https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1pckLJ7QL0
― Duane Barry, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
I was at an Andrew WK gig last month and it was really quite disappointing. That Alisteir X guy really needs to get off the stage. And the audience needed to be allowed ON the stage. Oh well, never mind. I was lucky enough to be in this video and my pals and I all had a great time. It's a new thing that Andrew did with the Evaporators.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXnmNFHNOuQ
― everything, Monday, 9 January 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
I saw him twice last January (one full-band, one solo @ keyboard and playing classic radio jams for audience members to karaoke to) and both were great; the audience were all over the stage. One 120kg-looking hairy sweatball got upset when the crowd started moving out of the way the FOURTH time he tried to stagedive.
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
Previous experiences with him have been wondrous but this one was at a shitty venue with terrible sound, too big and too high of a stage which created this distance between him and the audience that I have never experienced before. And Aleister X was onstage with him the whole time, mugging like a maniac and generally dragging things down. I must say that the crowd were as enthusiastic as ever but I just wasn't feeling it.
― everything, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 05:55 (twelve years ago) link
Touring the 'I Get Wet' anniversary and coming to the UK in April - including Glasgow on 14th April! Really excited!
― only NWOFHM! is real (krakow), Thursday, 19 January 2012 09:30 (twelve years ago) link
yeah he's comin to Milwaukee in March, can't wait also pretty excited about this new album he's doing. his recent stuff has been really great.
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 January 2012 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/959/0000701566350.jpg
Has this been posted? I assume its AWK on keys and uh ---- he's not a bad jazz pianist IMO!
(that said this album is kind of boring to me mainly because its alot of guitar noodling)
― Frobisher (Viceroy), Thursday, 9 February 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
Amazing tonight in Glasgow on the 'I Get Wet' anniversary tour.
It was a fantastically fun show; ceaseless energy and a phenomenally positive vibe to everything, right through both AWK's music and the sold-out, ecstatic, fist-pumping, pogo-ing, crowd-surfing, good-natured audience.
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5468/6931942596_823fb1cb52_z.jpgAndrew WK @ Garage, Glasgow by krakow81, on Flickr
― only NWOFHM! is real (krakow), Saturday, 14 April 2012 23:59 (twelve years ago) link
was there too. pretty decent. ive more or less abandoned watching live music as a thing but it was very enjoyable and im glad i went, tho i wasnt partying partic hard and i left before the end, when he played a new song.
― zverotic discourse (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 15 April 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
You missed his drum solo finale then.
― only NWOFHM! is real (krakow), Sunday, 15 April 2012 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
unfortunate! though his bit of soloing on his pizza slice guitar early in the evening was less than virtuoso i must say.
― zverotic discourse (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 15 April 2012 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
The London gig was hilarious and glorious, it was probably the most up-for-it crowd I've ever seen at a gig. Like there were more people up on the stage by the end than there were in the audience. One of the first people to invade the stage was in a banana suit and Andrew WK was hitting him on the head with an inflatable banana in time with the drums.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Sunday, 15 April 2012 09:44 (twelve years ago) link
He shouldn't have upgraded the venue in London. Upstairs at the Forum was very sparsely populated indeed, though it didn't feel like a dead gig because of the energy from downstairs.
― Viva Brother Beyond (ithappens), Sunday, 15 April 2012 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
I was there too! I briefly appear in the video on the bottom right about 10 seconds in grinning like an idiot. Hilarious and glorious sums up the experience, can't remember a rock gig when I've seen so many people just smiling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkhdrpwc8ZE
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Sunday, 15 April 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
haha i went to this too, it was awesome
― just sayin, Monday, 16 April 2012 00:43 (twelve years ago) link
Does he straight-up run through I Get Wet in a Don't Look Back fashion, or does he play other material?
― etc, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 07:09 (twelve years ago) link
Put on "Close Calls" and "Mother of Mankind" again. Those are both killer. At his best he's got this awesome Sparks/Cardiacs vibe, but a little heavier. I observed the same thing that someone upthread did about "Kicks and Bricks" - when placed next to everything else, it does really sound like a different person. Of course, maybe he's the same but he just decided to stop singing like that to preserve his voice...?
I admit to being really baffled by the guy. For someone who writes 800-word responses to simple questions in interviews it's crazy how little actual information we have on him. All the stuff contenderizer and co. posted on CCWBW were totally OTM - there's something very sinister about this record, and it doesn't feel contrived or put on or anything, just really bizarre. I wonder if he'll do another one like it.
To answer etc's question, in Milwaukee he played all of I Get Wet, with some interludes of him banging on a piano, then a few from the Wolf, and only one tune from Close Calls ("You Will Remember Tonight"). "Head Bang" from the new EP was played and it's as awesome live as you'd expect.
― frogbs, Thursday, 17 May 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
I mean this raises so many questions:
http://hangout.altsounds.com/features/143838-lowdown-andrew-w.html
― frogbs, Thursday, 17 May 2012 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
no it doesn't
it is highly entertaining though
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Thursday, 17 May 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
repping for multinational junk food IS pretty sinister, even if he's being ironic/over-the-top:"Andrew W.K. - I eat all the best food! Taco Bell, always! And lots of candy, obviously. And I eat tons of Pringles chips, and cheese crackers like Cheese Nips, and I eat lots and lots of microwave meals, like frozen burritos, Hungry Man XL dinners, and Stouffer's meals. And I also love Chunky soups - just all the best tasting food. It's my joy! I eat this food at home too, not just on the road. My goal is always to just eat as much good food as possible, all the time. When we stop at gas stations and truck stops, it's like an amusement park for me! I'll buy three of every single candy bar they have, and then lay them all out on the table in our bus so you can really appreciate the spread and their awesome wrappers. You can have any of them that you want! It's like our own personal candy store. I also get lots and lots of pizza and cheese burgers, french fries, fried chicken. And like I said before, I eat at Taco Bell whenever I see one, even if I'm not that hungry. Sometimes I'll eat at Taco Bell three times in one day. It's all part of my heavenly life. It's just pure happiness. "
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 17 May 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
i really feel like he and alice waters and michael pollan should have a sitdown.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 17 May 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.factmag.com/2012/11/26/andrew-w-k-recruited-by-us-government-as-cultural-ambassador-to-the-middle-east/
― Matt DC, Monday, 26 November 2012 11:34 (eleven years ago) link
This should go in the 'shit that looks like an Onion article but isn't'.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Monday, 26 November 2012 11:48 (eleven years ago) link
Next series of Destroy Build Destroy to be filmed in Gaza.
― studge_siren.gif (onimo), Monday, 26 November 2012 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
If all else fails, dude! Party on!
― frogbs, Monday, 26 November 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
Bah, State Department have pulled the plug http://www.avclub.com/articles/andrew-wk-seriously-named-us-cultural-ambassador-t,89082/
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Monday, 26 November 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
strange things are afoot with the W.K.
― del griffith, Monday, 26 November 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
http://peterslarson.com/2012/12/02/andrew-wk-how-he-almost-became-the-us-cultural-ambassador-to-the-middle-east/
In the days since the cancellation, I’ve received inside tips that there was a passionate debate in the State Dept. about my going at the last second. It’s possible that someone outside of the State Dept. who wasn’t aware of the trip initially became incensed that they weren’t informed before. Apparently some of these unknown higher-up officials were on my side and others were deeply offended by the idea of me going.
http://nakeddc.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/barack-obama_nobel_prize1.jpg
― How do you say Dedéckenbauer, Dedélícia, Dedélíte? (onimo), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 17:55 (eleven years ago) link
A.W.K trying to break the world record for drumming in a retail store in Times Square, currently on hour 14
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 June 2013 13:28 (ten years ago) link
what's the previous record for drumming in a retail store?
― fit and working again, Thursday, 20 June 2013 15:20 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qi3JERmk9E
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Thursday, 20 June 2013 22:25 (ten years ago) link
welp
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Thursday, 20 June 2013 23:03 (ten years ago) link
My friend texted me yesterday first thing in the morning to note it was the 10th anniversary of when we got AWK autographs.
― even the beatles had a coinstar machine in their living room (Crabbits), Thursday, 20 June 2013 23:23 (ten years ago) link
And now with a new radio show on...
...Glenn Beck's network?
http://www.mediaite.com/online/andrew-w-k-gets-his-own-show-on-glenn-becks-radio-network/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 16:16 (eight years ago) link
contenderizer, you're famous!
https://www.stereogum.com/2015589/andrew-wk-steev-mike/franchises/sounding-board/
this article is a wild ride, though it's really long and pontificates a lot. ultimately the conclusion is what I've assumed was true for a while - the entire "AWK conspiracy" is essentially AWK screwing with people
― frogbs, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 21:56 (five years ago) link
i hate this piece with all my heart
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 October 2018 23:05 (five years ago) link
sorry to complain about literally everything this guy writes but it just gets worse and worse
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 October 2018 23:07 (five years ago) link
That article made me feel like I was drunk.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 00:46 (five years ago) link
thanks I hate it
― Stab my hinge, get hit (sic), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 21:09 (five years ago) link
It's pretty funny to hear norms try to tell a post-internet revisionist history of AWK without being in tune with Bulb/Pterodactyls & all the pre-I Get Wet releases and shows.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
is michael nelson the guy who penned that novel-length strokes longread
― imago, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 21:24 (five years ago) link
yes
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
And replaced MST3K fan favorite Joel iirc
― Vinnie, Thursday, 4 October 2018 01:06 (five years ago) link
what the
https://i.imgur.com/SWvN2S0.jpg
― frogbs, Friday, 11 January 2019 04:06 (five years ago) link
That's the logical conclusion, no?
― Cousin Slappy, Friday, 11 January 2019 04:37 (five years ago) link
Looking like a character from American Psycho is partying.
― brain (krakow), Friday, 11 January 2019 08:46 (five years ago) link
WHEN IT'S TIME TO STUDY WE WILL ALWAYS STUDY HARD
― v. s. rupaul (unregistered), Friday, 11 January 2019 17:12 (five years ago) link
http://i47.tinypic.com/16h5l08.jpg
is a nice one, although I'm still partial to his look at 88BOADRUM.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 11 January 2019 17:14 (five years ago) link
Something new to add to the confusion and mythology side of all things AWK...
To everyone asking about these “andrew wk journals”, that was all before my time. I wasn’t even part of it back then. So there’s no way I could have done it. https://t.co/cmIxVPwcep— ANDREW W.K. (@AndrewWK) October 9, 2020
which links to a reddit post where this pastebin link was posted which contains nine links to images of a diary, supposedly written by "andrew wk" from 1998 onwards:
https://pastebin.com/VBdLVWC7
― brain (krakow), Friday, 9 October 2020 22:46 (three years ago) link
Huh, I assumed the revive would be this, which has been doing the rounds.
Andrew W.K. is a Libertarian "Classical Liberal" who believes in American Exceptionalism & a "big fan of Breitbart". He was a regular on Fox News show 'Red Eye' for years w/ his friend Gavin McInnes (Proud Boys) & even had his own radio show on Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze radio network— Heresy Labs (@heresysquad) October 10, 2018
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 10 October 2020 08:36 (three years ago) link