― manuel (manuel), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 10:55 (twenty years ago) link
Otherwise? forgeddaboudit
― chris (chris), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 11:00 (twenty years ago) link
actually, the sound was really good that night and stuart was singing well. i was never a big fan, but i thought they put on a good show.
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 11:49 (twenty years ago) link
― hmmm, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 13:38 (twenty years ago) link
I wish I'd seen them on their last tour. Maybe next time.
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 13:48 (twenty years ago) link
I was at the guitar smashing concert as well. It was mainly marred by bad acoustics and the band having to dick around for ten minutes betwwen each song. The latter problem has been solved.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:15 (twenty years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:19 (twenty years ago) link
glastonbury 02 was fantastic from what i saw of it (not much).
― piscesboy, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:26 (twenty years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:27 (twenty years ago) link
― chris (chris), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:29 (twenty years ago) link
― rainman (rainman), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:50 (twenty years ago) link
― scott m (mcd), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:58 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 15:26 (twenty years ago) link
you are dissing all of the Aislers Set, the Uptown Shufflers, and Sleater-Kinney - therefore you are a FULE.
my hope is that they will be supported by SCOOOOOOTER when I see them in Berlin.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago) link
in 98 we had elliot smith, fresh from his oscar nomination.
― piscesboy, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 16:05 (twenty years ago) link
;-)
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago) link
2001. St David's Hall. Graham Fellows. I think i actually would have enjoyed him, except it took ages for the sound to get sorted out, so i could hear only fragments of his routine.
― badgerminor (badgerminor), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 16:12 (twenty years ago) link
Some elements of the set seemed kinda gimmicky though, like getting fans to come up on stage to sing along with them (I have performer/audience issues) or pretending as though covering I Want You Back was a totally spontaneous moment and, as is often the case, just seemed to be trying to hard to be cute. But whatever, people were seemed to be having a good time and they were actually dancing, which is a rare thing to see at any Toronto show.
― maypang (maypang), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 16:20 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 17:54 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Jamie Fake (the pirate king), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 20:32 (twenty years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 20:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 21:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 21:08 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 21:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 21:21 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 21:27 (twenty years ago) link
If it had happened on the dancefloor, at least it'd have been entertaining to observe.
― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 21:31 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 21:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 21:42 (twenty years ago) link
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 21:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 22:05 (twenty years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 01:57 (twenty years ago) link
― maypang (maypang), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 02:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Sym (shmuel), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 08:32 (twenty years ago) link
― joan vich (joan vich), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago) link
Their live shows usually manage to turn up some hidden gem in their discography which I hadn't noticed before ("The Loneliness of the Middle Distance Runner" for example).
At their show the other night they played "Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John". I never really paid that song any attention before, maybe because the Norah Jones vocal makes it sound too adult contemporary for me. But in a less-overproduced live version, with Sarah on vocals rather than Norah Jones, it really stood out. That said, I just re-listened to the recorded version, and it doesn't do anything for me.
― enochroot, Friday, 4 August 2017 19:21 (six years ago) link
they're great musicians, so their performances are always tight, and I do appreciate that they consistently tap into their back catalog.
but I'll never understand the appeal of the 'boy with the arab strap' on-stage dance party thing, and all their random twee antics can get in the way for me lol
― KevRus, Saturday, 5 August 2017 01:05 (six years ago) link
I can sorta see that (just saw them do "arab strap" with on-stage audience dance party thing) and yes another song might be better for that, but somehow I still enjoyed it despite the twee cliches
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 22:14 (six years ago) link
The nice thing about the on-stage dance party is fat clumsy people like me get right up to the front when the front row people hop on stage; got setlists at their last two shows employing that manoeuvre
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 22:42 (six years ago) link
This tour was pretty sedate compared to their last; they played Electronic Renaissance last time they came to toronto! This time, not so much.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 22:44 (six years ago) link
Drummer left behind at a truck stop: what's on your iPod?
― Eazy, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 19:41 (six years ago) link
accidentally looked at the person stood next to me once at a gig (it was Murdoch) and the look he gave me back suggests to me the "squashed chip" theory upthread could be credible
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 17 August 2017 09:13 (six years ago) link
I liked this band more when they were called The Beautiful South.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Thursday, 17 August 2017 12:18 (six years ago) link
Back in the day, one of my friends, a fellow habituee of the West End of Glasgow, used to call them the "24 Minute Party People", or was that the Pastels? Probably both.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 August 2017 12:36 (six years ago) link
'their support acts are always dreadful'in 98 we had elliot smith, fresh from his oscar nomination.
― piscesboy, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 16:05 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh yes, i remember the '98 Shepherd's Bush show...bah.;-)
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 16:09 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I went to that gig because a friend of mine bought me a ticket for my birthday knowing I liked indiepop music and he was into B&S... I'd heard If You're Feeling Sinister and thought it was alright but that was about it. Tbh I thought that gig was pretty awful. The sound was fucking terrible, could hardly hear anything. I hadn't heard of Elliot Smith and he was sat down playing solo acoustic so it just seemed like they'd brought a busker on tour with them. Maybe if I'd known his music it would've been better, but I was just bored.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 17 August 2017 12:58 (six years ago) link