ByersVinyl
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Beth Gibbons - Intimate and cool. 
Great Sounding gig at Albert Hall Mcr
Great Sounding gig at Albert Hall Mcr
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cul8er
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I am curious about this. As an artist of the avant-garde experimental music, what kind of reaction from the audience does the performer expect? Last night's crowd seemed acceptive, but also kinda bored? I remember seeing a similar act as an opener for Sleep, the Weather Warlock. They were slightly heckled a bit, but it was just a dude hunched over messing with some dials on their machine producing a monotonous sound.
Anyway, just curious. It wasn't bad or anything. It was just LOUD.
ayayrawn
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It's a reasonable question I'm not sure I know the answer to. I only really ever play once a month at an experimental open mic night (so everybody is there for that kind of stuff) and nobody plays over 10 minutes, so it's a different beast. My thinking is if I were to play for 30 min or so I'd want to switch it up or throw in some different effects to keep people on their toes, but maybe the artist is going for something intentionally monotonous. There's a lot of angles you can approach it.
ByersVinyl
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And followed 2 days later with the excellent Richard Hawley....
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In today’s show atmosphere, I would think attentive is all any performer wants. (It’s certainly what I want from the crowd when I am in it.)
Djxfactor511
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Forgot to post this.
Last week's Blossom show was Foreigner and Styx with John Waite.
Got stuck in traffic and walked into the venue with Waite playing the song I wanted to hear, "Missing You". To me it sounded like he saved his energy for a cover of Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love".
Styx has a few original members left and they were fine.
Only 1 original Foreigner member left, the lead guitarist. They were the best of the night. Overall, not my style of music, but a worthy show.
Last week's Blossom show was Foreigner and Styx with John Waite.
Got stuck in traffic and walked into the venue with Waite playing the song I wanted to hear, "Missing You". To me it sounded like he saved his energy for a cover of Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love".
Styx has a few original members left and they were fine.
Only 1 original Foreigner member left, the lead guitarist. They were the best of the night. Overall, not my style of music, but a worthy show.
ByersVinyl
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So true ! I often feel sorry for the warm up acts when you get a section of the crowd intent on acting as if they are not even playing, I mean find the bar area if u wanna chat thru it.
cul8er
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Fortunately most everyone in the audience was attentive, and more than a few I saw digging it and bobbing their heads to the music. Bill Nace didn't seem fazed or care all that much about the crowd as he kept his eyes shut the majority of his performance.
That's cool! Is that at Kaiju? I've only been there once, but not for open mic night.
ayayrawn
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Planet of the Tapes! First Thursday of every month
cul8er
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Nice. I will hopefully check that out one of these days!
mucusoffmybrain
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Mdou Moctar this past weekend at the HiFi in Indy. Great show. Their drummer whips ass. 
Djxfactor511
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Probably seeing them in Cleveland tomorrow!
Mtcvinyl
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I don’t think I am the only 90s kid here that found the absolute joy of Soul Coughing performing live in their day. Hell has frozen over and they are touring with all 4 original members in September and October.
I think I saw them 3 times during the Irresistible Bliss and El Oso days. They were an incredible live band. I need to go convince my wife I need to see them both dates in Brooklyn.
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I think I saw them 3 times during the Irresistible Bliss and El Oso days. They were an incredible live band. I need to go convince my wife I need to see them both dates in Brooklyn.
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imtheocean
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I'll be at the kick off in San Diego for sure. Never saw them the first time around, even though I was living in Minneapolis then. I did catch Mike Doughty doing Ruby Vroom a number of years ago which was great, but seeing them all together will be even better.
Djxfactor511
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Yer Ol' Uncle D
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Lemme guess - that last photo is Juke Box Hero.
avecigrec
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Iron & Wine @ The Commodore Ballroom; Vancouver, BC - June 23, 2024
Last night was amazing! It's been about 8 years since I've caught a show at the Commodore, which is one of my all-time favourite venues and home to many great memories over the past 25 years. We had some time before the show so we poked out heads over to the merch table, where I noticed the Tour Exclusive Archive Series no. 6 vinyl then immediately hopped in line (which spanned the length of the room but moved briskly!)
In what felt like both a rarity and a relief, Amythyst Kiah took the stage promptly at the advertised start time of 8 o'clock. She opened with a great tune from her forthcoming album due out "later this year," then played three off of Wary + Strange ("Firewater," "Hangover Blues," and "Wild Turkey") before playing another new one ("Gods Under The Mountain," which was an absolute JAM!), her most recent single ("In The Pines") and closed out with "Black Myself." Her demeanor was chill and performance was great—I was ecstatic when I learned she would be opening the show, she's been one of my favourite discoveries of the past couple years.
After a half hour or so of tinkering and changeover Iron & Wine took the stage accompanied by viola, violin, keyboards, bass and drums (and all but the keyboard player were women) and he immediately called attention to two other women on stage from Manual Cinema, who would be providing live shadow theater visuals throughout the evening. The set consisted of old and new songs, with many of the older songs in new arrangements that were fantastic with the current band. He also played a couple songs solo around the middle of the set. The band was absolutely dynamite and they all looked like they were having a fantastic time playing with and off of each other—so many great moments of subtle interplay and communication, which I always love to see.
The visuals were absolutely stunning. I'm a huge fan of shadow theater and have been fortunate to see quite a bit, much of it by my friends Mind of a Snail. It's truly stupendous what can be done with simple overhead projectors and props! Some of cutouts they used throughout the show were wickedly intricate and multi-layered, and at one point one of the puppeteers was dancing casting a body shadow which she would then freeze to have the other puppeteer incorporate the lines of her body into the landscape of a scene.
As for Sam himself, he was much more grey than expected, but that made absolute sense the moment I stopped to think of how long I've been listening to him. He's entire look and demeanor really had a quirky collage professor vibe and his interactions with the audience were playful and half mumbled, at times almost inaudible—but never not engaged and engaging. As in the picture above he often looked like he was flipping us off with the shape of his chord hand, which I got quite a kick out of, and most importantly (in my mind) is singing was impeccable and his range impressive.
Incredibly glad to have finally seen him, and I would go again in a heartbeat!
ayayrawn
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Hoping to catch him in August!
Mtcvinyl
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Got tickets to both Brooklyn shows. Now to figure out all the other logistics.
imtheocean
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Got my tickets for the tour kickoff in San Diego.