Antony and the Johnsons?

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Why is the london show sold out already? Fuck London.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 1 April 2005 12:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I like this a whole bunch of lot.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 1 April 2005 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry to be so gross, but "I accept and I collect the memories of your devotion on my body" cracks me up everytime. Like, eww. He must be getting awfully crusty.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 1 April 2005 12:31 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Head over heels in love with this record. One of my favorites of '05 by far.

Is there anything besides "The Lake' EP and the s/t one?

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I need to hear this guy/these guys (it was the Marc Almond photo with him that suggests there's something there to investigate -- also, I'm all for Nina Simone/Roxy Music references.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 23:43 (nineteen years ago) link

wasn't into it at first -but def am now

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 00:38 (nineteen years ago) link

haha, i just OTM'd your criticisms of it on one of the many other AJs threads.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 00:42 (nineteen years ago) link

aaaaaah i'm sorry!!!

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 00:48 (nineteen years ago) link

and there's still a chance i could hate it again (and for the exact same reasons i hated it at first!)

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 00:50 (nineteen years ago) link

i've tried and I've tried and I've tried but it all seems so cabaret to me (in a bad way). I guess I'll just never see the light...

― breezy, Wednesday, 11 May 2005 05:19 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

09/15/05__Vancouver, BC___
09/20/05__San Francisco, CA___Palace Of Fine Arts
09/22/05__Los Angeles, CA__Vista Theatre
09/23/05__San Diego, CA__San Diego Woman's Club

...at the risk of coming off as this being the only guy i listen to,more NA dates just announced on pollstar. the vancouver show at St. Andrews Wesley Church sounds very intriguing.[though it would be the 3rd time seeing him this year for me]

― william (william), Friday, 8 July 2005 03:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I want to see him at Town Hall but I'm broke. :(

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Friday, 8 July 2005 04:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Brainwasher:.
collect some bottles for a refund,give blood,sell a kidney! but see this man!

― william (william), Friday, 8 July 2005 04:05 (eighteen years ago) link

i adored the album, and thought his cover of "mysteries of love" was perhaps the most heartbreaking thing i'd ever heard.

then i saw him live in glasgow and was bitterly disappointed: too knowing, too self-aware, too cabaret. all the emotional power of the songs seemed blunted.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 8 July 2005 08:33 (eighteen years ago) link

I saw him live in Birmingham and was far from disappointed. Very charming, very funny, beautiful voice, beautiful songs.

― dmun drive-in (dmun), Friday, 8 July 2005 09:26 (eighteen years ago) link

"then i saw him live in glasgow and was bitterly disappointed: too knowing, too self-aware, too cabaret. all the emotional power of the songs seemed blunted."

I went to that, but thought it was wonderful. Didn't think it was knowing or cabaret, quite the opposite: he seemed to be really getting into the songs. That Leonard Cohen cover was almost unbearably gorgeous.
Perhaps the only disappointment was Hope There's Someone, but that's probably down to my inflated expectation that it would be the song to make me blub like a big baby. Then again, I had a couple of beers before the performance so I was all the more likely to get maudlin.
His reaction to the Glesga banter was good too. "Everyone's gay!"

― Stew (stew s), Friday, 8 July 2005 11:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I gotta say that, in a year that has lacked genuine surprise, this album has wowed me. I was in no way prepared for it and I just fell in love with it. Here's hoping he makes a stop in Chicago before the year is out.

― Brett Hickman (Bhickman), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

brett:: Here's hoping he makes a stop in Chicago before the year is out.

Tue10/04/05 Chicago, IL Park West

― drone/a/saur (william), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link

How nominated for the Mercury prize? Don'tcha have to be British -- he's not, is he?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 July 2005 13:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Born in Chichester, but left the UK at the age of eight, so he's presumably got in there via a technicality. Either that or the Mercury judges are desperate.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 July 2005 13:19 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

A triumphant, fuck you Conor McNichols and the lame indiehorse you rode in on bump.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link

never heard them

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 21:00 (eighteen years ago) link

haha yeh this is cool! was sure was gonna be kaiser chefs.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 21:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Congratulations, Big Tony!

(I have not heard this record, but I would like to.)

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 07:22 (eighteen years ago) link

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