Andrew W.K.

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.

You missed his drum solo finale then.

unfortunate! though his bit of soloing on his pizza slice guitar early in the evening was less than virtuoso i must say.

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.

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.

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

haha i went to this too, it was awesome

Does he straight-up run through I Get Wet in a Don't Look Back fashion, or does he play other material?

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.

I mean this raises so many questions:

http://hangout.altsounds.com/features/143838-lowdown-andrew-w.html

no it doesn't

it is highly entertaining though

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. "

i really feel like he and alice waters and michael pollan should have a sitdown.

http://www.factmag.com/2012/11/26/andrew-w-k-recruited-by-us-government-as-cultural-ambassador-to-the-middle-east/

This should go in the 'shit that looks like an Onion article but isn't'.

Next series of Destroy Build Destroy to be filmed in Gaza.

If all else fails, dude! Party on!

Bah, State Department have pulled the plug http://www.avclub.com/articles/andrew-wk-seriously-named-us-cultural-ambassador-t,89082/

strange things are afoot with the W.K.

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

A.W.K trying to break the world record for drumming in a retail store in Times Square, currently on hour 14

what's the previous record for drumming in a retail store?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qi3JERmk9E

welp

My friend texted me yesterday first thing in the morning to note it was the 10th anniversary of when we got AWK autographs.

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/

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

i hate this piece with all my heart

sorry to complain about literally everything this guy writes but it just gets worse and worse

That article made me feel like I was drunk.

thanks I hate it

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.

is michael nelson the guy who penned that novel-length strokes longread

yes

And replaced MST3K fan favorite Joel iirc

what the

https://i.imgur.com/SWvN2S0.jpg

That's the logical conclusion, no?

Looking like a character from American Psycho is partying.

https://i.imgur.com/SWvN2S0.jpg

WHEN IT'S TIME TO STUDY WE WILL ALWAYS STUDY HARD

http://i47.tinypic.com/16h5l08.jpg

is a nice one, although I'm still partial to his look at 88BOADRUM.

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

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

I hadn't seen any of that before. Most of the people and organisations mentioned I don't really know, but I get that they're unsavoury associations. Is the consensus that there is something to it all?

AWK seems to have deleted the tweet that I posted above. I feel less enamoured by the mystery in the cold light of day and guess that the (supposed) 1998 diary is something created to help promote new music coming soon.

Honestly, I don't see a lot there beyond "Andrew W K isn't that bright or politically involved" - the only thing that bothers me is the quote about him loving Breitbart, and the source of it is - an article on Breitbart.
There's what seems to be an informed rebuttal here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AndrewWK/comments/9mvw92/andrew_wk_has_long_extensive_ties_to_rightwing/e7i30hz/

Yeah AWK is about as apolitical as it gets

yeah, weak tea guilt by association shit. he's about as guilty as Damien from Fucked Up in that case.

That's all good to read, thanks.

I feel less enamoured by the mystery in the cold light of day

I love that he still finds it fun to generate intricate layers of confusing backstory and then publish disinformation about the stuff he's put so much effort into.

Thanks for that rebuttal link, AF.

uhh what

https://www.instagram.com/katdenningsss/