for cuteness at Shindig got used up by Petroleum By-Products (like seriously, those kids are adorable and they rock). And speaking of bands sounding like other bands, someone give them a copy of "Space Oddity" for Xmas.
I was informed when I arrived to work this morning that Fanshaw won. I actually hadn't seen Liv play her solo material before last night, and to be completely honest, I didn't think that it would excite me all that much live. Her soft delivery and muted arrangements (at least recorded) seemed to lend themselves more to at-home-hungover-on-sunday listening than live performance, but I was rather pleasantly surprised. She could probably get by on being a cute girl with a (very) pretty voice, but her songs are good, her usually coy lyrics are better, and with a little help from her friends (including Johnny from Victoria, Victoria, who seem to be suffering from the Shindig winners' curse) the proceedings had a enough energy to hold your attention for the duration of her/their set.
Finals go on December 4th. The resident From Blown Speakers bookie is giving 5:4 on a Petroleum By-Products win.
oh sailor
I'm striving to make this blog your go to source for two day old music commentary.
As mentioned yesterday, Shindig! wrapped up on Tuesday night and Fanshaw doomed herself with the Shindig curse, by taking home top spot (only kidding about the doomed part).
No disrespect to the SSRIs, but I was pretty surprised to find out that they beat out Petroleum By-Products (second photo). In fact, even though I liked Fanshaw's set the best (which was even better than the previous week), I still would've put money down on a By-Products win.
A big thanks to Ben Lai and CiTR for another great year. And a special thank you to everyone that I swore at during jokes for beer after my punchlines got called week after week... all seven of you.
This Friday, Ok Vancouver Ok, Rose Melberg, Lala, Collapsing Opposites, the Unreliable Narrator, Chris-a-riffic, and Hymn for Her Little Man are at Little Mountain Studios... which is right by my house now.
A week later on the 14th at the same place, Organ Trail, A Relative Distance, Lost Lover's Brigade, Fanshaw, and Grayscales play. Darren from the Trail promises that the band will be thoroughly unpracticed... but they've got new tunes and a new line-up to debut.
Atlas Sound are at Pat's on March 5th.
Sex Attack! are at 1/2 Alive on December 21st.
Bend Sinister are at the Media Club tonight.
Telus just called me at work to day my home internet should work now. After my failure to properly set a line on Shindig, I'm offering 5:4 that my modem still won't receive a signal when I get home tonight.
Labels: fanshaw, lazy show recaps, petroleum by-products, shindig, show announcements, ssris
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
checkerboard
The thing about my picture taking (ne photography) is that I'm lazy. As you can see above, if I had bothered to move back two feet that photo of Liv and Johnny might be half way decent. I illustrate this point to help explain why there are only Fanshaw photos up. When Adjective. (don't you forget the period) and
Adjective have chops, but they also wear their influences prominently on their sleeves. Whether or not that's okay with you probably hinges on how much you like Joy Division... if they had a girl in the band. Although, it should be noted that I haven't seen Ryan break into seizures on stage yet.
Perhaps it points to the fact that I'm a miserable, misanthropic curmudgeon, but I can't really get into the Greenbelt Collective. My patience for bands that project unrequited, childlike joy for more than 5 minutes at a time is reserved for few acts, and the quota for cuteness at Shindig got used up by Petroleum By-Products (like seriously, those kids are adorable and they rock). And speaking of bands sounding like other bands, someone give them a copy of "Space Oddity" for Xmas.
I was informed when I arrived to work this morning that Fanshaw won. I actually hadn't seen Liv play her solo material before last night, and to be completely honest, I didn't think that it would excite me all that much live. Her soft delivery and muted arrangements (at least recorded) seemed to lend themselves more to at-home-hungover-on-sunday listening than live performance, but I was rather pleasantly surprised. She could probably get by on being a cute girl with a (very) pretty voice, but her songs are good, her usually coy lyrics are better, and with a little help from her friends (including Johnny from Victoria, Victoria, who seem to be suffering from the Shindig winners' curse) the proceedings had a enough energy to hold your attention for the duration of her/their set.
Finals go on December 4th. The resident From Blown Speakers bookie is giving 5:4 on a Petroleum By-Products win.
Labels: adjective, fanshaw, greenbelt collective, shindig
