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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Bags on January 19, 2007, 01:48:00 pm
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I know a lot of folks are going to the Dears @ 9:30. Anyone going to be at the Black Cat on Saturday?
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That reminds me, I picked up a $1.99 Exit Clov EP out of the clearance bin last weekend at Amoeba.
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I'm in for trying to both MDR & DND then hitting the Dears who should be on late enough to catch most of their set.
The Dears record by the way just earned the top spot for 2006 since I finally got around to hearing it...
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90% sure I'll be there. It's rare that I want to see all 3 bands.
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I'll be at the Black Cat. Might go to 9:30 first to see Annuals...
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The Clov chicks are much cuter than the black Morrissey.
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Actually he sounds more like a black Damon Albarn these days...
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As usual, i will be manning the merch table for the Clov, so feel free to stop by and say hi, even if you are leaving before their set (blatantly looks at Kosmo).
Does a $1.99 clearance box have to be a bad thing? Eh, at least you bought it.
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Does a $1.99 clearance box have to be a bad thing? Eh, at least you bought it.
I meant it as a compliment. Without a distributor, to get a CD 3000 miles across the country in a retail outlet is quite the accomplishment. There were two actually....
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I should be there. Typical January drought, so this will be my first show of 2007.
Good lineup, and I look forward to seeing the new De Novo Dahl and Exit Clov for the first time. On the other hand, I've never heard the Dears and they seem to have a lot of fans here. Perhaps the Kosmo approach...
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ah, another reason why Amoeba kicks the shit out of everything else in this world.
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myself and boy will be at the black cat for all 3 bands. have missed just about every single time any of the 3 have played here, which has probably been about 50 times combined at this point!
very much looking forward to it. curious about a smoke free black cat-probably still come out of there smelling somewhat like smoke. no chance in hell they can get that smell out after all these years! but will be an improvement.
sell out show? we never got tickets ahead of time.
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redsock, since you're "with the band" per say, do you set times for tommorow night? i'm thinking 10,11,12, over around 1 am? yes? no? ealrier? later?
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yeah, for a weekend show at the Cat, that sounds about right. I too am looking forward to a smokeless Cat. I think this is one of the first main stage shows this year. I doubt that it will sell out, and if it somehow did, it wouldn't be till tomorrow night.
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I meant it as a compliment. Without a distributor, to get a CD 3000 miles across the country in a retail outlet is quite the accomplishment. There were two actually....
Well, their label is distributed nationally, but being a small band from DC, and this being an EP, it is still hard to get it out to certain places. I know the Amoeba in LA had some copies, at least when it first came out.
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I'll be at the Dears show
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I'll be at the Dears show as well, my first concert of 2007, but I'm still disappointed to be missing De Novo Dahl. I really wanted to go to this show. I like Middle Distance Runner a lot, too.
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Saw the Dears last night in NYC and they were F**KING AWESOME!! Murray's voice is always as great as usual. George's drumming is the driving force for the music. Natalia's singing is alot stronger than in previous tours. You're going to miss alot if you don't go to the show tonite...but then again George mentioned to us that they plan on touring the US as much as four times this year.
And the new CD is easily and by far my favorite album of 2006.
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dears... i bought tickets before i heard about the clov/dalh/mdr gig, otherwise i probably would have gone to that instead.
then again, the dears aren't scheduled to hit the stage until 11:30 (annuals at 10:15) so maybe i'll club-hop and check out MDR before hitting the 930...
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redsock, since you're "with the band" per say, do you set times for tommorow night? i'm thinking 10,11,12, over around 1 am? yes? no? ealrier? later?
having played main stage Saturday night twice now, i can pretty much say standard set times for a three-band bill are 9:30, 10:30, 11:30. They're also pretty strict about going on on-time, which I think is a good approach. Better for the customer if they know when bands will be playing. I know a lot of people are annoyed by missing bands or having to sit through acts they didn't go to see (although i love checking out new music).
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Nice show. The smoke-free Cat was a welcome change. Got to buy a CD from redsock. The crazy dervish dancer guy was there again - this time with a friend. And the ladies of Clov didn't disappoint. The Rod Stewart cover to close was kinda silly - but I guess that was the whole idea.
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Ahhh... Smoke-free black cat was nice. Show was great too. First time seeing Exit Clov headline.
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Middle Distance Runner's Homestretch Kick (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/21/AR2007012101110.html)
Monday, January 22, 2007; C02
Battle cries take many forms. For Ian Glinka, bassist and backing vocalist for Middle Distance Runner, which played a highly caffeinated set at the Black Cat on Saturday night, there was this: "They stole our cowbell. But we got another one, and we're still [expletive] going!"
Glinka and his band mates were robbed of most of their instruments before a New York gig earlier in the week. A coterie of their fellow D.C. musicians contributed gear so the Black Cat show could go on but couldn't help with another calamity that befell at least 60 percent of MDR's five-man lineup on the trip: food poisoning. "You're all on vomit alert here in the front row," Glinka told the crowd.
Pronouncements such as these have been the between-songs spice of many a great live album, and while MDR's set wasn't quite a knockout, it offered evidence aplenty that the band may have a great live album in its future: Its 40 minutes felt like 20, and the band managed to re-create the atmospheric pop vibe that tunes like "The Madness" and "That's a Lie" showed on its self-produced 2006 debut CD, "Plane in Flames," without depriving a gutsy rocker like "Top of the Stairs" of its punch.
But a live reputation is not born of chops alone. Showmanship is at least as important. Despite their weakened physical state -- most of the band members were visibly sweating before they'd played a note, and singer/keyboardist Stephen Kilroy quaffed Gatorade throughout the short set -- MDR managed to look and sound as if everyone was having the time of his life. And fun, despite whatever they may have caught in New York, is highly communicable.
Headlining the bill at the Black Cat was another D.C. band, Exit Clov, whose unique lineup -- violin-playing twin singers Susan and Emily Hsu fronting a traditional rock band -- is only the most obvious of the group's idiosyncrasies. Songs like "Communist BBQ" and "MK Ultra" wrap sharp political commentary in a cloak of seemingly harmless pop. Despite some excellent funk guitar work from Aaron Leeder, the sum ended up being somehow less than its parts onstage at the Cat on Saturday Night. Pretty as the Hsus' voices are, the dual-lead-vocal thing lends a certain sameness to their material, and their choice to cover Rod Stewart's "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" as their encore number seemed to undermine the serious intent of the original songs that preceded it.
-- Chris Klimek