POP LOVES ROCK

The Fall @ The Galtymore Ballroom, Cricklewood
15/09/2006

nenhuma banda mantém os seus fans ao longo dos anos como esta..
os The Fall tocaram 4 noites em Londres e muitos foram os que assitiram aos 4 concertos consecutivos do abominante Mark Smith e da sua trupe, sempre nova e diferente...



" It was a beautiful, cheesy old dancehall in Cricklewood, a distant suburb of London...
There was nothing particularly psykick about it, but by fuck the chandeliers were huge. I'll be willing to bet there was a breakout going on in the Bingo complex opposite. Yes, it was a great and surreally appropriate venue for the best gig I've seen in many years, by the best band in the history of the multiverse.

The first surprise was when the band came on and started playing an extended instrumental intro.
They were *all* different (except Elena aka Mrs Smith on one finger keyboards). I read later that The Fall had undergone one of its regular seismic upheavals and the collossally tight, incredibly brutally skilful band onstage last night had only played once together before. It was even a different lineup from the gig at the same venue the night before, the band having lost a guitarist and then a bass player since the two gigs in Shoreditch at the beginning of the week.

And earlier in the year, the lineup had also changed when the core of the even more previous line-up, which had been together over the course of the two previous albums, had walked out four dates into the US tour.
Mark E Smith seems energised by the turmoil. He was a snarling, deafening presence in the barbed core of hooks and riffs that the band was laying down. He'd cut an increasingly lethargic figure of late but last night he was upright and imperious, surveying the audience and the balcony as if about to address some Victorian space-age British Empire in his mind's eye.

He had his usual struggle with the mike stands, and was clearly feeling the heat, shedding a leather jacket and a weird, spangly black and silver pinstripe jumper early in the set. He seemed to delight in un-nerving the admirable new guitarist, often standing and singing (shouting) right behind him. There was a lot of amp fiddling as well; the guitarist looking understandably nervous every time Mark disappeared from his peripheral vision to muck about with the settings behind him.

Some of the new stuff was fantastic, with the medley of new songs "Fall Sound" and "Reformation" at the core of the set being particular standouts. "Theme From Sparta FC", that amazing dissociated Greek Football Yob Anthem that is used as the theme for Football Focus these days, was played at about twice the speed of the recorded version and literally left the audience gasping.

Every song was a highlight but the encore was especially special, the band rescuing Garage Punk classic "Mr Pharmacist" from the band's 80's past and then bludgeoning the audience into oblivion with an absolutely MASSIVE version of *Blindness* from the last album, Fall Heads Roll (which you would be criminal not to have in your CD collection) which Mark humorously and unusually candidly introduced as being about his "backstage experiences" - blind drunk is somewhere in our personal backstage rooms that we've all been, after all...
...the best band in the world. "

Paris , 01/09 a 04/09
Feira Maison & Objet


trabalho árduo..
nada de paródia..
só vender "tapeti e carpeti"

Notting Hill, 27/08

para fechar um mês de visitas nonstop, carnaval em Londres...
no minimo um fenómeno estranho, mas deu para abominar em grande..

PSYCHOBILLY ROCK
Astoria, 15/08



"..The Astoria, where The Cramps played in 2003 is a very cool venue..

As we got in The Priscillas did their support show and if you ask me, it fits perfect to a evening like that. I recommend: "Rip Up Your Photograph". their website is thepriscillas.com

Then it was time to welcome THE CRAMPS!! "











".. Lux' stage outfit was great and his new hair-colour is... 5 years ahead of our time.
His performance got wilder wilder faster faster each song and he really enjoyed that night.
He even dedicated a song to those who came by airplane to see the show.
Poison Ivy was sexy as ever, wearing beautiful tights and playing the guitar like a rock'n'roll godess.
Chopper Franklin still has the shrunken head at his bass guitar.It surely helps him doin the Zombie Dance.He's a perfect Cramp. Hopefully they never change THAT lineup anymore.
Finally i had the pleasure to see Bill Bateman drumming with The Cramps.He was fantastic doing the old AND the new songs.

The setlist of that night:
1. Mad Daddy
2. Rock on the Moon
3. Way I Walk
4. Hanky Panky
5. Hang Up
6. Fissureof Rolando
7. Papa Satan Sang Louie
8. Big Black Witchcraft Rock
9. It Thing Hard On
10.Primitive
11. Lonesome Town
12. Caveman
13. Let's Get Fucked Up
14. DopefiendBoogie
15. Hot Pearl Snatch
16. Dames Booze Chains and Boots
17. TV Set
18. PsychoticReaction
19. Wrong Way Ticket
20. Tear it Up


e um excerto de uma entrevista ao Lux Interior e Poison Ivy:

" ..Lux: We’re excited about going back to Portugal because when we were in Portugal last time I chopped a hole in the floor too – we’re going to Portugal next – and they put us in a dressing room of a bullfighting ring and the dressing room had a curtain in the middle of it where this side was the rock and roll band and on the other side of the curtain was all the drugs they give to the bull fighters after they get gored. We were just filling our pockets with this stuff!
Ivy: There was like painkillers and Valium.Lux: Yeah! Unbelievable!
Ivy: But they put a rock and roll band in a room….
Lux: …with a curtain so the rock and roll band won’t get to the drugs! Yeah, except the smart ones that can go behind the curtain..."

ihey!
abandonei o blog por uns tempos de carochada..
férias, visitas.. não tem dado 'tempo' para escrever nada.
uma vida difícil..

no entretanto,
feitas as contas, há 3 meses que estou em Londres na rockalhada..
e também fiz 32! anitos em Berlim..
só faltava lá a minha maltinha.. o circo!
mas, festejamos aí nem que seja em Dezembro, depois da operação Tokyo..

22/07 - Roxy Music, ExCel, London

um concerto pouco punk..
com o glamour um bocado chassado do mr. Ferry
mas a voz tava lá..

valeu pelo ambiente..
a malta do reumático deu o seu melhor..







The Independent
By Chris Mugan

... the predominance of middle-aged couples suggested a generation reliving their youth when they played Roxy's later yuppie seduction soundtracks in less practical cars than they own today. This audience was not disappointed by the group's greatest hits set, though there were enough surprises for fans of their art-rock early days.
This period has been brought to mind by news that the former Roxy keyboardist, Brian Eno, had worked with the band on recent recording sessions - their first collaboration since the early Seventies. Just in the nick of time, for even before the band reformed in 2001, their music had been overshadowed by Bryan Ferry's country gent image. He was even upstaged by his son, Otis, prosecuted for his Commons protest against the fox-hunting ban last year.
Eno originally denied being back on the scene and declined to appear live, which left Ferry, the guitarist Phil Manzanera and the sax/oboe player Andy Mackay, as drummer Phil Thompson was ill. The singer croaked his way through their opening numbers, though soon regained his legendary poise. Ferry's louche croon was in full effect, and with age was more plaintive than ever on "Jealous Guy". His bandmates, meanwhile, showed Roxy's elegance extended beyond the sartorial, with a succession of rich yet understated arrangements. Manzanera played with clipped precision and rarely has an oboe sounded as haunting as on the debut album highlight "Ladytron".
There were, sadly, too many solos as the group morphed into a Ferry, Manzanera, Mackay supergroup with each taking equal time in the spotlight. The daft horror story "Bogus Man" faded away too slowly in a morass of noodling. It was impossible to work out why two extra guitarists were among the array of additional performers - "My Only Love" came with a trio of unnecessary solos. Such extraneous instrumentation was generally reserved for the set's middle third. Roxy rallied with a forceful finale that returned them to their superb second album For Your Pleasure. They hammered home "Editions Of You" with the intensity to suggest they had predated post-Punk's dance fixation by several years, before Ferry put on his campest persona for an exuberant "Do The Strand".
Without any new material on show, the sheer joy the band displayed during such moments was promising, compared to the flat delivery of numbers from their smooth Eighties period. It suggested they may finally loosen their ties on next year's album, their first since 1982.
Roxy Music are rocking once more.

17/7, King's College of London
Gossip pela segunda vez...
Brutal! ainda gostei mais..



... the gossip's vocalist beth ditto packs the hurricane-force punch of a genuine soul belter. she's dropped it down a notch or five, though, for this slow, punky r&b sizzler, all bootsy collins bass and funky cowbell thwack. the limited 7" features the album version plus a cover of the slow and sultry aaliyah track 'are u that somebody'. the trio preserves the song's less-is-more mechanics, limiting the music to lurching bass, dub-inflected guitar accents, and sparse drums.

19/07 Islington Academy

estava à espera de ouvir mais musicas do album "Louden Up Now" de 2004..
mas tocaram mais do album que vai ser lançado...
hey..nem sequer a "Hello? Is This Thing On?" ..

mas até que tocaram bem, especialmente o Mr. Tyler Pope.. foi um concerto muito animado.. um bocadito demais até... a maltinha saltava, suava e batia palmas exageradamente..

Video "Hello? Is This Thing On?"

primeiro chega a pauleta mais o flavio brasuca, do porto, para uma semana de completa parodia em Londres.. sorte que "esta" semana eu estava de férias..
logo no dia a seguir juntam-se à trupe a ana e a rosane de amsterdam.. e mais o nuno 'togethinho' e a camila.. grande comunidade brasuca instalada nas masmorras.. palmilhanço até mais nao com as objectivas sempre a disparar..
até que por fim chega o master pinho para a fritadeira britanica.. o grande chef, que dominou camdeeem brutalmente!

11/07, Buffalo Bar
Les George Leningrad

Les Georges Leningrad might be considered a bit unusual...
This trio of noise-thumping electronic experimentalism knows not of decency but of absolute lunacy-- not only in the studio but more importantly on the stage with a live show eliciting pandemonium through form.
These French party enforcers are sure to make you sweat that expensive hair gel.