Author Topic: neko case and high dials  (Read 4978 times)

duderino

  • Member
  • Posts: 83
Re: neko case and high dials
« Reply #30 on: April 10, 2006, 11:34:00 am »
'knock loud' isn't on their set list, but its on the recording! good stuff

Bags

  • Member
  • Posts: 8545
Re: neko case and high dials
« Reply #31 on: April 10, 2006, 11:40:00 am »
Quote
Originally posted by wxdude:
 I also agree no smoking also added greatly to enjoying the show.
I can't wait for January....the smoke at Black Cat bothered me particularly last night.

brennser

  • Member
  • Posts: 3758
Re: neko case and high dials
« Reply #32 on: April 10, 2006, 11:50:00 am »
wow - sounds great even on mp3
 
 
Quote
Originally posted by Dr. Jonas Sulk:
  This includes last night's set list!
 
  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5325695

Darth Ed

  • Member
  • Posts: 1159
Re: neko case and high dials
« Reply #33 on: April 10, 2006, 12:08:00 pm »
Quote
Originally posted by brennser:
  wow - sounds great even on mp3
 
   
Quote
Originally posted by Dr. Jonas Sulk:
  This includes last night's set list!
 
   http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5325695  
[/b]
Yes!!! The recording sounds way better than NPR's Belle & Sebastian recording for sure. The volume's a bit low, but that's easily fixed in iTunes....

Bags

  • Member
  • Posts: 8545
Re: neko case and high dials
« Reply #34 on: April 11, 2006, 05:16:00 pm »
POP MUSIC
 Tuesday, April 11, 2006; C07
 The Washington Post
 
 Neko Case
 
 "NPR loves tuning," Neko Case told a sold-out crowd near the end of her set at the 9:30 club Sunday. The show's live streaming on public radio's "All Songs Considered" program may have given her band a case of nerves, but for whatever reason, the 90-minute show seemed to have as much instrument-fiddling and off-the-cuff babbling as actual performance.
 
 Of course this is Neko, and even with a self-proclaimed "hole in her throat," the country-noir goddess held her worshipers in rapture. Anyone familiar with Case's career outside the New Pornographers knew to take her deadpan opening statement with a grain of salt: "We will attempt to rock you." Instead, the performance kicked off with her out-of-this-world voice, harmonized with backup singer Kelly Hogan, bringing instant chills with the intro to "A Widow's Toast," the opening track of Case's new record, "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood." Case leaned heavily on that atmospheric album -- filled with images of blood and death -- instead of her honky-tonkish, twang-heavy early work. Also included was a softened version of Bob Dylan's "Buckets of Rain."
 
 Case brought opener Martha Wainwright out to contribute to "Fox Confessor's" "Star Witness," but even that surprise guest appearance was delayed as Case, Wainwright and Hogan giggled at their not-terribly-amusing recollection of watching R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet" the night before. The constant breaks after nearly every song made the performance seem more like a rehearsal, but the show was saved by the lovely melodies and vocals that interrupted the tinkering. The crowd went nuts when Case rather quickly came back for the first of two encores -- and likely let out a sigh when what immediately followed wasn't another gorgeous vocal, but more tuning.
 
 -- Tricia Olszewski

Re: neko case and high dials
« Reply #35 on: April 12, 2006, 09:18:00 am »
Margaret vs. Pauline is the opening track on my copy. Did I buy the wrong album?
 
 
Quote
Originally posted by Bags:
  POP MUSIC
 Tuesday, April 11, 2006; C07
 The Washington Post
 
 Neko Case
 
 , bringing instant chills with the intro to "A Widow's Toast," the opening track of Case's new record, "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood."
 
 -- Tricia Olszewski

Re: neko case and high dials
« Reply #36 on: April 12, 2006, 09:32:00 am »
It's funny. Neither my wife, nor two friends who went, nor anybody I heard talking about the show afterword in the club and on the board, made a single complaint about the tuning and the banter. Yet this reviewer saw fit to bitch about it through her entire review.

nkotb

  • Member
  • Posts: 6163
Re: neko case and high dials
« Reply #37 on: April 12, 2006, 09:32:00 am »
That's funny; I just received my ordered copy yesterday and was wondering the same thing.  Maybe promo copies had different tracklistings?
 
 
Quote
Originally posted by Charlie Nakajima, Fired by Mascis:
  Margaret vs. Pauline is the opening track on my copy. Did I buy the wrong album?

xcanuck

  • Member
  • Posts: 648
Re: neko case and high dials
« Reply #38 on: April 12, 2006, 01:30:00 pm »
Good lord, can that woman sing or what? I can't believe how fucking amazing her voice is. Her CDs don't do her justice - you just have to experience Neko live. I could listen to the 930 Club show over and over and over. And Kelly Hogan did a great job of backing her up.
 
 We also saw the High Dials show - shorter set than I would've liked but I think that might have had something to do with the new drummer. I think the DC show was Max's first with the HD. George (drummer for The Dears) had been drumming earlier on the tour. Anyhow, a good solid set from the band though there was definitely something wrong with the sound. It was almost as if the drums were clipping or something.
 
 They did mention that they're going back to Montreal to record a new record after they come back from their UK jaunt and some personal time. So hopefully we can see them again towards the end of the year.
 
 Did I mention how bloody amazing Neko Case is? Hot damn...

kosmo vinyl

  • Administrator
  • Member
  • Posts: 15145
    • Hi-Fi Pop
Re: neko case and high dials
« Reply #39 on: April 12, 2006, 01:55:00 pm »
it was indeed his first show with the band... i suspect the set was similiar to what they are doing on the neko dates... it would have been nice for another 30 minutes, but no complaints here.
T.Rex