― shieldforyoureyes, Saturday, 8 October 2005 21:01 (eighteen years ago) link
(support slot last night was DJ Scotch Egg doing his usual GameBoy Gabba thing. divided the audience somewhat but i loved it)
― koogs (koogs), Friday, 11 November 2005 09:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 11 November 2005 09:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Friday, 11 November 2005 09:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― MESTEMA (davidcorp), Friday, 11 November 2005 10:31 (eighteen years ago) link
My ears ringy. It's all good. I don't need to hear ever again.
― THIS IS THE SOUND OF ALTERN 8 !!! (noodle vague), Saturday, 19 November 2005 23:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 24 November 2005 00:00 (eighteen years ago) link
I think they're a little disappointing on album, but the live show is amazing.
― Mickey (modestmickey), Thursday, 24 November 2005 02:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mickey (modestmickey), Thursday, 24 November 2005 02:31 (eighteen years ago) link
They covered Uncontrollable Urge & Neat Neat Neat, which was fun. So glad I went (I had to go on my own, as I suffer from a distinct lack of noisecore loving friends).
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 24 November 2005 09:53 (eighteen years ago) link
the BBC session mentioned above will be broadcast by Rob Da Bank, i think this thursday evening. (ie tonight)
― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 24 November 2005 10:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― nancyboy (nancyboy), Thursday, 24 November 2005 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― shieldforyoureyes, Thursday, 24 November 2005 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic/exposed/meltbanana549p01.shtml
― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 8 December 2005 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-YEAH!! (fandango), Thursday, 8 December 2005 19:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Thursday, 8 December 2005 19:58 (eighteen years ago) link
On their sixth full-length studio release Melt Banana exercise a hitherto undetected area of their musical musculature: the "rock" region. Summing up an entire album, and one as diverse as Bambi's Dilemma, with such a pedestrian qualifier is risky business, agreed, but it seems to fit like never before. The band, of course, refuses to accommodate any such pigeonholing: "Maybe it is rock, but maybe not. We just make whatever we want. We just follow our own instincts!" The truth is MxBx makes music as they please, relying solely on their own maverick talent to get them where they need to be. Bambi's Dilemma's eighteen tracks careen from extreme, fastblast attacks to more serene moments (usually reserved for nonalbum releases) to the band's revolutionary new, guitar and bassless "Theremin-core".
― fandango, Thursday, 5 April 2007 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango, Thursday, 5 April 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― xox, Thursday, 5 April 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dominique, Thursday, 5 April 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango, Thursday, 5 April 2007 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― m the g, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― xox, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― shieldforyoureyes, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― rio natsume, Friday, 6 April 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― koogs, Monday, 23 April 2007 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― sleeve, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango, Friday, 27 April 2007 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― NYCNative, Saturday, 28 April 2007 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link
on tour now!!!
17 Oct 2007 8:00 P Wow Hall Eugene, Oregon 18 Oct 2007 8:00 P Hell’s Kitchen Tacoma, Washington 19 Oct 2007 9:00 P Nightlight Lounge Bellingham, Washington 20 Oct 2007 9:00 P Badlander Missoula, Montana 21 Oct 2007 9:00 P Zebra cocktail lounge Bozeman, Montana 22 Oct 2007 7:00 P Imperial Inn Rapid City, South Dakota 23 Oct 2007 6:00 P Nutty’s North Sioux Falls, South Dakota 24 Oct 2007 8:00 P High Noon Saloon Madison, Wisconsin 25 Oct 2007 8:00 P Cactus Club Milwaukee, Wisconsin 26 Oct 2007 6:00 P High Dive - Champaign Champaign, Illinois 27 Oct 2007 9:00 P 2 Cents Plain St. Louis, Missouri 30 Oct 2007 7:00 P Rhino’s Bloomington, Indiana 31 Oct 2007 9:00 P Mac’s Bar Lansing, Michigan 1 Nov 2007 8:00 P Magic Stick Detroit, Michigan 2 Nov 2007 8:00 P Grog Shop Cleveland, Ohio 3 Nov 2007 7:30 P Benedum Auditorium, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 5 Nov 2007 9:00 P Big Orbit’s Soundlab Buffalo, New York 6 Nov 2007 9:00 P Bug Jar Rochester, New York 7 Nov 2007 9:00 P Smog - Bard College Red Hook, New York 8 Nov 2007 8:00 P Middle East Downstairs Cambridge, Massachusetts 9 Nov 2007 8:00 P Living Room Providence, Rhode Island 10 Nov 2007 7:00 P Heirloom Arts Theatre Danbury, Connecticut 11 Nov 2007 8:00 P Club Europa Brooklyn, New York 12 Nov 2007 7:30 P First Unitarian Church Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 14 Nov 2007 8:00 P Ottobar Baltimore, Maryland 15 Nov 2007 8:00 P Satellite Ballroom Charlottesville, Virginia 16 Nov 2007 8:00 P Milestone Charlotte, North Carolina 17 Nov 2007 9:00 P Lenny’s Atlanta, Georgia 18 Nov 2007 8:00 P Jack Rabbits Jacksonville, Florida 19 Nov 2007 9:00 P Studio A Miami, Florida 20 Nov 2007 9:00 P Back Booth Orlando, Florida 21 Nov 2007 8:00 P Crowbar Tampa, Florida 23 Nov 2007 7:30 P Bottle Tree Cafe Birmingham, Alabama 24 Nov 2007 8:00 P Hi-Tone Memphis, Tennessee 25 Nov 2007 8:00 P The End Nashville, Tennessee 27 Nov 2007 8:00 P Parish at House Of Blues New Orleans New Orleans, Louisiana 28 Nov 2007 8:00 P Spanish Moon Baton Rouge, Louisiana 29 Nov 2007 8:00 P Walter’s on Washington Houston, Texas 30 Nov 2007 7:00 P White Rabbit San Antonio, Texas 1 Dec 2007 8:00 P Jake’s Sports Cafe Lubbock, Texas 3 Dec 2007 8:00 P Hollywood Alley/TBA Mesa, Arizona 4 Dec 2007 8:00 P Club Congress Tucson, Arizona 5 Dec 2007 7:00 P Epicentre San Diego, California 7 Dec 2007 8:30 P The Independent San Francisco, California
Just got back from the Eugene show, their 1st of the tour. They covered "Heart Of Glass" and were just as great as always.
― sleeve, Thursday, 18 October 2007 07:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I hope they come to Europe -- and Ireland -- again next year. I got my girlfriend into Melt-Banana, and she's love me forever if I could take her to see them live.
― MacDara, Thursday, 18 October 2007 08:25 (sixteen years ago) link
anyone else seen them recently? any good?
― Reatards Unite, Monday, 12 November 2007 00:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't think it's possible to see a Melt Banana show that isn't good.
― Mackro Mackro, Monday, 12 November 2007 02:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, I saw them a week or so ago and had a good time.
― 31g, Monday, 12 November 2007 03:52 (sixteen years ago) link
What's the best album to get? I've seen them a few times over the years but never got round to buying anything. I think maybe now... it is time.
― emil.y, Thursday, 13 December 2007 22:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Everyone will have a different answer, but I started with Teeny Shiny so that's what I'd recommend. It's the best mid-point between their current slicker sound and their earlier noisy stuff.
― MacDara, Thursday, 13 December 2007 23:06 (sixteen years ago) link
i saw them driving in a van smiling last week!
― chaki, Thursday, 13 December 2007 23:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Teeny Shiny is a fine place to start. I like Cell Scape a lot also.
― sleeve, Friday, 14 December 2007 01:02 (sixteen years ago) link
My brothers' band opened for them in '96 and they floored us. I've since seen them with Fantomas, and then one of my bands chanced to support them in Missoula a few years back.
They have never disappointed me. Cell Scape is my fave, but I certainly haven't heard them all.
― Nate Carson, Friday, 14 December 2007 01:54 (sixteen years ago) link
If you like Cell Scape so much, Nate, you'll love Bambi's Dilemma.
And I just remembered, they had a record on Skin Graft as well back in the mid-90s, Scratch or Stitch. Steve Albini and Jim O'Rourke both had a hand in that one.
― MacDara, Friday, 14 December 2007 12:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Teeny and Cell but personally I prefer the shows.
i saw them on my birthday a year or so ago. best show EVAH.
Now I'm a mother of two and can't attend gigs (for the moment). Boo.
― nathalie, Friday, 14 December 2007 13:32 (sixteen years ago) link
new one doesn't quite top Cell-Scape for me but still great... obligatory SEE THEM LIVE!! I was like O_O :O !!!
Charlie is v.good too
― fandango, Friday, 14 December 2007 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link
I keep hoping this thread will be UK dates :( :(
― fandango, Friday, 14 December 2007 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
this band can really rip it up.
whatever happened to lake of dracula?
skin graft...sniff, eagle tear....
― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 14 December 2007 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I am proud to say that I put out a record on Skin Graft a few years back. Such a cool label.
Lake of Dracula featured Weasel Walter who's still in Flying Luttenbachers and more...
― Nate Carson, Friday, 14 December 2007 23:46 (sixteen years ago) link
English Leg of European Tour:
Mon 16th June 2008 * ULU - London
Tue 17th June 2008 * Brudenell Social - Leeds
Sat 21st June 2008 * Thekla - Bristol
Sun 22nd June 2008 * The Hare & Hounds - Birmingham
Mon 23rd June 2008 * Rock City - Nottingham
Wed 25th June 2008 * ULU - London
Thu 26th June 2008 * Barfly - The Gloucester - Brighton
― koogs, Monday, 19 May 2008 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link