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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: brennser on February 24, 2005, 11:41:00 am
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A little early, as its not till Sunday but I'm not at work tomorrow, and (gasp) might not be able to post :eek:
I shall be there on Sunday night wallowing in melancholia with my fellow Irishmen
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miss maRple and myself will be at the show.
you going for food first?
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you going for food first?
now theres an idea! where?
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Ummm, how about Lauriol Plaza.....
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mmmmmmm fajitas..........
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mmmmmm, margies
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I'd love to go, but I host an Oscar party every year.....
Hey, Miss Marple -- DID YOU SEE BARRY MANILOW ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA THIS A.M.? He's got a long-term gig in Vegas, opening tonight, so he did three songs in the last hour of the show. Ladies in the audience weeping to "Mandy," all your standard Manilow moves.... I thought of you.
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Originally posted by Bags:
I thought of you.
Ahh you came and you gave, without taking.....
Thanks, I think. Well we were planning a Vegas trip maybe we will go and see him and think of you.
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Originally posted by Miss MaRpIe:
Originally posted by Bags:
I thought of you.
Ahh you came and you gave, without taking.....
Thanks, I think. Well we were planning a Vegas trip maybe we will go and see him and think of you. [/b]
You whacky Fanilow, you.
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No more Will and Grace for you!
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HELL YEAH! i am so there on sunday. boy and i are headed to philly to see them at northstar bar on saturday.
should be interesting to see their mood on sunday. glen f'n hates playing the black cat. says there is a permanent bad vibe and too many obnoxious people that attend the dc shows. everytime i've talked to him in the last 2 years that's all he mentions about dc. i sent his tour manager alternative venues like dc9 and iota with the suggestion that they do 2 dates to accomodate the fans due the venues' size. guess they could only fit one in the scheduled and decided they would head back to the despised black cat.
that said, the shows at the black cat have been great and the mood, due to glen's opinion of the venue, that so comes out in the music have been absolutely unique. the frames are a band very energized by the crowd and their playing is very influenced by the crowd as well.
you should have seen them at joe's pub in nyc-pure magic and they were ON FIRE.
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Hey Brennser,
Still wanna for for fajitas? Give us a call or an email or something......
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the show in philly was FANTASTIC last night! i wish you all could have been there. colm (the fiddler player) is not on the tour though. his girlfriend had a baby a few days ago and he is on paternity leave from the band for the next 6 weeks. though truely, you barely miss the fiddle. they have more than accomodated for his absence. i talked with glen about the show tonight being at the dreaded black cat. his response "well, yeah, wasn't ideal, but we have a job to do so we'll do it."
nearly a 2 hour set last night and then we talked with mark geary outside the bar after who was really touched that we travelled up to see him and the band. grand guy.
grand evening.
except one thing-i rocked out too hard last night and i'm really sore today. i better be careful tonight so i am still able to make it to work tommorow! HA!
see you all tonight.
they have tons of merch for sale, including frames undies! :eek: !
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wow - the frames TORE up the black cat tonight - more tomorrow
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yes a trully amazing show........i got the essential signage on the cd too.........
great night
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the dc curse has been lifted!!!
woo hoo!
the set list was nearly identical to the philly show, though the ordering was different. that pixies cover was a suprise though! they've continued closing with red chord-that van morrison song-and then mic christopher's hey day trio mix thing from last year when they opened for damien rice. i've heard it several times, but i absolutely the combo and never grow tired of it. i would kill for a storming version of hey day though like they did on that live australia ep.
we spoke with mark geary and he will be doing a show at iota in may.
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okey dokey
best gig I've been to in a long time - the lads were on fire last night - I am very, very hoarse
I don't know how many people in the crowd were irish butit seemed like a lot - even Mark Geary who I've never heard of got a great reception but The Frames were magnificent - a bit of a slow start with at least 3 and maybe 4 songs from the new album which all have this start slow, end in a maelstrom of guitars type structure which works quite well on the CD but was a bit much for the ears at the Cat (probably the loudest gig I've been to at the Cat and thats saying something) - the sound was also not great for the first few songs and they had a lot of feedback probs
for guys who don't like the Cat they seemed to be having the time of their lives up there - Glen never stopped smiling and goofing around and chatting with the crowd, half way through Glen left and the rest of the lads did a great version of Sabbaths War Pigs
by the end of the night they could do no wrong and they knew it - at least 3 encores, including a blistering version of Revelate, and a note perfect cover of Where Is My Mind?
fanfuckingtastic
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i'm just thrilled that the set went so well and they weren't beleagured with crowd issues. they never do a bad show but if they've got crowd problems it kills their mood on stage.
that pixies cover was a huge suprise, but one that i've been anticipating for a while because all the band members are huge huge huge pixies fans. i wasn't expecting that particular song though, i kinda thought their take on bone machine would be pretty rockin' if they ever wanted to do a cover.
did you notice that at one point they did a couple lines from damien rice's blower's daughter?
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Thanks Bags for the ticket!
It was a good show.
But I dont really understand what some people are talking about.
I have seen the frames at blackcat 3 times now. The first itme with the New Pornographers, the frames had a great time. They seemed genuinely inspired by their warm reception. The second time with Calexico they got annoyed with hecklers, but it was far from an awful gig. Infact I think I preffered that show, with its quieter songs, to last night.
I am not sure I like them when they play loud. Maybe I just need to get used to the change. I still dont think it was too loud in the blackcat last night. I think poor Brennser ears are old and not used to going to concerts anymore.
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apparently the 'fucker' sitting in the back reading the paper was Mark Jenkins - will be interesting to see what kind of review appears, if any
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Originally posted by brennser:
apparently the 'fucker' sitting in the back reading the paper was Mark Jenkins - will be interesting to see what kind of review appears, if any
Well apparently he threw my coat onto the floor. I'll twat him one next time.
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how did you find that out? was it on the frames board this morning?
Originally posted by brennser:
apparently the 'fucker' sitting in the back reading the paper was Mark Jenkins - will be interesting to see what kind of review appears, if any
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one of the people I was with used to work with him
Originally posted by lily1:
how did you find that out? was it on the frames board this morning?
Originally posted by brennser:
apparently the 'fucker' sitting in the back reading the paper was Mark Jenkins - will be interesting to see what kind of review appears, if any
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good frames documentary here (http://www.vpro.nl/programma/vrijegeluiden/afleveringen/20653176/)
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Originally posted by Miss MaRpIe:
Thanks Bags for the ticket!
Absolutely....glad the show was good. Sorry I missed it, but maybe I'll get another chance.
The second time with Calexico they got annoyed with hecklers, but it was far from an awful gig.
Did you apologize, and lay off for this time? :p
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The Frames
"Burn the Maps," the latest album by the Frames, is a somber, heartbroken affair. Sunday night at the Black Cat, however, the Irish quintet ventured a little too far in the opposite direction. Between the epic ballads, singer Glen Hansard was garrulous and jokey, and the band (sans Hansard) even played a version of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs," a tune whose hammering earnestness is inherently comic.
Somewhere between the gags and the bombast, the Frames are generally an appealing band. Their recent songs "Fake" and "Dream Awake" are spry and tuneful, and sounded better without the vast arrangements of the recorded versions. With fiddler Colm Mac Con Iomaire on paternity leave, there wasn't a violin in sight, though the group added a guitarist to augment the sound. Rather than strain for the symphonic, the massed guitars levitated into exhilarating space-rock vamps.
Though the club was only about half full, Hansard labeled the audience the best and biggest the group had ever encountered in Washington. Emulating the much bigger crowds heard on the band's 2003 live album, "Set List," the fans sang large chunks of several tunes. Under Hansard's direction, they even produced a theremin-like "whoo-ooo" for one of the lulls in "Pavement Tune (I Want My Life to Make More Sense)." Whether the listeners were enraptured or stuck around just because they felt needed, most of them lasted through the entire show, which ran nearly two hours. That was good for the band, because minus the extraneous moments, perhaps two-thirds of the performance was worth the applause.
-- Mark Jenkins
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Wasn't the thermin "wooo hooo" for the pixies cover?