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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: megs on October 15, 2004, 10:20:00 am
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anyone else going? i've seen them twice, but i can never resist the urge to see men in surgical masks playing really good music.
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I love them and really enjoyed the last show, I'll be there!
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i love Clinic and i'd love to see them live, but really my money is super tight. and i sort of dislike the Black Cat.
come to baltimore, Clinic.
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and i sort of dislike the Black Cat.
Why? The Black Cat is a great venue and a decent hangout spot.
Anyway, I'll be there. Saw them a few months back and I was blown away. Thought their set would be more mellow and/or moody, but it straight-up rocked from start to finish.
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Originally posted by LonnieBeale:
and i sort of dislike the Black Cat.
Why? The Black Cat is a great venue and a decent hangout spot.
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well, bands sound fine there, but its sort of a bitch to park there, and the crowd is usually pretty dull. and people there are generally not very friendly. since its usually just me and my girl, we tend to be more bored there than anything else. perhaps I'm not hip enough to talk to people there.
just my personal experience.
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i am quite interested in both openers, but think i'm gonna laze out of this one. the high watermarks is the new band from hillary sydney, drummer from apples in stereo, and sounds pretty good. and sons and daughters has folks from arab strap (neither of the main guys), and sounds pretty good from the few tunes i've heard. i think clinic peaked with their early EPs and each album since then has gone downhilll, but they're still pretty fun.
we'll see how the weather is (both here and in boston).
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1. Its a bitch to park just about anyplace in DC that has any semblance of nightlife.
2. I've never been inclined to talk to anonymous people at any other venues such as the 930 club for example. For the most part, people are there to see shows not to meet new friends.
3. Most of time, crowds are boring at every DC show.
What's good about the Black Cat is that its a little more intimate. You have a better chance at getting close to the stage and its a little (just a little) bit cheaper.
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Originally posted by LonnieBeale:
2. I've never been inclined to talk to anonymous people at any other venues such as the 930 club for example. For the most part, people are there to see shows not to meet new friends.
which is why i dont go to DC much. I dont have many friends who go to shows (almost none really). Baltimore is more of a place to hang out and i always meet a few interesting people at Fletcher's or Ottobar.
Since my girl doesnt know much about most of the bands we see, i am left to kind of enjoy them by myself. kind of boring, and a long drive from Baltimore, for "kind of boring"
930 is not like the Black Cat though, in that regard.
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Is it me, or does their new album totally suck?
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Baltimore is more of a place to hang out and i always meet a few interesting people at Fletcher's or Ottobar.
According to the CDC and Men's Health Magazine:
Cities with Highest Incidence of Sexually Transmitted Diseases:
3. Baltimore, MD
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Baltimore is more of a place to hang out and i always meet a few interesting people at Fletcher's or Ottobar.
According to the CDC and Men's Health Magazine:
Cities with Highest Incidence of Sexually Transmitted Diseases:
3. Baltimore, MD [/b]
they used to be higher than 3.
but whats your point?
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What bands is your girl into?
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Originally posted by LonnieBeale:
2. I've never been inclined to talk to anonymous people at any other venues such as the 930 club for example. For the most part, people are there to see shows not to meet new friends.
which is why i dont go to DC much. I dont have many friends who go to shows (almost none really). Baltimore is more of a place to hang out and i always meet a few interesting people at Fletcher's or Ottobar.
Since my girl doesnt know much about most of the bands we see, i am left to kind of enjoy them by myself. kind of boring, and a long drive from Baltimore, for "kind of boring"
930 is not like the Black Cat though, in that regard. [/b]
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
What bands is your girl into?
she likes the same bands i do, and to be honest, shes more fun at a show where she's never heard the band, than most people there who love them.
its just usually Black Cat type bands are the one she's never heard of at all.
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I was cold on it at first, because it sounds a bit too much like the last two. But it's kind of grown on me. It's subtly complex.
Originally posted by dotdot:
Is it me, or does their new album totally suck?
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the show was disappointly short and the crowd soo tame, eh. At least they did Porno.
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Originally posted by Dandy01:
the show was disappointly short and the crowd soo tame, eh. At least they did Porno.
short? the crowd was tame? at the black cat???
noooooooooooooooo.
sorry to hear that though. i chose to watch the Red Sox not play baseball and ended up watching Kill Bill 2 , which was Long and disappointing.
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yep, although it was more crowded than their last show, perhaps due to the Friday vs. Sunday deal, I felt there were more enthusiastic fans last time. The lights were still off when they left the stage at the end, after a quick reappearance, and people scattered like they couldn't wait to leave! Had that not been the case, we could've possibly enjoyed another encore.
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here's what jenkins had to say. any other thoughts on the openers?
To answer the first question that will occur to anyone who's seen Clinic perform: Yes, the musicians still wear surgical scrubs and masks.
The Liverpool quartet tinkered slightly with its sound for its new album, "Winchester Cathedral," mostly by slowing it a bit. But the band's show Friday night at the Black Cat was very similar to previous local appearances. Singer Ade Blackburn -- whose voice escapes through a hole in his mask -- switched between guitar, keyboards and melodica, leading snappy songs constructed largely from cyclical melodic motifs and nonsense syllables.
With its brisk ostinatos and clipped rhythms, Clinic invoke early '80s punk-funk, which is undergoing a major revival. Yet that's not the whole of the band's style: Its looping riffs suggest synth-pop, and its "oohs" and "whoas" recall pre-Beatles rock. (Indeed, the new "Falstaff" is almost a doo-wop tune.) The combination is cunning and lively, but -- as the masks exemplify -- somewhat anonymous. If the members of Clinic are ever going to expand their music beyond its formal cleverness, they'll have to reveal a little more of themselves.
Sons and Daughters, the impressive Glasgow quartet that preceded Clinic, played propulsive modal rock, but with a hint of Appalachian airs (and their British antecedents). This band also swapped instruments frequently, with singers Adele Bethel and Scott Paterson playing guitar, bass and keyboards, and Ailidh Lennon alternating between bass and mandolin. The foursome never sounded like commonplace alt-country, and made a point of stripping every vestige of twang from one of its best songs, the driving "Johnny Cash."
The evening began with the optimistically named High Water Marks, a American-Norwegian quartet that matched dirty guitars to clean vocals, most of them sung by sometime Apples in Stereo member Hilarie Sidney.
-- Mark Jenkins
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I was real impressed by Sons & Daughters......I dug them a lot more than High Watermarks.....I wish I had gone to the Franz Ferdinand show that they opened.....Clinic was really tight and the sound was crisp....I think people were heading out because they knew that they are famous for their 40 minute sets and that's what was expected.....I was really surprised by the encore.....
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i thought they were in fine form, but the show did seem a bit shorter than previous clinic shows. i also wish they would deviate a bit from their regulation scrubs. has anyone seen them play in anything else?