Fiery Furnaces

If only there were a laffing out loud thread on ILM.

my head is swimming, just like last night. I don't know what is wrong w/ me.

this isn't a result of the singer's hawtness but she's still hawt.

I hadn't heard them, before last night, but, yeah, £6+down the hill+pals are going+recommendation=I will go and see them. I have downloaded a few songs and confirmed my slight concerns regarding live Vs. recorded sound. I will still buy the record, though. tomorrow, perhaps.

don't say I can't say she's hawt, again, please.

I'm not sure why we are all pretending that it cost £6 when in fact it turned out to be £7.

haha, I remembered that and thought about posting it but I realised it was boring.

Darn it - I missed all the fun as usual.

I think it is bizarre how this one gig has generated so much reflection and enthusiasm.

I think that maybe you loved the gig because you love each other.

Probably the FFs are mediocre. (I have barely or not heard them.)

It is always nice to see JtN talking about indie culture etc, but let me remind him that I hate Justin Timberlake. If I were in an indie or other club and his music came on, I would go up to JtN or someone else nearby and say: I hate this fucking bastard - people like him have ruined my life - and so on.

Actually JT is a good case for the looks / music thing.

I hate his 'music'.

I hate the way he looks.

I hate him.

re. the big questions that everyone is talking about, I am not sure where I stand.

N. would be a less compelling musician if he looked worse. But even as it is, I fear that he is not a very compelling musician. Possibly I am wrong and he has improved.

I like to think of myself as a compelling singer, if that counts.

Really?

I would like to hear you sing.

If it were true about you being a compelling singer, then I suppose your combined ratings out of 10 would be off the scale.

Well, no - they would be 17/20 or something.

I think you have heard me sing, but I fear I was not at my most compelling. Give me a stage..

I hope that was not supposed to be an ellipsis.

Why are people no longer capable of using three dots for an ellipsis? Even the front page of the Daily Mirror, etc, does it.

Two dots is far too close to one dot.

One dot is a full stop.

I usually do three, sorry. Maybe I thought it looked too inviting.

I really like the fiery furnaces, still!!! even if they're not as great, on record, as they are live.

my interest in timberlake turned into patience with and has, recently, become boredom because of.

to be correct you need to include a word space in between each dot . . .

really? that's weird.

This thread took an unsavory turn a few posts ago.

N. come to a London karaoke FAP.

if the ellipse comes at the end of a sentence it works like so. . . .

if in the middle of a sentence like so . . . see?

I WISH I HAD LONDON

damn! it's 19.01!

Haha they didn't give me a +1 in the end cos it has been so popular. So I will have go on my own anyway. : /

Wow!

does she look good?

just playin with ya fluxdude!

I bought the album.

strangely, after them not sounding as good, on my computer, as they did, live, now they don't sound as good, on my stereo, as they did, on my computer.

that is: after not sounding as good as they did, now they don't sound as good as they did.

I still like them a lot, though.

Interestingly, I didn't fancy the singer. Rather, I think I wanted to be her.

that often comes down to the same thing IMO

A whole decade of tragic relationships can be put down to my failure to distinguish between the two, unfortunately.

I think it'd be a bit foolish to assume Basement Jaxx are not about image, to people here, or are purely about the text.

Yeah, I was set straight in the boozer the other night, Ronan. I guess my point was less about the band than a kind of post-Reynoldsian formalism or close reading or focus on sound to the exclusion of much else.

That does happen I guess, in fairness though so few people can actually write well about the sonics of electronic music it's to be encouraged, in my opinion anyway.

I often wish it wasn't so necessary, or so difficult, it's much more natural for me to write about it in the context of life or just general experience. I suppose it's an identity through sound thing with Basement Jaxx, particularly now they seem to have become their own genre.

There can never be too much good close reading/attention - I agree. I guess I lose patience with it when it becomes particularly bloodless or technical, just cataloguing a series of sound events - a lot of the Wire reads like this to me (though I guess it might make more sense if I were more familiar with some of the music in question).

have you copyrighted the phrase "set straight in the boozer" or can i use it?

It's yours. (BTW Am. are you still in Paris? I think I am visiting over Easter.)

yes when is easter (sez the jew)?

9-12 April.

ok email me

I wish I could visit paris. : /

RJG can I scab a copy of the album?

First you trivialize her band by calling her hawt, now you plan to violate her copyright?

New euphemism alert.

"I'm sorry, Cozen, but the only man I will allow to violate my copyright will be Pedro Almodóvar, not you."

cognitive dissonance a-go-go.

But still, my feelings were hurt.

I wouldn't feel right about it, cozen.

I will let you see the cover, sometime, though.

Godallfuckingmighty I fell in love with them tonight, in their nonstopunstoppable set before Mission of Burma.

they are good, huh?

I like eleanor on that mp3 you posted to your blog matt.

commas excised from first draft of this post: 3.

I am going to read this thread again, some time.

N. developed a mathematical system, on it!

It was really frustrating how despite reading it a lot, I missed the big controversy when it happened.

It was nice when N. OK'd my reaction to his picture of the band, though. I enjoyed that.

Looking at it now, I wonder who it was who 'set' JtN 'straight' in the, the, 'boozer'? Or even, what boozer it was?

Upthread, JtN says that Patti Smith understands the cathexis of the stage. Also (and this is a lot better) he says that N. once said something really good.

the greatest band in the world?

possibly. or close to it.