Tuesday, October 16, 2007
i want a restorative beer, to take my mind off these tears
The Fiery Furnaces were back in town last night, and unlike their visit last June they actually brought some keyboards this time (four of them, to be exact). That was probably pleasant news to anyone who was disappointed with the fuzzed out guitar based version of the band that showed up last time they were here, but if you're one of the people who wishes they wouldn't "mess up" their songs in general, you were still out of luck. Fortunately for me, I'm not one of those people.
The Furnaces pulled heavily from their latest, Widow City, notably omitting Blueberry Boat (entirely I think) from the main set. Some of the songs were fairly faithful to the studio versions, but a lot of them differed substantially, and almost everything was a lot heavier sounding. The entire performance was pretty great, but things really picked up in the encore. After riffing through "Don't Dance Her Down," an admittedly stiff version of "Single Again," and then surging back into "Don't Dance Her Down," they took a request for "Chris Michaels" that totally destroyed. They also took my request for "Waiting to Know You" - it seemed they were a little out of practice on that one - before closing with a great rendition of "Restorative Beer."
This seems like a good time to tell/remind you that BlueberryBoat.com is the place to find all things Fiery Furnaces related.
Pit-Er-Pat opened and almost put me to sleep. They had really nice merch though.
The Clips CD release show is now on November 1st at the ANZA Club. Small Fame and the Paper Cranes support, and DJs will rock your body late into the evening afterward.
TI was scheduled to play at Plush on November 7th for a ridiculously high fee. But then he got himself arrested on a federal charge. No official word yet, but I'll give you 100-1 odds that it's canceled soon. (thanks Chris)
Bison is at the Cobalt on Halloween with Crowbra, OSK, ESDS, and Cryptos. (thanks Rob)
Stereogum has the details about a forthcoming record of Mark Szabo covers by the Choir Practice's Marcy Emery. They've also got an mp3 of a track that Dan Bejar sings on. Check out this old Discorder interview that Christa Min did with Mark on the verge of Capozzi Park's break up... seems the record idea's been kicking around for awhile.
Since I'm not judging Shindig for the rest of the year: go, Japandroids!
And finally, Ticketmaster is suing scalpers who use software that let's them beat TMs own ticket system, which "denies consumers the opportunity to purchase tickets to events at a fair price." This is the music business equivalent of the US calling out other countries about WMD.
i want a restorative beer, to take my mind off these tears
The Fiery Furnaces were back in town last night, and unlike their visit last June they actually brought some keyboards this time (four of them, to be exact). That was probably pleasant news to anyone who was disappointed with the fuzzed out guitar based version of the band that showed up last time they were here, but if you're one of the people who wishes they wouldn't "mess up" their songs in general, you were still out of luck. Fortunately for me, I'm not one of those people.
The Furnaces pulled heavily from their latest, Widow City, notably omitting Blueberry Boat (entirely I think) from the main set. Some of the songs were fairly faithful to the studio versions, but a lot of them differed substantially, and almost everything was a lot heavier sounding. The entire performance was pretty great, but things really picked up in the encore. After riffing through "Don't Dance Her Down," an admittedly stiff version of "Single Again," and then surging back into "Don't Dance Her Down," they took a request for "Chris Michaels" that totally destroyed. They also took my request for "Waiting to Know You" - it seemed they were a little out of practice on that one - before closing with a great rendition of "Restorative Beer."
This seems like a good time to tell/remind you that BlueberryBoat.com is the place to find all things Fiery Furnaces related.
Pit-Er-Pat opened and almost put me to sleep. They had really nice merch though.
The Clips CD release show is now on November 1st at the ANZA Club. Small Fame and the Paper Cranes support, and DJs will rock your body late into the evening afterward.
TI was scheduled to play at Plush on November 7th for a ridiculously high fee. But then he got himself arrested on a federal charge. No official word yet, but I'll give you 100-1 odds that it's canceled soon. (thanks Chris)
Bison is at the Cobalt on Halloween with Crowbra, OSK, ESDS, and Cryptos. (thanks Rob)
Stereogum has the details about a forthcoming record of Mark Szabo covers by the Choir Practice's Marcy Emery. They've also got an mp3 of a track that Dan Bejar sings on. Check out this old Discorder interview that Christa Min did with Mark on the verge of Capozzi Park's break up... seems the record idea's been kicking around for awhile.
Since I'm not judging Shindig for the rest of the year: go, Japandroids!
And finally, Ticketmaster is suing scalpers who use software that let's them beat TMs own ticket system, which "denies consumers the opportunity to purchase tickets to events at a fair price." This is the music business equivalent of the US calling out other countries about WMD.
Labels: show announcements, show recaps, the fiery furnaces
