Gigs for 2024

Meatbodies very good indeed in the Workmans Cellar tonight. Last played here in 2016 and i think they probably pulled a bigger crowd tonight, pretty decent turnout i thought. If you like Ty Segall, Fuzz, Oh Sees, early Wand and King Gizz you'd enjoy this. An 80 minute set of fuzzed out riffs, garage punkers, BJM jangle and Spacemen 3-type droning guitar by an on-point 3-piece. Plenty of bounce in their tunes, heavy-ish but not punishing, quite catchy really. Finished with an unplanned encore of, i think, 'Mountain' that was stretched out to 10 minutes and veered into Allman Brothers / Grateful Dead territory at one point. Marvellous.

Anyone heading to night 1 of Magnetic Fields. I can only make tomorrow. Missing a few gems.

Yeah. Loved it

My review:

Stupendously beautiful love song

Respectful applause from an awed crowd thankful for the last 25 years of this album.

x17

Intermission

Stupendously beautiful love song

Respectful applause from an awed crowd thankful for the last 25 years of this album.

x18

Same again tonight.

That was lovely, there's a bit more filler on the last disc but even hearing experimental music love live was great.

The well timed disco ball made my night.

Shatter was superb. Thought the sound was slightly iffy at the beginning of last night. It improved somewhat.

Awful buzz off the guitar during some tracks also. Maybe just me.

Agreed. That opening salvo is so good. Was agog for first hour.

Found my focus drifting a little on the final 1/4 of the record last night however.

SM in brilliant form last night tho. He seemed a little perturbed on Wednesday by comparison. Walking straight off stage etc.

Pokey Lafarge at a packed Opium on Wednesday - the guy is some energetic performer, no wonder he's so skinny.

I hadn't really kept up with his stuff since his first couple of records but the whole set was excellent, and his band were **** hot (on a couple of songs his guitarist was playing trumpet and guitar at the same time). I had one of the kids with me who's more of a techno-head but even he really enjoyed it.

In Glasgow for Death can for cutie/The Postal Service (still waiting on the Collins barracks announcement.....)

I've had a Greggs chicken bake and there's a statue of a horse with a traffic cone on it, so I'm happy.

mica is one of the greatest musicians of last twenty years. Amazing film scores, half a dozen albums under various projects/bands.

Curiouslty got the better of me and I threw on some of that Mica Levi stuff. Stop the lights. That's awful muck. How anyone can compose that type of stuff, take the time and expense to make it available, and think it is listenable is beyond me. Reminds me a bit when Kim Gordon (of Sonic Youth) played a little gig in Royal Museum of Modern Art, Kilmainham a few years back. We went along thinking it was going to be class. All she did was these random noises. Wasn't music. What she did was supposed to be some "arty piece". I'm afraid the joke was on us for paying 20 quid to listen to it.