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| From | Michael Bennett <mrhonorama@ameritech.net> |
| Subject | Re: oldest guy/gurl in the room |
| Date | Wed, 18 May 2005 05:37:04 -0700 (PDT) |
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That's a great line! Jon King's stage presence made
him seem like Colin Newman's more excitable brother --
yes, you can be an arty post-punk rocker and still
have spastic fun. And as for the stage set up -- I
know a couple of times I've seen The Fall, Mark E.
Smith is liable to grab any microphone (and just as
liable to drop it) -- it was very effective.
Re: The Bags -- is this a different band than the one
with Patricia Morrisson featured in the first Decline
of Western Civilization movie? It's cool that they
were booked. Radio 4 was the sole opener in Chicago,
and I thought the promoters blew a golden opportunity
to book Gang Of Four's Leeds running mates The Mekons,
who have been located in Chicago for almost 20 years.
I did see main Mekon Jon Langford in attendance at the
first show.
Mike Bennett
--- Stewart Mason <craigtorso@verizon.net> wrote:
but I was
> definitely seeing much more Just For Men than Manic
> Panic.
>
> Incidentally, I had no idea Jon King had such an
> incredibly goofy
> stage presence. I was particularly fond of that
> weirdly Zoidberg-like
> scuttle move that he launched into about every other
> song. I'm also
> trying to think of another band I've seen that
> divided the stage up
> like this: there are three mikes along the front,
> all set at the same
> height and volume. Jon, Andy and Dave ricochet
> around the stage
> mid-song, and whichever mike happens to be closest
> at the point when
> one of them is supposed to be singing something,
> that's the one they
> go to.
>
> Disappointingly, the middle act, local art-punk
> legends the Bags (led,
> like so many bands in Boston, by a former officemate
> of Charity's when
> she was an accountant at Copy Cop) cancelled their
> set due to
> "scheduling problems." Opener Radio 4 were much
> better than I
> expected based on the two or three songs I've heard
> -- bravo on the
> conga/cowbell player, very A Certain Ratio -- but I
> kept being
> reminded of the late '80s, when a reunited Wire
> refused to play songs
> from PINK FLAG and got a New York band called Ex
> Lion Tamer to did it
> for them as their opening act. Well, the Gang of
> Four are apparently
> pretending that they broke up after the "To Hell
> With Poverty" single,
> so they hired Radio 4 to provide an approximation of
> SONGS OF THE FREE
> and HARD as their opening act. And man, does their
> singer/bassist
> look a hell of a lot like Ben Stiller.
>
> S
>
>
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