Sounds like these shows are a real litmus test, very divisive and often entirely dependent on your own vantage point as to whether you enjoy them or not.
― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Monday, 28 April 2014 11:14 (ten years ago) link
Generally enjoyed the show. Some aspects could have been better I guess (the choreographies could have been better on some songs, that spoken word thing did nothing for me). I definitely agree that having a good view of the stage is necessary to fully appreciate it. Really enjoyed the updated versions of We Share Our Mother's Health and Bird (actually the first 5 or so songs were all incredible).
― silverfish, Monday, 28 April 2014 13:12 (ten years ago) link
I will be the first admit that I preferred the silly, pretentious mess I saw (imo) to most shows, because in 10 years I am more likely to remember this one than many of the more conventionally "good" shows I see. I honestly do prefer a band be controversial or divisive than complacent. I just wish I dug it more. Like I said, lots of (I felt) unforced errors, especially since the group has had time to retool things, if it wanted. Dancing could have been better or more interesting (imo). Politics/message could have been better presented/focused/developed. Opening cheerleader could have been excised. Poetry did nothing for me, though it worked as inadvertent self-parody. I guess I would have greatly preferred it not as a concert but as a proper show, at a theater, with maybe a narrative or something, a la the group's Darwin opera. Or even what the Pet Shop Boys do, performing/replicating songs but situated in the context of pretty focused show, wth A/V and dancing and songs all supporting one another. The mere two dancers on the last PSB tour, with the horned masks, I thought were more interesting and compelling and effective and affecting than the Knife's dayglo troupe.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 April 2014 13:20 (ten years ago) link
otm
― "got ye!" (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 28 April 2014 13:39 (ten years ago) link
Like I said, I hated it but they're still my favourite band and would see it again
― "got ye!" (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 28 April 2014 13:41 (ten years ago) link
;_; I had to give my tickets to tonight's show to CAD
― chillin' on an "awesome pretzel" hoagie (DJP), Monday, 28 April 2014 16:44 (ten years ago) link
Anybody have a pair of tickets to Thursdays show in Nyc that they'd be willing to trade for wed? Pls email dan at acuterecords if so!
― dan selzer, Monday, 28 April 2014 22:58 (ten years ago) link
xp dan i wish you had been there tonite because i genuinely would have loved to get your take on it
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 02:33 (ten years ago) link
I loved the show.
also:
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2014/05/karin_of_the_kn.html
― dan selzer, Friday, 2 May 2014 17:42 (ten years ago) link
I was down with this until they started dumping bedpans full of shit on each other, still a tour remix album sounds very exciting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcXg_p-Yj18
― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 16:23 (ten years ago) link
That video is like an alternate world version of an episode of Glee.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 16:31 (ten years ago) link
tbf the tour here was at terminal 5 which is a comparable experience to having bedpans full of shit dumped on you (the venue, not the tour)
― katherine, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 20:58 (ten years ago) link
I was warned about the wed show so I showed up extra early to the thur show and stood on the balcony just behind the light people with a counter in front of me and the throngs behind.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 21:31 (ten years ago) link
Okay, from that description there is every possibility I was like five feet away from you at that show
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 22:46 (ten years ago) link
New:
Europa Europa and The Knife -- För alla namn vi inte får användahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jMXZBPW-Q0
― panic disorder pixie (Sanpaku), Friday, 6 June 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
so Katherine St. Asaph reviewed Shaken-Up Versions for Pitchfork and got a rating of 7.3 yesterday. the thing is i looked it up to see if i can buy the CD version of this and according to Amazon this is MP3 only?
here is her review: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19465-the-knife-shaken-up-versions/
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 03:40 (nine years ago) link
It's on spotify. I listened to it in the car the other day and really liked it. It's a nice combination of the clattering intensity of Shaking The Habitual and the tighter, catchier vibe of their earlier stuff.
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 03:45 (nine years ago) link
katherine describes the album as "remixes" three times - are they actually remixes, not re-recordings?
― rage against martin sheen (sic), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 04:47 (nine years ago) link
I don't think they completely re-recorded them from scratch, but there are definitely a lot of new-sounding elements. Don't know if that counts as a remix or not.
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 05:26 (nine years ago) link
https://www.crowdsurge.com/store/index.php?storeid=947
got my ticket for London. Almost an anticlimax to get it first time with no hitches along the way, I was prepared to again spend hours on crashing websites.
― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 08:18 (nine years ago) link
nobody cares this time around?
― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 08:49 (nine years ago) link
Sold out now, but I got one late yesterday afternoon, so i think yeah, they shook off a lot of people with the last London shows.
Finding Shaken-up really addictive, Got 2 Let U especially.
― woof, Thursday, 17 July 2014 14:45 (nine years ago) link
― rage against martin sheen (sic), Tuesday, June 24, 2014 12:47 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
vocals might have been re-recorded, it is basically The Tour: The Album
― katherine, Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
any news on when the vinyl issue of this will be coming? been listening to it a lot on Spotify but this is an album that needs to live on my shelf.
― a duiving caTCH, a stuolllen bayeeeess (jamescobo), Monday, 21 July 2014 05:33 (nine years ago) link
Our LAST tour? Not the final tour, I guess?
We are doing our last tour!In the autumn we will round up the Shaking The Habitual Show Tour with a number of European dates. After the touring last year we reworked the show during the winter. The performers, previously known as dancers, learnt how to sing and play instruments, the stage got three levels, Shannon Funchess joined us and the show became more fun and shiny. We performed it in the US in the spring and now we would love you to join us in our dance for some last shaking moves. "A handfull elf peeThat’s my soulSpray it alloverFill the bowlLegs astrideAn axe to grindGenerous actions with the speed of lightWithout you my life would be boring”See you on the dance floor.../Olof and Karin, The Knife Shaking The Habitual Show Tour Dates:Oct 31 - Annexet, Stockholm, Sweden - 22/08/14 @ 9AM CETNov 01 - Film Studios, Gothenburg, Sweden - 22/08/14 @ 9AM CETNov 03 - Arena, Berlin, Germany - Buy TicketsNov 05 - Academy, Manchester, UK - Buy TicketsNov 06 - Brixton Academy, London, UK - Buy TicketsNov 08 - Iceland Airwaves Festival, Reykjavík - Buy Tickets
― StanM, Thursday, 21 August 2014 12:35 (nine years ago) link
Only got this today, a month after Merdeyeux found out... weird. Maybe those dates weren't official yet?
― StanM, Thursday, 21 August 2014 12:39 (nine years ago) link
They're breaking up after the tour.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Thursday, 21 August 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
just saw this, kinda sucks, but I guess it's good to go out on a high note
does this mean there will be more Fever Ray albums?
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Thursday, 21 August 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/21359/1/the-knife-are-no-more-read-their-last-interview
― StanM, Thursday, 21 August 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
this is a bummer but i've got faith that karin dreijer andersson is going to do something amazing next
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 21 August 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
as a tribute, here's a free download of a chiptunes cover album from 2010 : http://dataairlines.bandcamp.com/album/the-knife-data013
― StanM, Thursday, 21 August 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
Oh, I am sad that they are no more. But I do feel like both of them are going to come out with more fantastic work, so I'm not that sad.
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Thursday, 21 August 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
I hope they reunite for Coachella.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Thursday, 21 August 2014 22:59 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I'm not really going to read too much into this "break up", considering it's on good terms and there was such a long interval between Silent Shout and Shaking the Habitual. I'd be surprised if they never made any music together again.
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Thursday, 21 August 2014 23:14 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I am not surprised at all with them ending the Knife, which seems to be a better way to describe than a 'break up'.
Pretty cool that their last show will be in Iceland.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 21 August 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link
bummed as they are so great together. still we might still have Fever Ray, so not all is lost.
― Bee OK, Friday, 22 August 2014 01:35 (nine years ago) link
Not as The Knife: https://vooruit.be/en/show/detail/9505/Ful_The_Knife
― StanM, Saturday, 7 February 2015 11:48 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jMXZBPW-Q0
― StanM, Saturday, 7 February 2015 11:49 (nine years ago) link
I immediately like this more than everything on TIAD + STH
― StanM, Saturday, 7 February 2015 12:45 (nine years ago) link
more news - http://d-e-f.com/2015/01/23/def-2015-knife/
― StanM, Sunday, 8 February 2015 11:32 (nine years ago) link
Seems weird they're doing just one Europa Europa show, keeping my fingers crossed for some additional dates...
― willem, Sunday, 8 February 2015 11:37 (nine years ago) link
This turned ten years old a few weeks ago
― Do I look like I know what a jpeg is? (dog latin), Sunday, 14 May 2023 02:21 (one year ago) link
!
― kinder, Sunday, 14 May 2023 07:17 (one year ago) link
Right? It's still a recent album to me. Although maybe the time is demarcated by how pivotal it felt at the time compared to how little I think about it or want to play it these days. Maybe it's to do with the album's topics now having become much more mainstream and centre-table than at the time? Although I can't remember a time when financial equality and gender rights weren't big topics?
― Do I look like I know what a jpeg is? (dog latin), Sunday, 14 May 2023 09:05 (one year ago) link
feels like 10 years ago tbh
― nashwan, Sunday, 14 May 2023 09:23 (one year ago) link
these two posts above sum things up pretty well imo
― winters (josh), Sunday, 14 May 2023 23:38 (one year ago) link
Favourite album of the last ten years (plus a few weeks)
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 15 May 2023 01:43 (one year ago) link