Fiery Furnaces

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Is that a show likely to sell out?  Is anyone going?

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Hopefully a few people will go to this and keep the crowd size at the DBT show smaller.

[BookerT]

it's yom kippur evening, so that might mean that 4 or 5 people who would have gone won't be there. maybe i'm overestimating. i'll catch them opening for wilco a few nites later. after seeing them open for mission of burma a few months back, i think i like them as a 40-minute opener as opposed to a headliner. i like parts of "blueberry boat," but i can't say i find myself reaching for it all that often.

[nkotb]

Hold up here a second.  Rhett is going to the DBT show?  
 
 

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  Hopefully a few people will go to this and keep the crowd size at the DBT show smaller.

[Bags]

I was wondering the same thing this morning, Doom.  I can't quite decide which show to go to, or what to buy tickets for.
 
 I haven't heard the FF album.  I've read all the hype, but wonder if they'll be Modest Mouse Mach II for me -- a band everyone is digging as the hot thing, but too eccentric or quirky for me.  ??

[ggw]

Originally posted by BookerT:
 after seeing them open for mission of burma a few months back, i think i like them as a 40-minute opener as opposed to a headliner. i like parts of "blueberry boat," but i can't say i find myself reaching for it all that often.

I thought the first 5-10 minutes of their set was good.  After that, the schtick got really tired.  Then it became just plain annoying.

[Bombay Chutney]

I bought  Blueberry Boat a while back, based on all the hype.  To be honest, I find it incredibly annoying.  I have a hard time sitting through it.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

I listened to it last night and I kind of liked it, but I admittedly didn't give it my full attention.   Anyway my ulterior motive here is I was thinking of having a little get-together for my birthday and I thought a combining that with a band-viewing session would be fun, but only if it's not a sellout-type show.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

yup
 
 

Originally posted by nkotbie:
  Hold up here a second.  Rhett is going to the DBT show?  
 
   

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  Hopefully a few people will go to this and keep the crowd size at the DBT show smaller.

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[joz]

I really dig the fiery furnaces and can't wait to see them live at the BC on Friday...My friends have pretty eclectic musical tastes and I've played Blueberry Boat (and Gallowsbird's Bark) for all of them.  Only a couple have actually tolerated it, and maybe one of them enjoyed it.  
 
 Unbeknownst to me, my husband put Blueberry Boat in my car CD player before I drove to the Curiosa Festival and I was hooked by the time I hit Fells Point that afternoon to meet up with friends.  I was raving to them about this great new band with a crazy rock-operish style and schizophrenic pop melody hooks.  I think most people are initially turned off by the borderline-annoying sing-songy quality of some of the tracks. Oh, well...less people to cramp my style at the show on Friday.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

so is it likely to sell out or are they still obscure enough so that's not a concern?

[SalParadise]

i caught the last 15 minutes or so of their set at the siren festival. definitely liked what i heard (it probably ended up being the best 15 minutes of music i heard that whole day).
 
 i'll be there.

[Bags]

Doom, they've got SO much hype, I think this one might be close.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

heh, I am so immune to hype I had no idea...

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Then why are you going to see them?
 
 

Originally posted by Doctor Doom:
  heh, I am so immune to hype...