first up the single on display these days is an orginial Monkee singles of "The Girl I knew somewere b/w A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You"...
secondly, Idlewild roolz! At Fletchers they were WOW!, last night they were WOW!!! turned up to 11. Clearly enjoying the larger 9:30 club stage the band had more energy and fire than earlier in the year. The audience was way into them as well, heads were seen bobbing as far back as the eye could see. The bands sense of dynamics was spine tingling... Being able to explode from the quiet bits superb. It's too bad Idlewild don't sell bootlegs ala Pearl Jam, cause I'd love one from that show.
I very glad that the Put-Outs were able to get on the bill for this show, having not seen them live since the summer of 1999 when they were still a three piece. For a group that hasn't done many live shows of late, the band was certainly at the top of their game. Would have liked to hear a couple more of their familar older songs, but the new stuff with added viola were fab. Lets hope they can quickly find someone to release it...
I will have to say that I hope the Put-Outs gained some new fans last night. Maybe a Idlewild audience is more receptive to "unknown" bands, because the Put-Outs seem to win over and gain the audience attention. I think that an audience attending a show (i.e. Pete Yawn) in order to socialize is more likely to ignore an support act they've never heard of. Where as when the is audience is ready to rock out as was the case last night, the worthy lesser known warmup act gets the respect of the audience.
Does anyone know if the Put-Outs were using a subsitute bass player for the gig? And will Tim be rejoining the band once he done doing the roadie gig?
Last and very lest LaGuardia... These boys need to be introduced to a bar of soap, and as long as they weren't singing the group was fine. His voice was even more whinier and shrill than Billy Corgans
