Archers of Loaf reunion?!

Now all I get to do is curse a typo, and that just doesn't offer the same oomph!

Apparently there's a surprise reunion show going on at Cat's Cradle RIGHT FUCKING NOW!

awes

Luckily, it'll be all over youtube in about 2 hours if it's true.

haha
http://twitter.com/#!/jonwurster/status/26444558216724480

Now I don't know what to believe.

I mean, the friend who told me about it is a reliable guy, but Jon Wurster probably still talks to a few of those dudes all the time.

jon wurster is a bonafide joker fwiw

that's true

Superchunk keeps posting updates from this show on their Twitter.

Okay yeah, it's all over twitter now

http://twitter.com/#search?q=archers%20of%20loaf

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TTJ5bEOBkVI/AAAAAAAAASY/_bpHciDcRDE/whtxy.jpg

nuts! i live like 5 minutes from the cat's cradle. wish i'd heard about this!

I would be crying right now.

i literally slept through this, too

Ha I posted itt 5 yrs ago!

r u the Milkmaid?

Yup

so crooked fingers is playing a few dates in the next month

i wonder . . .

can't imagine bachmann would want to offend whatever strange souls actually prefer crooked fingers to archers

Oh man!

When I saw Crooked Fingers about 5 years ago Matt came out on stage towards the end and they played a couple AoL songs. It was pretty sweet.

yo latebloomer, we should chill sometime when i'm in chillsboro (my highly-efficient new name for c-hill/carrboro metropolitan area)

and yeah i am pretty bummed that i did not know about this, archers are like my favorite nc band, maybe favorite indie-rock band?, of all time

http://www.youtube.com/results?uploaded=d&search_query=archers+of+loaf&search_type=videos&suggested_categories=10&uni=3

nice xyc shirt on the drummer :D

so this was at/before a Love Language show? never rly fucked w/ them but props for this!

holy shit i would kill to see them live again!

Man I used to love Archers of Loaf so much. I need to replace my old cassettes, not sure I even know where they are anymore. I used to get made fun of relentlessly in my design studio class because I had an Archers of Loaf sticker on my parallel bar and people wrongly assumed I was a big America On Line supporter because of the 'AOL' logo.

holy shit i would kill to see them live again!

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ugh me too

Last time I saw the full line-up was like late 90's NYC and it was completely amazing. I think that At the Drive-In opened that show but I could be making that up because it seems sort of odd.

nah that would actually make total sense to me, at the drive in started on flipside, def a lot of peeps that loved archers liked the early ATDI stuff

OK then maybe I'm not making that up. Iirc the other band that night was Knapsack which is a name I haven't thought of in a very long time until just now. wow.

Yeah, they toured a bit with ATDI. I specifically showed up late to one show to avoid them.

I saw them with Helium in Columbus and it was SO RAD. I have seen Crooked Fingers a bunch of times through the years too.

Just curious -- has anyone heard the film score he did for Ball of Wax? (full disclosure: i am involved with this, so i am just curious if anyone knows it exists -- also it is really good even if it does have a very early 00s feeling to it)

never heard of it, but loved his barry black project that he had when archers were still going, that was very film music sounding stuff

yeah, that's partially what inspired getting the sdtk together. i can probably upload it somewhere if no one can find it. it was released under EB's name, so i think it may have fallen through the cracks for a lot of ppl

barry black, crooked fingers, blablabla

here is one of the songs -- the record was called SHORT CAREERS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoaBf0NPTeE

i have a rip of that soundtrack, yeah. he also did a record called 'to the races' under his own name

i saw them as the opening act for weezer (blue album era) and i HATED weezer at the time (they've grown on me a teeny bit) so we all peaced out after AOL was done.

they sound great, esp bachmann's voice. iirc his voice got worse and worse as the band went on (i tuned out after vee-vee)

song sounds totally different, but his voice does interesting things toward the end and you totally forget that it's just him and a guitar. great post-show noise at the end of the clip too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKwfHNFGAXs&feature=related

12/09 btw

until this thread was revised, i had completely forgotten that i saw AOL in Leeds in the 90s (at the Pub With No Name aka Duchess of York, of course)
the reason i went was actually for the support act, small 23, who i was vibed up on at the time (need to see if that album still hold up), but i seem to recall enjoying the AOL set as well.

wow that acoustic web in front is great

EB has been being great for a looooong time. i really love crooked fingers and other stuff he's done over the years. even when he's kinda off ("call to love" is corny) he's great. sure, there were some mawkish lyrics here and there, but dude can write a song, and he always performs with heart. that's not easy to maintain for this long. he also tries out a lot of different directions and never gets too comfortable there. really every album has its own character.

dude is great

also great covers
i saw crooked fingers play "age of consent" at some show, and then there's this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe3jFbnJUY0

and when you were mine by prince!

Only seen crooked fingers once but EB coming out to the audience and singing that on his own was pretty much the highlight for me.

his version of "the river" is not something i can listen to in public because i cry
every
single
time

always loved killer bees > rental sting

but yeah it's a wholly different thing really

was at the show in toronto last night. in addition to the age group that would have been in college or thereabouts during aol's heyday, there were a ton of young people (like, many looked like teenagers), and they were singing along to the songs! what's the deal! just the effect of the internet or...?

eric bachman seemed amused by the moshing and crowdsurfing and related antics.

go on at the free So Street Seaport fest Sat night @ 6:30:

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2012/07/free_4knots_mus.html

oh nice. might have to try to do that. and black lips / jonathan toubin at the afterparty (not free).

I saw the Black Lips at a street fest in Chicago last Saturday.

How was it? The last time I saw them live was a while ago. Probably like 2008.

they were fine, I never paid em much heed before. Preferred them to Man or Atro-Man, who went on just before. (but was most relieved it wasn't 103 degrees anymore)

haha wow Man or Astro-Man are still around. now them I probably haven't seen play since 1996.

Archers were ok, but some of the "here's something from album 3" moments were weak, and the "here's something from album 4" moments even more so. They had to stop by 8, and when they went into "White Trash Heroes" with 4 minutes to go...well, it was a chance for the true fans to beat the crowds going home. Waved hi to morbz (who I believe also bailed during "WTH"). Dudes should have played "What Did You Expect?" or "Traffic"

Finally seeing them tonight (couldn't sort it out last year). FUCKIN STOKED

They were loose and jovial tonight, and played just about every song I wanted to or thought I might hear. Except Wrong! How you gonna make me wait 14 years since I last saw you and then not play Wrong?

I'm kidding. I'll get over it. Just slightly bummed.

Eric Bachmann moistened a few eyes with "Man o' War" last night. New record so so good.

So this happened...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNrgGN4CEic

They're playing live tonight here in Atlanta, but I just don't see live music anymore really. I know it will be fun.

I can't seem to find any video online of the band's "Harnessed" performance on Jimmy Fallon referenced above by Johnny Fever, 6/25/11

anyone out there a better internet detective than me?

got my ticket!

new song I like though it feels more like Crooked Fingers arranged for Archers

I can't seem to find any video online of the band's "Harnessed" performance on Jimmy Fallon referenced above by Johnny Fever, 6/25/11

Late night tv musical performances get scrubbed pretty fast just as a rule. Most things that happened four months ago are gone already.

Questlove said on twitter at one point that just about all musical performances are just uploaded for, like, a 2 week window, and then they disappear never to be seen again. Kinda sucks.

yeah, i knew better than to rely on the NBC site, but was hoping maybe it would be on YouTube.

one time i found Nirvana on SNL but the uploader had rotated the video like 45 degrees so as not to be caught by ... uh ... whatever technology they use to monitor stuff like that.

thought maybe we could work together to find Archers on Fallon under the name "How to poach the perfect egg" or something. :)

anyway, this is a rare band that was cool back in the day but, imo, sounds even better now. stoked to have 'em back.

New song is fucking amazing. Does this mean a new album is in the works?

I like Raleigh Days, a lot even, but I realized what's throwing me off is that Eric Johnson's guitar is tuned.

for Alpine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LLzRfJ8Xac

:O

Cool, I downloaded them in case they ever disappear again.

"them" = Harnessed and Wrong both.

good find MatthewK! thanks. obviously i didn't search hard/well enough. :)

Didn't expect the next new thing we hear would be a Stones cover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvgUghTWGWE

Isn't it absurdly costly to cover a Stones song, btw?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L521N7oWDGg

Unwound touring, Archers of Loaf back, turning out to be a big week for reunions.

reason in decline coming in october

Not feeling this as much as I'd hoped tbh, don't feel like it gets interesting until the back half and even then it kinda makes me want to listen to the old stuff.