Anyway, music. I went to see Sebadoh in Whelans last week. They were class, four acoustic guitar strings, 34 songs and the truth. However, there was something funny about the whole gig though. Everytime they finished a song and briefly tuned up or whatever, a strange awkward silence descended on the Whelans crowd. They were cowed. Early in the gig Lou Barlow wondered about the re-occurring bubble of silence himself, telling us we were terribly well-behaved and that he was expecting a mad response. At gigs, I hate awkwardness and silence. So I started filling the sound vacuum with beery woop woops. I deplore a vacuum. If you are at an awkward gig in Dublin and some weird bastard shatters the silence with an ill-timed "wooop wooop!!!" its likely to be me.
Sebadoh were supported by Dublin band Bats. I landed in late enough and missed a few of their tunes. But as I eked my way through the strange crowd who were present, I couldn't tear my eyes from the noisy excitement on stage. It was filled by a bunch of young dudes in varying degrees of anonymous clothing and unassuming stances who created an absolute perfect storm of unconventional stop-start metal noise in their short allotted time. The lead guitarist's splayed fingers crawled mesmerizingly up and down his fret-board like a tarantula while the others managed to both look completely modest and rock out with ferocious abandon. They sounded a bit like Slint, Napalm Death and Steve Reich met up on a college piss-up in Fibbers. Great stuff altogether, and the best Irish crew I've heard live in a while.
MP3: Bats-Atom & Eve
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yay! Bats rock. These ones lay Eggs!
I watched the Barrymore thing and it was quite annoying. Peretti kept saying (handily, right before each ad break) things like "but there were more shocking revelations to come" or "but I was to discover more about what really went on at the house that fateful night". And then by the end, NADA. All he revealed was that there's an imminent police document to be released with more info - none of which he was privy to for the programme.
Yeah Sinead it was the exact same pattern with Heather Mills and the first one about Michael Jackson. Big close up of Peretti's face in a car and voiceover saying "I didn't know just how shocking the next revelation would be" cue ads, then a fairly thin revelation
woz barrymore whatdunnit
Bats are bloody brilliant. My favourite EP of the year so far...am really looking forward to more from them.
I saw the ads for the Peretti documentary bit figured it'd be more of the usual salacious speculation and edgy filming so didn't bother.
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