Author Topic: Clinic Roll Call  (Read 2611 times)

sonickteam2

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Re: Clinic Roll Call
« Reply #15 on: October 18, 2004, 11:51:00 am »
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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.

Dandy01

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Re: Clinic Roll Call
« Reply #16 on: October 18, 2004, 12:08:00 pm »
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.

BookerT

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Re: Clinic Roll Call
« Reply #17 on: October 18, 2004, 12:12:00 pm »
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

Dr. Anton Phibes

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Re: Clinic Roll Call
« Reply #18 on: October 18, 2004, 12:23:00 pm »
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.....

megs

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Re: Clinic Roll Call
« Reply #19 on: October 18, 2004, 12:34:00 pm »
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?