Originally posted by SweetJoy:
Still not entirely sure how Art Brut and Hold Steady were paired for this show. My 20 seconds of research is showing that they aren't on the same label -- was someone just like 'well, both of the singers just kind of talk melodically instead of actually singing, let's have them tour together!'? Cus man, after sitting through an hour of Art Brut (which I enjoyed) I was pretty much done with that quirk.
no offense, but i think this was the best pairing i've seen in a while ... the sing-songy thing is part of it, but it's a lot deeper than that, both of them are like kaleidoscopes reflecting back the music and stories of their home towns / countries: you can really see it when you look at the bands on a lyrical level, the dry british humour vs. the heart-on-sleeve american heartland stories
sorry if that's too cheesy or deconstructive, but it made perfect sense to me
to sacklunch: you should have seen the against me! show last week, full-fledged mosh pits were breaking out all over the floor, dozens of crowd surfers ... the staff seemed totally cool with it all, they'd just pluck the kid off the crowd and throw him around to the other side
i like the fuck-it-all energy at shows like that, it was only a dozen or so people up front, if you didn't want to be a part of it then you could have easily avoided it
