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oh yeah, don't worry about it - nice to meet you and steve though. i too was part of the cadre of bearded bobbing boys in the back. sort of a bummer about the mics/speakers, and the venue robbed a bit of the impact, but still a good show.
― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link
The World Cafe Live! show wasn't bad! They took out the cafeteria tables! There was a small crowd, but it wasn't bad. The glowstick twirling ravers sucked. So did the Wilford Brimley character who insisted on jogging/dancing in front of me, regularly elbowing my chest to the beat! Exoticists/Orientalists = push since it was too cold for all cotton and sandals.
The band was great and v. charismatic. The NASCAR hats confused me.
― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 18:28 (eighteen years ago) link
four months pass...
If I make it back from work in time etc. I will def. go to this.
I have black hair, a beard and black glasses and will be looking lonesome as I'll be on my own so any ILXors say hi. (Or email me beforehand.)
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 10:14 (eighteen years ago) link
one month passes...
eleven months pass...
Saw them last night at the Cedar Cultural Center here in Mpls...
really amazing. people like to throw around words like "joyful" and "life-affirming" but Konono really is.
Played pretty much 2 hours STRAIGHT...one endless groove that kept morphing back into itself, sort of like dance music where a melodic or rhythmic motif from like 5 minutes ago would reappear and then fade back.
I guess the sound was a little "cleaner" than usual because their sound system hadn't arrived from Europe yet, so they went through the regular PA.
Lineup was three thumb pianos, played by Awesome Happy Frontman, Man In Black Duster Who Kinda Looked Like Blues Legend Buddy Guy, and Grumpy Older Guy.
frontwoman did endless dancing and chipped in on vocals frequently, she can really move, wow i woulda been so tired!
three drummers...one on some wooden long african drums...one guys sitting down (who wore a soccer jersey and SCARF and tuxedo pants even though it was hell hot in there), and one (the youngest looking) on a number of metal cowbell type things and some homemade looking junkyard percussion stuff....
anyway, crowd was mix of usual hippies, college kids, noise scene dudes, and old dudes in beards and John Hiatt concert t-shirts - lots of dancing, clapping along...
the music is really rich rhythmically, was impossible even for stick in the mud me not to at least bounce around a little.
great band.
have they ever done anything w/The Ex? they should, that would be so awesome, this show kinda reminded me of the The Ex.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, but The Ex's cover (Theme From Konono on the second disc of Turn) is pretty goddamned bland and worthless. It's like, yeah, we like Konono too let's make 'em sound really white!
― I eat cannibals, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link